Building Nexcast - An Inside Look at Growing a Startup Business

We're back!! We've been hard at work trying to get our private beta out, so apologies for the delay. This week we take another intermission from our story to interview one of the world's biggest tech…

We see what happened in the lost weeks without a mobile developer and check in with our new pal Taku. We used to be moving like a glacier, but now we’re on train full speed ahead to beta town.

Check …

I blow in a call to my friend who made a deal with Mark Cuban on Shark Tank to get some advice on how to sort this equity split out. Then it was time to have the dreaded follow up with Troy. We then …

Splitting up something that’s worth nothing has never been harder.

We take some advice from a Stanford class called How to Start a Startup on how to best divide ownership of our company that currentl…

We have to make a couple big decisions as things start falling into place for our team. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback on bringing discussion threads into our app, a feature that we have b…

Our journey thus far has been full of surprises, but this we couldn't make up if we tried. In this week's episode we find ourselves on the other end of the negotiating table with a gang of teenaged g…

Not quite as easy as finding a date - we explore the CTO matching services available to non-technical guys like us. We get swindled, have a few laughs, and surprise, surprise, discover that the datin…

We're taking a hot second to try something new. As you may recall, Part 1 of this epic journey got started in Silicon Valley, where Brian pitched the company for the first time ever at Blab. There we…

We ask a bunch of random people what they think of podcasting and get some surprising answers...

The one thing that's clear is that podcasting can be different things to different people. And that po…

There are no sure things when you're bootstrapping a startup. We learn that lesson the hard way when we lose a very important member of the team.

At this point, our chances of success look pretty gri…

Telling your own story can be hard. Making a good podcast about that story is even harder. I get some great advice from some friendly folks as I look at the tech and podcast communities and learn wha…

Startup life ain't easy...

No more prancing Pikachu and gleeful little gumdrops in this episode. Things start to get serious when we start falling behind...

To learn more and see all the extra cont…

“So you spent the first few years trying to pitch this idea to podcast celebrities, trying to get a business model and totally get ignored. Then you bail on a startup that you’d sunk a year into and …

Part 1 of the epic journey in building the podcast app and platform, Nexcast, begins with a trip to Silicon Valley. Brian Sanders, the CEO and host of the show, travels to San Francisco to pitch his …