Seven is a big number when it comes to co-founders. You have to expect that most startups will go a few pivots before finding their niche. Try it with seven co-founders, and the number goes up exponentially.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as the wind their way through the story of media and entertainment start-up ROTU with co-founder Jason Parks. He and the company are onto something, now. Is it just a siren song of another pivot, or have they hit on something truly big?
As listeners of a certain age will appreciate, when a man’s yearly physical goes beyond the “now, cough!” stage, things can become downright awkward. What more need we say, here, about the prostate exam? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Christopher LaFarge and learn that circles of torment are neither the exclusive realm of hell nor the health care system. From an entrepreneur’s perspective, it can seem that the investment community has become pretty good with them, too.
“Conversations” are a favorite topic of this podcast. This includes not only those attendant to new product introductions, but also those between entrepreneurs and investors. Today’s episode delves into both. Our guest, Brandale Randolph, is doing well by doing good. Join us in a digression-filled discussion with Brandale and learn how an entrepreneur’s vision, when shaped and fueled by conversations with customer and investor marketplaces, can drive potentially exponential business growth.
Sebastien Mannai plans to bring oil wells into the 21st century. His company has not suffered any failures yet — or, at least, not any he would admit to — but Sebastien is hoping to prevent oil pump failures. His is a “happy news” story. It’s not one we like to hear too often at Failure - the Podcast, but on a day when it seems like the world is going to hell in a handbasket, maybe this is just what the doctor ordered.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they fumble through a discussion of women’s bra’s with Athena Kasvikis, founder of Dreamweaver Intimates, as she readies to disrupt a highly profitable segment of the $1 billion women’s bra market. (Ok, actually, just Mic, Mark and Dave fumbled — Susan carried on per usual, though, with a smirk).
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Frank Gillett, of Forrester Research, as he takes us down the tortured road of an emerging technology. Whether the supposedly unsinkable Titanic, a foolproof Iranian nuclear reactor, the Internet of Things or, yes, even the blockchain, we should simply assume that new technologies will fail — and, probably, in ways we would never predict.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as we attempt to discuss our eponym with Derek Canton, founder of paerpay.com, a dine-and-dash startup that hopes to make eating and running profitable for everyone. We failed. He didn’t. It could go either way for you.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they muddle through the life and times of Artur Sousa, whose many pivots may have resulted in one of the greatest businesses known to man and beast alike: adopets.com.
Some would argue that “failure” is merely a label and that each of us is free to define the term as we wish. A prior presidential administration declared ketchup was a vegetable. Is the meaning of failure so fluid — and, if so, what does that say about attempts to define it for purposes of evaluating our health care system? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they explore this issue with physician, entrepreneur, humorist and philosopher Andy Epstein.
Experimentation and failure may be as natural to banking as to any other business. How can that be in such a heavily regulated industry? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Tom Curry, the former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. Learn what Tom has to say about the necessity of experimentation in the banking system, including, in areas like blockchain and cryptocurrency.
Join us in a discussion with Sanjay Manandhar on why it’s only a failure if you didn’t learn from it.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a conversation with Jeffrey Conklin of the consumer insights and data analytics giant J.D. Power and learn how it helps keep established players in industry from failing.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Susan Conover, of the Boston-based startup LuminDx, as they work their way through the ups and downs of starting a business in the healthcare space.
The team from Failure - The Podcast is easily distracted, esp., when the recording session is during dinner. Join them as the explore the wonderful world of food (and restaurant failure) with chef Peter Agostinelli.
Join the team from Failure - The Podcast as they wade through a serial entrepreneur’s never-ending tale of deceit, fraud and redemption. Well, perhaps not redemption, but …
Join the team from Failure - The Podcast in an irreverent tour of the party floor, and learn what startups think about failure.
Join us in a discussion with management consultant extraordinaire John Stempeck, of Avalon Associates, for a raucous tour of some of the iconic businesses of the late 20th century. You’ll leave with a better appreciation for the Great Recession that followed in the early 21st.
Join the team from Failure - The Podcast in a discussion with John Daniels of Kinaptic, Jason Parks of Rhythm of the Universe, and Max Harper of Simmetri about partnering between virtual and augmented startups. Sponsors: MIT Enterprise Forum & Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP. Credits: Podcast Intro & Extro Music: Jazzy Frenchy - BenSound.com.
What’s the value of an MBA when it comes to starting a business? Join the team from Failure - The Podcast and judge for yourself.
Raising money can be difficult. Join a discussion with Boston-based entrepreneur Daniel Barenboym as he vents about his experiences fundraising within the Boston investment community.
