In this episode, the tables are turned, as PIE mentor in residence Kasey Jones interviews Rick Turoczy, cofounder and general manager of PIE, about the motivations behind experimenting with podcasting for the PIE family, the Portland startup co

12 - PIEdcast - Leah Noble Davidson

May 23rd, 2020 13m 21s

During this pleasantly meandering conversation, Leah Noble Davidson — Chief Experience Officer at Because Human — and I will explore topics ranging from mobile phone hardware design to publishing poetry to MIT design challenges in the time of a

11 - PIEdcast - Shelly Bell, Black Girl Ventures

May 19th, 2020 15m 37s

Named as one of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top 100 Powerful Women in Business, Shelly Bell is a computer scientist, system disruptor and business strategist who moves ideas to profit while empowering people to live to build and foster better relat

10 - PIEdcast - Elia Freedman on managing through a downturn

May 15th, 2020 14m 21s

Please join us with a former founder who has seen the ups and downs of the economy for insights on what to suspect — and some guidance that may help you navigate this new normal.Elia Freedman was founder and CEO of Infinity Softworks, which he

09 - PIEdcast - Working from home with Barrett Brooks, Cami Kaos, and Darren Buckner

May 12th, 2020 25m 55s

With the onset of quarantine and social distancing, many of us have been settling into a somewhat surreal semblance of remote work. It doesn't feel quite right. But we're doing our best to fake it. And because of that we're not really working f

08 - PIEdcast - Nick Lambert, recovering startup founder

May 8th, 2020 11m 37s

Everyone needs hobbies. And if you follow PIE mentor Nick Lambert on Instagram, you'll see that the pandemic has been a good time for him to reboot a few of them: music, cooking, ridiculous short films… we all deal with this stuff differently.

07 - PIEdcast - Saul Colt on Word of Mouth marketing

May 6th, 2020 16m 31s

Join PIE and long time PIE mentor Saul Colt for an AMA (but we recommend that you tap into his Word of Mouth marketing genius). And please stay tuned to the end, when Saul provides some incredibly creative ideas for making your company stand ou

06 - PIEdcast - Sylvia Salazar on effectively using video and Instagram

Apr 30th, 2020 13m 7s

Please join us for a Q&A session with PIE alum and mentor in residence Sylvia Salazar of Tono Latino, a media company that helps distill politics down to digestible chunks — with a special focus on informing Latinx and Spanish speaking communit

05 - PIEdcast - Marcelino Alvarez on community projects in times of crisis

Apr 27th, 2020 13m 10s

We all rely on the bonds of our community in order for our businesses to thrive. We seek intros to VCs, backchannels to clients, advice from our peers and mentors. In normal times, these bonds heavily rely on in-person interactions — coffees, l

04 - PIEdcast - Aaron Hockley of Tech Photo Guy with photography tips and tricks

Apr 23rd, 2020 14m 23s

The photography world has been upended a few times in the last couple of decades and with all professional photography on hiatus for the time being, we'll find out if this leads to another major change. What hasn't changed is that every busine

03 - PIEdcast - Cami Kaos of Automattic on Community Management

Apr 21st, 2020 11m 14s

Cami lives, works, and parents in the rainy city of Portland, Oregon. She’s had a love of WordPress and WordCamps since the last century, when she happened to stumble upon the first WordCamp Portland.Since 2013, she has worked at Automattic, a

02 - PIEdcast - Stephen Green on the Portland startup community

Apr 17th, 2020 10m 15s

Stephen Green is a an economist, speaker, startup advisor and “recovering” venture capitalist. By day he is the director of operations for Pensole, the world’s only footwear design and development school based in Portland, Oregon. He has spent

01 - PIEdcast - Kasey Jones of A Better Jones and Our Galaxy talks startup marketing, growth, and social media

Apr 14th, 2020 14m 30s

Kasey is a startup growth strategist, community builder, event organizer, and people connecter. She is founder of A Better Jones a demand generation marketing agency that helps startups accelerate growth, sales teams fill pipeline, and leaders

Trailer

00 - PIEdcast Trailer

Apr 10th, 2020 44s

Welcome to the PIEdcast, a podcast featuring conversations with folks from the PIE family. An amazing group of startup founders, mentors, and partners who — for more than a decade — have helped PIE in our mission to build better founders and ma

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