Podcasts about readytalk

Scott King joins the podcast this week as he and Dave talk about selling businesses, managing the transition, electric cars, climate change, and much more. Listen in as Scott shares his experience building his company, ReadyTalk, a cloud communications provider, from the ground up and how ultimately it went to sell for over $50 million. Scott is now the founder of Mission Zero, whose mission is to “improve society's resilience to climate change” and “champion zero-carbon living.” Links Mission Zero: https://missionzero.io/

For this podcast, I plan to tell the story of why I got into ultrarunning. I was never a runner, but I decided this year to completely immerse myself in it. This year, I have finished 5 ultras, the last of which was a 100 miler that I podium at, but after finishing the race I suffered kidney failure.  I spend 5 days in the hospital and almost had to be put on dialysis. I basically developed Rhabdomyolysis where the muscle breakdown from running 26 hours straight poisoned my kidneys. I think this story is valuable to the podcast because I have learned a lot throughout the entire process, from setting a stretch goal, to training, to developing a working excel model for my race, to over-coming setback and learning from mistakes.  At the beginning of 2021, I interviewed Dan King, the founder of ReadyTalk who is also the World's Fittest CEO. That discussion really opened my eyes of how and why physical fitness can make you a better leader and sharpen your resolved to handle stress and challenges.If you are interested in ultrarunning, pushing yourself to physical limits, embracing challenges or just learning a little bit more about what makes me tick, I think you will like this episode. There is definitely some wisdom that you can apply to business and life. It is my most personal yet and I feel it has been helpful to showcase some of my vulnerabilities, which I hope is a leadership quality in and of itself.Discussion Topics:(2:20) Why I decided to get into ultrarunning.(4:20) Motivating factors for running long distances.(10:55) How to train for ultras.(19:24) Overview of the actual 100-mile race.(26:07) Suffering and overcoming post-race acute kidney failure.(28:43) Lessons learned from this entire process.

Dan King is former CEO of ReadyTalk, a company he cofounded with his brother Scott in 2000. ReadyTalk makes cloud-based conferencing and communications technology that more than 6,000 businesses use for virtual meetings, webinars and training sessions. Dan was recognized as Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 in the Software Services category. In 2017, ReadyTalk sold to Premiere Global Services Inc.Dan has more than 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and related fields. Prior to ReadyTalk, Dan held senior positions in business development and financial management for ICG Communications.Dan earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering and a MBA from the University of Colorado, where he also lettered in track and cross country. Still active in Masters athletics, Dan won a gold medal in 8K Cross Country at the 2011 World Masters Track and Field Championships. In 2012, Dan earned the title of World’s Fittest CEO® by winning the CEO Endurance World Championship. Last month, Dan set three American Records for running in his age category.Dan is an incredibly inspiring person. We talk about how personal fitness can help one become a better CEO, the psychology of risk-taking and building a company after the dot.com bubble and exiting 17 years later.Discussion Topics:(2:00) Dan’s early years as a “ski bum” working for Vail and Breckenridge.(5:10) Starting a business from scratch, raising $13.5 million and then losing funding a year later.(11:25) The psychology of risk-taking.(17:35) Advice for starting a business with family members.(22:29) How founders and CEOs can become better salespeople.(28:31) Dan discusses his business mentorship role with Techstars & Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network.(30:34) Dan discusses his running career and using COVID lockdowns to improve his training and setting World records.(35:53) Becoming the World’s Fittest CEO and how fitness helps improves one’s abilities as a CEO.(39:43) Rapid fire questions.

Today's discussion will help both sides of the partnership understand how to approach the decision to partner: For Channel / Partner Managers - you are going to hear what it take to get into a prominent agency's stack and onto their services page. For other agencies - you are getting a playbook on how to vet new potential partnerships. (make sure to listen to the end when Anita provides advice on when and how to start a partnerships division or hire someone like her) Read the actionable notes here in the article from this episode >> Joining me on this episode is Anita Covelli. Anita is the former Partner Development Director at Oracle, former Director of Strategic Partnerships at ReadyTalk, and now Vice President of Alliances at DemandGen - a large agency in northern CA focusing on marketing technology implementations. Anita is in the unique position to decide who their agency works with, and how close of a relationship to pursue. Anita is the person who receives, reviews, tests and decides on new software for DemandGen's clients. If certain criteria are not in place, the tool fails the test and may never get reviewed again. And passing means entering a very large ecosystem of SaaS transactions that David and Anita oversee. In today's interview, you will learn: What's involved in her business-decision around any new partnership. Items determining organizational readiness for a partner program. How Anita vets the potential of the relationship to drive new services development. What advice Anita would give to SaaS companies looking to partner with agencies. And on the flip side - how she would advise an agency interested in starting a partner program?

Andrea Hill is a UX Researcher and Product Strategist. She has lead Innovation efforts at companies like LexisNexis, ReadyTalk, and through her own consultancy, Frameplay. Next up for her is a fellowship with Code for Canada, where she’ll be embedded within a division of the government of Canada for 10 months. If you’ve got a complex problem in need of an elegant solution, Andrea is someone you ought to listen to.

Adam Shamblin from ReadyTalk joins us today, along with ITProTV’s Daniel Lowrie, to talk about the product, Electron, and unified communications. The team also talks about some news in the container space and the fight against package thieves.

Adam Shamblin from ReadyTalk joins us today, along with ITProTV's Daniel Lowrie, to talk about the product, Electron, and unified communications. The team also talks about some news in the container space and the fight against package thieves.

Adam Shamblin from ReadyTalk joins us today, along with ITProTV's Daniel Lowrie, to talk about the product, Electron, and unified communications. The team also talks about some news in the container space and the fight against package thieves.

Adam Shamblin from ReadyTalk joins us today, along with ITProTV’s Daniel Lowrie, to talk about the product, Electron, and unified communications. The team also talks about some news in the container space and the fight against package thieves.

Adam Shamblin from ReadyTalk joins us today, along with ITProTV's Daniel Lowrie, to talk about the product, Electron, and unified communications. The team also talks about some news in the container space and the fight against package thieves.

Adam Shamblin from ReadyTalk joins us today, along with ITProTV’s Daniel Lowrie, to talk about the product, Electron, and unified communications. The team also talks about some news in the container space and the fight against package thieves.

Our guest this week is Anita Wehnert from ReadyTalk.ReadyTalk provides audio and web conferencing services that are highly reliable. affordable and best of all, easy to use!  As Director of Product Marketing, Anita is focused on talking to customers about their needs and translating these into priorities for the ReadyTalk product roadmap. Before joining ReadyTalk, she gained first-hand experience with the challenges of running a webinar program while serving as director of marketing at an IT analyst firm. When she's not thinking about conferencing, she likes to do yoga and spend time with her dogs. Twitter:  @AnitaWehnert. ReadyTalk: http://www.readytalk.com/about