The Startup Different Podcast

This week we’re talking to a ridiculously successful entrepreneur, Mark Organ. Mark was an entrepreneurial go-to-market specialist, a CEO with a focus on sales, marketing and business development. Along the way he’s lived in Toronto, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Singapore. He’s Founded 6 companies, raised more than 15 rounds of financing, hired over 250 people, built 7 offices around the world, and helped a lot of people realize their dreams. We had a bunch of questions for him but honestly he was so interesting that we just let him talk. It’s go time on Startup Different.

In this episode of Startup Different, we reflect on our previous conversation with Laurie Barkman, a business transition expert. We discuss the psychology behind selling a business, the importance of planning for exits, and the role of culture and employee engagement in startups. The conversation also touches on intrapreneurship and the resources available for entrepreneurs looking to transition their businesses. We emphasize the need for founders to think about their exit strategies early on and share personal anecdotes from our own experiences in selling our company.

Welcome to Startup Different! This week we’re excited to welcome a sherpa - specifically a business transition sherpa, to the show!

Laurie Barkman, The Business Transition Sherpa®, is the former CEO of a $100 million dollar revenue company that was sold to a Fortune 50. She guides business owners through the often overwhelming process of transition planning and facilitates sell-side and buy-side transactions in the lower middle market.

Laurie is an adjunct faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University, Amazon best-selling author of "The Business Transition Handbook," and host of the award-winning Succession Stories Podcast and the new show “the entrepreneur gene”. And she’s here to kickoff Season 5!

It's been over a year since the Startup Different Podcast kicked off, so we decided to re-record our origin story. We'll give you our backgrounds and tell you about our experience running and eventually exiting our business AppArmor.

Let's get into it! This is Startup Different!

Last week we spoke with Nathan Yeung of “Find your audience”. While having one of the more interesting business models out there, Nathan also tried to squash a huge myth about marketing - mostly that we kinda suck at it. Today we deep dive into Nathan’s myth busting and talk about the good o’l days of organic content.

It’s Startup Different with the Sinkinson Bros.

With years of experience as a leader in marketing operations, Nathan helps mid-market businesses build, enhance, or support their marketing functions and drive value creation. He’s a B2B SaaS Marketing Leader, Guest Lecturer, Consumer Psychology Geek and Dad, delivering companies marketing functions that become revenue engines. And he’s with us today on another fantabulous episode of Startup Different.

Last week we spoke to Ameya Juvekar, a serial entrepreneur in the consumer marketing space. His startups in the consumer health worked in tandem to deliver considerable and meaningful value for his customers and their patients. Today Chris and I explore Amaya’s businesses and how working as an intraprenear helped get him going.

Welcome to Startup Different!

Once upon a time, Chris and I had a few different businesses on the go. It’s not uncommon for early founders to do this as they’re trying to figure out what works in the market. 

But that definitely doesn’t mean it’s easy. Today, we’re speaking with Ameya Juvekar, an entrepreneur with a diverse background in business, marketing, revenue generation, and technology. He’ll be talking about his two companies, ScaleUp42 - a marketing firm that specializes in customer acquisition for health and wellness clinics -  and HealthBuddha.ca - a platform that connects patients to the best rated nearby naturopaths .

It’s interview time on Startup Different!

Last week Marley Alles gave us a 101 on her startup Rax. She had some awesome insights on how to set up a peer-to-peer business. This week, we dissect her strategy and draw out some of the key learnings from her experiences.

This week we’re talking fashion, something Chris brutally sucks at. But it turns out that thanks to Rax, his situation may be salvageable. 

Rax is Canada's peer-to-peer wardrobe rental app where you can save money borrowing and make money lending your closet. Co-Founder Marley Alles is here today to tell us about rax, how to own the social media game, and win a ton of awards.

Startup Different innovators, let's go!