PODCAST · business
The Web Talk Show
by Armando J. Perez-Carreno
Practical conversations for small business owners about AI tools, cybersecurity and scams, marketing, and getting found online. Host Armando J. Perez-Carreno, a software engineer who runs an AI implementation and training company, talks with founders and experts about which AI tools save time, how to protect your business from fraud, how to win more customers from Google and email, and how to build software without a big team.
Episodes
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Hackers took over his phone number for 61 minutes
In 2018 Mark Kreitzman's phone went dead in the Arizona desert. Someone at a phone store had moved his number to another device, and in 61 minutes the attackers reset passwords on his bank, email, cloud and crypto accounts. That SIM swap is why he helped build Efani, a mobile carrier designed to...
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Pre-IPO investing has needed $100K. Blockchain could lower that to $1
Getting into companies like SpaceX or OpenAI before they go public has usually taken at least $100,000, accredited investor status and months of paperwork. Chan Ahn spent almost 20 years in investment banking before founding Tessera, which puts exposure to those private companies on the…
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Why Smart People Fall for Scams and How to Protect Yourself
Smart people fall for scams because criminals use urgency and our natural trust against us. Robert Siciliano of Protect Now explains how criminals pick their targets and the three basic steps that make you a much harder target. In this episode: Fewer than 1 in 10 people in Robert's live audiences...
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How Home Service Contractors Rank in the Google Map Pack
Home service contractors who do great work can still lose jobs to competitors who show up first on Google. Jonah Bautista of Atlanta Pro Network explains the free Google Business Profile settings and review habits that help contractors get into the map pack, often within 30 days. In this episode:...
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Lean Six Sigma and AI for Root Cause Problem Solving
Lean Six Sigma gives you a clear way to find the root cause of a business problem and fix it so it stays fixed. Vishwadeep Khatri, founder of Benchmark X360, explains how those same habits help you direct AI well at work. In this episode: Six Sigma's define, measure, analyze, improve and control...
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Email Marketing Hero Image and AI Personalization for Small Business
Almost half the clicks in a marketing email come from the hero image at the top, and most brands use that space for a logo. R.J. Talyor, founder of Backstroke, explains how to use that spot better and how AI can build a different version of each email for every subscriber. In this episode: About...
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Zenvoya AI Travel Assistant for Flights, Hotels and Trip Delays
An AI travel assistant can find flights and hotels that fit what you care about and keep helping after you book. Vipul Doshi, founder of Zenvoya, spent 20 years building customer experience for the travel industry as the founding CEO of IGT Solutions, and he shares how Zenvoya gives everyday...
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Financial Planning for Entrepreneurs to Avoid Surprise Tax Bills
Many entrepreneurs put every dollar back into the business and skip financial planning, then get a surprise tax bill at the end of the year. Rebecca Irey, founder and CEO of Blue Skye Financial, explains how to plan ahead and how to pick an advisor who helps you do it. Armando J. Perez-Carreno...
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Phishing Training for Small Business Teams with Craig Taylor
Phishing training for employees often uses fake emails and punishment for anyone who clicks. Craig Taylor, co-founder of CyberHoot, explains why positive reinforcement works better at helping your team spot real phishing attacks. In this episode: Craig says punishment only holds a behavior down…
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Validate Your Business Idea Before Building the Platform
Validate your business idea before you build the full platform. Alberto Padilla started Briq.mx, a regulated real estate crowdfunding platform in Mexico, with a plain website and a progress bar he updated by hand. In this episode: Briq's first site was plain HTML, and when someone clicked "I'm...
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Growth Equity Explained: When to Raise Money for Your Business
Growth equity explained for founders and small business owners, including how raising money really works and when it makes sense to raise or wait. Melanie Nabar, Principal at Volition Capital, walks Armando through what happens when a company takes outside money. In this episode: Growth equity…
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AI Software Testing vs Hiring More QA Testers for Web Apps
Hiring more QA testers doesn't always fix buggy software. Pramin Pradeep, founder of BotGauge, explains how AI agents handle end-to-end testing so growing businesses can release new features with confidence. In this episode: An e-commerce company had 25 QA testers and still sat at 56% test...
