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Talking about shark repellents. May want to give this one a good listen. I talk about what I am testing out and talk about a shark repellent that is out there on the market today that my buddy has been using for a year now and what he has seen. Check out this study https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0052/3862/0195/files/How_Close_is_too_Close_The_Effect_of_a_NonLethal_Electrical_Shark_Deterrent_on_White_Shark_Behaviour.pdf This is the product I talk about in the podcast https://www.sharkshield.co.za Learn more about electrical current and downriggers and how they used https://www.protroll.com/bb-chapter-1  

Rylan Stiles (@Rylan_Stiles on Twitter) is joined by Ben Golliver (@BenGolliver on Twitter) to preview his new Book "Bubble Ball" Ben takes us behind the scenes of the NBA Bubble, how did this plan come together? How Close was the NBA Bubble to bursting? The impact that former Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Chris Paul had on the 2019-20 NBA Season, both for the Thunder and for the National Basketball Association. What was the most powerful moment from the bubble? What was it like living in Disney World? How could the Bubble have been improved? First-hand experiences from the strangest season in OKC Thunder, and NBA, history. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Built Bar Built Bar is a protein bar that tastes like a candy bar. Go to builtbar.com and use promo code “LOCKED15” and you’ll get 15% off your next order. BetOnline AG There is only 1 place that has you covered and 1 place we trust. Betonline.ag! Sign up today for a free account at betonline.ag and use that promocode: LOCKEDON for your 50% welcome bonus. Rock Auto Amazing selection. Reliably low prices. All the parts your car will ever need. Visit RockAuto.com and tell them Locked On sent you. Indeed Get started RIGHT NOW with a FREE SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to upgrade your job post at Indeed.com/locked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

|How Close do you Want to get to Jesus? |Luke 4:14-30| Finding Your Story in God's Story. Jon Woolner, Preaching.

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If today's episode is a reminder of anything, it's that you never know just HOW CLOSE you truly are to your desires. In this episode I take you on a journey inside the ups and downs of NamaSlay Babe and what it's taken to get to where I am today. TRUE STORY --> I was considering putting my business on the back burner in March because things weren't recovering fast enough after my business took a spill in Sept of 2019. I was drowning in $57,000 worth of debt at the beginning of the year and am now going to be financially free at the end of November. During that time I managed to still travel, still invest in myself + get my business back on track to hit a projected 6-figure year. Learn more about how I shifted by diving in now. Connect with Kiki Here: Msha.ke/namaslaybabe Instagram.com/namaslaybabe Facebook.com/namaslaybabe Facebook.com/groups/namaslaybabes Pinterest.com/namaslaybabe Anchor.fm/namaslaybabe Interested in NLP? Get certified by Transform Destiny here: https://www.transformdestiny.com/r/KikiPMP OR the Quantum Ripple Effect Institute here: https://erinnicolecoaching.mykajabi.com/a/27760/GfSmjQNT

