Failure - the Podcast

Navigating life is challenge enough. Failure, it seems, is waiting at every turn. Most would imagine that living with a disability would only add to the worries. AccessSportAmerica has long recognized that resilience is the foil to the fear of failure. The Boston-based charity’s mission is to inspire people with disabilities. One of its key teaching aids: windsurfing! Join the Team from Failure -...

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, no...

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 entr...

“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. His business, 1854 Cycling Company, is built around the notion that a local business operating in the heart of the city can end reci...

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 “good 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 wha...

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 (yes, you heard his name before on this podcast — apparently, he did not learn the first time), 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 shou...

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 p...

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Tom Curry, the former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.

Notes for Podcast #29: Read about our guest and his prior business . Listen to Podcast #21 for Roger Kahlon’s view equating starting a business with skiing.

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 a discussion of 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 help a serial entrepreneur wade through a never-ending tale of deceit, fraud and redemption.

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 century.

Virtual reality, ... augmented reality, ... mixed reality, ... oh my! Is this just more hype from the tech industry, or is there really something to this? Grand View Research says that the market for virtual reality and alternative reality (VR/AR) was just under $1B in 2016 and predicts that it will grow many, many times that amount in the next several years. Tech Crunch puts the market at just ov...

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.

A prior guest of the podcast likened markets to conversations. The entrepreneur introduces a product. The buying community accepts or rejects it. The entrepreneur tweaks and reintroduces the product. With luck, the buying community accepts it with more gusto. This back and forth, a conversation of sorts, continues until the entrepreneur and buying community reach "agreement" on what the product ou...

Jack of all spades. Master of none. Sometimes an enterprise — whether a startup or a multinational — can’t or shouldn’t try to do everything. Product design for example. If a company’s forte is ... say ... farm equipment, it ought think twice before getting into the baby products market, for example. Sure, maybe the latest wheat thrasher won the company accolades at the 2018 Iowa Power Farming Sho...

A discussion of blockchain with Seth Berman, an expert on cybersecurity and criminal law. Join us, as Seth works his way through the intricacies of blockchain, bitcoin, and all that jazz.

The team of “Failure - The Podcast” isn’t immune from failure. Join us, and learn how we recovered (or not!) from our own failure when recording a session on the downfall of Encyclopedia Britannica.

The excess of the early 2000's was something to behold. Lying between the so-called Great Moderation of the 1990's and the Great Recession of 2008, money was flowing into the economy from everywhere. Spending was the order of the day, whether for consumer goods, automobiles, houses, or you name it. There would always be more money it seemed, and few wanted to be left out. Investors were no excepti...