On Episode 94 of Inside the Marketplace, Priest talked with Courtney Reum co-author of Shortcut Your Startup and an entrepreneur who went from investment banker to an owner of a startup, VEEV Spirits which he sold to starting M13 to help investors out. An interesting piece of the conversation is hearing Priest and Courtney discuss…
The Startup Learning Curve
What makes a good leader?
In the 100th episode of In The Marketplace, Priest talks to Jason Mayden about a variety of his topics. He talks about the challenges of coming up in Chicago and particularly the issues he faced in his own community. He talks about some of the work he did and connections he made at Nike. He…
Wrapping your head around everything going on with CBD and Marijuana Legalization
In Episode 95 of Inside the Marketplace, Priest spoke with Dr. Bee and then again in Episode 99 when Priest spoke with Vadim Fedorovsky about the CBD and Marijuana business and even some of the important details of what the differences between CBD and Marijuana are and complexities of dealing with decades of anti-marijuana messaging. …
Perception versus Reality
In these Post Games, I tend to drag us a little off the course for each of these podcasts. We could easily just talk about entrepreneurship basics and I’m sure we will have so much content to work with we can definitely go that route but I love the side conversations in each of these…
Once a criminal, always a criminal… right? Not necessarily.
On Episode #98 of Inside the Marketplace, Priest talks with Chris Rickerson, a self made millionaire who now runs Elite Staffing Solutions out of Wichita, KS. Chris has quite the story to tell about his troubled youth and how he was into drugs, getting arrested for a variety of crimes and he even mentioned that…
Addictions and Entrepreneurship
On the Inside The Marketplace podcast #97, Priest talked to Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow. Mike’s story has some of the familiar sounds of other rags to riches successes where he got a great idea, worked tirelessly to perfect it and then tried and initially failed to get retailers on board with the product so…
Podcasting Audience Continues to Grow!
Recently Vox released an article explaining their thoughts on why podcasting is getting big and we agree. At the heart of it all, technology has made it easy to listen too both in and outside of your vehicle. If you want to grow your audience and looking for other ways to reach out and offer…
The Quick and Dirty Podcasters Guide
I started podcasting because I wanted to share with people that follow my newsletter, socially, etc.. that people are doing a lot of fun and cool things out there in this digital world. Selfishly, I also wanted to talk to people that inspire me and in some form this has been a chance for me…
Delivering Different: A Look Into The Zappos Culture
I’m a firm believer in connections. I called my business Network Capital (LLC) because the definition of capital is ‘wealth in the form of money or other assets’ and in my case the capital is meeting and getting connected with others which ultimately creates processes and profits. I had a chance to meet Alex Genov, Head of UX Research…
Is The Subscription Business Model Taking Over?
According to Business Insider, Subscription services are taking over retail. From the many subscription partners that we’ve worked with, we know that it’s a very profitable business but also offers some good value to customers and alternatives to “taste” products vs. what a brick and mortar store can offer. Read more here…. Want to launch your…