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The Scott Barstow Show

Scott Barstow talks about the business of building technology products for the untechnical with guests from widely varying backgrounds, all with the aim of helping untechnical founders and product managers understand how to eliminate wasted time and money, as well as better communicate with the technologists around them.

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01:12:57

#33-Monica Wood and DeDeHouston of Myxx Recipes

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2018/06/09

My guests for this show are Monica Wood and DeDe Houston, co-founders of Myxx Recipes. One of the biggest struggles for busy families is finding and making healthy meals at home. Myxx Recipes lets users shop for new, healthy recipes, create a shopping list from those recipes (including prices from the store where you shop), and then submit the shopping list to your grocery store for pickup. Myxx is sitting in the middle of the massive trend of buying groceries from in-person to online. Monica and

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01:01:05

#32-Kristine Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Equine...

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2018/02/07

My guest for this show is Kristine Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Equine Exchange, a marketplace for buying and selling sport horses. If you're like me, you know nothing about buying or selling a horse, but it's actually a massive market with extremely high dollar transactions and fraught with fraud and bad actors. Equine Exchange brings like-minded buyers and sellers together and provides questionnaires, agreements, and processes to facilitate transparency in the transaction. Kristine does a great

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01:14:28

#31-Ursula Mead, CEO and co-founder of InHerSight

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2017/12/15

My guest for this episode is Ursula Mead, CEO and co-founder of In Her Sight. In Her Sight is an engagement platform for women to rate the companies they work for on issues specifically important to women. In Her Sight also provides tools for job seekers to match the issues most important to them with companies who excel in those areas in order to create a more productive, healthy working environment for women. Ursula and I have been trying to get together for this interview for at least three

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54:17

#30-Andrew Bagrin of My Digital Shield

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2017/02/11

My guest for this episode is Andrew Bagrin, CEO and founder of My Digital Shield. My Digital Shield is revolutionizing how small and medium businesses protect themselves from cyber threats. By deploying minimal infrastructure at the customer's location and utilizing the best of cloud technologies, My Digital Shield is bringing cyber security usually reserved for the Fortune 500 to businesses up and down the street for a low monthly subscription. In this interview Andrew talks about how he got the

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51:01

#29 - Tim Sinclair of RINGR

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2017/01/21

"I would rather fail at greatness than succeed at mediocrity" - Tim Sinclair My guest for this episode is Tim Sinclair, CEO and founder of RINGR. RINGR is an audio recording application used by thousands of podcasters and journalists to record high quality audio interviews. RINGR has developed some unique, patented intellectual property that makes recording great interviews possible over a normal voice call. Tim has been in radio broadcasting for years, and is the in-arena voice of the

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#28-Stephen Kane of ArbiClaims

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2016/12/17

My guest for this episode is Stephen Kane, CEO and founder of ArbiClaims. ArbiClaims is a platform that brings parties together to resolve small disputes using trained arbitrators without having to go to court. Stephen is a start up and small business attorney by background, Stephen has over 10 years of sales and business development experience including with other legal tech companies. He also chairs GRID110, an economic development organization committed to growing the start up ecosystem in

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#27-Jake Loosararian of Gecko Robotics

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2016/12/10

My guest for this show is Jake Loosararian, CEO and co-founder of Gecko Robotics. Gecko Robotics make robots that do unassisted inspections of power plant boilers. These robots have sensors that measure things like temperature, wall thickness and other system failure indicators, as well as a mounted camera that records the entire trip around the boiler. Their technology saves lives and cuts the cost and time of inspection dramatically. Jake and Gecko are graduates of Y-Combinator (Winter 2016). In

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49:03

#26-Brant Elliot of Stealz

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2016/12/03

My guest for this show is Brant Elliot. Brant is the CTO and Co-Founder of Stealz, a mobile app that rewards customers for being brand ambassadors for businesses they frequent. He has over 20 years’ experience building technology and tinkering with electronics. His early days in the tech space were spent hacking/exploring systems during the technology rush of the early 2000s. Normally on this show we talk with CEOs, but I thought it would be good to have a conversation with a founding CTO about the

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56:06

#25-Mark Easley, Angel Investor and Crowdfunding Expert

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2016/11/19

My guest for this show is Mark Easley. Mark is a startup advisor and angel investor in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina. Previously Mark had a 20+ year technology career in engineering, marketing, sales, and executive management in the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley. Mark has been on the executive board of a Raleigh/Durham area angel investor group and is a member of the Council for Entrepreneurial Development. Mark provides mentoring to startups and potential

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56:53

#24-Josh Manley, CEO and founder of ReplyBuy

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2016/11/05

Josh Manley, CEO and founder of Reply Buy. ReplyBuy is a real-time e-commerce platform that lets you buy tickets to major sporting events from the comfort of your smartphone’s text messaging app. ReplyBuy is addressing the ever-expanding market for last-minute purchases of unsold inventory, much like Hotels Tonight does for hotel rooms. Josh started several companies in the e-commerce space prior to ReplyBuy, and was a catcher in the Arizona Diamondbacks system before hanging up his cleats to

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01:09:30

#23-Josh Taylor of Blimey Cow on YouTube, Building an...

