Tamara Nall founded The Leading Niche, a consulting firm to the federal government and larger firms. She shares with us the secret of growing her company to $4M in revenue - the relationship map.For complete show notes: http://www.launchandle

19: A Customer Acquisition Strategy To Grow From 2 to 27 Employees

Sep 30th, 2015 20m 34s

Randy Reyess is co-founder of VenturePact, a technology services firm that matches companies with talented application development teams from around the globe. He has also written in publications such as Forbes, Fast Company and Harvard Busine

18: How To Systematize And Productize A Services Business

Sep 23rd, 2015 23m 56s

Rachel Rodgers started the Rodgers Collective, a cool, innovative take on a law firm. She has grown the company over the past 5 years or so, and has lot to share, including a great way to think about protection as an entrepreneur.Four questio

17: The Rand Fishkin Case Study on How to Build an Online Presence

Sep 16th, 2015 19m 40s

We continue our conversation with Rand Fishkin this week and dive into the details of how to build an online presence - even if you're starting from scratch. We started with search engine strategy and ended the conversation with a case study to

16: Rand Fishkin on How to Focus Your Online Marketing Efforts (Part I)

Sep 9th, 2015 22m 34s

Rand is known as the Wizard of Moz - the godfather of SEO and all around highly respected online marketing thought leader. He's the founder of Moz, a suite of popular tools to help build and manage your online presence. The episode covers the

15: How To Build a Business That Lands $700,000 on Shark Tank

Sep 2nd, 2015 26m 33s

Brittany Hodak is co-founder of ZinePak, a company that creates custom, interactive publications for super-fans. They partner with top brands and entertainers (ahem... Taylor Swift) to elevate regular consumer promotions (e.g., CD in a store) i

14: How Did Engineers Create a New Fashion Category?

Aug 26th, 2015 23m 42s

Aman Advani co-founded Ministry of Supply while at business school at MIT. They have created the performance professional category - business professional attire that's actually comfortable.You can see from the way they run themselves that the

13: The Path to 1 Million Users. Twice.

Aug 19th, 2015 29m 21s

Theban Ganesh has built and sold two different businesses that have attracted over 1 million users. In today's conversation, we cover the rise and exit of his two startups, why he chose to go back to corporate after his first, how to choose a

12: Growing oDesk to Become The Market Leader in Online Work

Aug 12th, 2015 18m 11s

Gary Swart joined oDesk in 2005 as CEO and led the company for over 8 years, turning into the market leader in the online work industry. It was the first workplace to reach $1 billion in work, and has over 5 million freelancers and thousands of

11: Leading oDesk to Market Leader

Aug 5th, 2015 18m 50s

10: From $2 Billion to an Internet Startup

Jul 29th, 2015 20m 1s

Manpreet Singh is co-founder and President of TalkLocal, a company that connects users with service providers over the phone within minutes of their request. He started his first company in high school - a website that had 300K visitors per mo

9: How they grew from 6 people to $100 Million

Jul 22nd, 2015 21m 59s

Alim and Steve left the University of Waterloo in 2001 and went on to help build Infusion into a $100 Million company. Hear the story of how they did it - through hustle, paranoia, audacity and insanity.This week's questions:You started ou

8: People First - Building a Company Where Your Customers, Employees and Partners All Love You

Jul 15th, 2015 20m 17s

James Costa started the first version of his business when he was just 17. He was in high school, a newly minted single father and juggling a business on the side. He now runs a 13 person digital agency in Toronto where his clients, employees

7: Starting as a Self-Funded Solopreneur

Jul 8th, 2015 23m 2s

Pat Murray was Director of Pricing Analytics at Home Depot and Senior Vice President of Client Service & Development at a reputable analytics consultancy before striking out on his own. Pat discusses how he launched "operations soft landing" a

6: From Bay Street Lawyer to Toronto Gold

Jul 1st, 2015 19m 25s

In this episode, Ronan Levy talks about something that likely rings true for many of us that went down a Corporate path - the desire early on to do something entrepreneurial, but delaying for something safe. He really nails why he thinks many

5: How to Grow to $500M and IPO

Jun 24th, 2015 25m 6s

Burton Goldfield has led explosive growth at three different companies and in this episode we learn how he grew TriNet from $100M in revenue to over $500M in revenue. Burton describes what two things were key to the growth and how they can even

4: From Boston Consulting Group to co-founder of hot media startup, Gimlet

Jun 17th, 2015 18m 57s

Former NPR producer, MIT MBA and Boston Consulting Group consultant Matthew Lieber co-founded Gimlet Media with Alex Blumberg - and has a hit on his hands. With highly successful shows like Startup, Matthew shares the story of his transition,

3: Pivoting an outdated point rewards company to a VC-backed data analytics firm (Part II)

Jun 17th, 2015 21m 57s

In Part II of our conversation with Eric Green (CEO) and Dennis Sarafa (COO), we discuss how they executed on the strategy they came up with in Part I. There were several key takeaways, including why it's important to operate with an inverted

2: Pivoting an outdated point rewards company to a VC-backed data analytics firm (Part I):

Jun 17th, 2015 21m 5s

This is part one of a two-part conversation with Eric Green (CEO) and Dennis Sarafa (COO) on the strategy and introduction of their pivot to customers. It’s a fantastic episode that covers how they took over a company that was missing the numb

1: From McKinsey & Co. to Franchisee

Jun 17th, 2015 22m 49s

Learn how Mike Tayter left the corporate world (Engagement Manager at McKinsey, Director at Dell) to start a fast-casual franchise. Hear what he thinks his unique advantages are and how TV advertising turned his business around.For insightful

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