Just so you know, this article is NOT about what you think it is.—> Last chance to subscribe before I start sending this out to SUBSCRIBERS ONLY 5x WEEK. ———-> The free letter will still go out 1x a week no worries. You thought this article was about “getting to know the right people” didn’t you?About building up your “Linked In connections”, or something crappy like that…. :)Nope. It’s about this graph. “But Kale, graphs are BORING”. No, they aren’t. This one is pretty life changing. Here’s what it means. If you had invested in Apple, Amazon, Facebook, or Google, back in 2012, you would be rich.I can hear it now…DUH!!!!But wait a second, that’s just your hindsight bias talking. Ever heard the saying, everything in hindsight is 20/20?Yeah, I’m willing to bet many of you DIDN’T invest in those 4 companies back in 2012 (I didn’t either).And why was that??Because most people didn’t (and still don’t) understand the POWER of a NETWORK EFFECT BUSINESS. What’s a network effect?The best example is a phone. If only 1 person had a phone it would be useless, right? No one to call.If 2 people get a phone the phone’s network becomes twice as valuable.And so on.Same thing happened with Facebook. There’s nothing proprietary about Facebook. I could start the “Kalebook” right now if I wanted to. But GOOD LUCK getting 2 BILLION MONTLY USERS to switch over to the “Kalebook”. The network effect is simply too powerful. Does that make sense?The crazy thing about that graph above is that they all played out the same way. Apple = The Mobile NetworkGoogle = The Search NetworkFacebook = The Social NetworkAmazon = The Shopping NetworkBack in 2012, they all had similar Market Caps (meaning they all had similar overall company values).And today, they are unquestionably 4 of the most powerful, influential, and MASSIVE companies on the planet. Good luck starting the next Apple, Google, Facebook, or Amazon. It’s nearly impossible, because their NETWORK EFFECTS are almost insurmountable. So, normal people like me and you have only one choice.GET AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE TO THE NETWORK. As a user of any of those platforms? You are just the PRODUCT.Shop on Amazon? Use google? Scroll on Facebook? Using an Iphone?Yep, we all do. But in order to MAKE MONEY from those networks, you have to get CLOSER to them on the SUPPLY SIDE.Sell a product on AmazonRank your website up higher on Google.Run Facebook Advertising.Create an App. The closer to the source, IE, the more INFLUENTIAL you are on each platform, the richer you will be.“but Kale, why can’t I just buy stocks of those 4 companies and I’ll get RICH??”Sorry bud, it’s TOO LATE. The cat is out of the bag.Everyone KNOWS these 4 companies have won. That’s already priced in. I personally don’t want to bet on these companies becoming 10x larger. Sure, it could happen, but is it as likely as it was back in 2012? Nah. But what if I told you there was another network that is exactly like FB, AMZ, GOOG, and AAPL, but NOW. It’s called, (drum roll please) BITCOIN. (I told you the title didn’t give away this article!)Bitcoin is “only” a 200 Billion Dollar Market Cap right now…But it shares all of the similarities to those 4 I listed above (plus improves on many of them).A DOMINANT market positionA network of crazed loyalists who won’t shut up about the “brand”Technology that is at least 10x better than the thing it replaces*note* Bitcoin is considered a “digital gold” - it is likely more than 100x better than Gold in a vast number of ways, but that’s another article.A massive untapped market that can be quickly and frictionlessly on boardedThe list goes on. I don’t need to laud Bitcoin any more in this article but I’ll leave you with food for thought. 1) How CLOSE are you to the “Sun”? (big network effect companies like AMZ & AAPL). Can you get CLOSER and thus PROFIT?2) What if there are other assets that have the same properties as the biggest companies in the World, but that aren’t as well known yet? Would you benefit from owning them before everyone else catches on?Kalep.s. I just want to give one more MASSIVE THANK YOU to anyone who has read or listened to “The Kale Letter” so far…True to my word, I’m cutting off all these free letters. If you are subscribed, you will still get it 5x a week starting Monday. If not, I’ll send the free one sometime during the week.Appreciate you, seriously. You can subscribe below if you are interested! Get on the email list at thekaleletter.substack.com

How Close to 100?