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Building a No-Swipe Dating App With AI on a Small Budget
Richard Decker used AI tools to build Authenti, a dating app with no swiping and no public profiles, for a small fraction of the usual cost. He shares what four decades of starting businesses taught him about launching a new idea and growing it one city at a time. In this episode: A dev company...
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Run Your Affiliate and Referral Programs From One Tool
Affiliate and referral programs get messy fast when each one needs its own tool. Alex Standiford, founder of Siren, shows how one incentive engine runs affiliate, referral, sales, and partnership programs from one place. In this episode: Most referral programs start simple, then within six months...
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The Truth About Company Knowledge. This Is What You're Missing.
Daniel Fallmann founded Mindbreeze back in 2005, long before anyone was talking about LLMs, and he's spent 21 years helping the world's largest companies turn scattered data into usable knowledge. In this episode, he makes a bold claim: most AI projects don't fail because of the model. They fail...
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The Hidden Network That Keeps America's Supply Chain Running
Most people have no idea that the truck delivering their morning coffee or that fresh donut at 7-Eleven isn't owned by the company whose logo is on the side. Dean Vicha, President of NationaLease, pulls back the curtain on a 1944-founded network of family-run truck leasing companies that quietly...
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Burn tokens, not headcount: how small teams should hear that AI phrase
A phrase from a recent AI talk has been making the rounds: "burn tokens, not headcount." It sounds cold at first. The right way to hear it is one of the most useful framings a small-business owner can carry into the AI era. Armando Perez-Carreno walks through how small teams are getting more...
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Why Your First AI Project Probably Shouldn't Be a Chatbot
Most businesses jump straight to chatbots because they look impressive. But if your underlying workflows are broken, a chatbot just moves the bottleneck somewhere else. In this solo episode, Armando J. Perez-Carreno of PerezCarreno & Coindreau breaks down how to choose the right first AI project...
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Does Your Company Already Have An AI Champion?
Most companies are not failing at AI because the tools are bad. They are failing because nobody owns the messy middle between having access to AI and changing how work actually gets done. In this episode, Armando explains why every small and medium business needs an internal AI champion, what…
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If It Wasn't Recorded, It Didn't Happen to Your AI
Your business knows a lot more than your systems do. The problem? If that knowledge lives only in someone's head, your AI can't use it. In this solo episode, Armando breaks down why "AI legibility" is the missing piece behind so many stalled AI projects, and what to capture (and what not to) so...
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From Demo to Deployment: Where Most Companies Get Stuck
Buying an AI tool is the easy part. Changing the workflow is the hard part. That's why so many AI projects look incredible in demos, then quietly disappear inside the company. In this solo episode, Armando J. Perez-Carreno breaks down the gap between AI demos and real business deployment, and...
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The Small Business AI Bottleneck is Deployment
Most companies already have AI. The real problem? They haven't deployed it yet. In this episode, I break down why 78% of organizations are using AI but almost none have a mature rollout, and what that gap means for your business. I walk through how to pick the right workflow to improve first, and...
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Why Your Ads Are Failing Before You Spend a Single Dollar
Most businesses think running ads is the fix. Sheldon Poon argues it's actually the last step, and skipping what comes before it is why so many ad campaigns fail. Sheldon Poon is the co-founder and CEO of Drive Marketing, a Montreal-based paid ads agency known for data-driven performance and...
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90% of Your Net Worth Is in Your Company. That's a Problem.
Most founders have 90 percent or more of their net worth tied up in a single illiquid asset, their company, and no real plan for getting it out. In this episode, Steven Pivnik shares what he learned from spending 26 years building and selling his own technology business, and from now advising…
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Hyper-Personalized Tooling: The Next Era of Software
Mike Carlo joins Armando J. Perez-Carreno to unpack what they're calling hyper-personalized tooling: the shift from buying SaaS subscriptions to building custom micro-tools that solve your exact problem. They cover why agents should create the software, not run it, how local tooling beats cloud...
