Startup Confidential

By Dr. James F. Richardson

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Episodes: 117

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Who is it For? Founders of CPG start-ups. What is It? Zero B.S. perspective on running your start-up well, understanding the biases of industry stakeholders and getting the industry to work for you, not the other way around. When? Every month. Your Host: Dr. James F. Richardson of Premium Growth Solutions, LLC www.premiumgrowthsolutions.com If you want to take my founder's Quiz to see if you are ready for exponential growth, please visit : www.premiumgrowthsolutions.com/founder_resources and sign up for my e-mail list to download it. Transcripts and an entire episode library are on my podcast site. https://www.premiumgrowthsolutions.com/podcast

Episode Date
Episode 117 - Founder Archetypes - The Finance Founder
May 01, 2024
Episode 116 – Finance Your Strategy, Not the Other Way Around
Apr 15, 2024
Episode 115 - Direct to Consumer is Toast for Founders
Apr 01, 2024
Episode 114 - The Death Funnel is Even Deadlier
Mar 15, 2024
Episode 113 - How Athletic Brewing Becomes the Next Billion Dollar Brand
Mar 01, 2024
Episode 112 - The 2024 Shelf Grab Has Begun
Feb 15, 2024
Episode 111 - Why Early-Stage Strategy and Finance Don’t Always Get Along
Feb 01, 2024
Episode 110 - Annual Diagnosis for Your Brand
Jan 15, 2024
Episode 109 - Let’s Talk About The Dirty, Nasty P (Pricing)
Jan 01, 2024
Episode 108 - DTC is for Scaling in Really Tiny, Frequently Ordering Niches You Would Never Find in Retail
Dec 15, 2023
Episode 107 - Is The Bad Funding Environment Necessarily a Bad Thing?
Dec 01, 2023
Episode 106 - Behavior-Based Brand Building
Nov 15, 2023
Episode 105 - Advertising ROAS and Repeat Purchase
Nov 01, 2023
Episode 104 - Only Networking Beyond Your Peers Accrues Business Advantage
Oct 15, 2023
Episode 103 - Top Myths About Pivoting a Consumer Brand
Oct 01, 2023
Episode 102 - Why Startups Fail – w/ Tom Eisenmann Part 2
Sep 15, 2023
Episode 101 - Why Startups Fail – with Tom Eisenmann, Part 1
Sep 01, 2023
Episode 100 - The Seven Traits of Killer Founders
Aug 15, 2023
Episode 99 - Stakeholder Classes – The Buyer
Aug 01, 2023
Episode 98 - - What American Marketers Get Wrong w/ Emmanuel Probst, Part Two
Jul 15, 2023
Episode 97 - What American Marketers Get Wrong w/ Emmanuel Probst, Part One
Jul 01, 2023
Episode 96 - Beyond Predictable - Lessons from Beyond Meat for Founders
Jun 15, 2023
Episode 95 - Seven Reasons You Need a Strategic Plan
Jun 01, 2023
Episode 94 - Getting Real About Distribution - w/Gregory Esslinger - Part Two
May 15, 2023
Episode 93 - Getting Real About Distribution - w/Gregory Esslinger - Part One
May 01, 2023
Episode 92 - Root Cause Analysis for Founders
Apr 15, 2023
Episode 91 - The Death Funnel Revisited
Apr 01, 2023
Episode 90 - Private Equity, FOMO and Insecure Founders
Mar 15, 2023
Episode 89 - Boba Tea - Trend or Fad?
Mar 01, 2023
Episode 88 - Alienation Breeds Resilience That Bends the Odds In Your Favor
Feb 15, 2023
Episode 87 - Knowing When to Shut Down
Feb 01, 2023
Episode 86 - Finance Your Strategy, Not the Other Way Around
Jan 15, 2023
Episode 85 - What Everyone Gets Wrong About Organic…Still
Jan 01, 2023
Episode 84 - The Challenge of Marketing to Your Fan Behavior
Dec 15, 2022
Episode 83 - The Seven Reasons You Need a Strategic Plan
Dec 01, 2022
Episode 82 - Liquid Death - The Latest Skate Ramp Winner
Nov 15, 2022
Episode 81 - The Paternalism Trap for Startups
Nov 01, 2022
Episode 80 - Why Coke Really Shut Down Honest Tea
Oct 15, 2022
Episode 79 - The Last Big Early-Stage Hire is the Toughest
Oct 01, 2022
Episode 78 - The Curious Case of RampCo
Sep 15, 2022
Episode 77 - Annual Diagnosis For Your Brand - Look for Problems
Sep 01, 2022
Episode 76 - The Benchmark of Benchmarks
Aug 15, 2022
Episode 75 - Are These 6 Things in Your Strategic Plan?
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 74 - Why Engineers Struggle as Startup Founders
Jul 15, 2022
Episode 73 - Embedded Digital Commerce with Guest, Rishabh Jain
Jul 01, 2022
Episode 72 - Stop Staring at Your Laptop And Do This
Jun 15, 2022
Episode 71 - Affirmative Action for End Caps
Jun 01, 2022
Episode 70 - Gregory Shepard Interview Part 2
May 15, 2022
Episode 69 - Gregory Shepard Interview Part 1
May 01, 2022
Episode 68 - The Law of Frito-Lay and Why it Matters
Apr 15, 2022
Episode 67 - The SkinnyPop Trap of Sales-Driven Growth
