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As a young entrepreneur in the Wild West days of the internet, Alex Tew was drawn to meditation for its simple calming power. Together with fellow tech founder Michael Acton Smith–known for hits like Moshi Monsters–the two brainstormed ways to bring the ancient practice of meditation into the 21st century. In 2011, they bought the domain calm.com, built an app, and started producing meditations and Sleep Stories, narrated by celebrities like Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. Despite initial pushback from investors who insisted no one would want to meditate on their phone–let alone pay for it– the Calm app grew to a valuation of nearly $2 billion, with 180 million total downloads. This episode was researched and produced by Katherine Sypher with music composed by Ramtin Arablouei. It was edited by Neva Grant. Our engineers were Patrick Murray and Robert Rodriguez.You can follow HIBT on X & Instagram, and email us at hibt@id.wondery.com. Sign up for Guy's free newsletter at guyraz.com or on Substack.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We're joined by Freshman Center Alex Tew to chat about coming across the pond to play basketball and becoming a Wildcat.The Wildcats were back in the Purple Palace last week, facing Sac State and Northern Colorado. We break down the split and what things could look like in the remaining three games of the season.Then, It's Buy or Sell. We've got some end of season scenarios and we'll see if our panel will bite.Special thanks to our sponsor, Studio NINE 8. Check out their selection of custom made rings on their website, StudioNINE8.com. Maybe by Wildcats, for Wildcats.Don't forget to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram or join the Wildcat Fans FB group.

Vor 17 Jahren hatte Alex Tew einen Einfall, der sein Leben veränderte. Zum Start der Internet-Ära hat er eine Website gekauft und diese pixelweise verkauft - einen US-Dollar pro Pixel. Insgesamt standen 1 Million Pixel zum Angebot. Käufer konnten auf den jeweiligen Pixeln ihren Werbeplatz einrichten. Und das taten sie. Innerhalb von 5 Monaten waren alle Pixel verkauft. Manche ahnen es jetzt schon, inwiefern Alex Tew und seine "Million Pixel Homepage" dafür verantwortlichen sind, dass wir 2023 insgesamt 365 Botschaften in die Welt tragen möchten. Der Brite, der später die Entspannungsapp "Calm" mitbegründete, hat uns mit seiner Story inspiriert. Auch wir möchten ein cooles Projekt auf die Beine stellen & dabei unsere Leidenschaften ausspielen. Spoiler: Millionäre werden wir mit "In 365 Botschaften um die Welt" auf jeden Fall nicht. Wir möchten uns jedoch Tews Ansatz á la "Kleinvieh macht auch Mist" zu Herzen nehmen und bis zu 365 Kooperationspartner um uns versammeln, um zusammen ein Jahr lang jeden Tag eine positive Message in die Welt zu tragen. Das können Firmen, Influencer oder Privatpersonen sein - solange sie gemeinsam mit uns nachhaltig und zukunftsorientiert in die Zukunft schauen. Dafür verwandeln wir uns in dieser Zeit zu wandelnden Billboards/Litfasäulen, die die Sprüche & Botschaften auf ihren weißen T-Shirts präsentieren. Keine Sorge übrigens: Wir lassen natürlich nicht über 700 T-Shirts drucken. Jeder von uns hat ca. 10 Shirts dabei, die wir tagtäglich mit individuell bedruckten Textilstickern versehen. Alle weiteren Infos erfahrt ihr auf unserer Website (de.kevanaway.com) und natürlich in diesem Podcast (der 2023 übrigens jeden Tag (!) veröffentlicht wird). In der ersten Folge unseres Podcasts "Travel Therapie - Der Reisepodcast" stellen wir unser Projekt & uns selbst vor. Wir hoffen wirklich sehr, dass wir auch dich für dieses Projekt in den Bann ziehen können. Unser Ziel ist es nämlich, eine riesiggroße Community aufzubauen, die sich gegenseitig vor Augen führt, dass die Welt noch nicht verloren ist & dass wir uns zusammen eine schöne Zukunft aufbauen können. So, und jetzt geht's los! Seid ihr auch dabei? Let's go :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/traveltherapie/message