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FSBO Explained: What the Industry Doesn't Tell You About Selling Your Own Home
Tim Street spent years as a top-producing real estate agent before walking away from it all to teach everyday homeowners how to sell their own properties and keep tens of thousands of dollars in their pockets. In this episode, Tim shares what actually goes on behind the scenes in real estate...
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Why Your AI Translation Is Losing Spanish-Speaking Customers
Most US businesses think adding a language toggle to their website counts as serving Spanish-speaking customers. It does not. Christina Spaulding, founder of Manzanita Marketing, explains why localization is far more than translation, and what is at stake when businesses get it wrong. Christina…
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The One Question to Ask Before You Post Anything: Who Are You Actually Talking To?
Most business owners know they should be making content. Very few actually stick with it long enough to see results. In this episode, filmmaker-turned-brand-strategist Jake Isham breaks down what separates the accounts that grow from the ones that stall out.Jake runs a creative agency based in…
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Talking Shop: Rails and AI with Benito Serna
Catching up with my old friend Benito Serna, CTO of briq.mx, for a relaxed chat about what actually goes on behind the scenes of a software powered business. We get into Ruby on Rails (yes, the stack Shopify and GitHub still run on), why it reads almost like English, how his team uses AI day to...
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Yes or No to Fractional CFO? (answer: it depends)
Growing revenue means nothing if none of it reaches your bank account. In this episode, Armando sits down with Nate Littlewood, founder of Future Ready CFO, to talk about why so many founders feel financially stuck even as their businesses scale. Nate spent a decade on Wall Street and another...
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Why I'm Burning Down Every SaaS Tool in My Business With AI Agents
AI agents now let small business owners replace SaaS tools with simple custom apps that keep their data in one place they control. Armando J. Perez-Carreno and Mike Carlo share how they're rebuilding their own software around agents, and why that change is good news for service businesses. In…
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The Real Reason Financial APIs Are Losing Their Moat
Financial data APIs are easier to get than ever, so a simple API product is harder to set apart. Tommy Cotter from Benzinga explains how stock market news APIs work, how small builders can get started, and why prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are drawing so much attention. In this...
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Time and Temperature: The Science of Zero Carb Pizza
Most food brands do not die because the product is bad. They die because they scaled too fast, took on too much risk, or jumped into retail before they were ready. In this episode, Armando talks with Omar Attia, founder and CEO of Zero Carb Life, the company behind the highest protein pizza on…
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Are We Ready for Claude Mythos? A Cybersecurity CTO's Perspective
Claude Mythos has people worried that AI will help attackers as much as defenders. Eran Medan, CTO of Arnica, talks about what the release means for cybersecurity and the simple steps vibe coders can take today to protect their apps. In this episode: Why Eran wants to see the CVEs and peer…
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Your Business Is an Asset, Not Your Baby: Lessons from a Capital Strategist
Most business owners think access to capital means getting a bank loan or winning a pitch competition. Tyrus Shivers, partner at Legacy Wealth Capital Group, breaks down why that thinking keeps founders stuck and underfunded. From scaling masterminds to $10 million in revenue alongside Dr. Eric...
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Anthropic Claude Mythos: Should We Be Scared? Or Not?
Anthropic's unreleased Claude Mythos model found thousands of software vulnerabilities and escaped a secured sandbox during testing. Travis Malone returns to explain what that means for AI security and what small business owners can do now to protect their websites and systems. In this episode:...
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2 Minutes and 3 Slides: How to Win Over a Boardroom
What happens when a brilliant technical expert gets promoted into leadership and suddenly none of their skills seem to work? Bianca Riemer, an executive coach and former Morgan Stanley stock market analyst, shares the communication frameworks that took her from nearly getting fired to getting...
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How Employee-Owned Companies Grow 2.5% Faster (And Pay Less Taxes)
Most business owners only know two exit options: sell to private equity or just close up shop. Matt Middendorp, Director of ESOP Consulting at VisionPoint Capital, breaks down a third path that lets you cash out, keep control, and build generational wealth for your employees. He shares real…
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Why AI Companies Are Selling at a Loss on Purpose
Joshua Gould is the CEO of The Big Word, a global language services company powering interpreting and translation for governments, hospitals, courts, and police stations across the US, UK, and Europe. In this conversation, he breaks down why AI is an evolution, not a revolution, why most AI...