Apr 01, 2022
Episode 66 - Why Blitzscaling Doesn’t Work for Consumer Brands
Mar 15, 2022
Episode 65 - Artisan Pricing Doesn’t Scale - Watch Out Founders
Mar 01, 2022
Episode 64 - Don’t Let Anyone Pester You Into a Hasty Exit
Feb 15, 2022
Episode 63 - A Structural Solution for Low-Levels of Funding for Female Businesses
Feb 01, 2022
Episode 62 - The Fascinating and Infuriating Case of Bright Farms
Jan 15, 2022
Episode 61 - Why Your Business Strategist Should Work With Real Consumer Data
Jan 01, 2022
Episode 60 - Jeremy Smith on the Future of Brokering Part 2
Dec 15, 2021
Episode 59 - Jeremy Smith on the Future of Brokering Part 1
Dec 01, 2021
Episode 58 - The Puppet Startup CEO
Nov 15, 2021
Episode 57 - Founder Archetypes - The Missionary
Nov 01, 2021
Episode 56 - The Emerging Caste Hierarchy Among Founders
Oct 15, 2021
Episode #55 - Why I Said No to $255K in Work And What You Should Learn From it
Oct 01, 2021
Episode #54 - I’ll Commit More Time Once There’s Traction...
Sep 15, 2021
Episode 53 - Brag About Your Fan List, Not Your Door Count
Sep 01, 2021
Episode 52 - Think Like a Scientist, Plan Your Experiment
Aug 15, 2021
Episode 51 - Why Public Firm Alumni Make Such Bad Startup Employees
Aug 01, 2021
Episode 50 - Founders Build Businesses. Consumers Build Brands
Jul 15, 2021
Episode 49 - The Not-So-Secret Weapon to Eliminating Your Competition
Jul 01, 2021
Episode 48 - Why Startups Fail - with Tom Eisenmann Part 2
Jun 15, 2021
Episode 47 - Why Startups Fail - with Tom Eisenmann Part 1
Jun 01, 2021
Episode 46 – Advertising ROAS and Repeat Purchase
May 15, 2021
Episode 45 – Competitive Strategy Formulation for Exponential Growth
May 01, 2021
Episode 44 – The Future of Trade Shows
Apr 15, 2021
Episode 43 – Your Product Isn’t Done…Sorry
Apr 01, 2021
Episode 42 – Don’t Hire Friends as Service Providers
Mar 15, 2021
Ep. 41 – The “Death Funnel” - Revisited
Mar 01, 2021
Ep. 40 – Stakeholders – Distributors
Feb 15, 2021
Ep. 39 – The Skate Ramp – An Excerpt from Ramping Your Brand
Feb 01, 2021
Ep. 38 - Pressure Testing Your Topline
Jan 15, 2021
Ep. 37 - Behavior-Based Brand-Building
Jan 01, 2021
Ep. 36 - Conversion vs. Trade Techniques to Drive Velocity Growth
Dec 15, 2020
Ep. 35 - Stakeholder Classes - The Buyer
Dec 01, 2020
Ep. 34- Why Your One-Page Strategic Plan is Lame
Nov 15, 2020
Ep. 33 - Why Saying No is the Essential Skill as a Founder
Nov 01, 2020
Ep. 32- Stakeholder Classes - The Investor
Oct 15, 2020
Ep 31- Founder Archetypes - The Brand Worshipper
Oct 01, 2020
Ep. 30 - An Interview with Jake Huber - Negotiating with Buyers Part Two
Sep 15, 2020
Ep. 29 - An Interview with Jake Huber - Negotiating with Buyers Part One
Sep 01, 2020
Ep. 28 - Why I No Longer Work With Young Startups
Aug 15, 2020
Ep. 27 - Ramping Your Brand - A Reading on Iteration
Aug 01, 2020
Ep. 26 - How to Filter Advice
Jul 15, 2020
Ep. 25 - Why Hitting the Gas on Distribution Almost Never Works
Jul 01, 2020
Ep. 24 - Interview with Mark Crowell - Part Two
Jun 15, 2020
Ep. 23 - Interview with Mark Crowell, Founder of Culinex - Part One
Jun 01, 2020
Ep. 22 - The Preface from Ramping Your Brand
May 15, 2020
Ep. 21 - When to Change Your Strategy
May 01, 2020
Ep. 20 - A Second Reading from Ramping Your Brand
Apr 15, 2020
Ep. 19 Learning the Right Lessons from the Covid-19 Emergency
Apr 01, 2020
Ep. 18 - Working w/Agencies - Identity and Branding
Mar 15, 2020
Ep. 17 - Professionalizing Yourself
Mar 01, 2020
Ep. 16 - The Serial F(l)ounder
Feb 15, 2020
Ep. 15 - Designing to Command a Premium
Feb 01, 2020
Ep. 14 Working with Agencies - Communications
Jan 15, 2020
Ep. 13 - Founder Archetypes...the Creative Founder
Jan 01, 2020
Ep. 12 - Founder Archetypes - The Finance Founder
Dec 15, 2019
Ep. 11 - Working with Agencies: the Creative Brief
Dec 01, 2019
Ep. 10 - 7 Reasons You Need a Strategic Plan
Nov 01, 2019
Ep. 9 - A Reading from Ramping Your Brand
Oct 01, 2019
Ep. 8 Beating the Odds Against Your Seed Raise
Sep 01, 2019
Working with Agencies Effectively - #1 - Package Designers
Aug 01, 2019
Word-of-Mouth Marketing Part 2 of Interview with Ted Wright
Jul 01, 2019
Ep. 5- Word-of-Mouth Marketing - Part 1 w/Ted Wright
Jun 01, 2019
Ep. 4 - A Founder's Confession with Jason Burke
May 01, 2019
Ep. 3 - My Team Eats Your Lone Wolf for Dinner
Apr 01, 2019
Ep. 2 - It Was the Worst of Shows...It Was the Best of Shows
Mar 05, 2019
Ep. 1 - Navigating the Death Funnel
Feb 19, 2019