Foundersplace.co Podcast

Have you been thinking in a while how to fill in those vacancies, or how to keep great people in your organization? Are you following a process that doesn't give you the results you need? Todd Wilms has invited several experts in talent and recruitment to talk about how to draw talents, how you can make them stay, building a great culture in the company, and how you can find the great marketing leader for the business. Get the best of our series on talent in this - the second ToddCast!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Michael King has been in the recruitment industry since the late 90’s. He has worked with founders and startup companies finding great talents – teaching them where and how to get them. He loves working with small companies because every hire is crucial to the company’s success. Learn how he can help in pooling great marketers in your business, plus hear his firsthand experience with different founders and companies and how their attitude towards hiring has brought either success or failure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a founder, you make decisions on an everyday basis and one of them pertains to talent, recruiting, and benefits. Apparently, employee benefits can be very expensive if you just rely on your insurance broker for information. In addition, you have to know what your competitors are offering. Ultimately, you want to create a company culture that is going to drive your business to heightened growth. In this episode, discover the tools and methods to use to leverage the world of benefits for company growth.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Often, the approach is to try to improve on your weaknesses. But does that really work? It is easy to think that people can still improve, especially when it comes to their weaknesses. When you are able to identify what each of your employees are good at, you will be able to place them in the right team and give them roles that help them function at their best. This podcast episode focuses on how you can harness your team’s strengths and transform them to become highly independent, creative, & productiveLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you go about acquiring talents and leaders for your teams? As a founder who does a lot of multitasking, you might find yourself instantly hiring someone who looks like an expert just to fill in the position. In the long haul however, you will realize that same employee isn't really a good fit with the company’s culture, and is thus unable to help you achieve your goals. This episode is an informative guide for founders as they really think about their long term goals & how to hire the right talentLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Marketing can play a different role for different kinds of companies but for startups, there are basic principles that apply. Typically, marketing is responsible for creating awareness and ensuring preference in buyers. It is important to hire the CMO who can work on answering the marketing need that is specific to your company and then build the team which will complement his skill set. In this episode, learn more about product market fit, demand generation, partner marketing, and so much more.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What does having a well-established company culture have to do with you running your business? Some would like to think that a culture organically gets developed over the course of time; most companies that don't go out of their way to set up the kind of culture they want suffer later when a different culture is developed. This episode is about developing a company culture that will be the foundation that drives everything about your business from the present to the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why should a company like yours choose an exit? Wouldn’t you want to grow your company, especially when you’re starting to gain momentum and success is just at the horizon? Apparently, as a Founder, you could get confronted with forks on the road as your company goes through the different stages. Find out the best way to do it and the steps you can undertake when leading your company towards a successful exit in this podcast episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You are not perfect - you’re human. Your being a founder does not make you immune from having weaknesses and making mistakes. As such, in choosing people to be part of your team, you can’t just hire anybody. You have to hire that someone who is not just an expert but someone who will fill in the gaps of what you cannot do. In the same way, attracting investors to invest in your company goes beyond showing them the numbers. In this episode, learn about the heart of hiring and succeeding with investors.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is it enough for you to be a Founder and an expert at what you do? Founders are humans with amazing skills, talent, and expertise. But like any other human, founders have limitations too and there are things that they still need to learn and skills that they need to develop in order to achieve success in their business. Thankfully, you do not have to do everything alone. Specifically, this Toddcast is dedicated to founders looking to become superhumans who can be much better at what they can currently do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What is today like for the digital marketer? There are many ways to define marketing but at its core marketing is the art of being able to persuade people in and out of the organization including internal colleagues, B2B buyers, customers, and more to act according to your objectives. There are different tactics a marketer can use to make them succumb but the key is to be able to evolve with the times as the marketing world evolves. Discover the critical role that a CMO plays in this podcast episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How do you think Steve Jobs felt when he was kicked out of his own company? Steve is conceived as eccentric given his extraordinary talents, but the world witnessed his devastation when he had to leave. There are different reasons for a company to decide on exits including taking a company public, an acquisition, or a decision made by others. In this episode, learn what typically happens in an exit & how you can communicate effectively with your constituents, audiences, investors, employees, and the like. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Separate is not always better and in marketing, having just one team for its different functions can prove to be more advantageous. The idea of having a cross-functional, collaborative unit is not only intuitive but certainly pragmatic. If the main function of marketing is to create that one solid, satisfying experience for the customer, a cross-functional approach is way better than the traditional separate marketing teams. This is the podcast episode to listen in on for important startup insights.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Achieving company growth is an exciting time. When you have closed a good number of sales & your team is raring to go. Then you realize, if you want to keep this going, you’ve got to have the right marketing strategy & someone to lead the company to your targeted goals. But how do you determine if it's the right time to have a head of marketing? Among the different marketing disciplines, which background would be perfect for your kind of leads? Answer these critical questions & more on today's episode.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How perfect are you as a founder and how much can you get done in a day? Well, nobody is perfect and that is true of every founder. You also do not have the superpowers or the time to work on every single thing that needs to get done for your company. Today's guest, Erica Brescia, specializes in business strategy, strategic alliances, and sales and marketing strategy, and she's going to help us find the elusive "founder’s work-life balance."Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the marketing department, their world can solely revolve around leads like it’s a god. However, leads are mostly just that, leads - they do not get converted all the time, they do not guarantee sales, and definitely are not the end-all towards achieving your goals. Lauren Vaccarello is the VP of Customer Engagement at Box, a content management company, and today she's going to teach us how to REALLY use leads to generate more for your business.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember how you seemed to like listening to stories as a kid? In the adult world, stories remain to be one of the most powerful marketing tools that you can use in business to attract people’s attention. Marketers themselves recognize how storytelling is an important aspect of one’s overall strategy. In this episode, Nancy Duarte talks about harnessing the power of storytelling with its many uses in branding, marketing, investor relations, and employee motivation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Technology is simply overwhelming especially so for a founder who has a lot of other things to deal with or is not that technology-oriented. So how do you navigate around a martech stack? Anand Thaker is a 15-year veteran in the marketing technology space and is an expert in data, maketing, analytics, and sales, and on this first episode of the "Beyond Product Podcast", he's going to teach you all about martech stacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices