Failure - the Podcast

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a conversation with Jeffrey Conklin of the consumer insights and data analytics giant J.D. Power and learn how it helps keep established players in industr…

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Susan Conover, of the Boston-based startup LuminDx, as they work their way through a discussion of the ups and downs of starting a busine…

The team from Failure - The Podcast is easily distracted, esp., when the recording session is during dinner. Join them as the explore the wonderful world of food (and restaurant failure) with chef Pe…

Join the team from Failure - The Podcast as they help a serial entrepreneur wade through a never-ending tale of deceit, fraud and redemption.

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

Join us in a discussion with management consultant extraordinaire John Stempeck, of Avalon Associates, for a raucous tour of some of the iconic businesses of the late 20th century. You’ll leave with …

Virtual reality, ... augmented reality, ... mixed reality, ... oh my! Is this just more hype from the tech industry, or is there really something to this? Grand View Research says that the market for…

What’s the value of an MBA when it comes to starting a business? Join the team from Failure - The Podcast and judge for yourself.

A discussion of blockchain with Seth Berman, an expert on cybersecurity and criminal law. Join us, as Seth works his way through the intricacies of blockchain, bitcoin, and all that jazz.

The team of “Failure - The Podcast” isn’t immune from failure. Join us, and learn how we recovered (or not!) from our own failure when recording a session on the downfall of Encyclopedia Britannica.

The excess of the early 2000's was something to behold. Lying between the so-called Great Moderation of the 1990's and the Great Recession of 2008, money was flowing into the economy from everywhere.…

Just when you thought you understood venture capital, along comes "corporate" venture capital a/k/a CVC. You’ll love how Wikipedia defines it: "The definition of CVC often becomes clearer by explaini…

You've probably heard the old expression: "a camel is a horse designed by a committee."  Our guest, Ted Finn, lived it.  Not with camels, but with footwear.  Ted is a serial entrepreneur in that indu…

The marketing pros will tell you that there's a right way to pitch and many wrong ways.  That may be.  But when you are on the front line, things change.  Mike Tyson says everyone has a plan until th…

Join us in a discussion with Frank Gillett, of the research firm Forrester, in a discussion of an upcoming panel discussion at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge "Connected Things 2018" conference…

Join us in a discussion of the IoT marketplace with Frank Gillett, vice president and principal analyst for Forrester.  Warning to the listener:  this podcast is somewhat free-wheeling, if not downri…

Back in the day, design aesthetic was for espresso machines and fancy Italian cars.  Industrial designers were lucky to be called in before a new product was introduced and, then, only to choose its …