The Startup Junkies Podcast

It's the 100th episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast! Thank you to everyone who has listened over the years and helped us achieve this incredible milestone. This episode, the original hosts of the show, Jon Cadieux and Jeff Amerine, take over and reminisce on the best moments from the show. Hear the lessons both have learned over the years and how the podcast has brought attention to some of the...

Yoon Kim is the founder of the media startup Blogs For Brands, a full service content marketing agency with an award-winning design team that manages blogs, social media, email, and ads for brands. With a team of over 10 people based in Siloam Springs, Yoon tells his story of how they are changing the game of digital marketing. He also created the Outdoor Blogger Summit, a summit designed for jour...

Mayor Lioneld Jordan and Devin Howland join the Startup Junkies Podcast to discuss all things Fayetteville! Mayor Jordan has been the mayor of Fayetteville since 2009, and Devin Howland is the new Economic Vitality director for the city of Fayetteville. We chat about their perspectives on Fayetteville and what makes the city primed for incredible growth. Learn how the public sector can support ent...

Tim McFarland and Ed Nicholson from Elevate Performance join the podcast to discuss how they help bring out the best in leaders, and how good leaders can bring out the best of an organization. Elevate Performance is a consulting firm in Fayetteville, AR that assists leaders with personal coaching, peer advisory forums, and business advisory services. They help them with their greatest opportunitie...

Famous local artist Kenneth Siemens joins us to talk about his incredible story.  Learn how Kenneth went from working an 8-to-5 corporate job to starting his own design business, Kerplunk Creative. Kerplunk Creative, LLC is a nimble agency specializing in bringing entertainment and excitement to product and retail. He now has art all over the state of Arkansas and works with some of the biggest co...

Welcome to the Startup Junkie Social! This is a round table chat with a few of the Startup Junkies. We’ll discuss important events happening around the world and in our own community related to entrepreneurship, and any other interesting topics that may arise.  We have some exciting upcoming Startup Junkie events! Find the link to them below. Learn more about the Natural State Angel Association ev...

If you like engineering, then you're going to love this one! This week we welcome Matt & Jim from Ozark IC. We discuss their work with semiconductors, and how the future is powered by engineering. Their company has received grants from NASA, so they know what they're talking about. Don’t miss a single episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast. Be sure and “Subscribe” to us on the Podcasts app, as...

The future of everything! Listen as Jeff & Michael discuss a wide range of entrepreneurial topics, including accelerators, posers vs. players, and Jeff’s “revolutionary” idea for beer currency.  Don’t miss a single episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast.  Be sure and “Subscribe” to us on the Podcasts app, as well as follow us on Twitter and Instagram: @startup_junkie Hosts: jeff@startupjunkiec...

We were honored to welcome Cindi Marsiglio and Latriece Watkins to the show - representing the company that knows scale better than any other: Walmart. We visited during their Open Call event which Cindi emceed and was kicked off with speeches from Asa Hutchinson (Arkansas Gov.), Doug McMillion (CEO) and other Walmart leadership. The audience was 500 different US product manufacturers looking to g...

Gan Nunnally is an incredible businessman who runs George Nunnally Chevrolet in Bentonville, Arkansas. He won Dealer of the Year in Arkansas for 2017. Right now, he's up for TIME Dealer of the Year. He joins us to chat about running a successful family-owned business and treating customers right.  He is also a part of the "Fireball Run" series on Amazon!  You don't want to miss hearing out on how...

Nancy Gray, Ph. D., is the head of BioVentures, the technology licensing office and business incubator for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).  You don’t want to miss out hearing Nancy tell us about her incredible career.  She has worked all over the country in countless roles in the both the entrepreneurial and pharmaceutical fields.  She is currently helping oversee the Healt...

The Startup Junkie podcast comes to you from Conway, AR this week!  Dr. Jeff Standridge drops by to tell us about the new Health Sciences Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.  This amazing new camp teaches students the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and gives them the opportunity to formulate new health science ventures.  Dr. Jeff Standridge is the team leader of The Conductor, a public-private partnershi...

We're joined by Steve McBee (CEO of Creative - creative.promo) and the leadership team from Tango Press, Steve Toth and John Ballentine ( tango-press.com ) to talk about a recent project that they collaborated on to surprise and delight a company on a large scale. They share the thought that goes into each element of packaging from the consumers experience, and insights on how to work with people...