Greg and Blessing talk about the rumors of a 4K Switch, Apple giving hope to xCloud, and Ubisoft's bungled messaging. Time Stamps - 00:00:00 - Start 00:05:15 - Housekeeping Blessing’s preview of Immortals: Fenix Rising is up on youtube.com/kindafunnygames along with our live reactions to the Forward! Thank you to our Patreon Producers: Mohammed Mohammed, Tom Bock, & Black Jack The Roper Report - 00:08:20 - How Close to an Upgraded Nintendo Switch Are We? Takashi Mochizuki @ Bloomberg 00:26:12 - APPLE FOLDS, THE COWARDS! But, not really. 00:42:03 - Ubisoft Forward Recap 00:54:40 - Is Ubi blowing their load, or what? - BestFriendQ: The Other Shaun 01:01:35 - This might be a super inside baseball question but after yesterday I have to ask, How hard would it be to change an embargo time the day of (say move it a total of 10 minutes into the future)? - BestFriendQ:Borzen00 00:51:15 - DC FanDome 00:52: - The GG App 01:09:25 - Why was the Xbox Series S Codenamed Lockhart? 01:10:20 - Warframe Is Getting Smaller, James O’Connor @ GameSpot 01:10:45 - GameStop Closing Even MORE Stores, Jordan Oloman @ IGN 01:11:30 - Out today 01:12:03 - Squad Up:The Nano Biologist(Twitch) - TheNanoBiologist 01:14:10 - You‘re Wrong Tomorrow’s Hosts: MON: Blessing and Tim TUE: Blessing and Imran WED: Greg and Parris THURS: Greg and Felicia Day FRI: Greg and Blessing

We don't know what time the wedding feast will be served, but we can see that someone is setting out the salad forks! The date of the Rapture is not predictable, but there's a precise timeline for some of the things that will happen after that. So, when we see the world being prepared for those things - those later events - surely the flame of our hope must burn brighter. For the past couple of days Jim has been taking us through some of those future events and present preparations. Here's the conclusion of his sermon, How Close are We? Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am and WRZN 720AM (Gainesville & Ocala, FL) at 7:30am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for just $7 on a single CD or $2 as an MP3 download. RS09112020_0.mp3Scripture References: Matthew 24

Concerned atomic scientists have set their Doomsday Clock to 100 seconds before midnight. Well, Christians aren't waiting for "doomsday," but many of us would agree that time is short. There may be less than a hundred seconds until the Church is snatched away; we believe there's nothing that has to happen before that event. After that, though, the Antichrist will have to break a treaty that hasn't been made yet; and desecrate a Temple that hasn't been built yet. Can we line up current events with future events, as prophesied by Jesus, Daniel, Ezekiel and others? Here's Jim with Part 2 of How Close are We? Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am and WRZN 720AM (Gainesville & Ocala, FL) at 7:30am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for just $7 on a single CD or $2 as an MP3 download. RS09102020_0.mp3Scripture References: Matthew 24

Inquiring minds want to know...How Close are We? When things get dicey - when the world starts looking even more wicked and scary than usual - people start asking about the return of Christ. That's probably good, if it drives us to our Bibles and prayer. In a recent series we looked at Daniel's view of the Last Days. Well, Jesus spoke about that prophecy, 500 years later. Let's find out what details He filled-in. Pastor Jim begins a new sermon today, taken from Matthew 24. Listen to Right Start Radio every Monday through Friday on WCVX 1160AM (Cincinnati, OH) at 9:30am, WHKC 91.5FM (Columbus, OH) at 5:00pm, WRFD 880AM (Columbus, OH) at 9:00am and WRZN 720AM (Gainesville & Ocala, FL) at 7:30am. Right Start can also be heard on One Christian Radio 107.7FM & 87.6FM in New Plymouth, New Zealand. You can purchase a copy of this message, unsegmented for broadcasting and in its entirety, for just $7 on a single CD or $2 as an MP3 download. RS09092020_0.mp3Scripture References: Matthew 24

How Close to Plant Perennials Like Daisies and Black Eyed Susans?

How Close to Plant Perennials Like Daisies and Black Eyed Susans?

