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A Signature Page Swap Cost Him His Company. Then He Got Stage Four Cancer | Jacob Godak (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Jacob Godak, founder of Apisem, to break down how a prosthetics and orthotics clinician built a device out of two cut-up Nordic Tracks and a mountain bike to get a double amputee patient walking again, and how a business partner used a swapped signature page to remove him from the company he invented. We talk about: How Primus Excursio was built to help a patient who lost both legs to diabetes get moving again Why the device hi
He Was $37,863 in Debt at 22, Now His Company Sells 100 Houses a Year | Project Spokane (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Matt, founder of Project Spokane, and Isaac, who joined the team after selling his restaurant, to break down how a guy who was $37,863 in debt at 22 and failed his real estate exam three times built a company that helps investors find fix and flip and rental properties across Spokane. We talk about: How a poorly Photoshopped "Matt and Ted's Excellent Home Buying Adventure" ad campaign landed Matt his first deal in 30 days Why M
Why He Left a Successful Tech Sales Career to Start From Zero | Joel Robnett (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Joel Robnett, Founding Partner at North by Northwest Technologies, to break down his path from law school plans and a first day of work on 9/11, through two decades in tech sales at companies like Data Domain and Nimble Storage before their acquisitions by EMC and HP, to co-founding his own company. We talk about: Why he walked away from a successful sales and management career to start something from zero What it actually felt
She Turned 90,000 Followers Into a Social Media Agency | Lauren Trivison (opens the original)
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Lauren Trivison built an audience of more than 90,000, got featured in InStyle as a midsize fashion expert, and partnered with brands from Sephora to McDonald's to Abercrombie. Then she turned all of it into a real business. In this episode, Lauren joins the Cowles Ventures Podcast to talk about the seven-year road from freelance creator to founder of Get Lo Socials, her Spokane-based social media agency now serving clients across the West Coast. We get into why she bet on organic strategy over
Adapting His Way Into Spokane Entrepreneurship | Doyle Wheeler (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Cowles Ventures Podcast, Blake sits down with Doyle Wheeler to break down his journey from 18 years in auto body to becoming a Spokane entrepreneur, founding Kinetek Media and running First Avenue Coffee in downtown Spokane.We talk about:- How a $200 Black Friday laptop became the foundation for Kinetek Media- Landing an unpaid six-month gig running Launchpad Spokane's Twitter and turning it into Kinetek's first paying client at KXLY- What Startup Weekend and early Spokane
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