I want to jump in here and say something real quick: If you don't manage your emotions as an entrepreneur, you will lose.
If you'd like the PDF book "How to Build Long-term Business Relationships at Networking Events": https://www.fireshowmedia.com/networking
From lay-off to entrepreneurship: I chronicle the best and worst parts of what it's taking to grow a media business: FireShow Media.
We ran a free training on how to host your first virtual summit, having hosted our first summit, Online-First Summit 2020 over 4 days, with 60+ sessions and 80+ speakers.
This is a narration of a letter from Daron K. Robert's email, with audio from the Austin Protests around George Floyd's death. Black Lives Matter.
Kimberly Ann-Jimenez is the founder of The Business Lounge , a serial entrepreneur and killer digital marketer. She's been able to transition from freelancing to building a successful digital membership site (one that I'm a p...
In this episode, we're pulling one of the sessions from Online-First Summit 2020 with Joe Merrill, Co-Founder and VC at Sputnik ATX. He explains who grows during an economic downturn, shares examples of how they're doing it t...
The story of us bouncing back from a personal setback, and running ahead to host our first ever virtual summit .
Making videos for your personal brand can be daunting. Here's the 3 steps you need to start.
If you've been hosting events for your business, and that's the primary way that you make income - almost everything big in March is now cancelled, and possibly most of April. We don't know when the situation is going to …
In this episode, I break down a model you can use if your business has never done e-commerce.
In this episode, we run through how to open up when something goes bad. For example; my lay-off ;) Stay safe!
Long time Friend, Mentor, and Entrepreneurship Evangelist Maia Donahoe shows me how to find a mentor, how to engage them, and how it may be the rocket fuel founders need to succeed. Check out his new book The Startup Mentor …
What goes down, can go up.
Thank YOU for being on this journey with me. In the half-century episode of The Fire Show, my friend and mentor Chad Stith grills me on how doing this content thingamajig has affected my life trajectory, the process of becomi...
In this episode, I break down what you must do when pitching a business idea on stage, in person, or anywhere else.
Networking. It's a love-hate thing. Here's how to do it right.
This has been the most challenging year of my life, but I made it through to win.
If you want more incoming attention to your brand as an entrepreneur, consultant, or freelancer -- here's the keys to the kingdom.
At the Outlier Podcast festival I co-hosted with Ever Gonzalez in Austin in May, I got the chance to interview Mayor Adler again, but this time in front of a live audience.
Alrighty alrighty alrighty, welcome back to the Fire Show, Austin’s podcast about entrepreneurship. In this episode, filmed over at Funded House 2019, which I’ll go into detail at the end, I sit down with Chris Palmisano, COO...
In this solo episode, I make a quick intro on how to build your personal brand.
Randall Dark is a Video Pioneer who led the HDTV revolution in the worldwide media industry. He’s worked with Bill Clinton, Stephen Hawking, Sting, the original spock, and more. I can go on and on about him -- he’s a …
You're building a brand, whether that's a personal one, or one around your company. What are some tactics you can use to build an audience and acquire customers? How do you use Instagram to constantly engage with your audienc...
This short interview is with Paul O'Brien, one of the Directors of Founder Institute, and the CEO of MediaTech Ventures. I ask him about the state of Venture Capital in Austin, the 3 types of people investors look for in …
Building a business or startup you care about (and what makes $$) is hard as hell. It's even harder when you're working a day-job that pays the bills. So, how the hell do people do it? How do they manage …
Hello! Welcome back to the Fire Show, the show about entrepreneurship and creativity from Austin TX. My name is Moby, and if you don’t know who I am, I am an immigrant to the US who gives a shit about …
SXSW 2019 is upon us. 100,000+ people. 3 festivals. The entirety of Austin. It's happening. How do we make the most of it? How do we know where's the best places for us to connect to the people we want …
Today, I’m sitting with Brian Pennick, musician-turned-entrepreneur. Brian was a drummer for 12 years, then started Counter Rhythm group - a marketing agency for arrisssa dn musicians - in 2010, then Musicians Desk Reference ...
In the 2nd last episode of our Hustling Musicians mini-series on The Fire Show, I sit down with my friend Leslie a.k.a DJ Ella Ella (@soyellaella) to talk about her bringing her heritage to her electronic music.
Now this episode is special. Not just because of their phenomenal music, not just because of their stage presence, but because of the amount of drive these 2 dudes have - in music, business, marketing, modelling, painting and...
In another episode on the mini-series about musicians, I chat down with Savannah Dalh Lake from ATX.
In this episode of the mini-series on Musicians, I sit down with Torre Blake to ask a question I have never tried to answer myself.. how the hell is a song written?
In the first part of the new series about Musicians, DJ @SweaterBeats drops by to about how he creates music.
Today's focus: The first year of Amazon FBA, how a store starts, the first few mistakes, the first wins, and what to expect if YOU are starting an Amazon FBA store. My guest today is Allison Nevins, entrepreneur, friend, and …
I've had a hard time with everything recently, and wanted to create something to get me through the hard times. Hope this helps. Thanks for listening, as always.
In this mini-episode, we talk about talking about your business's competition.
Welcome back to The Fire Show, the podcast from Austin about entrepreneurs, business strategy, and working your face off. Today, I’m bringing to you the second panel I recorded at the FUND conference in April, brought to Aust...
Hello! Welcome to the Fire Show, Austin's podcast about entrepreneurship strategy, and working your face off. This is your host, Moby, I interview the best in Austin, from the Mayor, to Director of SXSW, Designer of the Airpo...
Today, I’m sitting down with Claire Winslow, President of Best Practice Media, a social media marketing agency focused on helping their clients make more revenue. She also brought SMW to Austin, where I interviewed other peop...
How, as a business, do you not create mediocre content? How do you stand out? How can you make content for your audience that they give a shit about? Today, I’m interviewing the perfect person to answer this: Meredith Rose,so...
The world is changing. How we consume content is changing. And it's not slowing down. What will happen in the next few years as the film industry and the rest of the media industry either catches up or falls behind …
Thomas Umstattd (http://www.thomasumstattd.com/) (@ThomasUmstattd) is a lot of things. He’s an entrepreneur - as CEO of AuthorMedia, a company helping author get more sales with their books, through providing web design and m...
Surprise! There’s 1 more episode for the mini-series Tech Journalism. It’s with my friend, Ellen Chang, who I met during Startup Week in Austin. She is not a tech reporter, but a journalism who writes for The Street, US News …
This episode is about exactly what the title says, and the cut down audio version of a video done by my friend Sujan Patel. For reference, Sujan Patel is a serial entrepreneur who’s running 4 companies right now. He’s a …
This interview is with Mike Cronin (@michaelccronin ), Technology Reporter for Austin-American Statesman. He’s an award-winning investigative journalist with two decades of experience across beats including technology, startu...
Following up on last week’s episode with Melissa about how Marketing Consultants work, today I’m bringing to you the audio from a recent video from Sujan and I, What To Ask Marketing Consultants before hiring them, i.e. makin...
Melissa Huisman (@mk_huis) is the Founder of Diamond Block (https://diamondblockcreative.com/) , a creative agency that works with small business and startups to clarify their marketing strategy, fine-tune messaging and posit...