Every week we will take a deep dive into a business and share with you some of their marketing & business strategies that helped these businesses scale.In Episode 54, we dissect CALM's business & marketing strategy – Founded in 2012 by Alex Tew and Michael Acton Smith, these founders leveraged their skillsets to brand an app that made it #1 on the App Store.  As of May 2021, they estimated to be about 2 mil subscribers & 4 mil downloads (Which means they average to about 140mil a year just on Subscriptions!!). Whether you're building an app or eCommerce business, Calm strategies is something that we should all take note of.Timestamps:1:17 The Story behind Calm App5:36 Create a freemium model. CALM put out free sounds — stories on youtube7:40 Offer multiple payments options10:34 Use Hashtags As Your Research Tool Pre-Launch12:19 How Calm Uses Partnerships & Corporate Discounts To Increase Awareness15:40 How CALM leveraged timing & relevancy to create an ad that elicited an emotional response (Example: CNN Sponsored Ad)18:05 Why A Strong Vision Is the Secret Ingredient of a Successful BusinessABOUT MATT SKOPAK:An adventure and fitness addict with a passion for entrepreneurship and numbers. Lead Investor in Sweetberry Bowls and CFO of Sugar & Kush CBD. Rutgers MBA 2020 in Entrepreneurship & Accounting. Follow Matt Skopak's Twitter.ABOUT ME (SEAN AZARI):In 2015, I started a creative ad agency called Breakthrough Social that has helped over 50+ businesses build their brand & increase sales mainly through content development & distribution, influencer marketing, paid media campaigns, and other developing techniques. Brands that I have worked with: Rebhorn, Safavieh, Rugs USA, SoJo Spa Club, Muscle Maker Grill, Kat Burki, Sweetberry Bowls, & many others.

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This week Chase Jarvis interviews one tech founder (Alex Tew, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Calm) and an elite athlete (Christine Ohuruogu MBE, British 400m Gold medallist) on mental health, human performance and more... They discuss the school of thought that tech founders are the new breed of elite athlete as they are constantly having to perform at the best of their ability, and they discover numerous parallels between their roles including the importance of staying mentally sharp and putting on a performance.  

Michael Acton Smith, co-Founder of Calm joins us to talk about building the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation, with over 75 million downloads and over 700,000 5-star reviews. Michael tells us about how the idea was born from his own personal discovery of the power of meditation. In our conversation he tells the Calm founding story, and talks about the journey to making medication accessible to tens of millions of people while taking on stigma around meditation and mental health long before the recent surge in interest around the space. In addition to being the co-founder of Calm, Michael also was the founder of Mind Candy and creator of Moshi Monsters, the online world for children that grew to 80 million registered users and expanded offline into books, toys, games, magazines, music and movies. Michael is also the founder of Firebox.com, Ping Pong Fight Club, and Berwickstock music festival. In 2014, he was awarded an Order of the British Empire for his service to the creative industries. You can connect with Michael here: LinkedIn, Twitter, Calm Website What If Fellowship: https://whatif.vc/fellowship   HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT: Michael Acton Smith joins us to talk about how he came to find meditation as a resource for himself in his personal life. Michael shares the story of how his experience in the entertainment industry left him feeling burnt out and how meditation is the most valuable skill he has learned in his lifetime. Calm origin story: With his co-founder Alex Tew, Michael wanted to bring meditation to people through something that was accessible, relatable, and simple. The app creation was their idea to achieve all of these goals in their attempt to change the world of mental health for the better. Michael talks about how meditation is so much more than just sitting quietly and breathing. It is a neuroscience that helps to rewire your brain to get out of the fight or flight mindset and how to help your prefrontal cortex frequencies to be normalized. How has Covid-19 and the pandemic affected Calm? Isolation mixed with anxiety surrounding the pandemic has caused mental health to be on the forefront of everyone’s minds. Michael talks about how his business was growing before this but now it has grown dramatically. He tells about his sense of responsibility to react to this current situation and to provide more content for subscribers. Michael shares how calm has extended its reach to not only individuals but to companies as well. Calm is being used in businesses to learn how to manage stress, how to connect with colleagues, and how to increase emotional intelligence within the workplace. Not only is this an affordable and life-changing choice for companies, but he states that it is a no brainer. If companies offer gym memberships to increase physical wellness, they should be offering calm memberships to increase mental wellness too. How do you see the business of Calm evolving over the next few years? Michael talks with us about the breadth of growth opportunities in front of the business in the coming years. He compares it to the scale of Netflix or Spotify subscriptions. In addition to that growth, he would like to see Calm being offered on a global scale in multiple languages. Michael discusses expanding calm into a lifestyle brand featuring clothing, hotels, even a resort on an island of Calm! When asked about what a Calm island would look like, he described it as a week or two getaway to focus on recentering yourself with healthy food, exercise, and meditation services. Advice for mental health founders: We talked about what founders in the mental health space could do if they are just starting to splash around in this space. Michael recommends above all else, patience. He says to not go after the first idea that pops into your head. He gives other tips to get yourself into the right mindset to find the big opportunities. To expand on this, we discussed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are most important to pay attention to early on as a founder. Michael shares that finances are so key to tracking as well as being incredibly mindful with hiring and workspace. Additionally, Michael shares that in order to keep retention up of your customers, you need to create new content and how you want to keep your business on the front of your customers' minds. Michael talks about the importance of teaching meditation to younger generations. He shares his excitement surrounding how we are seeing mindfulness education in schools.  He raises the question, “what is more important than teaching the next generation how to improve their emotional intelligence?” Finally, Michael shares how meditation is a skill that you can learn, and that means you have to be taught how to utilize it. Not only that, but you need to practice using it in your daily life in order to get better at it. We are starting to move in a direction where more and more people are using these skills in their life and being more open about mental health. Michael shares how he feels privileged to be able to be a part of this movement.                                Connect with the What If Ventures and the Stigma Podcast in the following ways: What If Fellowship, Patreon, Website, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Email Connect with host Stephen Hays here: Stephen Hays Personal Website, Twitter, LinkedIn, What If Ventures (Mental Health Venture Fund)  

