Three Things I Learned In SaaS, Sports, Tech & Live Events Podcast
The Three Things I've Learned in sports, tech and live events is the podcast for entrepreneurs in software as a service, technology, sports business and sponsorships professionals.
My name is Tony Knopp and I've been working in Saas, tech, sports and live events for just over 20 years now where I've been surrounded by super impressive people who have taught us quite a bit and invested in us as we make mistakes and iterate in tech, sports and live events.
Each week, we share what we learned either this week or from our twenty years at the Dodgers, LA Kings, AEG, StubHub's very early days and here at TicketManager where we've exited multiple businesses.
We hope you enjoy our insights and those of our guests!
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 156
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Three Things: The early days of entrepreneurship
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech and Live Events:
1. Entrepreneurship doesn't mean freedom like people think it does. The vast majority of those who intend to "be their own boss" one da…
00:04:06 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Three Things: Fanatics in Ticketing - Cut Bait Quickly on Bad Books! - Just leave, they don't care like we do
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech and Live Events:
1) Fanatics announced their big new war chest this week and rumor is they're looking to buy a ticketing company by end of Q3 with Seat …
00:03:31 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
Three Things: Ukraine and software development - Allegiant Stadium's Super Bowl boo-boo and what we can learn - A drop of sewage in a magnum of champagne
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech and Live Events:
1) Ukraine and off-shore development will impact a lot of businesses we all know. Unrest in the Ukraine has a number of layers - which …
00:03:36 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Three Things: Forcing (aka Ruining) culture - Sales advice from the WWE - When business gets "boring"
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech and Live Events:
1) Nobody can manufacture passion. It takes time, as we saw at Super Bowl LVI on Sunday . Same goes for culture. The Rams built a $5bln…
00:03:52 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
Three Things: Disruption meets sports business at the Super Bowl
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
Disruption meets the sports business at the LA Super Bowl
The business crowd at the Super Bowl is much different than at my first in the m…
00:03:55 |
Sat 12 Feb 2022
How To Ask For Tickets (And How Not To!)
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
It's Super Bowl Week and with it comes the avalanche of people asking for tickets
This week, we discuss How To Ask For Tickets using our t…
00:13:14 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
Three Things: Should I join a start-up?
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
One of the most common questions we get is around joining a startup. There are a myriad of reasons people consider the move, and those are …
00:05:06 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
Three Things: What I learned losing in a gold medal match
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
In 1997, we lost the gold medal match in volleyball junior nationals to a Reebok team from San Diego. There's a picture, which I can't find…
00:04:04 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
Three Things: Antonio Brown and our business - Broken glass in the fundraising and M&A process - Talent and Opportunity - and the opportunity in them both
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
1. Antonio Brown and your sales team. We all watched Brown storm off the field after ripping off his jersey when the Bucs played the Jets. …
00:03:20 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Three Things: 1. The most important forecast 2. Divorce and your business 3. Primordial ooze and revenge
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
1. When forecasting the coming year, hit the first quarter no matter what. We're all excited about the upcoming year and many of us are o…
00:02:46 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
Three Things: Starf***ers, Backstabbers and Holidays!
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events -
1) Nobody likes the starf**ker. It's the holiday party season and following the example of some before them, many new start up…
00:03:39 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
The 11 Interview Questions That Saved Our Company
Back in 2012, TicketManager was a crappy place to work. And our performance was a reflection of this reality.
We got to work on changing who we were. After years of effort, we iterated to 11 interv…
00:21:03 |
Fri 03 Dec 2021
Three Things: You gotta wobble if you wanna fly - Inflation and Saas contracts - Much more on the Staples Center to Crypto Arena change and why armchair quarterbacks may be wrong on this one
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events -
1) AEG is changing the name of Staples Center to Cypto.com Arena and investing in a major renovation. No surprise with SoFi St…
00:04:50 |
Fri 19 Nov 2021
Three Things: Cracks in the live events comeback story foundation. What, why and what's next?
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events:
Major cracks are showing in the live events ticketing comeback narrative, as shared by Ben Fischer (SBJ) Jacob Feldman (Sportico…
00:06:13 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
The 7 Lessons Learned Volunteering Over 23 Years
A bit different one today. Sharing the 7 things I've learned about volunteering the past 23 years.
The goal of the Three Things is to share what we've learned that's important to me along the way. A…
00:11:54 |
Fri 05 Nov 2021
Three Things: Always Go! - Fun can't be mandatory - Stress during the boom times
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events:
1. Go. Years ago I met a talent exec who was relentlessly persistent while being respectful. He'd say to new connects "what time…
00:03:37 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
Three Things: 5 Ways We Will Make Enemies No Matter What We Do - And How To Cope
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events -
Three ways we learned we will make enemies in a leadership role, no matter what we do.
Most people want to be liked. When we…
00:06:04 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Three Things: Ticketing Explodes On The Scene Week
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events - Ticketing Week
1) Michael Rubin isn't "frightened by ticketing" - as he said at the SBJ World Congress this week. He sees it f…
00:04:13 |
Fri 15 Oct 2021
Three Things: What do you do when you hit "Rock Bottom" for your company
Three Things I Learned This Week In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events - Rock Bottom Edition
We've all had times in our careers or, for entrepreneurs, in our businesses, of intense doubt or bad news w…
00:05:13 |
Fri 08 Oct 2021
Three Things: Conference Week at Saastr and SBJ Ticket Symposium
Three Random Things I Learned This Week in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events at the SBJ Ticketing Symposium
1) TicketNetwork hired a banker and is going to market to sell. The live events industry wi…
00:03:45 |
Fri 01 Oct 2021
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