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Business Advice Podcasts: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Tune In

Up and Running

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Thus, the podcast’s rise can be attributed to its platform as a powerful tool of easily obtainable and consumable audio-media. But herein lies a problem.

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My new fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.

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Transcript of What Does the Future of Podcasting Look Like?

Duct Tape Marketing

It’s kind of the study of record for things like streaming audio, things like Pandora and Spotify and a whole number of things. It’s definitely a short audio book, in seven episodes. And some of that is if they just happen to love audio, or they have more available time to do it in. We’ve done that since 2003.

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Podcast Strategy: A Roadmap for Businesses

ConversionXL

The first shows were created in late 2003, and the term itself was coined in 2004 by combining “iPod” with “broadcasting.”. Regardless of content format (audio, video, text, or print), branding is essential. Whether it starts as video or audio, it can be turned into images, text, and other forms. Let’s get started. .

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

It had ancient hard drives, an installation of Windows Server 2003 that hadn’t been refreshed for 5 or 6 years, and two SQL Server databases that had not been re-indexed (or had any visible maintenance) for 3 years. And I was running scared… Step 1: Like a Chicken With No Head. Check out episode 165.

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My fascination with Podcasts

VC Cafe

Wikipedia describes a Podcast as follows: A podcast is an episodic series of digital audio files which a user can download and listen to. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player.

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Philadelphia Marathon

Feld Thoughts

Of the 21 marathons I’ve run, it was my third fastest (I did the Dallas Marathon in 4:28:00 when I was 17 and the Chicago Marathon in 4:05:27 in 2003.) I had decided to run without any time queues so while I had RunKeeper broadcasting my race live, I had turned off all the audio notifications. So – I just ran.