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Values - ShearShare

December 21st, 2020 | Season 9 | 43 mins 50 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, discussing culture-fit with new hires, incorporating values into brand-thinking, fostering relationships, and planning for 2021.

Values - Teikametrics

November 30th, 2020 | Season 9 | 40 mins 24 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, discussing the intermingling importance of mission, vision, and values.

Values - Nurse-1-1

November 16th, 2020 | Season 9 | 41 mins 18 secs

Chad and Lindsey are joined by Michael Sheeley, founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1, to discuss crafting values with purpose, living those values in the product's messaging & marketing, choosing not to publicly publish them, and what the landscape of healthcare looks like going into 2021.

Values

November 9th, 2020 | Season 9 | 33 mins 48 secs

Chad and Lindsey discuss the history of values at thoughtbot and how they served as a key differentiator in the early days of the company, and navigating the tricky waters of when client values don't align.

Marketing - ShearShare

November 2nd, 2020 | Season 9 | 44 mins 51 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, about their early days of in-person marketing, the importance of naming, consistent messaging, and the effects of hiring a head of growth.

Marketing - Teikametrics

October 26th, 2020 | Season 9 | 46 mins 48 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, discussing the day-one origins of marketing there, building your reputation through content marketing, and the efficacy of various content channels.

Marketing - Nurse-1-1

October 19th, 2020 | Season 9 | 47 mins 39 secs

Chad and Lindsey are joined by Michael Sheeley, founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1, to discuss the blurry line between marketing, research, & product, committing to branding, acquisition costs, SEO & content marketing, helping to power a new provider platform, and hiring a head of marketing.

Marketing

October 12th, 2020 | Season 9 | 30 mins 43 secs

Chad and Lindsey discuss 'what's in a name' when it comes to branding, where (and where not) to start when you first begin your marketing efforts, and staying engaged with your customers.

Data - Teikametrics

October 5th, 2020 | Season 9 | 48 mins 6 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, discussing trust within the use of data, planning the future with indexed data, a data-science related acquisition, and navigating the world of buzzwords around machine learning.

Data - ShearShare

September 28th, 2020 | Season 9 | 45 mins 21 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, about using data to guide product design, imagining a machine learning recommendation engine, and their experience in Google for Startups Accelerator.

Data - Nurse-1-1

September 21st, 2020 | Season 9 | 55 mins 44 secs

Chad and Lindsey are joined by Michael Sheeley, founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1, to discuss using data to drive a better customer experience, some of the regulations around data management in healthcare, and advice for health-tech startups.

Data

September 8th, 2020 | Season 9 | 41 mins 11 secs

Data drives the world, and so this month we'll be talking about common pitfalls of building a business around data, laying out a tandem roadmap to drive forward both data and product, the importance of insight over raw data, when does it makes sense to reach for machine learning, tooling, and thoughts on the ethics & future legislation of data collection.

Fundraising - Nurse-1-1

August 31st, 2020 | Season 9 | 50 mins 21 secs

Chad and Lindsey are joined by Michael Sheeley, founder & CEO of Nurse-1-1, to discuss vetting your investors, his experience with fundraising, maintaining your reputation, his mindset while negotiation with investors, lessons learned while building and funding startups, the importance of establishing a founding team, and involving the team in the fundraising process.

Fundraising - ShearShare

August 24th, 2020 | Season 9 | 1 hr 11 mins

Chad and Lindsey are joined by Courtney & Tye Caldwell, Co-founders of ShearShare, to discuss their acceptance into the first cohort of Google for Startups' Black Founders Accelerator, speaking the language of investors, preparing for series A, how they think about an exit, and equity for the team.

Fundraising - Teikametrics

August 17th, 2020 | Season 9 | 42 mins 14 secs

Chad and Lindsey talk with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, CEO & Founder of Teikametrics, discussing early days of community building online, geography in relation to investors, his history with VC, the importance of relationship building, when & how much money to raise, time investment of a CEO for fundraising, and sharing financials with the team.

Fundraising

August 10th, 2020 | Season 9 | 33 mins 19 secs

This month we'll be talking about all things fundraising! The discussion covers investors vs bootstrapping, crowd-funding, differences between the various levels of fundraising, accelerators, and the expectations of taking venture capital.