Alex Tew is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO @ Calm, the #1 App for Meditation and Sleep allowing you to find your calm, sleep more, stress less and live better. To date, the company has raised over $143M in funding from some of the best including Lightspeed, Insight, TPG and then some very cool names such as Ashton Kutcher, Harry Styles, Brad Feld and Jason Calacanis. Prior to Calm Alex founded numerous other startups including PopJam, Pixelotto and most famously rose to internet fame with his founding of The Million Dollar Homepage. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Alex went from playing Fifa with Michael Acton Smith in Berwick St, London to founding one of the hottest startups in the valley, Calm? 2.) What does Alex believe the very best brands do today? How do they message? How do they present? How do they divide opinion? How did Alex think about the early Calm brand? How has it changed? How does Alex advise others looking to build a company brand? 3.) Does Alex agree with Peter Fenton, "there is a lack of free and open distribution"? How does Alex analyse the economics for customer acquisition costs today? What is a good paid vs organic ratio? How do CACS change over time in Alex's experience? 4.) What have been Alex's biggest learnings on what it takes to build a viral product? Where do many people go wrong? Why does Alex believe pressure is the enemy of creativity? Does Alex believe people should create time for creative thought? What does Alex do to stimulate idea creation? 5.) How has Alex seen himself evolve and develop as a leader over the last 5 years? What have been the hardest elements to scale? How does Alex think about effective delegation? What have been Alex's biggest lessons on what it takes to hire A* people consistently? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Alex’s Fave Book: Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC.

  Martelle and Randy sit down and shoot the shit. Martelle does a review of @catoctincreek Whiskey, they go off the rails on some whiskey talk, and they cover some random news. SPOILED RICH BRATS ARE SPENDING THOUSANDS TO BE FEATURED ON THIS INSTAGRAM ACCOUNThttps://www.diyphotography.net/spoiled-rich-brats-are-spending-thousands-to-be-featured-on-this-instagram-account/ The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education.http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ JellyFish Invade Circleville Waters http://www.sciotopost.com/jellyfish-invade-circleville-waters-2/?fbclid=IwAR3FEwlhG-XWdBA04_XuEP41ftqIQEgy0KRe5ga8ScEXLEm6N9vSVaMGK2I Osama bin Laden's son killed in US operation https://news.sky.com/story/osama-bin-ladens-son-killed-in-us-operation-11809432?fbclid=IwAR3gv4TEnohNRKvlIA2EekAQoZI1zyRiRhmnJ1WMXebg15mvJfteIdEL79I Aggressive Rooster Pecks Australian Woman To Death In Rare Attackhttps://wcol.iheart.com/content/2019-09-04-aggressive-rooster-pecks-australian-woman-to-death-in-rare-attack/?Sc=editorial&Keyid=socialflow&Pname=local_social&fbclid=IwAR0_Mw8kp00ju4MYHxws38W5kTmGbT_ZtupT6I132oWtKqdw6XzIo72QP7M Show Mentions@catoctincreek@onemorereppodcast@twobitchbourbon@virgilkaine@doubleedgebeer@craig_of_all_people@olesmoky Episode 63 Podbean:https://buckhornpodcast.podbean.com/-Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buckhorn-podcast/id1422461939-Google Play:https://play.google.com/music/m/Imtqeyzesip4sajvzii3nvrxjm4?t=The_Buckhorn_Podcast-Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/2uhj7Vzq8u3SPvB01VqAh7-Sticher:https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=380829&refid=stpr-Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBoOmGCw9cZ8jCHPU3yVkxQ #AsSeeninColumbus #asheardincolumbus #OnlyinOhio #podcast #comedyshow #internetradio #buckhorn #BPC #Ohiopodcast #radio #listen #asseeninohio #heardinohio #madeinohio #comedy #pinkysup #Bobrossofpodcast #catoctincreekdistillery #onmorereppodcast #omrfam #twobitchbourbon #whiskey #throataids #Outerbeltbrewery #doubleedgebrewery #drinklocal

