This week SmallBizPod #50, the small business advice podcast, includes an interview with Martin Webb, serial entrepreneur, host of Channel 4’s Risking It All and author of Make Your First Million: Ditch the 9-5 and Start the Business of Your Dreams. There’s also the usual round up of comments and commentary from listeners.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Alex on what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:34 Thanks to everyone who has said hello and joined the SmallBizPod Facebook group.
• 02:04 Let’s meet up at the Chinwag Summer Party in London on 5 July.

Features:

• 03:13 Interview with Martin Webb, a serial entrepreneur who built a leisure company called C-Side from scratch and sold it for £15 million. As well as pursuing several other businesses, Martin is also the host of Channel 4’s Risking It All, a Daily Telegraph Columnist and the author of a new book on how to make your first million by starting a business. Alex and Martin discuss celebrity entrepreneurship, getting it wrong, business failure, common sense, whether passion is enough to carry you through and the importance of listening to criticism. The conversation also focuses on bootstrapping vs borrowing vs equity, social enterprise and the ‘People’s Pub’, and what Martin has planned for the future.

Comments:

• 18:57 Email from Jason Maslen on the interview with Jason Calacanis in the stair well.
• 19:24 Email comment from Bill Martin about music, composition and starting a business.
• 20:26 Email comment from Adam Purcell about the first PodCamp Australia.
• 21:51 Don’t forget PodcampUK which is set to take place in Birmingham on 1-2 September.
• 22:38 Email from Lucy Follett on lessons from business failure.
• 24:10 Comments left on the blog from Sam Sethi, who has recently launched a new blog on technology and startups – Blognation. And a comment from Karen on the Jason Calacanis interview and people’s thoughts on whether an ‘exit strategy’ should be planned in advance.

• 26.25 Diary of a Wantrepreneur – with Kelvin Jones including a couple of links on business planning – Business Plan Archive and BPlans.co.uk.

Comments:

• 34.13 Thank you to Wincent Kordula in Nottingham and Martin Peacock in Kildare, Ireland for signing on to the SmallBizPod Frappr map.

• 29.18 Music – Roads by Martsman with many thanks to the super netlabel Exegene.

Tags: small business podcast, martin webb, startups, business failure, small business

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SmallBizPod #50 – 26 June 2007

This week SmallBizPod #49, the podcast for startups, entrepreneurs and small business owners, includes an interview with one of the US’s most well known and controversial entrepreneurs, Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo.com. The show also includes comments from listeners and the return of electronica.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Alex on what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:01 Thanks to NMK for organising the superb NMK Forum.
• 01:47 A comment on the rise of Facebook and do say hello and join the SmallBizPod Facebook group, if you get a chance.

Features:

• 02:45 Interview with Jason Calacanis, about his new start-up, the human powered search service, Mahalo.com, how he plans to clean up search and reward the public for creating search pages. Jason and Alex also discuss Web 2.0 companies paying everyone but the people creating content, the hypocrisy and pomposity of some people in Silicon Valley, Jason’s own entrepreneurial past, present and future including addiction, hiring, firing, building a business, the exit and Mahalo as a Google plugin.

Comments:

• 25:12 How to comment and comments left on the blog including: Martin Dooley on notices for new shows on small business forums, Daksh Sharma on how much he enjoyed the Koopa track played in the last show which has subsequently entered the official UK charts.
• 27:12 Comment from Karen on the randomness discussion with Ben Casnocha in SmallBizPod #48 and how she prefers electronica to pop.
• 28:18 Thanks to all those who have put their pin in the SmallBizPod Frappr map including: Alison Lowndes who runs a volunteering agency for Kenya and Tom Clairemont.

• 29.18 Music – back to electronica with a track called Charlie’s Orbit by Idmonster with many thanks to the Monotonik netlabel.

Tags: small business podcast, calacanis, startups, Mahalo

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SmallBizPod #49 – Tuesday 19 June 2007

This week SmallBizPod #48, the entrepreneurs’ podcast, includes an interview with Ben Casnocha, a precocious, but down to earth 19 year old entrepreneur and author of My Start-Up Life: What a (very) young CEO learned on his journey through Silicon Valley. The show also includes the latest listener comments, an audio comment on what to do when things go belly up and a not-to-be-missed and unusual choice of music to end the show.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Alex on what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:15 A special musical treat to conclude the show for all listeners, but particularly Madelaine Kirke and David Braziel who are part of the SmallBizPod networking site.
• 01:49 How to comment on the podcast by email, phone and blog.
• 03:53 Audio comment from Chris re insolvency and the possibility of SmallBizPod covering the risk and pitfalls of entrepreneurship.

Features:

• 07:14 Interview with Ben Casnocha, a young entrepreneur who set up Comcate Inc, a successful e-government software company at the tender age of 14 and who is also the author of a book called My Start-Up Life: What a (very) young CEO learned on his journey through Silicon Valley. Ben and Alex talk about the advantages of starting a business at an early age, the connection between age and entrepreneurial success in Silicon Valley and the celebrity that goes with it. There is also discussion of recruiting an advisory board for your business, successful networking and the importance of building credibility, as well as Ben’s theory on the importance of randomness in business and the power of thinking differently. The conversation also touches on Ben’s future and how Nick Denton from Valleywag is avoiding him!

Comments:

• 30:10 Thanks to all those who have put their pin in the SmallBizPod Frappr map including: Rich from Toyama in Japan, Melvyn Henaughan from Stoke-on-Trent and Daksh Sharma and a word on the Indian entrepreneurship podcast.
• 31:08 Kelvin Jones and part III of the diary of a wantrepreneur.
• 31:20 Tim Duke from London Remade highlights a networking event on the importance of WEEE regulations.
• 32:09 Email comment from Oliver Dowding at Tonic Attack about contact he has received from listeners of the podcast.
• 33:11 Email comment from Diarmuid O’Donovan.
• 33:36 Email from Gagandeep Sapra who is developing an Indian podcast called Fire In Our Belly.

• 34.18 Music – A surprise non-electronica track called One Off Song For The Summer by Koopa with many thanks to the Podsafe Music Network.

Tags: small business podcast, young entrepreneur, small business, SMB, casnocha, startups

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SmallBizPod #48 – Monday 11 June 2007