Oct 27, 2022
“You’ve got to be willing to swing, which means, by definition, sometimes you’re going to miss,” Brendan says on this solo episode of Billion Dollar Tech, as he takes us step by step through the set of criteria he used to evaluate his first venture investment. Determining the risk versus reward ratio of a...
Oct 25, 2022
“Once people form an opinion it’s almost impossible to change their minds even in the face of overwhelming evidence,” Brendan explains. That’s why it’s so important to establish your brand’s identity and make your market truly care about it. This is especially important in today’s overcrowded space, and so...
Oct 20, 2022
“The purpose of marketing is to find that intersection between what’s important to people, what they’re looking to do and solve for in their lives, and how your company can uniquely help them achieve that,” says Matt Kerbel, Director of Strategic Brand Planning at Turo. According to Matt, the three main things...
Oct 18, 2022
“Patience is just so overrated,” Brendan says on this episode of the Billion Dollar Breakdown, where he comments on the key takeaways from his interview with SoftLedger co-founder Ben Taylor. Patience is a virtue that runs through much of Ben’s founding story and Brendan’s resulting advice, the first being to...
Oct 13, 2022
“Making things quicker is the theme for what we’re working on,” says Ben Taylor, founder of SoftLedger, accounting software that’s disrupting the software space. After working in accounting for a number of years, Ben saw a need to eliminate the time-consuming and tedious tasks involved in keeping the financial...