Today’s guest, Jason Calacanis, is best known for his podcast This Week In Startups and for investing in unicorn companies such as Uber, Thumbtack and Robin Hood; as well as selling shares in Facebook (whilst telling Mark Zuckerberg what he thought of him) and working alongside investors such as Elon Musk.But it took him awhile to get here.Jason was the Founder and CEO of Rising Tide Studios and Weblogs Inc (which he sold to AOL in 2005 for $25m), before turning his hand to angel investing. Jason is the dinner party guest you want to have at your table - he would entertain and delight because he favours candidness over honesty, and believes that the secret to success is the ability to get on with difficult people.An early investor in calm.com, Jason could see the benefit it would bring to the world and credits the founder, Alex Tew, for having the same levels of creativity as Elon Musk and Steve Jobs.Jason says he loves angel investing because he gets to hang out with the smartest people in the world who tell him how the world is going to change, how they're going to do it and then they invite him along for the ride.So to that end, join us on our ride as we chat with Jason about:Whether he’s marmite or fungus.Getting trolled for investing in calm.com and why you should never underestimate anyone.The secret to angel investing.Why the people who are going to change the world aren’t always easily likeable.His favourite book of 2018 (hint, it isn’t Shoe Dog).Who his all-time favourite guest on TWIST (this week in startups - his podcast) has been.The impact of the realisation that the person who picked the Times cover model was the most powerful person in the room, not the model themselves, had on him.Links:This week in startupsFor more go to secretleaders.com

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Hacer dinero vendiendo píxeles En esta serie de verano donde hemos tocado como ganar dinero o como monetizar que se dice en el argot, vamos a poner otro ejemplo de como a un estudiante británico se le ocurrió vender pixel para pagarse la carrera. En el 2005 Alex Tew tenía 21 años y después de […] La entrada 254 Programa 254. Hacer dinero vendiendo píxeles aparece primero en Simple informatica.

If you enjoy this podcast, consider buying me a coffee: https://adamstoner.com/support Science has proven that meditation increases immunity, decreases pain, increases positive thinking, decreases depression, increases social connection and emotional intelligence and decreases anxiety and stress. It also makes you more compassionate, feel less lonely, and improves your ability to regulate your emotions. Meditation also increases your grey matter, increases focus and creativity, improves your ability to multitask, and even improves your memory. So meditation is pretty good then. To those who know me, it's probably no surprise that I meditate, and moving in to my final semester at university, full of deadlines and uncertainty, I suspect I'll be doing a lot more of it. The ‘brand image' of meditation is evolving but some still see it as an activity that involves sitting crossed-legged, robed, chanting in a foreign language. Far from being annoyingly metaphysical, one application – Calm – is setting out to break the misconception. I had a chat with Michael Acton-Smith, one of Calm's founding pair, to find out more… Michael, where did the inspiration for Calm come from? Alex Tew, my co-founder, has been a life long meditator. I was initially dubious as I thought there were religious and ‘woo woo' connotations but as I researched more I began to appreciate the science behind it. Calm is about breaking down the misconceptions of meditation and about making it more relatable. We want to demystify this valuable practice and make it accessible and understandable to all. A few years ago we had the chance to buy Calm.com and that was the first step in creating an exciting and important new brand. We felt there is an awakening in the West of people who want to understand and develop their minds. Calm's audience is ‘anyone with a mind', and our mission is to make the world a happier and healthier place. And how is that mission progressing? Very well. We have over 4 million downloads and are adding about 10,000 new users every day. The feedback we get from users is awe-inspiring and humbling. We have many plans to expand the brand and bring Calm into all aspects of someone's life, but the app is the heart of the business. Some ideas include Virtual Reality, clothing, music, and community events around the world. Lots of meditation practitioners talk about disconnecting from technology and re-connecting to people and nature. What's the relevance of meditation in the digital age? These devices we carry with us everywhere are super powerful and valuable but we need to learn to become masters of them rather than slaves. For many people their relationship with their phone is mindless and it's causing a great deal of stress, distraction and anxiety in the world. I don't feel being a technological company has hindered Calm's success. There are 2 billion smartphones in the world and it is the smartest way to connect with a huge audience. The technology is not at fault it is our relationship with it that matters. And what does meditation, and Calm, mean to you, Michael? I started meditating a few years ago and I have observed many benefits in my life. When I discover something I'm passionate about I love turning it into a business and sharing it with the world. Calm is a very exciting journey that I believe will not only be a successful business but more importantly will help bring a little more peace, perspective and equanimity into the world.

