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The Web Talk Show is your place for engaging conversations around business, AI, and web development.Learn what happens 'behind-the-scenes' in the day-to-day of different industries, and get inspired with what's possible.
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Are Entrepreneurs the Worst Planners? (opens the original)
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Many entrepreneurs pour everything back into the business, skip the planning, and get hit with a surprise bill at the end of the year. Rebecca Irey says that pattern is the norm, and she has 30 years in finance behind the claim. Armando J. Perez-Carreno talks with Rebecca Irey, founder and CEO of Blue Skye Financial and a Certified Financial Fiduciary in Texas. Rebecca spent 20 years as a CFO consultant. The conversation covers why some tax professionals are backward-looking while a tax advisor
What You Don't Know About Your Email (opens the original)
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Most companies test their staff by sending them fake phishing emails and seeing who clicks. Craig Taylor thinks that approach backfires, and he has 30 years in cybersecurity behind the argument. Armando J. Perez-Carreno talks with Craig Taylor, co-founder of CyberHoot, whose route into security started with a psychology degree rather than computer science, before the world wide web existed. Craig explains why an employee who fails a phishing test and ends up in a meeting with HR learns to resent
Be Your Own First Customer: The Power of Using Your Own Platform (opens the original)
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Most founders think launching a financial product means building the full platform first: payment rails, automation, dashboards, compliance. Alberto Padilla started Briq.mx with a static website, a bank account, and a progress bar he updated by hand. Alberto is the CEO and founder of Briq.mx, a regulated real estate crowdfunding platform in Mexico that lets people invest in vetted development projects with as little as $25. In this conversation, you will learn: How Briq validated demand with a m
Growth Equity: An Insider's Look (opens the original)
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Melanie Nabar, Principal at Volition Capital, breaks down what actually happens when a company takes outside money. She walks through the difference between seed capital, growth equity, and a full buyout, and explains why founders sometimes take a hundred million dollar company home to a stressful mortgage payment. You'll hear why raising a huge round can still leave a founder with nothing at exit, how the preferred equity stack works, and what separates founders who use capital well from those
Why Throwing More Testers at an App Is Not Always Better (opens the original)
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A company brought on 25 QA testers and still landed at 56% test coverage. On this episode of The Web Talk Show, host Armando Perez-Carreno sits down with Pramin Pradeep, founder of BotGauge, to unpack why throwing people at quality assurance stopped working. Pramin came up through test automation as a founding PM at a startup that scaled from zero to 3 million before being acquired. He now builds AI agents that run end-to-end testing, backed by a forward-deployed engineer model that keeps humans
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