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Adventures in Businessing

Adventures in Businessing (AIB) is the culmination of over 60 years in organizational leadership experience between three best friends and business partners. Discover the how working together should work.
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Now displaying: July, 2018
Jul 17, 2018

Introduction

Rob’s story about nearly killing a child in his care dominates the intro discussion. Apparently, one of his son’s friends was hanging out at Rob’s house, which he’s dubbed the “cool house,” when he nearly slit his wrist. Rob tells the harrowing tail of driving the young man to the hospital. If you have children, please be wary about sending them to Rob’s house to visit. He leaves old machinery and sharp objects strewn about his house.

The Show

It’s Jeremy’s turn to drive, and so he decides to push the car off the cliff with Rob, James, and Kevin inside. As is usual with this podcast, the car plummets off the cliff and onto the jagged rocks of reality. On the way down, the hosts discuss how to test if a business idea is a good one, or just indigestion. Unfortunately, they didn’t ask that same question when they decided to start this podcast. James says that a good way to test ideas is to ask how many times it comes up in conversation and his own thought process. Creating things for your own business consumption is also a great way to make sure that ideas are worthwhile. Jeremy says that a good idea can be adjacent to your current market. If you have a current user base, you may be able to figure out what they are asking for and deliver a good solution. Kevin suggests that it can be a good idea to find a crowded space and try to figure out what providers in that space aren’t doing well. He states that you can get this data by finding where the customers in the space gather and listen to their complaints and suggestions. Thankfully, this show is one of the shortest AIB episodes on record.

Our Recommendations

If you’ve always wanted to become a code jockey, Kevin has a great recommendation for you. He’s been using CodeCademy to learn a new programming language and says that he’s really enjoyed it. There are courses for learning nearly any programming language that you might be interested in. I don’t know how many listeners to AIB want to learn to develop, so that seems like a bit of narrowcasting to me. Do you like listening to podcasts? Are you looking for some fresh new content recommendations? I mean, if you’re listening to AIB, you probably need to find some good podcasts to offset this one. Rob thinks you should listen to a podcast called iReckon by his friend Adam Lowe. iReckon is a podcast that organizes and presents data about controversial topics from a pragmatic conservative perspective. James recommends that you clean up your desk. Seriously. That’s his recommendation. It seems a bit presumptuous on his part to assume that your desk needs a good cleaning. James says that he thinks much better when his desk is clear of clutter and junk. I’m not sure that he’s ever had a clean desk, though. So, take his advice with a grain of salt. Just don’t spill that grain of salt on James’s desk. This episode, Jeremy passes responsibility for giving his recommendation to his youngest son. Ben recommends that you go and watch Antman & The Wasp. I don’t want to make fun of Ben, so I’ll just leave this one there.
Jul 5, 2018

Introduction

Rob and the guys have been busy cleaning house and merging businesses. Kevin gets a little crazy with the English language. Apparently he likes to verb his nouns.

The Show

This episode the hosts discuss mergers and acquisitions. I’ll just cut right to it; Jeremy is going to be joining Kevin and James at their company. They just dropped that on the listening audience and Rob at the same time. Kevin and James discuss acquring Ninja Forms plugins from collaborating developers as well as other software products within the WordPress space. Jeremy talks about purchasing coffee businesses and merging those with a software company, which makes perfect sense.

Our Recommendations

Jeremy recommends that you watch Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown episode about Houston, Texas. Normally, I’d make a joke here at Jeremy’s expense, but this is a very good episode of a very good show. If I asked right now what you know about Houston, you’d probably mention NASA or the Rockets basketball team or the Texans football team. Bourdain dives into the culture and diversity of eastern Texas in a way that you don’t always see. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Kevin recommends a podcast called In Our Time by BBC Radio 4. If you love to listen to old British people talk about history, you should check out this show. Personally, I think it’s really, really boring. Also, does Kevin need to take every opportunity to mention that he likes history and went to grad school? We get it, sheesh. If you wanted people to know that badly, you should have finished the PhD. James recommends an app for your mobile device called Google Photoscan that lets you take a picture of a picture so that you can archive older, analog photos. Rob recommends a podcast about two dudes who answer a random Craiglist ad and wind up doing a grown-up scavenger hunt. I know that sounds like the opening to a made for TV movie starring Liam Neeson, but Project SSA is about adventure and exploration. Adventure comes to those that say yes, or something like that.
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