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: Three phrases our mentors gave us which have changed our team and business.
Three Random Things I Learned This Week in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
The best leadership advice we've gotten from mentors smarter than us. Each one we've used time and again and they almost a…
00:03:40 |
Fri 24 Sep 2021
Three Things Sept 17, 2021: Coach, don't play, if we want to level up - Hiring in a tight job market - "who's (expletive) your wife?"
1) Coach. Don't play. On top of my to-do list every morning, the first entry is bolded: "Coach. Don't play." For the vast majority of high achievers or entrepreneurs, letting go of what their great a…
00:03:34 |
Fri 17 Sep 2021
Three Things Sept 10, 2021: How stubborn can be a positive, Who owns the little things and why it matters most, Everyone has "best tech stack"....then what?
Three Random Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
1. "If nobody is taking ownership, nothing is going to get solved." Jocko Willink shared this nugget of simplicity when discussing f…
00:03:34 |
Fri 10 Sep 2021
Three Things: A hack to manage change, the allure of chasing silver bullets, David took a rock to a sword fight
Three Random Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
1. Change is always resisted internally and externally. Our job, when building a new business, is change. Our team's careers, our cu…
00:02:38 |
Fri 03 Sep 2021
Three Things: Lying in job interviews, Tom Brady on winning today, Make the best of the inevitable bad choices
1. Don't lie in an interview. Ever. Like volunteering when it's been 4 years, saying you played football at a local college, you were "top 3" on the sales standings or that you currently have a VP of…
00:03:58 |
Fri 27 Aug 2021
Media Training! Tips on working with press and media to help your business
Three Random Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
Press week.
If you're going to lead a growing company, you're likely going to work with the media. Here are a few tips on how to w…
00:04:41 |
Fri 20 Aug 2021
Three Things: How to get the most out of your advisors
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
Advisors Week
Advisors are either exponentially additive or they are empty calories with very little between. Three things we'd advise giv…
00:04:00 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Three Things: It's all fake! And yet we fall for it anyways - How to approach the Build or Buy list - Stars and confidence, how a star changed my life with one sentence
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech and Live Events
1) It's all fake! And it works. When we were growing, PR companies called us to "pump up our Glassdoor or Yelp reviews." Yet it is cited…
00:03:28 |
Fri 30 Jul 2021
Three Things: Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Your Business
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech and Live Events
Starting a growth business is high pressure. You or someone on your team will be hit with life changing anxiety the way I was in 08. It …
00:05:31 |
Fri 23 Jul 2021
Three Things: How Playing To Not Lose Cost Us Money
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
Playing not to lose is one of the most common mistakes in starting a business (and, recently, in Euro 2020).
Three ways playing to not l…
00:03:42 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
The Three Most Common Mistakes New Entrepreneurs Make
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
Mentor edition
We've seen hundreds of funded companies in the past decade. Here are the three most common mistakes start-up entrepreneur…
00:03:45 |
Fri 09 Jul 2021
Three Things: The Headcount Trap - Get you a Hype Man - Nobody is their own boss
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
1) Headcount comes last. When things start to go well, your team will have a new kind of fear - "how do we keep up?" Often, the first rea…
00:02:41 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
Three Things: The first place Giants secret - Nick Saban on building teams - Accountability as fuel
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports Tech and Live Events:
1) The SF Giants are in first place thanks to cast of pitchers having career years. How? How can we do this in our business? Get everyon…
00:02:50 |
Fri 25 Jun 2021
The Roaring 20's and our savings - How to treat job hunters - What to do when others fool your people
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports Tech and Live Events:
1. The dramatic increase in the consumer savings rate - from $2.7T to $4.6T- is leading live events companies into a new "Roaring 20s," …
00:02:36 |
Fri 18 Jun 2021
The best advice I ever ignored and why it cost us money - Each early hire is the equivalent of 20 people - Building a rolodex's biggest mistak
1. The best advice seems so obvious it is easy to miss. I blew off so much good advice as too simple in the early days. Youthful ignorance which cost us money. It isn't nefarious - I was focused on t…
00:02:27 |
Fri 11 Jun 2021
Three Things: No Show as a No-No - Paying up for the IOC Olympics - Shoot the ball grannie Ben Simmons
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports Tech and Live Events
1. No showing, or cancelling last minute, is the biggest networking mistake anyone can make. When I was 22 I no-showed an interview with …
00:03:00 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
Five ways we screwed up our SDR program for over a decade
Three Things I Learned In Saas, Sports, Tech & Live Events
How we screwed up our SDR program for over a decade (and counting)
In today's blog post and video commentary we share, in depth, the mist…
00:06:30 |
Fri 28 May 2021
Three Things: Why price is a trade secret - Stay in your lane - Never go into tough convos without a lawyer
Three Things I Learned in Saas, Sports Tech & Live Events
1. Margin is directly tied to value and pricing is a trade secret. Learfield IMG College made news when Sportico released their net profit o…
00:02:44 |
Fri 14 May 2021
Three Things: Do you want to be rich or king? - Terminating is always our fault - Filling the leadership void
1. "Do you want to be rich or do you want to be king"- was reminded of this great line from "The Founder's Dilemma." Scale requires help. Great help. Great help will want to share in the bounty. Keep…
00:00:01 |
Fri 07 May 2021
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