Episode 7505 - How Close the End Comes? Evangelist Bryan Melvin afterhoursministries.com Recorded 7-10-2020 on OMEGAMAN omegamanradio.com

Episode 7505 - How Close the End Comes? Evangelist Bryan Melvin afterhoursministries.com Recorded 7-10-2020 on OMEGAMAN omegamanradio.com

If I could take all of the BS about “success” and cram it into the single most actionable statement ever, it would be this: The key to success is consistency. I don’t care how cheesy it is… It’s the truth. Print it on a T-shirt. Crochet it on a wall hanging. Hashtag it on Instagram. Just don’t forget it. If you want to be successful at anything BE CONSISTENT. No-one encapsulates consistency more than my latest guest on Escape Velocity, Steli Efti. Steli is the co-creator of The Startup Chat, a podcast now with over 450 episodes. Did you know that the average podcast dies out after just 7 episodes? Yeah, 7. He’s ahead by 443. Steli’s co-host is Hiten Shah, the co-founder of Kissmetrics, CrazyEgg and FYI… and for the last 4 and a half years, Steli and Hiten have recorded two episodes every single week. Steli has an amazing story of how he went from nothing to starting and skyrocketing his SaaS, Close.com He sold everything he had, bought a one-way ticket from his home in Europe to Silicon Valley, wasn’t great at speaking English, didn’t have a Visa, but he planned to start a software company… …without knowing anything about software. It sounds like a disaster, but through hard work and consistency, he’s now crazy successful. Close.com is a sales and communication tool that pioneered many of the trends we now see in CRMs today. You’ve just got to hear the story straight from the horse’s mouth. Get your headphones ready and tune in. Steli is the coolest guy (leather jacket and all) and just ridiculously easy to chat with. In this episode, we talked about: - How he got started as a SaaS entrepreneur - Moving to a new country for business - His interview on day 2 in Silicon Valley (it’ll make you cringe) - The website that he made… and that died - ElasticSales, his Sales-as-a-service company that led to Close.com - How Steli evaluates the value of a conference - How Close.com managed to innovate ahead of the curve - The business war over their domain name - Steli’s failed funding experience - How to sell more from your product demos This is an epic interview, not only because you’ll learn about how he got started in business, but because you’ll hear from someone that made a lot of mistakes and pushed onwards until he figured it out. It’s encouraging, to say the least. And in these times, I think we all need a bit of encouragement. -- Dan Martell has advised more startups than his hometown has people and teaches startup founders like you how to scale. He previously created, raised venture funding for and successfully exited two tech startups: Flowtown and Clarity.fm. You should follow him on twitter @danmartell for tweets that are actually awesome. + Instagram (behind the scenes): http://instagram.com/danmartell + Facebook (live trainings + Q&A): http://FB.com/DanMartell + Twitter (what I'm reading): http://twitter.com/danmartell

Top 10 Revisited: Jeff sat down with Matt Keller and recorded a 2-part conversation in September or 2018. The dadAWESOME Episodes were released in November of 2018 as part of the Inside-Out Dad Life series. This conversation is the best of both episodes revisited. Matt Keller: Matt Keller is a people builder at his core. With more than twenty years in the people business, he is an authority on what it takes to build great teams and a great organization. Matt Keller is a Pastor, Author, Speaker and Leadership Coach. His insight on organizational and personal leadership helps businesses, nonprofits, and churches take their organizations to the next level. Conversation Notes: Leading from a full heart Who you do life with shapes who you become Parenting out of past pain Winning the first hour The 0-6, 6-12, and 12-18 parenting zones Tilling the soil of your heart Your parenting comes where you came from Words create worlds Counselors are not for crazy people Being alert to your excuses Being the dad YOUR specific kids need Questions for Time Alone With God: What am I afraid of? How Close am I to burnout? Where do I feel like I'm winning? Where do I feel like I'm struggling? Where do I feel like I'm out of balance? Am I over hobbying? Am I under hobbying? Am I under resting? How Am I doing with my Sabbath Day? How is my marriage? How's my relationship with God? How Am I doing at sitting in my Heavenly Fathers lap and just receiving from Him? Books Mentioned: Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion (Wayne Cordeiro) God of the Underdogs: When the Odds Are Against You, God Is For You (Matt Keller) The Key To Everything: Unlocking the Life You Dream of Living (Matt Keller)

