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A podcast about failure, mostly in startups and emerging companies, and how to avoid it. Visit us at https://failure-thepodcast.com

Your teen’s staring at the phone, again. Wonder what’s going through their head. Let’s have a listen : Okay, so like... what could possibly...

After a brief hiatus, during which the team from Failure - the Podcast/Innovation Blab/5-Minute Update contemplated their umbilici (think, M...

Today’s episode, NonProfitPalooza, might better be titled “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Overachievers.” Our guests are Marissa Fa...

This episode of the "5-Minute Update" extends our discussion of ethically-informed licensing to enterprise software customer data. That's a...

Whether for autonomous vehicles or “smart” consumer products, government regulation may be too little and too late when it comes to right-si...

Our Guest: Suman Lal

We’d thought we’d learned from a prior guest to this august podcast that Big Pharma could provide cures for more diseases, if only flaws in...
Join the team from Failure - the Podcast (a/k/a Innovation Blab) as they stumble upon the dark underbelly of Big Pharma. Our guest, Imran Na...

Who knew? Join the Innovation Blab (a/k/a Failure - the Podcast) in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode...

Who knew? Join Innovation Blab/Failure - the Podcast in a double-header. A two-fer. “Episode 80 - Broken Down Cars” and “Episode 81 - The Si...

Catch them on a good day, and we suspect that many an entrepreneur would say that bootstrapping a business is like a bowl of cherries, pits...

Ask an entrepreneur: “what keeps you up at night?” They’ve heard The Question before and have an answer at the ready. But they’ll make you w...

Election fever. With all the news, who can avoid it? Not a news ticker scrolls by without a mention of Biden's age, Trump's trials and RFK's...

Join us in a discussion with Diane Bouis, director of MedTech Innovator, the world’s largest life science startup accelerator program.

Not that we have a vested interest, but we’d suggest that Joe Biden make a go at it with a blue baseball cap sporting the acronym MIGA. You...

Welcome to Innovation Blab , a new series of podcasts (…keep fingers crossed…) offering the B-side to Failure - the Podcast . Yes, Mark will...

It's not often the team from Failure - the Podcast gets serious. Sure, there was the time Mark stole an air mask from Jet Blue and hooked it...

You gotta listen if you are in Sales. And, after all, who isn't? Join the team from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion with Cal Reichwein...

“Back in 5….” What does that mean? Our kids say it on the way out the door, when beef tongue is the evening fare. Do they mean minutes? Neve...

No, it's not the ice cream. It's the podcast. This one, and you can be sure it's in bad taste. But, hey, don't be too disappointed. Before r...

Sounds promising: fun with numbers. If not the mathematicians and physicists, certainly the accountants might get something from this podcas...

It took a little doing, but the team from Failure - the Podcast think they found the first use of that magical phrase "testing, testing one,...

Yup, the team from Failure – the Podcast has been busy, too. End of year, and all that. When we weren’t worrying about systemic election fra...

Fintech intelligentsia light up when they hear about new payment processing platforms, sometimes referred to as "rails." It's an allusion to...

Some things just take a long time. The campaigning. The lawsuits. The voting. The lawsuits. The counting. The lawsuits. The re-counting. The...

It certainly seemed that the team from Failure - the Podcast went into Covid-induced hibernation these past few months. We might say that we...

Before starring as the criminal mastermind, Wo Fat, in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-O , Mark Dacascos emceed the Food Network hit,...

Have you ever looked out over the Midwest farmlands while taking a cross country flight? Just another pretty view, you ask? The guests of to...

It takes a lot to rile the team from Failure - the Podcast — especially, when they’re recording an episode. So much so that one wonders whet...

We were curious. Just what is a skeeter? In the midwest it’s slang for mosquito. Perhaps, everywhere. Wikipedia thinks so. It lists “skeeter...

Jennie Nigrosh’s epic failure on ABC’s “Shark Tank” in 2013 is the stuff of legends. The rising entrepreneur and founder/CEO of eco-friendly...

This episode has nothing to do with Amy Cooper. In fact, it doesn’t mention any Karens or their victims. Amy’s dog was named Henry. He’s not...

So, let’s talk Internet. For sure, it had a beginning. Conventional wisdom says Al Gore gets the credit. The facts say otherwise — but who l...

Abby Hoffman would not be pleased. The Vietnam War-era activist and author of the iconic work, Steal this Book, had values after all. So why...

“Timing. Timing. Timing. …. ?” Yep. You read well. It got the team from Failure - the Podcast thinking about the seafood wholesaler/restaura...

It’s tricky how the same word can mean so many different things. Take the word “is,” for example. At a low point in his presidency, Bill Cli...

Some things just aren’t easy. Try explaining the presidential caucuses, for example. Even the NY Times has trouble with that one. Just becau...

We thought long and hard about publishing this podcast. With no guest in the mix, we were torn between 45 minutes of absolute silence (“dead...

Just like the title says, today’s episode is about corporate boards and … get this … corporate board failure. Fancy that: truth in advertisi...

Notwithstanding what you may have thought about college psych, communications and business majors, the instructors who teach those disciplin...

Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship can be a scary thing. Seasonally speaking, you could think of it as the Halloween of job changes: it...

Back in the day, the sale of land was consummated by a ceremonial act: the buyer gave to the seller a fistful of dirt from the property bein...

Listeners more erudite than us — yes, grammarians, it could be “we” — are undoubtedly familiar with Carole Cadwalladr. Her work was the subj...

Our guest walked in saying he had so many failures, he kept a notepad to remember them. Even showed us the pad. Our mistake was we didn’t lo...

You’d think the team from Failure - the Podcast would learn. Screen, screen, screen. We have to screen our guests before making the invite....

Join the team from Failure - The Podcast in an irreverent tour of an MIT party, and learn — once again — what startups think about failure.

We first met our guest, Randall Levere, in 2012. He had just launched Erba Cycles and was geared up (get it? geared up) to sell a new breed...

Before every good sale, there’s a story. For investors, it’s no different. You might think that all they want from the first meeting is the...

You’d think that after 40+ episodes, the Team from Failure - the Podcast would know a thing or two about failure. We certainly thought we di...

Join the team from Failure - the Podcast as they explore a writer’s world with Ken Briodagh, a story teller and adventurist in the Connectic...