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The Five Finger Framework: 75 Content Ideas You Already Have
Jimi Gibson went from performing magic shows at age four to leading strategy at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency, and the parallels between magic and marketing are more real than you think. In this episode of The Web Talk Show, Armando J. Perez-Carreno and Jimi break down why faceless brands are...
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Small Business AI: Where to Start If You're Not a Tech Person
Small business AI can be hard to figure out if you're not a tech person. In this solo episode, Armando J. Perez-Carreno explains agentic AI in plain words and shows where AI agents can help with invoices, inventory, reports, and daily operations. In this episode: Agentic AI can work through…
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Your Doctor Has 11 Minutes: Faster Rare Disease Diagnosis With AI
Getting a rare disease diagnosis can take families about seven years of bouncing between specialists before they find a treatment that works. Joshua Resnikoff, founder of Sunstone Health, explains how AI and whole genome sequencing can bring that down to about 12 weeks. In this episode: Families…
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Quantum Computing Could Break Your Encryption in 11 Hours
Quantum computing could soon break the encryption that protects your business data, and AI is already helping attackers move faster than ever. Cybersecurity professional Travis Malone explains how these threats work and the steps you can take now to use AI tools safely. In this episode: In one...
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How to Raise Millions From Retail Investors Using Digital Marketing (with Jason Fishman)
Raise capital from retail investors with digital marketing and investment crowdfunding, without depending on venture capital. Jason Fishman of Digital Niche Agency (DNA) has worked on over 500 of these deals, which together have raised hundreds of millions of dollars. He explains how Reg CF and...
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Why Your Financial Advisor Is Giving You Little League Coaching on a Pro Budget
Most people with serious wealth are still getting little league coaching when they need pro-level guidance. Ken Himmler, founder of OneWealthMap and Fintomic AI, built a family office specifically for the two to twenty-five million dollar bracket that the big players ignore. In this episode, Ken...
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Why Non-Developers Are Building Better Software Than You Think
Non-developers are building real software with AI tools like Claude Code and Lovable. Jose Duarte, head of growth at Pangea Money Transfer, explains how he builds web and iOS apps without a computer science background, and how he keeps the code clean. In this episode: How Jose turned a slow,...
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Vibe Coding vs. Enterprise Software: Where the Security Line Really Is
Most developers think about how to build software right. Security experts think about what can go wrong. Nir Valtman, co-founder and security veteran at Arnica, joins the show to talk about why those two mindsets are constantly in conflict, and what that means now that AI is writing your code. We...
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Groundwater Rights, Aquifers, and Drought: What Nobody Tells You
Most of us turn on the tap without a second thought, but the infrastructure keeping that water clean, pressurized, and flowing to your home is a massive engineering and political challenge hiding in plain sight. Kerry Averyt, General Manager of the Canyon Regional Water Authority, joins Armando…
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From Brilliant to Credible: What STEM Leaders Need to Know
What does it actually take for a tech leader to be trusted -- not just by their team, but by investors, customers, and top talent? In this episode of The Web Talk Show, Armando sits down with Shayna Rattler Davis, founder of Executive Signals Group, who has spent 21 years helping STEM leaders…
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Stop Being Invisible: AI, Short-Form Video, and the New Rules of Getting Found
What if the reason your business isn't growing has nothing to do with your product and everything to do with visibility? In this episode of the Web Talk Show, I sit down with Jenna Nelson from Her AI Agency to talk about how small businesses can use AI to compete with the big players, get found…
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Practical conversations for small business owners about AI tools, cybersecurity and scams, marketing, and getting found online. Host Armando J. Perez-Carreno, a software engineer who runs an AI implementation and training company, talks with founders and experts about which AI tools save time, how to protect your business from fraud, how to win more customers from Google and email, and how to build software without a big team.
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