Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do

Being a entrepreneur can be lonely. Sometimes we all feel the weight of the world is on our shoulders. It is hard.  But you are not alone. Life is a team sport. All you have to do is identify who is on your team. In this episode Thom Singer shares the parts of his entrepreneurs journey that are not all wine and roses. He admits he has bad days. You do too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Larry Albukerk is Managing Partner of EB Exchange. With over 20 years’ experience founding, managing, advising, and investing in hundreds of private venture-backed companies, he is an expert on private equity financing and capital structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thom Singer wrote his first book, "Some Assembly Required: How to make, grow, and keep your business relationships" in 2005. The book sold well and helped him launch a successful speaking career.  But since that time the world has changed. Facebook and LinkedIn barely existed, YouTube was founded the same year. Twitter as still a year from its release, and Instagram was 5 years away. Since his book came out, networking for business has changed.  Or has it? The more things have changed, the more many things have stayed the same. In episode 470 of "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" Thom Singer talks about how he has revisited his views on networking and building relationships. The tools that exist today have changed the game, and this has caused him to rewirte all his speeches to be relevant in 2019 and beyond. But much of the message is the same. People are still people and we get opportunities from other humans, not from likes or links.  Listen to this episode and hear his review of his own book, but also t

Carlos Hidalgo returns to the "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" podcast for the third time to talk about his new book, "The UnAmerican Dream.  Carlso is a 25-year business veteran.  Over the span of the last two plus decades, Hidalgo has held corporate roles, started his own entrepreneurial ventures and served in non-profits.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How To Stay Focused At Work Do you struggle with distractions throughout your day? Ever get to 6:00 PM and realize you have been busy, but have little results to show for your efforts? Thom Singer understands. He is not one who naturally stays on task. He often finds himself chasing activities down the rabbit hole. In episode 468 Thom shares how after a week of being off task, how the course corrected and go things done by doing simple things that made him choose the right tasks. He has seven tips: 1. Know your long term goals 2. Prioritize your tasks. Make sure you do the important ones. 3. Pay attention to health: exercise, eat right, hydrate 4. Check your emails once an hour or less 5. Make a daily to-do list from your longer list of priorities 6 Stay off social media. 7. Don't let jerks, office gossip, or what others think about you keep you from doing your work Take a listen to this episode and see if it helps you get things done. https://thomsinger.com/podcast/stay-focused-at-work Learn more about

Listen to episode 467 of the "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" podcast.  Host Thom Singer interviews the co-founder and CEO of Woven. Tim Campos shares his technology and entrepreneurial journey and adds insightful advice.  Hear about his path from CIO and vice president of information to technology at Facebook, to the founder of an exciting Silicon Valley start up.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Ducoff is the Co-founder and CEO of Edmit, the SXSW EDU award-winning company helping families make smarter college financial decisions. Nick has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal which described Edmit as “a website that predicts aid packages and provides advice on the value of different colleges.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 465 is co-produced in partnership with the Austin Technology Council, the largest tech industry organization in Central Texas. ATC empowers members by using insights, resources, and connections so their members can succeed and thrive.  Janice Omadeke is the CEO and Founder of The Mentor Method, an enterprise platform helping companies keep and develop their diverse talent using the proven power of mentorship.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 464 of the "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" podcast, host Thom Singer talks about business motivation. Thom has spent ten years as a solopreneur working as a business motivational speaker. He has interviewed hundreds of people about how they achieve success. In this show he shares seven to get motivated or stay motivated in business. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 463 of "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" is an interview with Foodee CEO Ryan Spong. In this episode he shares his journey from Investment Banking to being a top entrepreneur in the ever expanding food industry.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What can we learn from the top motivational speakers in the world? Anyone who reaches the top of their career field must know something the rest of us are missing. Thom Singer believes that "Success Leaves Clues" and he studies people who are at the top of their game in his industry, but this applies to everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Check out episode 461 of "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" where Shawn Rhodes talks about his journey to entrepreneurship and why systems matter in business. Shawn Rhodes is an international expert in creating high-performing organizations. He's a Tampa-based TEDx speaker and his work studying organizations in more than two dozen countries has been published in news outlets around the world including TIME, CNN, NBC, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and INC. His clients have included Deloitte, ConAgra, Serta-Sealy and Coca-Cola and dozens of similar businesses. Shawn is also a nationally-syndicated columnist with the Business Journals and author of the new book "Pivot Point: Turn On A Dime Without Sacrificing Results." https://www.thomsinger.com/podcast/systems-matter http://www.shoshinconsulting.com http://www.speakersalessystems.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Thom Singer watched his daughter graduate from college.  As he looked into the crowd of over 1000 students, he knew that many of them were destined to put their ladder against the wrong wall and chase a career for the money, prestige, or because its what they think their parents want them to do. As they go into their life after college, Thom hoped they could hear the words he never heard: "It is okay to carve your own way in the world"   In episode 460 Thom Singer talks about what he wants for his daughters, and everyone under 30.  That is to know that when they figure out what they really want (not just money or titles, but the whole package of life), then it becomes easier to make choices.   Read his blog post on this topic at https://thomsinger.com/blog/what-to-do-after-graduating-college/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James H Hunter III is a Serial Entrepreneur & Co-Founder of DynaTrap® (Dynamic Solutions Worldwide, LLC) Hunter is engaged in many entrepreneurial enterprises. He started an industrial products company (Handle-It, Inc.) in 1976 that is now a $6 million sales company. He started teaching, and continues to teach, the Entrepreneurship Class at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee in 1996, training over 1,000 upper classmen at the Lubar School of Business in the art of Entrepreneurship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a business leader or entrepreneur your long-term success is tied to your top performers (and your whole team) meeting long term and short term goals. Sales goals are great, but they are just potential. Sales activities and sales quotas are important, but without the right actions they are just hopes and dreams.  Hoping and dreaming is not a sales process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tom Gimbel is the General Manager of the KLRU television show - Austin City Limits.  Austin City Limits is the longest running music show in American television history, the only television program ever awarded the National Medal of the Arts, a certified Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Landmark, and in 2012 the recipient of an institutional Peabody Award celebrating “37 years of excellence in television.”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 456 of the "Cool Things Entrepreneurs Do" podcast, host Thom Singer talks about momentum and how it leads you closer to your potential.  Thom works with companies and sales teams to help them focus on the actions needed to cross the gap between potential and performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Charlie Burgoyne is the founder & CEO of Valkyrie Intelligence, a consulting firm with domain expertise in applied science and strategy. Charlie is also a managing partner for Valkyrie Signals, an AI driven hedge fund based in Austin, as well as the Chairman of the Board for Valkyrie Labs, an AI product company. Charlie leads a team of highly trained scientists and strategists to implement advanced analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence into industrial processes and consumer products Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jonathan Mendonsa is the co-founder of the ChooseFI podcast. ChooseFI started in early 2017 out of Jonathan's living room with co-founder Brad Barrett; since then ChooseFI has been downloaded millions of times in over 190 countries and spawned hundreds of ChooseFI local groups with ‘in real life’ meetups in 20+ countries across the globe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brock Blake believes so deeply in the American Dream that he made it his life’s mission to help small businesses across the country fuel their own aspirations. As Founder and CEO of Lendio, the largest online marketplace of small business loans in America, he has helped thousands of business owners access more than $1 billion in funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices