Manager Memo Podcast is a biweekly podcast focused on the planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating functions of management. It’s hosted by Len Samborowski, Director MBA, Nichols College, Connecticut and he interviews leading business practitioners to provide ‘tantalizing tips, wizardly wisdom and energized encouragement‘ to his listeners. I was fortunate to be one of his guests.

We covered my business journey, looked at some of the learnings that I picked up along the way and touched on my work as a Business Sounding Board. Click on the link below to listen, or download it.

You can also listen on Apple Podcasts.

Here’s what we covered;

01.00 – Chickens and punk…..
02.00 – From advertising agency to the new-fanged ‘internet’
04.30 – Where did the online bingo idea come from?
06.00 – The failed angel investment pitch
08.00 – Turning down a ‘real job’ for the business opportunity
10.00 – The motivation of fear in a start up
11.15 – How the ​​business sale came about
14.15 – The legal difficulties of the deal
16.00 – 18 years and no business plan
17.00 – Hands on start up owner to team manager
18.00 – The ‘two week vacation’ test
20.20 – Key lessons learnt during the business journey
23.00 – The benefits of having no investment 
23.50 – It doesn’t need to be lonely at the top
26.50 – Why I call myself a ‘Business Sounding Board’
29.30 – My angel investment experience
31.00 – The ‘PITA Patter’ problem solving process

If you found the above useful then you can also see and hear more of my discussions, interviews and webinar appearances here.

WHAT NEXT?

As I mentioned right at the start of the discussion, if you’d like to discuss how I could help you regarding you not being ‘lonely at the top’, or you feel you need a Business Sounding Board, then please give me a call, drop me an email or connect with me on LinkedIn. Details below. I’ll be happy to have chat with you to explore how I may be able to help you. I’ll be honest and I may not be able to help you myself and in that scenario I’ll try and point you in the right direction.

Still unsure if I can help you? Take a look at What you’ll get from me and what my clients say about me.

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