Inside LaunchStreet Podcast

Looking Forward with Trend Prediction Will Help You Win the Future Do you ever wish you had insight into those big trends that are going to impact your business before you are talking about them in the past tense? Sometimes I feel like I don’t really recognize the big trends that impact my customers’ world...

Inside LaunchStreet’s 2018 Business Strategy Will Guide Listeners to Experience Every Day Impact, Surprise and Delight. Does telling people your goals make you nervous? Yeah, me too! What if I don’t succeed? What if I do? But, we are in this together and because we are a community of innovators, I’m pulling back the curtain...

Powerful Themes to Include When Creating Your Innovation Rockstar Plan Host Tamara Kleinberg pulls out the top insights from her dozens of 2017 interviews with leading innovators. Innovation strategy that includes — embrace change, get emotional, question everything, seek conflict, experiment, learn the language. To close out the year, Tamara digs into all of these...

How Fun Increases Happiness, Productivity, and Creativity Shawn Madden is a serial entrepreneur in the social sports industry. He is the Founder, CEO, and Ambassador of Fun at Underdog Sports Leagues, League Lab Software, and FunCorp Parties and Events. He stopped by Inside LaunchStreet to talk to us about the power of fun in building...

The Power of Creating Problem Finders George Courus is a leading educator in the area of innovative leadership, teaching, and learning and is the author of the book, The Innovator’s Mindset; Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity. On Inside LaunchStreet, we talked about the biggest barriers to innovation, why big institutions...

Innovate While Remaining Inside the Box Drew Boyd is a 30-year innovation veteran and the co-author of the book, Inside The Box: A Proven System of Creativity For Breakthrough Results. He stopped by Inside LaunchStreet to talk about why going outside the box sets you up for failure, how to innovate against your constraints, and...

Forward Thinking, Taking Risks and Admitting You Are Wrong Can Yield Huge Payouts. Richard Fertig is a master Airbnb lifestyle, money-making machine. He pops into Inside LaunchStreet to share his incredible journey — all the ups and downs. We dig deep into how to become an entrepreneur — something anyone can do. He also shares...

How to Get Out of the ER Trap and Find That Spot of Differentiated Value Tamara knows that these three questions will bring you game-changing business innovation. They are the questions she asked herself that got her business out of the commodity game and into the no-competition growth. As she talks about, these questions led...

The Most Powerful Way to Work With the Media is to Forget About Yourself. Sharon Bolt is a publicity expert and founder of Get Free Publicity Today. She has been a business owner and Entrepreneur for over 16 years and she has received over £1.5 million ($2 million) in free publicity and free advertising. She...

The Power of Zoning In on Your Customers and Front Lines Advice Jeff Platt is the CEO of SkyZone, a trampoline fun park that helped create the active fun category. Under his guidance, the business has scaled quickly and is now a global powerhouse. Jeff chats with me on Inside LaunchStreet about how to grow...