This episode is a presentation I made recently to a bunch of entrepreneurs and aspirants about what to include in your pitch about your venture.  I go over a dozen points you should hit whether its your elevator pitch or your pitch deck for demo day at an accelerator.    I try to keep it simple and to the point.   There are some questions I respond to along the way.  Hope you find it helpful!   John

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Episode 13 The Pitch Deck

This lecture is driven by an initial question: what does it mean that Amazon is now a trillion dollar company? I discuss: Balance Sheets, Present Value, Wisdom of Crowds, Statistics, Amazon, Nike, Supply and Demand, micro economics, Discounting Cash Flows, AI, autonomous vehicles, and lots more.   There are notes in the video to help explain and expand on some of the topics being discussed. This is a lecture I gave on marketing. It goes along with my book MBA ASAP marketing 2.0 Some of the concepts may make more sense to see. This lecture is available on YouTube so you can see me at the white board. But most of it translates to just audio.   I hope you find it informative. Send me an email at jjcousins@ gmail.com and tell me what you think or send me a message on twitter @jjcousins.

Episode 12 Marketing Lecture 1

Cornelia consults, speaks and writes on management and human resource issues. In this episode we discuss management issues and tools to build trust and teams, maximize your impact and influence, and how to best respond to challenges that face managers at all levels.  Cornelia is an incredible resource and this episode is jam packed with great advice and ideas. 

Episode 11 Cornelia Gamlem on Management

Brenner is a cofounder and CEO of The LINK Group, a FinTech startup in Utah’s “Silicon Slopes. Brenner is an adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurism in the Strategy Department of the Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah where he has mentored nearly 200 student based startups. He also serves as Strategic Liaison for the Foreign Direct Investment office of Southern France known as Team Cote d’Azur. Brenner has was a CoDesigner and Director of Business Development at Microsft Xbox’s Indie Built Studios, Global Brand Director for Burton Snowboards and advised Cannondale, GT, Schwinn and Mongoose on their Strategic Marketing Plans. Brenner’s excellent adventure. Listen to his remarkable journey. His enthusiasm and engagement are contagious. He talks about product development, marketing, social impact, economic development and so much more.  

Episode 10 Brenner Adams

In this episode Dr. Jonikas talks about his pathbreaking work on what makes startups successful and how to avoid common, but not obvious, pitfalls.  Donatas interviewed over 1400 startups and codified their experience into what methodologies actually work to reduce risk and up the chances of being successful.   Put together his research and findings in his book Startup Evolution Curve.   Here is how he describes the book: I have written this simple and actionable step by step guide to share my global research findings on how to start a startup business based on innovation or innovative business idea.  Check out his website www.evolutioncurve.com   where you can download 20 startup planning templates and 100 pages from his book.

Episode 9 Donatas Jonikas

This episode is a twelve minute conversation with Engel Jones.  It is from his podcast where he interviewed 1001 people in 3 months.  Now that takes efficient coordination and organization!  I was one of his interviews and this is that conversation.   Check out his website with all his podcast interviews at twelveminuteconvos.com  

Episode 008 Engel Jones

Leadership Flow   Croft is a very interesting, thoughtful and engaging leadership thinker and practitioner. In this episode he provides lots of actionable ideas and advice.   In positive psychology, flow, also known as being in the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.   Croft discusses how a leader can create and maintain flow states across an organization.  He has a unique perspective on organizational behavior based on communication and conversation. 

Episode 006 - Croft Edwards and the principles of Leadership Flow

In this episode I am interviewed by Avinash Bajaj of The MBA Jam podcast from London.  You can find his podcast at thembajam.com We talk about all things related to my MBA experience at Wharton, my career, and how MBA ASAP came about.   I hope you find it valuable relative to your own experience with an MBA program, or with your thinking in considering it as a path. 

Episode 005 MBA Jam

This episode is a free wheeling discussion of the world of computer technology and information systems. My guest is my son Spencer Cousins. He has been helping me understand the arcane, byzantine, labyrinthine world of computer programming languages, coding, and the entire infrastructure and how it fits together.   My talks with Spencer have been incredible enlightening to me and have helped me get over some of the big humps in the learning curve. I really wanted to get him on the podcast because I think this information can be really valuable to lots of us and I wanted to have him share his knowledge and his great way of making these subjects clear and understandable.   There are so many competing systems and developments are happening so fast that I found it incredibly difficult to know where to begin learning, and what was most important and fundamental and how to prioritize.   The learning curve can be steep and initially almost impenetrable and these explanations have helped me immensely.   Our world is now so infused with technology and smartphones and the web and internet and computers and coding and programming that I have felt compelled to understand it all better. And I’m making a commitment to become a better and more well rounded coder. With some computer coding knowledge and skills we can make all kinds of cool things happen.   I have personally witnessed how Spencer’s journey and acquisitions of these skills has transformed his life and opportunities. To whatever extent we do the same we can all benefit.   Don’t get intimidated by all the jargon at first. Just let it flow over you and after a while some of the words and concepts will start to stick and you will start to peer into this incredible world.  We toss around a lot of jargon and I was initially going to put explanations in the show notes but it seemed too dense and plodding a way to make a glossary. The terms you don’t know you can just Google and get a quick explanation.   We talk about what are the best computer languages to learn for applications and for starting out, how the ecosystems are connected and how they have evolved. Its just a conversation of how we have gotten to here and where we are headed.   It takes us a minute or two to get warmed up so hang in there and I hope you get a lot out of it. I know these talks have been really helpful to me in connecting all the dots of this new and evolving world.

Episode 004 - Computer Programming: Navigating The Learning Curve

Net Present Value is the gold standard of corporate finance analytic tools. NPV is the main tool used to value assets and make decisions about projects, purchases, mergers, or acquisitions. Its how savvy financial professionals make decisions about how, when, and where to invest money.

Episode 3 - Corporate Finance: NPV

This episode is the second in a series on Corporate Finance.  This episode deals with the concepts of The Time Value of Money and Discounting Cash Flows. Enjoy!

Episode 002 - Corporate Finance: The Time Value of Money

This episode focuses on Corporate Finance: how companies make decisions about what projects to pursue, and how to value those projects. I present a framework for how financial professionals make decisions about how, when, and where to invest money. Corporate Finance comprises a set of skills that interact with all the aspects of running a business. It is also extremely helpful in our personal lives when making decisions about buying or leasing, borrowing money, and making big purchases. It provides analytic tools to think about getting, spending, and saving. This episode starts our look at Corporate Finance by going over Financial Ratio Analysis.  The techniques of Ratio Analysis are particularly useful in comparing companies and invest intelligently in the stock market.  This is a set of tools for wealth creation!

Episode 001 - Corporate Finance

Just like the title says: this podcast is dedicated to imparting business knowledge and skillsets, the stuff you would learn in an MBA program, clearly and quickly; ASAP. Its about teaching tools for wealth creation. Learn skillsets that will make you more valuable at your job, ...or let you quit and start your own business. Also check out my books on these subjects. They are complimentary material to the podcast. They are available as eBooks, paperbacks and audiobooks. Check out the website www.mba-asap.com for more details and lots more content.

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