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087: Growing Past Bootstrapping with Chitra Lele

After getting blacklisted from a Silicon Valley company, Chitra Lele decided to start her own software consultancy. She realized entrepreneurship was the only way to achieve her vision of working…
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086: Selecting Business Partners with Jason Duncan

Great leaders surround themselves with smart people. But when it comes to business partnerships, “Proceed with extreme caution,” warns Jason Duncan. As the founder of a fast-growing lighting company that’s…
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085: Scaling Back Before Scaling Up with Dr. Terica Pearson

Dr. Terica Pearson spent her first year in business learning the ropes and getting key processes in place. By year four, she had a full staff of people to help…
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084: Niching to Scale with Meredith Moore

Meredith Moore isn’t afraid to pivot. As the CEO of Artisan Financial Strategies, she realized she’d have to break free of the traditional financial planning model if she was to…
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083: Downsizing & Rebuilding a Team with Mike Moll

When Mike Moll’s social media consultancy grew rapidly, he immediately hired more people. But he soon realized he didn’t have the bandwidth or business infrastructure to scale at the same…
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082: Scaling with SEO with Don Sevcik

Have you ever put your business on hiatus so that you could recalibrate?  That’s what Don Sevcik, CEO of MathCelebrity.com, did and it paid off handsomely.  After five years in…
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081: Outsourcing Core Competencies with Phoebe Cornog

“We just made really good money while being on the beach!” exclaimed Phoebe Cornog, CEO and Co-Founder of the Pandr Design Co. She recounted the day she and her business…
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080: Pivoting into a New Niche with Marco Champion

Marco Champion thought he’d have to forfeit his dream of being a professional skateboarder when he was struck and run over by a car during his teens. Told he’d never…
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079: Dissolving Toxic Partnerships with Dr. Lew Bayer

When Dr. Lewena Bayer and her friend worked in hospitality, they complained to each other about how rude people were.  They never imagined they would start a company to teach…
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078: Scaling Through Tragedy with Karla Nelson

“Life is like a bleep,” explains Karla Nelson. When the market crashed in 2008, she sprang into action and shifted careers. A year later her husband, and the CFO of…
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