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Rocketship.fm - Business Explored — 204 episodes
The First Silicon Valley Venture Deal (Funding Ep 2)
What does a funding round mean anyway? (Funding Ep 1)
[Funding] Andy White on The State of Venture Capital Inside (and outside of) Silicon Valley
Building Entrepreneurial Communities
200 Episodes! Reflections, Lessons, and What's Next
Going the Distance: How to Stick Around for the Long Run
Emotional Alchemy: Taking Sh*t and Turning it Into Gold
Stop Procrastinating, Build a Business, and Do Work That Matters
The New Era of Affiliate Marketing
Shopping by the Numbers
Prioritizing Culture to Fuel Growth
Entrepreneurial Selling vs. Professional Selling
Prioritizing Customer Success/Onboarding as a Growth Strategy
How to Structure Your Story
Back to Basics, Building a Business the Old-School Way
Waiting for the Market to Catch Up
Get the Most out of Your A/B Tests
Stepping Up Your Cold-Email Game
How to Design for the Motivation of Your Customers
Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurship
The Value of Marketing to Current Customers
Using Micro Transactions to Try and Create the Next Big Social Network
Don’t Worry About Getting Ready, Get Started
Supply before Demand - How to Grow a Marketplace
Entrepreneurship for Couples
Putting Venture Capital to Work on a Good Cause
Moving the Karaoke Industry into this Century
How to Build Something People Want to Buy
Why You Should Tackle the Hardest Problems First
How to Experiment with, Measure, and Optimize Marketing Channels
Iterating Your Way to Product-Market-Fit
How to Embed Giving Back into Your Company
Identifying the Right Pivot Opportunity, and Seizing It
How to Find, Test, and Double Down on Scalable Growth Channels
How to Prospect and Close 50% of Your Deals
How to Use Growth Experiments to Accelerate Your Startup
Building a Business that Makes You Happy
How to Strengthen Culture During Rapid Growth Spurts
The New Landscape of Seed Funding
How To Grow a Massive Tribe on Instagram
5x-ing Growth Through Traditional Channels
Getting off the Ground Without a Designer
The Incredible Marketing Machine Behind the Cleveland Cavaliers
Building a Truly Authentic Business
Starting Up in Southeast Asia
Fake it Until You Make it...Perception is Everything
A Different Approach to Scaling a Product Business
How to Build a Content Growth Engine
How Mailchimp Adds Process Without Sacrificing Culture
Crafting a Value-Based Sales Funnel
The Hidden Costs of Building a Feature
Building a Foundation Optimized to Scale
Avoiding False Positives in the Pursuit of Product-Market Fit
Using Behavioral Analytics to Drive Product Direction
Scaling a Focused & Productive Engineering Team
Your Strategy is Your Story
Why Transparency is More Urgent than Ever
Using a Distribution Partner to Scale Revenue
The 6-Step Process to Conflict Resolution
How Saying "No" Kept this Startup on Track
Building a Company That’s Set up to Scale
How to Prepare for an Exit
The Impact of Acquiring Qualified Beta Users
The Four Core Areas You Should Focus on When Raising
Use Your Core Values to Differentiate Your App
Why You Need to Develop Your Non-Technical Skills
The Very Near Future of Robotics
The Two Early Pivots of Segment
Friends Don't Let Friends Start Stupid Startups
Scaling Globally with an Inbound Model
Why You Need to Diversify Your Team
Why You Need to Leverage Your Local Ecosystem's Relationships
How to Nail the Perfect Pitch (and more conf. highlights)
Designing Software for Everyday Life
The Product Strategy Behind Intercom
The Technical Hacks Your Marketing Team Needs to Learn
Bringing Automated Investing to the Masses
How to Monetize an Open Source Project
Scaling a Marketplace Through Quality Curation
Life After Fratire
So You Want to Build a Hardware Company
How to be Deliberate and Reach Your 5-Year Goal
The Winning Formula for Viral Content
SEO Techniques to Get the Most Out of Your Content
Unconventional Ways to Scale a Marketplace Product
A Complete Guide to Startup Sales Tools
The Marketing Strategy that Made Dots #1 Worldwide
Customer Interviews Done Right
Gaining Early Adoption Within the Enterprise
Two Ways BuzzFeed’s Design Team Collaborates. (The Second One Will Blow Your Mind.)
Letting Metrics Determine When to Kill and When to Grow Your Startup
Easy SEO Strategies for Startups
The Pipeline Tactics of Mattermark’s Sales Team
Startup Seed Funding for the Rest of Us
Navigating the Dynamics of Co-founder Relationships
How to Build Your Content Strategy
How to Know When to Invest in Your Company
Why the Internet is Broken
How to Know You’re Not the Right CEO
The Secret That Changed One Entrepreneur’s Life
Cracking Into the Old Boys Club
How to Build a Sales Team from the Ground Up
Prioritizing Product Features Based on OKRs
Managing a Million Dollar Company on the Side
The 3rd Exit: Dan Martell's Thoughts on Selling Clarity
Follow Up or Die: Why "Maybe" is Killing Your Business
The Shark Tank Effect
Navigating the Highly Competitive Payment Space
Pioneering the Rails Community with Engine Yard
How to Raise "Smart" Money
Company Culture is More Than a Ping Pong Table
The Truth about Work/Life Balance
The Advantages of an Invitation-Only SaaS Onboarding Flow
The Most Important Part of Your UX isn’t in Your App
User Onboarding: The Canary in the Coal Mine
Offline Strategies for Building a Customer Base in a Non-Technical Space
Staying Motivated While Juggling Multiple Projects
Stop Pitching and Close More Deals
Post-Honeymoon Marketing
Fantastic Techniques to Motivate Your Team
Disrupting the Publishing Industry
Making Sense of Any Mess
Storytelling for Startups
Leveraging Business Development for Early Growth
Growing a Startup One City at a Time
Find and Leverage Your Unfair Advantage
Why You Should Charge from Day One
Tools and Techniques for Optimizing Your Acquisition Channels
Treehouse's Approach to Changing the World Starts from Within
Digging Your Way Out of the Trough of Sorrow
The Risks and Rewards of Bitcoin Startups
Why Your Company Should Ban Email
Hustling for Traction and Doing Things That Don't Scale
Looking Beyond the Blog Entry
Test Early, Test Often: The Power of Qualitative Data
How to Methodically Build a Growth Machine
Developing Stronger, Smarter Startup Communities
Three Principles of Success From a Killer Self-Funded Company
Attracting Top Quality Talent in the Early Stages
How to Pull Off 12 (Well Executed) Startups in 12 Months
How to Increase Activation Through Awesome Onboarding
How to Screw Up a Google Acquisition
Retargeting Tactics That Unlocked $40,000 in Revenue
Physical Goods vs. Software: The Key Differences That Will Change Your Strategy
What Investors Really Look For in Founders
Lessons Learned From a $25 Million Dollar Acquisition
How to Go Beyond Simple Execution and Go After a Huge Opportunity
Things You Never Considered About Enterprise Sales
How GitHub Scaled Past Dunbar's Number Without Losing Their Culture
Getting Past Your Biases to Unlock Unimaginable Growth Channels
When to Stop Focusing on Building an Audience and Start Pounding the Pavement
How to Make, Test, and Iterate on Marketing Assumptions
When to Stop “Powering Through” and Pivot
Why You Should Forget Pre-Defined Product Categories
How to Raise Money Outside of San Francisco
How to Find Unique Growth Channels Beyond Content
Time Management Tips to Make Your Team Insanely Productive
Attracting Enterprise Customers Through Inbound Leads
Bulletproof Sales Techniques That Scale
Buffer's Secret to Killer Customer Service and Strategic Hiring
How to Identify a Pain Worth Solving and Turn It Into a Profitable Business
The Ultra-Creative Viral Hooks Boomerang Used to Scale
What Investors Consider When Deciding To Invest In You
Christine Lu Speaks Out About Startup Founder Depression
How To Get Featured in VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and More
Getting Over the Fear of Starting a Business
Marketing Your Products through Event Planning
Vertical Marketing Strategies and Designing a Company Culture
“Fundstrapping” Your Way to Profitability
Raising outside of San Fran and Leveraging The Right Mix of Advisors
Creative Funding Strategies For Early Growth
Sales Tactics That Actually Work
How to Fundraise without Venture Capital
Sales Tactics Aimed at Tripling Revenue
The Power of Authenticity
Streamlined Planning for Small Teams
Marketing to Developers and Releasing Free Tools for Lead Generation
How to Setup a Painless Content Production Processes
Growth, Pricing, and the Realities of Funding
The Importance of Getting Sh*t Done vs. Striving For Perfection
Product Philosophy: JTBD & Minimum Marketable Features
Fundraising, Metrics, and Phenomenal Twitter Rants
Early-Stage Growth Tactics and Finding Your Focus
Leaving the Valley to Start Up in Berlin
Relationship Building, The Art of Sales, and Balinese Gurus
How to Write Content That Resonates with Your Target Audience
Building (and Balancing) Multiple Revenue Streams
Market Disruption and Getting Your First Customer
Taking a B2B Approach to a Marketplace App
From 0 to 100,000 Users
Quitting a 6-Figure Job to Bootstrap a Startup
Creating "Wow" Moments and the Impact on Engagement
Leveraging Content Marketing Materials (Even at Scale)
How to Get Content Published in the Majors
An Eye-Opening New Take on Email Lists
Taking on New Ventures and Establishing a New Life Balance
How to Use Lean Branding to Find Product Market Fit
The Unexpected Power of "Tool Marketing"
The Failures that Led to the Success of WP Curve
The Power of Integrating Your SaaS With Other Apps
3 Simple Rules For Early-Stage Email Lists
The David & Goliath Story of BuySellAds
Growing an Audience from 0 to 3,000 in Less than 2 Months
How Product Hunt was Launched in Less than 1 Week