Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Allow yourself to act intuitively

2. A 100% remote workforce is the new trend since the pandemic

3. Structure your validation process to ensure your success

The Famous Five:

1. What’s your favorite business book?

Answer: "Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman by Yvon Chouinard"

2. Is there a CEO you’re following or studying?

Answer: "GitHub: Founders - Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, Scott Chacon, P. J. Hyett & CEO - Nat Friedman"

3. What’s your favorite online tool for growing your business?

Answer: "Confluence"

4. If you could give your 20 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be?

Answer: "Trust your intuition."

5. How many hours of sleep do you get every night?

Answer: "6-9 hours."

Episode Information:

https://www.takingyoutothetop.io/episodes/episode-60-teamway-co-founder-ceo-søren-nørgaard

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Listen to your customers - talk to them to validate your idea!

2. Find out WHY they want your product/service!

3. Find Product Market Fit and Choose who you serve, wisely.

The Famous Five:

1. What’s your favorite business book? 

Answer: "Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet"

2. Is there a CEO you’re following or studying? 

Answer: "No. But he reads Annual Reports to learn business strategies."

3. What’s your favorite online tool for growing your business? 

Answer: "Facebook + Google Ads."

4. If you could give your 20 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be? 

Answer: "To listen to yourself and everyone else's advice and make a decision on your own."

5. How many hours of sleep do you get every night? 

Answer: "7-8 hours."

Episode Information:

https://www.takingyoutothetop.io/episodes/episode-59-formsable-founder-pavel-titov

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Entrepreneurship is a rollercoaster and a journey. 

2. There are gonna be ups and downs. You gotta stick with it to be successful.

3. Outsourcing VAs for a 1/3 of the cost in the U.S. should not be considered as cheap labor. The cost of living abroad is much lower!

The Famous Five:

1. What’s your favorite business book? Answer: "What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith"

2. Is there a CEO you’re following or studying? Answer: "No."

3. What’s your favorite online tool for growing your business? Answer: "Appsumo (Noah Kagan)"

4. If you could give your 20 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be? Answer: "Be more academically oriented and quit the rat race sooner."

5. How many hours of sleep do you get every night? Answer: "7-8 hours."

Episode Information: 

https://www.takingyoutothetop.io/episodes/episode-58-extend-your-team-founder-ceo-matthew-yahes

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Use a Validation/Process Checklist to ensure that you're on the right track

2. Use a Rubric to decide which of your ideas are worth pursuing 

3. Your first customers are those that are in your immediate network (if they don't like the idea, why should anyone else?)

The Famous Five:

1. What’s your favorite business book? Answer: "Word of Mouth Marketing by Andy Sernovitz"

2. Is there a CEO you’re following or studying? Answer: "No."

3. What’s your favorite online tool for growing your business? Answer: "LinkedIn."

4. If you could give your 20 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be? Answer: "Keep the bitcoin man."

5. How many hours of sleep do you get every night? Answer: "8 hours."

Episode Information: https://www.takingyoutothetop.io/episodes/episode-57-volley-founder-ceo-josh-little

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Rules don't matter!

2. If they say, "you gotta have an office" - YOU DON'T!

3. If they say, "you gotta raise capital" - YOU DON'T! - You just need to solve a problem!

The Famous Five:

1. What’s your favorite business book? Answer: "Subscribed by Tien Tzuo"

2. Is there a CEO you’re following or studying? Answer: "Gary Vaynerchuk"

3. What’s your favorite online tool for growing your business? Answer: "LinkedIn"

4. If you could give your 20 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be? Answer: "Leave the U.S. and move to China"

5. How many hours of sleep do you get every night? Answer: "7 hours tracked on a fitbit"

Episode Information: https://www.takingyoutothetop.io/episodes/episode-56-seo-turbo-booster-founder-dan-gudema

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. Hire people you get along with. You spend a 3rd of your life working, you might as well do it with people you call friends.

2. Don't try to do it on your own, it's extremely difficult! 

3. Don't let money be the goal, let the freedom to do what you want, when you want, where you want be the goal!

The Famous Five:

1. What’s your favorite business book? Answer: "Stratechery by Ben Thompson (Online News Letter)"

2. Is there a CEO you’re following or studying? Answer: "Elon Musk"

3. What’s your favorite online tool for growing your business? Answer: "MS Teams" (Daily) - "LinkedIn" (Marketing)

4. If you could give your 20 year old self a piece of advice, what would it be? Answer: "Don’t be an arrogant little sugar lump!"

5. How many hours of sleep do you get every night? Answer: "I try to get 8 hours."

Episode Information: https://www.takingyoutothetop.io/episodes/episode-55-visible-pathway-co-founder-ceo-mark-cotgrove

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Welcome to episode 54 of “Taking You To The Top” - where I spend some time chatting with Founders & CEOs from across the globe. I ask them specific questions to learn exactly how they built and launched their businesses.

My guest today is Trent Dyrsmid; Founder & CEO of Flowster!

Flowster is a software platform that allows eCommerce companies to either build their own custom Standard Operating Procedures, or purchase pre-made Standard Operating Procedures that have already be proven to deliver quantifiable results to the bottom line.

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Welcome to episode 53 of “Taking You To The Top” - where I spend some time chatting with Founders & CEOs from across the globe. I ask them specific questions to learn exactly how they built and launched their businesses.

My guest today is Kevin Kermes; Co-CEO of Career Attraction!

Career Attraction has helped more than 15,000 professionals find work they love. They've been featured in more than 50 major media outlets including being named one of Forbes "Top Websites for Your Career."​

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Welcome to episode 52 of “Taking You To The Top” - where I spend some time chatting with Founders & CEOs from across the globe. I ask them specific questions to learn exactly how they built and launched their businesses.

My guest today is Nitin Verma; Co-Founder of Orgzit!

Orgzit is a B2B SaaS technology product company. Their web and mobile product looks like a spreadsheet, but provides powerful functionalities for data organization including access controls, automation using workflows, and powerful business analytics.

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Welcome to episode 51 of “Taking You To The Top” - where I spend some time chatting with Founders & CEOs from across the globe. I ask them specific questions to learn exactly how they built and launched their businesses.

My guest today is Dwayne Samuels; Co-Founder & CEO of Samelogic!

Agile UI Experiments for Product Teams.

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