Today on The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about launching a starter plan. Recently, the team at Close.com introduced a Starter Plan for their software - a plan that’s designed for 1 - 3 person teams and costs $35 a month. This comes after years of focusing on bigger companies and charging a lot more for their CRM In today’s episode of the show, Steli and Hiten talk dive into why Close decided to introduce a starter plan, one of the main philosophies at Close, how fear preventing the team from introducing a lower priced plan and much more. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 About today’s topic 00:32 Why this topic was chosen. 02:20 Why Close decided to introduce a starter plan. 03:11 One of the main philosophies at Close. 03:38 How Close discourages certain companies from buying their product. 04:21 How Close’s reach grew over the years. 07:55 How fear preventing the team from introducing a lower priced plan. 08:43 How Close is now ready to support smaller customers. 10:00 How a lot of companies focus on startups initially and move on to bigger customers. 3 Key Points: We never wanted to compete on price.We always believed in the founders of small and medium companies.We’ve probably told a thousand companies not to buy our product. [0:00:01] Steli Efti: Hey everybody, this is Steli Efti. [0:00:03] Hiten Shah: And this is Hiten Shah. And today on the Startup Chat we're going to talk about something that I see a lot of companies do. And I just saw the folks at Close.com, happens to be Steli's company, do this a very recently. I think a little quietly. But I go stalk his pricing page and his site sometimes. So I saw this. And so I'd love to talk about it. So what they've recently done, and I'd love to hear the thinking behind it, is for their CRM, they've launched a starter plan. And that's for one to three person teams, and it's at $35 per month if you pay monthly. And it's right under $29.75 if you pay annually. And prior to that, their lowest plan was actually $65 per month if you pay monthly. And $55.25 if you pay annually. So with that, I'd love to hear your thoughts on this, because this is a very common practice that companies do. And I'd love to just understand how you folks thought about it. And I think it'd be really beneficial to our audience to kind of hear what this sort of thinking was like. [0:01:07] Steli Efti: Yeah. So this took us a very long time to launch, right? So we from day one ... We launched in January 2013 with Close. And from day one our lowest tier plan was 65 bucks a month if you paid monthly. And from day one, we had a lot of competitors that offered a lot cheaper products and entry prices. But they were always, if you looked at their kind of a comparable product, we were always at the same range or even a bit more affordable. We just never wanted to compete based on price. We always wanted to build and create the most value, and built the best fucking product for our type of customer, which are small and medium sized businesses. And wanted to just crush it, help companies close more deals and drive more revenue where it wouldn't matter if you close a couple of deals more a month, because you have the right tool in your hands. That's tens of thousands dollars more in value to your business. It doesn't matter if you're paying 65 or 45, or 35, or whatever bucks a month per user. So that was our philosophy from day one. And I think that philosophy served us pretty well in the early days. I think one thing that happened kind of slowly, and it built up more and more over time. And I think we were a bit tone deaf to it, and a bit kind of with a blind spot around that was that ... I mean, we always believed in, and invested in founders, and startups, and the smallest companies possible. We always knew that we are probably going to be one of the few,

On today's episode of Gritty Founder, I talk with Steli Efti about his journey as an entrepreneur. Steli talks about the importance of persistence, being able to pivot, and taking small steps consistently when building a product. Steli Efti is the co-founder and CEO of Close. He's Silicon Valley's most prominent sales hustler, a YC alumni, advisor to several startups and entrepreneurs and the author of "The Ultimate Startup Guide To Outbound Sales". Some Questions I Ask Steli: - How did you learn about entrepreneurship? (5:21)- At what point did you decide you had an idea you wanted to pursue? (14:07)- What was the most important lesson you learned from building a product? (26:14)- How many companies did you call before deciding this was something you were definitely going to pursue? (42:57)- How did you guys decide you were going to build software to enable everything that you wanted to do? (50:37) In This Episode, You Will Learn: - About Steli's childhood and how he became an entrepreneur (1:52)- How Steli started his first business (14:16)- When Steli learned money wasn't as important or fulfilling as he thought (18:47)- About the second business Steli started, which was a dvd rental chain similar to Redbox (19:53)- About Steli's third company which was an online educational platform (23:50)- Why Steli's third company failed and the importance of taking small steps consistently when building a product (26:25)- How Steli founded the company Close.io (35:28)- How Close.io pivoted multiple times to become the company it is today (37:06)- The importance of choosing how you react to the cards you're drawn in life (1:04:14) Connect with Steli Efti: TwitterClose Also Mentioned on This Show… Steli's favorite quote: "The problem is you think you have time." Steli's book recommendations: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-ZinnThe PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson

