The Tony Durso Show

Surviving a Startup with Steven Hoffman

He has a long history with startups. His career took off with three venture-funded startups in Silicon Valley as well as two bootstrap startups. He proclaims, "he's been in the trenches" and knows first-hand all the hardships and triumphs that entrepreneurs face. 

After his third venture-funded startup, when he decided to take a break, his friends began to approach him for help with their own startups, asking questions on how to raise money, how to pitch investors, how to scale a company, and beyond. He soon gained the nickname "Captain Hoff" and became a go-to for startup information in Silicon Valley. 

Today: 

Steve Hoffman (Captain Hoff) is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators, with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines.

Hoffman is also a venture investor, founder of three venture-backed and two bootstrapped startups, and author of several award-winning books. These include “Make Elephants Fly” (published by Hachette), “Surviving a Startup” (published by HarperCollins), and “The Five Forces” (published by BenBella).

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Mastering Emotional Resilience with Robin Hills

Robin is the director of Ei4Change, a company specializing in educational training, coaching and personal development focused around emotional intelligence, positive psychology and neuroscience.

He taught over 300,000 people in most countries how to build resilience, increased self-awareness and understanding of others.

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Winning Customer Love with Howard Tiersky

His background is a professional theatre director, before the Internet got very commercialized. But, his side-job was in graphic design to help meet with the rise in demand for businesses that wanted web sites.

He learned that his love for creating theatrical experiences fit well with creating digital experiences for his clients: bringing together technology and creativity, telling a story, engaging with an audience and creating an experience that people could interact with in one way or another.

With the rise in the Internet, and as the capabilities became greater, he became consumed with it and eventually quit theatre directing. He’s been in digital ever since.

A big difference between the two is that in the theatre world you can’t necessarily, or easily, inspire people to take action. But in the digital world, not only can you get people engaged, but you can enable them to do so by creating tools that allow people to create, build, order things and so forth.

Digital is such a huge part of everyone’s life today. It’s key part of how we do almost everything. From working, to dating, to health care, to personal finances, to you name it …

Today:

Howard Tiersky is the CEO and Founder of FROM, and the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance.

He helps companies grow revenue across digital channels by supporting the customer journey resonating with today’s hyper-Connected audience.

FROM’s work includes the creation of award-winning web and mobile products for shopping, banking, travel, and entertainment. Its clients include Morgan Stanley, Avis-Budget, A&E, Universal Studios, NBC, Viacom, and Mattel.

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Radical Performance Acceleration with Wylie McGraw

Wylie is a former star athlete, a competitive bull rider, and a 3-tour combat veteran. He’s the founder of Radical Performance Acceleration. He started out helping fellow combat veterans who were struggling with PTSD while trying to transition back into civilian life. 

His success with them led to working with various health professionals, high-powered executives, professional athletes, celebrities, and influencers. He’s the secret weapon for the highly successful. His work is the proverbial “Navy SEAL Training.” 

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit with Chris Duffin

Chris is the cofounder and chief engineer at Kabuki Strength, an organization devoted to optimizing human performance and making the world a better place through strength. 

Chris is arguably one of the strongest pound-for-pound humans in the world having been the ONLY person to Squat and Deadlift over 1000lbs for reps holding the Guinness World Record on the Sumo Deadlift.

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Grow Like A Weed with Stu Heinecke

Hall-of-Fame-nominated marketer, bestselling author, and Wall Street Journal cartoonist Stu shares his fascination with weeds and how anyone can grow their business into something resilient and unstoppable.

Stu explored the Weeds model for several years, collecting insights from thought leaders from the worlds of business, government, and entertainment including T. Boone Pickens, Kathy Ireland, General Barry McAffrey, Henrik Fisker, Gareb Shamus, Giovanni Marsico, Esther Dyson, Christopher Lochhead, Nathan Myhrvold, Carmen Medina, Jon Ferrara, and Jonna Mendez.

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Let's Get Smarter with Carol Sanford

Carol is a best-selling, award-winning business educator, Summit Producer, podcaster, and author. She is consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. 

Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, best-selling, multi- award-winning books, and developmental work, Carol works with executive leaders who see the possibility to change the nature of work through developing people and work systems that ignite motivation everywhere.  

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The New Leadership Playbook with Andrew Bryant & Tony DUrso

Andrew is the World’s Leading Expert on Self-Leadership and Author. He coached hundreds of leaders and leadership teams to become the best version of themselves and to scale their companies.

The tagline for his fourth book, The New Leadership Playbook, is Being Human Whilst Delivering Accelerated Results. Post pandemic everyone is looking for accelerated results but despite digital transformation and AI, the secret is about being human.

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Looking for guidance & wisdom to help you in your life, career & business? I interview some of the most successful people in the world, whom I call Elite Entrepreneurs. 

They share their journey and provide guidance & advice you can use to take things up another level. 

Thanks, and remember: Just Take Action!

Success awaits those who persevere and remain steadfast despite the odds. Sow good seeds, do good deeds and join me on the next episode of The Tony DUrso Show.