Build a Business Success Secrets

A weekly playbook about the inner game of building a successful business. Making entrepreneurs smarter, happier and richer. Are you an entrepreneur, founder, or business owner who wants to get 100% out of your time, talent and ideas? If so, then you’ll love the actionable, behind the scenes tips Build a Business brings you. Much of the information you’ll learn in unconventional. Not just for the sake of being different, but because in the modern day of business of which we live if you want to be successful, you can't depend on conventional wisdom, on old ideas, or antiquated methods. The entrepreneurs who are learning and then using new methods and strategies are the ones that are winning. They’re living smarter, happier, healthier, and richer lives. You get conversations with business owners sharing their stories on how they are building their business, lessons they’ve learned and what they’d do different after making mistakes. 

All so you don’t repeat their mistakes. Or if you do, you can recover from them faster. 
You get the hard facts with straight talk interviews with Lawyers, Accountants, Bankers, Venture Capitalists and Angel investors so you learn what’s happening on the front lines.

You take all that information and can design your plays and make your business moves in the right direction. As importantly… Build a Business brings you valuable information on mastering your mind and tuning your body. Not often talked about, but the two other key elements in the playbook that give entrepreneur’s the edge to run the marathon of building a business. Episodes cover how to build a business plan, how to make a pitch deck to raise money from investors, sales, marketing and social medial marketing strategies, SEO tactics, email list building formulas, operations tips, business tax strategies and…

 With over 124 episodes, the podcast comes to you from the Build a Business recording studio in Half Moon Bay, California on the edge of Silicon Valley. 

About Your Host: Brandon is an entrepreneur with two business exits (so far), angel investor, former venture capitalist, worked in management in Marketing at America Online (AOL) and… has a lot of scars on his back from a lifetime of projects he’s tried to turn into a business. He started his career in his twenty’s as a pioneer on the internet founding, bootstrapping, raising money from investors, buying the company back, building and eventually selling, what became the largest social networking and e-commerce site on Internet for sport fisherman called Worldwide Anger and later renamed Tidal Fish. He sold the business to a large media company in 2012. 
He shares his two decades of successes and mistakes so you can replicate the successes and avoid the mistakes to shortcut your way to achieve your goals.

He’s the editor of the Build a Business Success Secrets monthly print newsletter, has taught over 1,500 students how to build a business plan and pitch deck in thirteen simple slides, and is an active angel investor and business operator.
 Brandon has an BA in Psychology (Psi Chi National Honor Society), a MA in Psychology (Psi Chi National Honor Society) both from Washington College, a MBA from UNC, Chapel Hill and completed post graduate work at Stanford. He blames his over education credentials on his intense drive to compete as a result of growing up with dyslexia. 
He loves his wife, biking, surfing, fly fishing and going fast.

 Hit subscribe and listen weekly to the build a business playbook. It’s straight to the point, fun and will make you a smarter, happier and richer business owner.