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Problem Solvers — 493 episodes · page 5 of 5
The Six-Step Plan for Success
Orangetheory Nearly Destroyed Its Brand
How Do You Convince Clients That You're Valuable?
Why A Hit Product Turned Into A Flop
"Kill Your Business With A Better Business"
The Terrible Lesson of Chain Stores
Get What You Want By Providing Value, With Mazda's CMO
He Waited Too Long To Fire People
Smarties Embraced Change After 69 Years
How to Treat Art Like A Business
Know When (Or When Not) To Quit
Property Brothers Help 2 Cofounders Work Better Together
The Best Employees Have Side Hustles
The Dangers of Expanding Fast (and Benefits of Going Slow)
Groupon's Founder Gets Inspired By Failure
Every Investor Rejected Them. They Thrived Anyway.
How Do You Find Your First Customers?
How The Points Guy Became The Points Guy
The Downside of Going Viral
Customers Come, Customers Leave. Now What?
Everyone Has Imposter Syndrome
Scaling One Person Into A Company
The Downside of Having A Huge Corporate Client
Fixing eBay's Culture
A Cautionary Tale About Trademarks
SimpliSafe Was Targeting The Wrong Customer
How Home Depot's CEO Managed A Massive Data Breach
Why Meeting Customers In Person Changes Everything
He Killed Off A $30 Million Business—And Thrived!
How Gen. Stanley McChrystal Protects His Time
He Hired The Wrong People. Now What?
The Secret to Working With Family or Friends
Start A Company, Figure Out The Business Model Later?
How Comedian Nicole Arbour Thrived Despite Chronic Pain
The Difference Between "Any Sales" And "The Right Sales"
How Malcolm Gladwell Solves Problems
Why It Took Dunkin' Donuts 10 Years to Build the Perfect New Cup
The New Product Doesn't Work. Do We Scrap It?
Should Entrepreneurs Lie? (And How A Lie Saved Stonyfield Farm)
How Tony Hawk Learned To Protect His Brand
Why This CEO Fired Himself
Her Company Was Growing, So Why Was It Failing?
Why Freshbooks Launched A Competitor To Itself
She Raised Millions From Investors... Then Almost Lost It All
How MailChimp's CEO Became the Leader His Company Needed
How to Survive When the Money Runs Out
What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From The Bicycle
Nobody Believed In His Vision. But He Knew Better.
Califia Farms Had To Start Saying, "We're Out Of Product"
When Your Staff Can't Agree On a Vision for the Company
Keep The Company Running During A Personal Crisis
Build An Audience Without Advertising
Saving A Damaged Brand (Remember About.com?)
Selling The Product That Everyone Said Was Impossible
People Love Your Idea, But It Doesn't Make Money. Now What?
How to Name Your Company — Or Fix A Bad Name
He Took A Lowbrow Product, And Made It Luxury
The Business Model Doesn't Work—So Change It!
The Curse of the Problem Solver - You Can't Solve It All
How A Company Becomes A Thought Leader
They Were Acquired... And Then The Buyer Went Bust
How Three Entrepreneurs Started On The Fast Track
The Entrepreneur’s Identity Crisis: “Am I My Company?”
How Do You Find Your First Customers?
Tripping.com's Problem: Their Popular Service Wasn't Making Money
The Danger of Profitability: It Masks Deeper Problems
Going From B2C to B2B: Why Poppin Transformed Itself
How Transparent is Too Transparent?
How A Young, New, Female Boss Took Over Her Male-Dominated Company
He Said Yes Too Many Times, Then Learned to Say No
How to Win in a Ruthless Industry? Try Being Nice.
How Tough Mudder Expanded Its Loyal Fanbase
What’s Holding Your Company Back?
How to Survive 150 Straight VC Rejections
Survive the Holiday Crush Like Baked By Melissa
Find Overlooked Growth Opportunities, With Study Giant Quizlet
What Happens When You Can't Deliver Your Kickstarter Project to Backers?
Expanding Before You're Ready, With Yogurt-Maker Noosa
Dollar Shave Club for Couches Shows Upside in Asking "Why Are Things Sold The Way They Are?"
When You Try Making "Something For Everyone," You Attract Nobody
From A Garage To Its Own Warehouse, How Boxed Grew Fast
How This Dating App Company Spiked User Engagement
The Power of Simple and How HelloFresh Increased Customer Retention
How He Convinced 300,000 People To Work With Him, From Malaysia
What To Do When Your Solution Is Actually Creating More Problems
How Increasing Your Prices Can Attract Better Customers
How To Hire The Perfect Team, With Zapier CEO Wade Foster
How DraftKings Survived And Made Daily Fantasy Sports Legal
What To Do When Customers Don't Share Your Vision
From $50 Consulting Fees to 4m Monthly Uniques with The Points Guy Brian Kelly
What Happens When The CEO Can't Possibly Talk To Every Employee or Customer?
Her Cookie Company Went Viral, Which Meant A Bouncer and 4-Hour Lines
What Happens When You Realize Your Plan is Flawed At Launch?
How Do You Keep Buyers and Sellers Inside Your Marketplace?