An Extra HOT Episode of Death Readers. Robb tries sooo hard to understand sports. Doug has a problem with the mirror. Robb (maybe) experiences self-awareness. Does the Monster Book of Monsters get busy?How Close is TOO Close to Heat Stroke?   Death Readers theme "Magical Dirt" by Sir Cubworth

To be as Successful as the Cardiff Devils have been over the years, and in order to overcome the adversity the club has gone through in it's 30 year history, it takes a special kind of player to have the respect of their peers to be the leader of the locker room, to be the Captain.   In part 1 we go from 1986 to 2004 listing all of the captains during this time, from Farmer to Cooper to Ware and all in between we breakdown what made them the Captains they were, and how they forged their own legacies. Also in this episode: - How Close was Franny to Leaving the Devils in the mid 90's? - Is Stephen Cooper jinxed when wearing the C? - and just how does Ivan Matulik say goodbye in Welsh?  All this and a whole lot more in Behind the Bench! With Neil Francis. 

How Close to the Sun Could You Get (before it kills you)? Featuring Scott McIntosh: Director of the High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colorado.

In today’s episode of The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about the difference between running a fully remote company versus semi-remote companies. The business world has changed. It’s now possible for employees to work outside of an office and be very productive at it. But deciding if your company should be a remote company or a semi-remote company is a critical decision a founder can make In this episode, Steli and Hiten talk about how Close started as a semi-remote company, why remote employees shouldn’t be treated or feel like second class employees, how Hitens company managed their remote teams. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 About today’s topic. 01:10 Why this topic was chosen. 02:00 How Close started as a semi-remote company. 03:39 Why remote employees shouldn’t be treated or feel like second class employees. 03:37 Why Airbnb stopped referring to their headquarters as HQ. 04:44 How companies fail to understand how to make remote working work. 05:05 How Hitens company managed their remote teams. 05:50 Why everyone should have the information they need to do their jobs. 06:06 How to ensure that everyone should have the information they need to do their jobs. 06:33 The importance of understanding that you have to fight silos. 3 Key Points: Remote employees shouldn’t be treated or feel like second class employeesWe started documenting meetings all the time.Everyone should have the information they need to do their jobs. [0:00:00] Steli Efti: Hey, everybody this is Steli Efti. [0:00:03] Hiten Shah: And this is Hiten Shah. [0:00:04] Steli Efti: And today on The Startup Chat, we're going to talk about the difference between running a fully-distributed, or remote company, versus being, let's say, semi-remote and semi distributed. So, let's first define what the difference is between the two, and then let's go through the pros and cons of both approaches. Right, so we have talked recently on The Startup Chat about the trend of remote work and that not going away. Check that episode out if you haven't listened to it, but today I wanted to talk about a difference between companies that from Day One have decided that they're not going to have an office and that every person that works in the company is basically working in the distributed fashion remotely and is setting up their own work environment. All right, and all work, all collaborative work, all communication, happens virtually versus companies that do part of their work or have part of their workers outside an office. So, semi-remote, in my definition, means you have an office or multiple offices but you also have... Either you have a bunch of people that work for you that are not working out of these offices and live in completely different locations or, and this is a big or, you have everybody that works for you, let's say... The early days of Close we were qualifying ourselves as semi-remote because we did have a small office, and everybody lived in the Bay area, so they could get to the office. But people were traveling so much, or entire team was traveling so much, and we really didn't care that much about having working hours in the office. But we thought of ourselves as semi-remote because, at any given time, it was very rare that all of us were at the office. At most of two out of three months there was maybe just like two out of the six or seven people that worked actually in the office. [0:02:03] Hiten Shah: Wow, yeah I've had an office once, and I didn't really go into it as much as other folks did that were in the area. I don't think we've made it the biggest requirement to go there and then we had a lot of folks who were remote as well, and I think I'm going to start it off by... their equal in terms of team members. And I think that's a very challenging thing when you have an office and you also have r...

