Failure - the Podcast

Our guest walked in saying he had so many failures, he kept a notepad to remember them. Even showed us the pad. Our mistake was we didn’t look closely. Surely, though, we should have known something …

You’d think the team from Failure - the Podcast would learn. Screen, screen, screen. We have to screen our guests before making the invite. Certainly, we have to have a word or two with them before p…

Join the team from Failure - The Podcast in an irreverent tour of an MIT party, and learn — once again — what startups think about failure.

We first met our guest, Randall Levere, in 2012. He had just launched Erba Cycles and was geared up (get it? geared up) to sell a new breed of bicycle — one that was not only environmentally friendly…

Before every good sale, there’s a story. For investors, it’s no different. You might think that all they want from the first meeting is the entrepreneur’s story. But, often, they have to tell stories…

You’d think that after 40+ episodes, the Team from Failure - the Podcast would know a thing or two about failure. We certainly thought we did, until we met today’s guest: futurist, speaker, author an…

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they explore a writer’s world with Ken Briodagh, a story teller and adventurist in the Connecticotian mold of Mark Twain — but with a tech twist.

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion of the custom rug business. If you’re like us, you’ll learn about an online business you might never have imagined. But, on the other hand, wh…

Navigating life is challenge enough. Failure, it seems, is waiting at every turn. Most would imagine that living with a disability would only add to the worries. AccessSportAmerica has long recognize…

As listeners of a certain age will appreciate, when a man’s yearly physical goes beyond the “now, cough!” stage, things can become downright awkward. What more need we say, here, about the prostate e…

“Conversations” are a favorite topic of this podcast. This includes not only those attendant to new product introductions, but also those between entrepreneurs and investors. Today’s episode delves i…

Sebastien Mannai plans to bring oil wells into the 21st century. His company has not suffered any failures yet — or, at least, not any he would admit to — but Sebastien is hoping to prevent oil pump …

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they fumble through a discussion of women’s bra’s with Athena Kasvikis, founder of Dreamweaver Intimates, as she readies to disrupt a highly profitable seg…

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Frank Gillett, of Forrester Research (yes, you heard his name before on this podcast — apparently, he did not learn the first time), as h…

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as we attempt to discuss our eponym with Derek Canton, founder of paerpay.com, a dine-and-dash startup that hopes to make eating and running profitable for ev…

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they muddle through the life and times of Artur Sousa, whose many pivots may have resulted in one of the greatest businesses known to man and beast alike: …

Some would argue that “failure” is merely a label and that each of us is free to define the term as we wish. A prior presidential administration declared ketchup was a vegetable. Is the meaning of fa…

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Tom Curry, the former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency.