Election fever. With all the news, who can avoid it? Not a news ticker scrolls by without a mention of Biden's age, Trump's trials and RFK's betrayals. We're not immune to it. So when a scheduled guest went AWOL, we figured we'd talk about the first thing that came to mind. Suffice it to say that MAGA conservatives aren't the only ones who hang out in echo chambers.
For students, taking classes on innovation is like getting car privileges without having to do house chores. Why drudge through grammar, civics and science, when you can get right into learning how to make billions. That’s how Zuck did it: he skipped his classes at Harvard, spent a little time with the Winkelvoss twins and, voila, Facebook. Easy peasy? Some of us think not. Join us in a discussion with Diane Bouis, director of MedTech Innovator, the world’s largest life science startup accelerator program, and judge for yourself.
Not that we have a vested interest, but we’d suggest that Joe Biden make a go at it with a blue baseball cap sporting the acronym MIGA. You know, “make innovation great again!” Speaking of innovation, today’s guest is John Daniels, a tinkerer turned entrepreneur who is daring fate by joining the Innovation Blab in a discussion of his latest venture. It’s developing a rapid diagnostic kit to test for Covid and whatever else ails mankind. With a bit of luck, he’ll launch the product before Kari Lake returns to Arizona politics following a two-year break.
Welcome to Innovation Blab, the B-side of Failure - the Podcast… Innovation and failure are not like yin and yang. They can be complementary, but they are not interconnected and interdependent opposites. Sounds cool, eh? What it has to do with today’s podcast is anybody’s guess. Have a listen and judge for yourself. Our guest is Stefan Koehler, director of therapeutics licensing at the University of Michigan.
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a conversation on the Ukraine crisis with Sam Bendett, an expert on the Russian military with the Washington D.C.-based think tanks CNA and CNAS.
You gotta listen if you are in Sales. And, after all, who isn't? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Cal Reichwein, former star with the Lafayette Cougars mens basketball team and, now, an emerging star on the Hubspot sales team.
“Back in 5….” What does that mean? Our kids say it on the way out the door, when beef tongue is the evening fare. Do they mean minutes? Never seems that way.
We get it. Not everyone likes beef. It’s a little like this podcast, though, we suspect beef may have more adherents than Failure - the Podcast. Tongue? That’s a different question, at least if you’re talking bovine….
No, it's not the ice cream. It's the podcast. This one, and you can be sure it's in bad taste. But, hey, don't be too disappointed. Before reality sunk in, we did offer you the briefest glimmer of hope. That's more than a certain congressperson from Georgia has done for you….
Sounds promising: fun with numbers. If not the mathematicians and physicists, certainly the accountants might get something from this podcast. And, if not them, the actuaries will have a field day. Think about it: a podcast even an actuary could love. Stultifying….
It took a little doing, but the team from Failure - the Podcast think they found the first use of that magical phrase "testing, testing one, two, three.....". No, it wasn't in 2010, when Biden dropped the F-bomb on an open mic while introducing then-President Obama's eponymous health care bill….
Yup, the team from Failure – the Podcast has been busy, too. End of year, and all that. When we weren’t worrying about systemic election fraud, it was that “undemocratic coup“ the New York Post was railing about. But, with vaccine distribution started, the pandemic relief bill signed and the defense bill….
Fintech intelligentsia light up when they hear about new payment processing platforms, sometimes referred to as "rails." It's an allusion to moving goods via railway with tracks, switches, sidings and all those other things grandpa used to reminisce about but that you've never actually seen in person….
Some things just take a long time. The campaigning. The lawsuits. The voting. The lawsuits. The counting. The lawsuits. The re-counting. The lawsuits….
It certainly seemed that the team from Failure - the Podcast went into Covid-induced hibernation these past few months. We might say that we spent them on a promotional tour to shore up flagging subscriptions in Wisconsin….
Before starring as the criminal mastermind, Wo Fat, in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O, Mark Dacascos emceed the Food Network hit, Iron Chef America. Though he probably never uttered the words himself….
Have you ever looked out over the Midwest farmlands while taking a cross country flight? Just another pretty view, you ask? The guests of today’s podcast think not…..
It takes a lot to rile the team from Failure - the Podcast — especially, when they’re recording an episode. So much so that one wonders whether they spend more time listening to themselves than to their guests….
We were curious. Just what is a skeeter? In the midwest it’s slang for mosquito. Perhaps, everywhere. Wikipedia thinks so. It lists “skeeter” as one of ….
Jennie Nigrosh’s epic failure on ABC’s “Shark Tank” in 2013 is the stuff of legends. The rising entrepreneur and founder/CEO of eco-friendly laundry-bag maker The Green Garmento got her legs cut out from under her….
This episode has nothing to do with Amy Cooper. In fact, it doesn’t mention any Karens or their victims. Amy’s dog was named Henry. He’s not in this podcast. Last we heard, he was back with the cocker spaniel rescue league. They are not mentioned in today’s episode, either.
This episode has nothing to do with coronavirus. Nor, vaccines, anti-vaxxers or Betsy DeVos. In fact, although the episode was recorded at socially-acceptable distances on the order of miles (and, in the case of our guest, a continent’s worth of them), you will hear no discussion of health today. Not a memorable one, at least.
Did we mention X Æ A-12 — or Little X, as Grimes more affectionally calls the tike? We might have, here, but not in the podcast. Speaking of Elon, the Gigafactory is in Nevada. Neither come up in today’s episode. Nor do the Kardashians, Kanye West, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner or Blitzen.
What is this episode about?
We’ll give you a hint: Tim Forbes. He’s in sports management. He worked his way up through the PGA, became an acclaimed author and now runs his own sports business. Tim has quite a story to tell, and if you listen to today’s episode you might catch a little of it.