EPISODE 93 IS THE RAPTURE REAL -- IS IT IMMINENT -- WHEN SHOULD WE EXPECT IT -- WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY

In today’s episode of The Startup Chat, Steli and Hiten talk about how founders can deal with fraud in their startups. Running a  startup difficult enough when everything is going smoothly. But when you’re a founder, sometimes things happen that if not managed properly can disrupt the flow of your business or worse. One of these situations is fraud. In this episode, Steli and Hiten share their thoughts on what fraud is, things that every founder should know about it, preventative measures you can take, what to do when fraud happens and much more. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:45 Why this topic was chosen. 01:01 How Close dealt with fraud at the early stages of the business. 02:20 Why taking preventative measures are important. 03:45 How to identify potential problems that you could run into with your product. 04:00 An example of a fraudulent situation at Close. 05:27 Measures and tools you could use to prevent fraud. 06:46 Why fraud is not exclusive to big companies. 07:43 Why you should always take an alert seriously. 08:13 Why you should invest continuously in fraud prevention. 08:19 Why you shouldn’t stop when you detect one fraudulent user. 3 Key Points: Know where your risk is in your business. When an alert comes up, take it seriously. If there’s one fraudulent user, there are going to be more. [0:00:02] Steli Efti: Hey everybody this is Steli Efti.   [0:00:04] Hiten Shah: And this is Hiten Shah.   [0:00:07] Steli Efti: And in today's episode of the Startup Chat we wanna tackle a little challenging topic and that is the topic of how do you deal with fraud, how do you handle fraud in your startup, right, and this is you know obviously a tough subject and it depends on what the situation is but the reason I wanted to talk to you about this Hiten is that you know the history of course we've always had to deal with some level of fraud, people trying now using some credit cards to sign up propriate accounts or even worse people doing some really with our software and so from a very early time we always had to like invest in fraud prevention and protection and had to like deal with this and just recently last few weeks we had some really big attacks going on, some really crazy shit and thankfully we have an amazing team and we are like tackling these things and stopping them further on, you know but it's a huge pain in the ass and it has caused us probably over the years a lot of money to deal with this. So I thought because it's a top of mind for me, I thought it might make sense for the two of us to talk about this from a very fundamental point of view because I think most Startup founders they don't think about fraud, what could be done with their app, how somebody could take advantage of their app to cost them money, to make money to do some suspicious or just illegal stuff with it and so they might catch this when it's way too late and it might cause some real trouble down the line so I thought we just cover some like basics, things that every founder should know, think through, how to deal with it preventitively in the beginning but also what do you do once shit happens, you get a DDoS attack or some other crazy shit is happening to your app, you are totally surprised, how do you deal with this, maybe cover some of the basics and hopefully help some founders prevent getting into trouble at some point.   [0:02:02] Hiten Shah: Yeah I think the first step preventitively real quick is like, know where your risk is in your business, so if you are collecting credit cards, one risk is that people will try to run fake credit cards through your system. If you are using a service like Stride, there are a lot of protection built in, right, but it's very similar to like, well you better make sure you have SSL certificate on your site,

