10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It

Are you an entrepreneur building a technology company and looking to grow fast?This show teaches and inspires entrepreneurs to build better companies by learning from the failures of other tech companies and entrepreneurs. If you're striving for rapid growth while avoiding the mistakes that have led others to failure, this podcast is designed to help you stay on track.Avoid the devastating mistakes that tech entrepreneurs have made, which led their businesses to collapse.Hear from tech, business, and entrepreneurial experts detailing what went wrong in famous tech busts and modern-day meltdowns so you don't follow the same path.Learn how to overcome adversity and make your tech company a long-term success.If you're ready to grow your tech venture quickly and avoid pitfalls, start with our fan-favorite episode: Don't Fall In Love With Your Technology.

10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It is a technology podcast hosted by Jonathan Kersting, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jonathan Kersting hosts 10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It, a technology show with 100 episodes published.

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  10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It

  Entrepreneur Boot Camp Part 2: Can Your Business Survive Its Own Growth?

  Aug 16, 20269 min

  Can Your Business Survive Its Own Growth? Landing the big customer sounds like the dream. Until the order hits, everybody panics and suddenly you're talking about hiring 20 people, leasing more space and piling expenses onto a business that hasn't actually collected the revenue yet. Welcome to Part Two of the 10 Minute Tech Talks Entrepreneur Boot Camp Mini Series. In this episode, Angela Domhoff of Advantage Operations delivers some seriously practical advice on preparing for growth, controlling expenses, setting realistic expectations and avoiding the temptation to build tomorrow's company with today's money. Because sometimes the biggest threat to a growing business isn't failure. It's success arriving before you're ready for it. And once the business is running smoothly, there's one more irresistible question every entrepreneur is asking right now: What should we automate? That's where we're headed in Part Three of Entrepreneur Boot Camp: Automate It. Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

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  10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It

  Entrepreneur Boot Camp Part 1: Can You Turn What You Know Into a Business?

  Aug 9, 20269 min

  Can You Turn What You Know Into a Business? At some point, experience stops being just a résumé and starts becoming an asset you can build around. In Part One of the 10 Minute Tech Talks Entrepreneur Boot Camp Mini Series, Angela Domhoff shares how more than 25 years of operational leadership ultimately led her to launch Advantage Operations. After years inside major healthcare organizations, Angela began having conversations where people were asking for the kind of expertise that could directly improve their businesses. That sparked a realization: maybe it was time to stop giving all that knowledge away and build something of her own. Angela didn't wake up one morning with some completely unrelated startup idea. She looked at the expertise she had built over decades and asked a much more powerful question: how can I turn what I already know into something people need? That's Start It . Next up in Entrepreneur Boot Camp, the business exists. Now comes another challenge entirely: Can it survive its own growth? Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

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  10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It

  Tech Entrepreneur Insights: Screens Everywhere, but Which Ones Actually Create Value?

  Aug 2, 20269 min

  Screens are everywhere. They fill stores, trade shows, stadiums, museums and just about every available wall in Las Vegas. But here is the bigger question: Is that screen actually helping anyone? In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Makeway's Josh Lowery and Greg Cunneyworth take us inside an interactive kiosk developed for America's Best. The experience helps customers understand complex lens options, gives sales teams another tool and creates valuable data about how shoppers make decisions. We will also explore some of the emerging display technologies Makeway discovered at InfoComm and why the future is not about putting a screen everywhere. It is about putting the right experience in the right place. Hit play to learn how: Makeway approaches touchscreens and immersive experiences as business tools. They can educate customers, support employees, simplify complex information and help organizations understand how people interact with their environments. And with transparent displays, durable screens and entirely new hardware entering the market, the creative possibilities are growing quickly. Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

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  10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It

  Digital Transformation Therapy: Entrepreneurs Need to Get Aligned Before They Build

  Jul 27, 20269 min

  Before your company invests in a new website, touchscreen, application or digital experience, there is one deceptively simple question to answer: Does everyone agree on what you are actually building? In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Josh Lowery and Greg Cunneyworth of Makeway introduce what we jokingly call "digital transformation therapy." Their new Workshop as a Service offering gets stakeholders into the room, uncovers hidden assumptions and turns a complicated idea into a clear plan of action. It is not another meeting about having more meetings. This is about solving the right problem before an expensive project starts rolling in the wrong direction. Hit Play to learn how: Clarity might not sound as flashy as a new website, immersive touchscreen or digital platform, but it may be the most valuable deliverable of the entire project. Makeway's workshops are designed to align stakeholders, test assumptions and give teams a practical playbook for moving forward. A few focused hours at the beginning could prevent weeks, months and plenty of headaches later. Learn more about Josh Lowery, Greg Cunneyworth and Makeway's Workshop as a Service at Makeway's website. Watch the entire interview on TechVibe. Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

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  10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It

  From Prototype to Payoff: Using AI to Build, Scale and Prove ROI

  Jul 19, 202610 min

  Every entrepreneur has had this moment: you have an idea, you can see the product in your head and you know there is a market problem to solve. Then reality arrives with a clipboard. How do you build it? How do you secure it? How do you scale it? How do you know whether the idea is worth a year of your life and a mountain of budget? On this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, we are back with Adam Wynne of Wynne Technologies to talk about how AI is changing that equation for founders and small businesses. Adam explains how entrepreneurs are already using vibe coding to build early versions of products. That can be a great start, but many hit a wall when it is time to move into production. This is where Adam's APES methodology comes in, helping companies turn prototypes, spreadsheets, algorithms and raw ideas into software that can be owned, operated and improved. You will also hear why AI is helping businesses prove value faster, find quick wins and avoid spending a year and a half chasing an idea that may not work. Let's swing into the second part of our conversation with Adam Wynne. Watch Adam's entire TechVibe interview here. Produced by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, this is a podcast for tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs exploring the tech ecosystem, from cyber security and AI to SaaS, robotics, and life sciences, featuring insights to satisfy the tech curious.

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