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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation and the strategies finance and business leaders can use to grow profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
This is our fifth episode in a series about establishing myAgeTechlab.com, a family side hustle bringing AgeTech to people who want to age in place in their own homes.
This time, Liam and I share how we intend to attract suppliers and customers to our AgeTech lab experience. We outline our value proposition for both supply and demand, and wonder where were the uncles this episode?Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation and the strategies finance and business leaders can use to grow profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
Produced by my teenage son and co-founder Liam, this is the fourth episode in our series about establishing myAgeTechlab.com, a family side hustle bringing AgeTech to people who want to age in place in their own homes.
Join Liam, my brothers and me as we explore what our hands-on lab experience will be like for customers, how we collect early feedback crucial for any startup, and how we turn our two-sided business model into a profitable venture.
Put on your lab coats and listen in!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation and the strategies finance and business leaders can use to grow profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In our third episode about starting myAgeTechlab.com, produced by my teenage son and co-founder Liam, we delve into how we expect to find product and market fit. Not easy in a new and fragmented business like AgeTech! What do customers really want? Why should suppliers care about us? Can we generate cash flow?
Join us!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation and the strategies finance and business leaders can use to grow profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In this episode, we continue our series about starting the family side hustle, myAgeTechlab.com, and focus on the business model for our Lab Experience. We envision a constant balancing between supplier portfolio and customer needs and foresee an evolving business model with lots of potential upsides and downsides. Where will all these variables lead us?Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation and the strategies finance and business leaders can use to grow profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In the next several episodes, we share the challenges of starting a family side hustle, myAgeTechlab.com, helping people live in their own homes longer through the use of age technology, or AgeTech for short.
Driven by our own family experiences caring for loved ones as they age, can my teenage son, brothers and I apply sound principles of value creation to build a business that helps people while also turning a profit?
In this episode, we share our inspiration, skills we expect to learn, challenges ahead, and what to remember when the naysayers come knocking.
Dial in and join us here on Upside/Downside!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation and the strategies finance and business leaders can use to grow profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In this episode, information security executive David de Martin joins me to analyze the many threats businesses face, and how adaptive tools like Calamu can neutralize those threats while growing your profits and cash flow through competitive advantage.
From threat Prevention to Detection to Response, what should value-focused companies be thinking about and how are security solutions responding in the era of AI?
Take a seat at your security console and dial up your value creation skills on this episode of Upside/Downside!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Welcome! Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation, and how finance business partners, managers and business owners like you can grow your profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In this episode, Tommy Huynh returns and we share our predictions how AI will impact businesses and people in 2024. Referencing new stats and reports from respected third parties, we make our cases and challenge each other's assumptions.
What minimum skills will be required? Will investment levels continue unabated? Who's most at risk of losing their job? Does anyone really know what they're talking about? And what do we do if all hell breaks loose?
Let's plow through the details together on this episode of Upside/Downside.Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation, and how the actions we take affect profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In this episode, Tommy Huynh joins me to explore the democratization of AI and how SMBs in particular can increasingly take advantage.
From sales battlecard creation to low code/no code customer service chatbots, use cases abound if you know the problems you want to solve.
Get ready to accelerate your value creation curve on this episode of Upside/Downside!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about value creation, and how the actions we take affect profits and cash flow. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
Executive recruiter, coach, and company founder Samuel Dergel returns for a super informative update on the market for CFOs.
Why is the opportunity pipeline about to increase? What functional skills are most important? Are you ready for that Saturday call from the Board?
We cover a lot of ground, plus a corny joke. Time to make the uncomfortable comfortable with this episode of Upside/Downside!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast for finance and business geeks about the hard work of value creation with a dose of humor thrown in for good measure. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
Panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me to discuss the cultivated meat and meat substitute industries. Sustainability, ethics and taste are all on the value creation menu. Ready for dinner?
Then we move on to consumer prices in the US vs Europe. From mobile plans to pharmaceuticals to live concerts, it can seem like we're getting the short end of the stick here in the states. But are markets more rational than you think?