This week on Nice Games Club your nice hosts discuss Code Libraries, Tutorials and all the juicy pre-E3 news that was available at the time of this recording. Stephen debates the merits of show vs. tell in tutorials, Martha complains about the WordPress theme and plug-in search and Mark doesn't fall for Pokemon propaganda. Picture: a diagram from this Wikipedia article of the iconic World 1-1 from Super Mario Brothers which was a tutorial in disguise! [0:05:17] Pre-E3 News "How Close is 'Assassin's Creed: Origins' Egypt to the Real Thing?" - Justin Reeve , Waypoint Code Libraries 0:17:29 Mark LaCroix Category Programming Not Invented here (NIH) philosophy "Unity ratchets up its marketing to game developers - without a GDC booth" - Dean Takahashi , VentureBeat Tutorials 0:41:51 Stephen McGregor Category Game Design UI / UX

In this episode, Steli and Hiten talk about NPS surveys, the importance of carrying them out and how they can be beneficial to your startup as a whole. NPS stands for Net Promoter Score and is a customer satisfaction score created by Bain and Company. When carried out properly, NPS surveys give you an idea of how your customers feel about your company. They have become very popular with startups in the last few years. However, due to the nature of the surveys, they also have some criticisms. For example, some critics point out that results are arbitrary and “made up”. Tune-in to find out more about NPS surveys, at what stage to conduct them in your startup, the importance of tracking your business’s progress through customer ratings, and much more. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:00 About today’s topic. 00:35 What NPS is all about. 01:08 Some criticisms of NPS surveys. 01:45 Some benefits of carrying out NPS surveys. 02:47 The current state of NPS surveys in the startup world. 04:00 A mistake Steli made at Close.io. 04:30 How Close.io surveys their customers. 05:30 Why we’re talking about NPS surveys today. 07:28 A major reason why companies are not consistent with NPS surveys. 08:12 What “Allergies to processes” means. 09:05 Another major benefit of carrying out NPS surveys 09:20 Some tools you can use to carry out NPS surveys. 10:22 Some things to keep in mind when carrying out NPS surveys. 3 Key Points: Surveying customers is not a bad thing. Annoying them with lots of surveys is a bad thing. If you’re not doing it on a regular basis you’re missing out on a key part of your learning process. NPS surveys help you figure out if improvements you’re making at your startup are good for your customers. [0:00:00] Steli Efti: All right everybody, Hello, this is Steli Efti.   [0:00:04] Hiten Shah: And this is Hiten Shah. And today, we're gonna talk about NPS surveys. See, we like talking about more than just sales and marketing.   [0:00:10] Steli Efti: We just want to bullshit and chat about business and life, and hopefully while we're doing that, provide a lot of value to people.   [0:00:15] Hiten Shah: The world's best business podcast. Shit.   [0:00:17] Steli Efti: Oh, shit.   [0:00:20] Hiten Shah: For people trying to get shit done.   [0:00:21] Steli Efti: Done, yeah. We don't want to give you feedback that's bullshit.   [0:00:24] Hiten Shah: Yeah we want you to do your best. Which is short for Net Promoter Score and we talked about it in a prior episode, about early access and competitor research. It's something, I think ... NPS, Net Promoter Score is a customer satisfaction score. It's a methodology created by Bain and company. It's actually a registered trademark, but there are a lot of tools that let you do it. It's a simple zero to ten question, which, the question is basically how likely are you to recommend this product, and it's very popular. Lots of companies have adopted it and more recently, in the last few years, startups have really become drawn to it. There's also some controversy around it because some people say it's just arbitrary and made up, because based on the response from zero to ten that someone gives, they are bucketing it into one of three groups. They are either promoters, detractors, or do you remember the last one, Steli? promoters, detractors, or ...   [0:01:26] Steli Efti: Passive! Passive.   [0:01:27] Hiten Shah: Yeah.   [0:01:27] Steli Efti: Passive. Yes. And you, it's just based on their score. Nines and tens are promoters, and the rest is split up between detractors and passive. And so it's become super popular but it's arbitra...

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