Casey Kinsey joins us from Lofty Labs, a value added tech consultancy that thrives at the intersection of Web Development and Data Analytics. Casey shares some of his entrepreneurial journey, including the tipping point was when he realized he'd never work for someone else again, accidentally growing Lofty Labs to something larger than himself, and advice for startups who need to hire outside tech...

Kirsten Blowers and Anna Morrison join us to share their experiences about starting and growing a business in Northwest Arkansas.  Kirsten started Riffraff seven years ago, starting with only $100 and growing a business now worth over a million dollars.  Kirsten was recently named to Forbes 30 under 30 for retail entrepreneurship and Riffraff has nearly 200,000 followers on Instagram.  Anna Morris...

The NWA Venture MashUp is held around Northwest Arkansas to bring the entrepreneurial community together and celebrate a local success story. We had the opportunity to learn from Kenny Tomlin, who has been a technology leader, startup founder, investor and more over his career. Most notably in our local startup scene, Kenny started Rockfish Digital which grew (without ever raising capital)  to be...

Raj Suresh joins us to talk about growing his comedy career, his work in opening and booking the Grove Comedy Club in Bentonville, AR, and shares his entrepreneurial path that started while attending grade school in India. Pardon any background noise in this episode. We were recording in Bike Rack Brewing Co. on the first night of pouring beer in their new location in the Bentonville 8th Street Ma...

This episode is going to be a little different than our normal format. By way of a connection at Walmart we were introduced to Andrew Berkowitz who runs the Global Startup Movement. He’s interviewed entrepreneurs, investors, and support organizations like Startup Junkie all over the globe – Seriously – Africa, Australia, Silicon Valley, Hong Kong and many more. In this episode, Andrew plays the ho...

Permjot Valia is a world-class heckler. He also has a strong, diverse background in sales, early stage investing, startups, and mentoring. We were able to get him to the microphone for this short episode during his last visit to Northwest Arkansas – it’s backed with humor, sales psychology, pitch advice and much more. Enjoy! Hosts: Jeff@startupjunkieconsulting.com Michael@startupjunkieconsulting.c...

Haley Allgood & Michael Iseman from the Startup Junkie team share their lessons learned and takeaways from visiting South by Southwest in Austin and we discuss launching IdeaFame, an idea sharing platform for innvoators and entrepreneurs to gather customer feedback and win $10,000+ to jump start their idea! We’d also filmed the promo video for IdeaFame staring Michael, and we get an insight in...

Jeff Charlson, former Walmart VP, and current Bike Rack Brewing Co. CEO joins the Startup Junkie Consulting team as the Senior Entrepreneur in Residence! In this episode we welcome him to the team, talk about his learnings from a career in Fortune 500 companies, get an update on the brewery, and down a couple of delicious beers. Jeff is a rockstar. You can find him at: Jeffs@startupjunkieconsultin...

This episode we welcome Jeff back to the microphone after a brief hiatus, and the conversation couldn’t be confined to one episode, so it’s broken into two. We’re also happy to have Lance Stokes, founder of Lauren James with us for a conversation that covers many topics, including: Lessons learned and planning for the next B2F Square2Square Run, Walk, & (pub)Crawl (30+ miles of running, walkin...

This episode we welcome Jeff back to the microphone after a brief hiatus, and the conversation couldn’t be confined to one episode, so it’s broken into two. We’re also happy to have Lance Stokes, founder of Lauren James with us for a conversation that covers many topics, including: Lessons learned and planning for the next B2F Square2Square Run, Walk, & (pub)Crawl (30+ miles of running, walkin...

Our guest this episode is Caroline Gschwend who is the most recent victor of the Congressional App Challenge for District AR 03 with her app "defendUS". She shares her story of a growing interest in computer science, building the winning app, and the tools that she used to win. Check out her App: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBe90OEInA Her Tools: http://stackoverflow.com/ http://www.fotor.com/...

Rolf Wilkin, founder of Eureka Pizza, Local Trade Partners, and the original RazorBucks joins the podcast to share stories and lessons learned from growing multiple businesses by being opportunistic and sticking to his core values. Rolf see’s opportunity where other’s see risk or potential failure. He is a genius promoter, and remains a student. Some of his book recommendations include: Guerilla M...