“At the same time I started meditating at 14, I built a prototype in 2005 for the Calm app but never launched it.” Join Alex Tew – a serial entrepreneur- the founder of the Calm mindfulness app and one of those who made his $1m in his bedroom, whilst in his teens, with a marketing viral hit called the Million Dollar Homepage. A meditator since the age of 14, he’s bringing mindfulness to the masses through the app- the latest craze in the wellbeing space for happier, healthier living. It’s taken the western world by storm, starting with just 10 minutes a day- its no wonder it has over 5m downloads and is in the top 150 of the Apple’s highest grossing apps! The post #11 Keep Calm and Meditate- there’s an app for that! with Alex Tew appeared first on Samira Stalks.

Starte mit verrückten Ideen - denn als Sidepreneur hast du nichts zu verlieren! In der Folge 3 vom Sidepreneur Podcast gebe ich dir Beispiele von verrückten Ideen, die dich inspirieren sollen, endlich loszulegen. Erfahre, wie Alex Tew mit seiner Webseite $1 Mio. verdiente und mit welchen verrückten Ideen Jason Zook auf sich aufmerksam machte. Wir ziehen daraus die Learnings und ich zeige dir, warum auch du mit verrückten Ideen starten solltest! Die angesprochenen Ressourcen: Einen tollen Blogpost zum Podcast: http://www.sidepreneur.de/folge3 Der kostenlose Ratgeber "10 Ideen wie du noch heute als Sidepreneur startest": http://www.sidepreneur.de/folge3 Alex Tew: Million Dollar Homepage Jason Zook: http://jasondoesstuff.com/ Soundcloud Playliste mit Unternehmer-Stories: Playliste Teilt mir gerne eure verrückten Ideen mit, die ihr startet oder gestartet habt! Viel Spaß. Über eine iTunes-Bewertung würde ich mich sehr freuen!

Starte mit verrückten Ideen - denn als Sidepreneur hast du nichts zu verlieren! In der Folge 3 vom Sidepreneur Podcast gebe ich dir Beispiele von verrückten Ideen, die dich inspirieren sollen, endlich loszulegen. Erfahre, wie Alex Tew mit seiner Webseite $1 Mio. verdiente und mit welchen verrückten Ideen Jason Zook auf sich aufmerksam machte. Wir ziehen daraus die Learnings und ich zeige dir, warum auch du mit verrückten Ideen starten solltest! Die angesprochenen Ressourcen: Einen tollen Blogpost zum Podcast: http://www.sidepreneur.de/folge3 Der kostenlose Ratgeber "10 Ideen wie du noch heute als Sidepreneur startest": http://www.sidepreneur.de/folge3 Alex Tew: Million Dollar Homepage Jason Zook: http://jasondoesstuff.com/ Soundcloud Playliste mit Unternehmer-Stories: Playliste Teilt mir gerne eure verrückten Ideen mit, die ihr startet oder gestartet habt! Viel Spaß. Über eine iTunes-Bewertung würde ich mich sehr freuen!

In 2005, Alex Tew was a 21-year-old entrepreneur who wanted to make a million dollars before college. The only problem was he had literally nothing of value to sell. So he made The Million Dollar Homepage -- possibly the most ambitiously garish website ever created. Thanks for listening. If you like our show, please subscribe to us on iTunes. Or you can follow PJ and Alex and TLDR on Twitter.  

In this interview, Alex Tew talks about his failures, what he has learnt and why you should never give up. He also reveals how to create something viral and how to go about launching your own startup.