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Bitcoin, Blockchain Hype v Reality as Bennet Kelley speaks with Angela C. Walch, an Associate Professor at St. Mary’s University School of Law,  2017 was heralded as the year of Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology, only to be greeted in the new year with a major drop in Bitcoin value. What is the substance behind the hype? What is Bitcoin and Blockchain? What is its promise?

Did you know you can use WordPress to help build and power native mobile apps on iOS and Android devices? In this episode, we’ll interview Brian Messenlehner of AppPresser as he discusses how brands are leveraging WordPress to deliver amazing native mobile experiences. We’ll explore a little bit about how AppPresser works and how developers can solve for native mobile on their own. If you’re only leveraging your WordPress content on desktop and mobile web, you’re missing out. Listen to this episode now to learn techniques for using WordPress to power native mobile apps!

Today on Entrepreneur Effect our host is joined by Constance Dierickx The Decision Doctor® Author of High Stakes Leadership-Leading with courage, judgment, and fortitude. Constance helps senior executives succeed in high stakes transitions such as mergers and acquisitions, CEO succession, organizational change, and crisis. Her merger and acquisition clients succeed at a rate 400 times greater than the average.  In her new book, organizational and leadership consultant Dierickx describes high-stakes leadership in a simple, three-part model that illuminates the mindsets, strategies, and tactics leaders must draw upon to make tough decisions, take an unpopular stand, or ignore convention, providing real-world examples across a range of sectors and industries. Dierickx developed her model of high-stakes leadership to help her clients―executives at organizations ranging from start-ups to nonprofits to large, global companies―better define what they need to bring strategy to life. This, she found, is the great gulf in business, the vast space between idea and results.

Anne and Gillian kick off the new year with a fresh look at whether women founders are receiving any more VC backing, and they are sorry to report the situation has slipped downward instead of improving, despite hard numbers that show women-led enterprises return more shareholder value, and outperform their brothers by nearly two-thirds. Yet women founders received less in both dollars and deal flow in 2017, and Latina and black women a tiny fraction of that. The driving forces behind this dispiriting trend and lack of improvement are closely linked to bias, comfort zones and desperately out-of-whack power balances that are similarly behind the sexual harassment now coming to light. Your hosts explore how the numbers rolled and who is leading the commentary and why time’s up in funding as much as elsewhere.

Gillian and Anne take a full look at an entrepreneur’s CEO journey and lay out strategic and tactical insights to help them plan their company’s futures. Where do you start and how do you get going, and maintain momentum. Who is likely to buy your products, or even your company? When will your investors expect an exit and how will you get there? Hear how to find likely investment partners, whether strategic and essential to their business, or tactical, i.e. ‘nice to have’ and what the single most important number you must have at all times.

James Martell speaks with WordPress Developer, Co-Founder WebDevStudios and Co-Founder AppPresser Brian Messenlehner, author of Building Web Apps with WordPress. WordPress as an Application Framework.Brian is a former software developer for the United States Marine Corps, is the Co-founder of WebDevStudios.com, a web development company that specializes in building all things WordPress. He is the Co-founder of AppPresser.com, a WordPress based framework for building iOS and Android Apps.

The new Google Search Console is rolling out over the next few weeks to all webmasters and you will be able to access the new Google Search Console and the old one via links in the navigation. So you can play with both side by side, as Google keeps adding more and more features in the new version. Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs. Then they go over a list of experts sharing the best single piece of advice they've gotten when using SEO.

For his newest project, R. Sikoryak tackles the monstrously and infamously dense legal document, iTunes Terms and Conditions, the contract everyone agrees to but no one reads. In a word for word 94-page adaptation, Sikoryak hilariously turns the agreement on its head―each page features an avatar of Apple cofounder and legendary visionary Steve Jobs juxtaposed with a different classic strip such as Mort Walker’s Beatle Bailey, or a contemporary graphic novel such as Craig Thompson’s Blanketsor Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis.

Adapting the legalese of the iTunes Terms and Conditions into another medium seems like an unfathomable undertaking, yet Sikoryak creates a surprisingly readable document, far different from its original, purely textual incarnation and thus proving the accessibility and flexibility of comics. When Sikoryak parodies Kate Beaton’s Hark A Vagrant peasant comics with Steve Jobs discussing objectionable material or Homer Simpson as Steve Jobs warning of the penalties of copyright infringement, Terms and Conditions serves as a surreal record of our modern digital age where technology competes with enduringly ironclad mediums.

Our host Peggy Anne Salz from MobileGroove catches up with Helene Trompeter,Media Manager at The Weather Company, to discuss her work aligning mobile marketing goals with the company’s wider mission to be genuinely helpful and useful--especially in the case of natural disasters and preparedness. We discuss the formats that drive the best results, the platforms that deliver the most highly engaged app users,  and the marketing approaches and successes that earned her the title of Mobile Hero as chosen by Liftoff, a full-service mobile app marketing and retargeting platform.

Are you a digital marketer or work with non-technical webmasters and could use some good DIY tips for properly managing WordPress sites? Listen to this tip-packed episode of PressThis as we cover tools and techniques digital marketers and non-technical users can take advantage of to make their sites faster, more secure, and easier to manage. Setting and forgetting your website is not an option. Download this episode now to learn what you can do to help ensure the success of your WordPress sites and your digital business!