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2016/10/29

How do you build an audience, how is YouTube relevant for your startup, and how do you decide what projects are worth pursuing? I covered these questions and more with my guest for this episode, Josh Taylor. Josh is a video creator, podcaster, and entrepreneur from Nashville, TN. He is most well-known for the video series called Blimey Cow which he started with his siblings in 2005. In the last decade, the comedy videos have accrued over 400,000 subscribers and 70 million total video views on

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#22-Anthony Pompliano of Full Tilt Capital

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2016/10/19

My guest for this show is Anthony Pompliano, one of the founding partners of Full Tilt Capital. Full Tilt is a venture capital firm who specializes in moving quickly, with decisions on investments in as little as 48 hours. Pomp, as everyone calls him, has also spent time at Facebook and SnapChat, has started and sold a couple of companies, and served in the US Army in Iraq. Pomp and I cover a lot of ground in this show, including: Why he started Full Tilt Capital and the mission they're on to

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#021-Jon Spinney, CEO and co-founder of Malartu Funds

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2016/10/08

If you like this show, please head on over to iTunes and give us a review. We'd really appreciate it! My guest for this show is Jon Spinney, CEO and founder of Malartu Funds. Malartu brings individual investors, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on the same platform to help entrepreneurs tell their story better and to help investors find companies doing great things. It's a big idea and they're starting to see some really great traction. Jon's got a unique perspective on building a tech company

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#20 - Fred Stutzman, CEO and founder of Freedom

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2016/10/01

If you like this show, please head on over to iTunes and give us a review. It helps other people find the show and makes me feel warm and tingly. My guest for this show is Fred Stutzman, CEO and founder of Freedom. Freedom is a platform that gives you back your life by eliminating unnecessary interruptions when you're trying to get work done. Fred's got a lot of great stuff to say about building a successful product company. The highlights include: Product pricing and how they tested to find the

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#19-Eric Boggs, CEO of RevBoss

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2016/09/10

Eric Boggs is the CEO and founder of RevBoss, a sales pipeline automation company based in Durham, NC. My conversation with Eric was pretty wide-ranging as usual, but we also explored some things that I've not yet talked about with any other guest. Eric talks openly about his prior company, Argyle Social, and what it was like to go straight up and then go over the cliff. He also talks about the importance of delayed gratification as a founder, loving your people well, and how he deals with the

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#18-Aaron Cleary, Hacker Extraordinaire

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2016/08/27

Aaron Cleary is a world-class white-hat (mostly) hacker and cyber security expert. He works for a large multinational insurance company in Germany and gets paid fly around the world, break into systems, and then tell companies how to plug the holes. Not a bad gig, eh? Aaron and I go deep (as deep as you can go in an hour or so) into his background, how he got interested in this area, how you prevent and protect yourself from attack, how you handle a breach, and even get into some macro-level

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#17-Jed Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Adwerx and...

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2016/08/20

This is an interview I've been wanting to do since I started this podcast. Jed Carlson is the CEO of Adwerx and co-founder of Reverb Nation. Jed is one of the best thinkers and communicators about business I've ever met. He has the gift of being able to take complex principles, distill them down to their component parts and then implement them in a way that few other people can. You'll hear evidence of this over and over again in our conversation. Jed and I talk about: The value of an MBA (you

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#16: Justin Schneider, CEO and founder of Wolf &...

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2016/08/13

Justin Schneider is the CEO of an up and coming fashion tech company called Wolf & Shepherd. Justin was a decathlete at Notre Dame and after getting out of school he realized that men's dress shoes suck. He set out to fix it by using the best materials and latest technology in footwear. The result is a product that his customers love, so much so that one of them ran a half-marathon in Atlanta recently. Justin and I talk about: The founding story The importance of brand How his first manufacturing

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#15: Tatiana Birgisson, CEO and Founder of MATI Energy

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2016/08/06

Tatiana Birgisson is the founder and CEO of MATI Energy, an all-natural energy drink that goes toe to toe with the likes of Red Bull. I wanted to have her on the show to talk about what it's like to go from starting a company in your dorm room to the Inc 30 Under 30 list a few years later. The truth is I had no idea how remarkable she is. You're going to hear from Tatiana about what it's like to start something that you care deeply about, something that matters. We talk about Her unique upbringing

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Ep #14 - Brian Dally, CEO of Groundfloor

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2016/07/23

Brian Dally is the CEO of Groundfloor, a crowdfunding real estate finance company based in Atlanta, GA. I first met Brian back when he was building Republic Wireless as an intrapraneur at Bandwidth and have watched him build Groundfloor for the past few years. Brian is a different breed. He doesn't do small ideas. As you'll hear in this interview, Groundfloor invented a new kind of security. Who does that? He only goes after ideas that are worth 7-10 years of his life. Groundfloor has raised over $7

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