Get down to the meat of value creation with us on this episode of Upside/Downside!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast for finance and business geeks about the hard work of value creation with a dose of humor thrown in for good measure. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
Panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me to discuss the recent banking debacle at Silicon Valley Bank and how value creation goes hand in hand with avoiding value destruction. Do you know where your money is tonight?
Then it's about tipping practices gone mad. Technology, fear of embarrassment and oh yeah, a pandemic have piled on to the confusion for consumers about how much extra to leave on the tab. Where do the percentages go from here?
Share this 23 minutes with us and stretch your value creation skills!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
If your organization needs customized assistance, I may be able to help. All revenues after taxes earned from consulting engagements are donated to registered charities working on challenges in the United States. See my host page for more details. -
Upside/Downside is a podcast for finance and business geeks about the hard work of value creation with a dose of humor thrown in for good measure. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
Panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me to discuss variable pricing models, and why we should expect wider adoption going forward. Is P x Q just a distant dream?
Then we turn our attention to conversational artificial intelligence. As the technology moves into a generative phase, will there be anything left for humans to do at the office?
Wonky, funny, thought-provoking discussion waiting for you on this episode of Upside/Downside.Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
If your organization needs customized assistance, I may be able to help. All revenues after taxes earned from consulting engagements are donated to registered charities working on challenges in the United States. See my host page for more details. -
Upside/Downside is a podcast for finance and business geeks about the hard work of value creation with a dose of humor thrown in for good measure. I'm your host, Matt Cooley.
In this episode, panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me to explore the coming roboticization of the restaurant industry. Quick-serve formats in particular (or should it be Quick-bytes?) are poised for a productivity boost. But who might get left behind and how important is the human element to the everyday consumer?
We then delve into the world of Buy-Now-Pay-Later. Facing likely regulation and a growing but not surprising default rate, this payment method is seeing substantial uptake by consumers and merchants for its simplicity. Is it just another way for lenders to make a buck, or is this an emerging disruptor to the credit card industry?
Robots, food, credit, humor and anxiety all on today's Upside/Downside menu. Pull up to the first window and join us!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast for finance and business geeks about the hard work of value creation with a dose of humor thrown in.
In this episode, panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me to nosh over Amazon Fresh and its impact on profits and cash flows. Do we really have to bag our own groceries?
Then we dig into recent challenges faced by streaming companies and discuss whether a return to bunny ears and tin foil is inevitable.
Join us for an informative and entertaining 19 minutes!Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Upside/Downside is a podcast about the hard work of value creation with a dose of humor thrown in. Panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me to discuss two recent news stories: health insurers must now report publicly what they pay for every item and procedure, and venture capital firms pull back as the longest bull market ever becomes a distant memory. What does all this mean for companies, investors and regular everyday people? We also take a question from an entrepreneur considering a start-up in the home caregiver industry. Join us!
Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Panelists Dana Price and Sami Akbay join me in a discussion of value creation upsides and downsides of two recent news events. First, what has happened to the Summer supply of sriracha, and how will we possibly cope? Then we explore Oracle's acquisition of Cerner and what that could mean for value drivers in healthcare. We round off the episode with advice to a CFO pondering the use of crypto currency. Join us for this fun 16-minute investment in your skills as a Finance Business Partner.
Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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We've covered early stage career strategies in previous episodes of Upside/Downside. This time, George Pastidis, Head of Sales Enablement Programs at Ericsson, joins me to talk about age bias in the workplace and strategies for thriving later in your career. With a long history selling to multinational companies, coaching sales executives, and publishing the very insightful blog GeorgeTalkSales, George also shares why a growth mindset is critical. Listen in!
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Supply chain professional, Marc Rancourt, joins me in this episode to share key lessons learned from the last year and a half, and the role Finance Business Partners play in building resiliency and value creation into this complex part of the business. It's going to take time, but your ship will come in! Join us.
Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
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Almost like a long, rolling earthquake, bedrock changes are underway in the job market and it's no different for the CFO role. Everyone seems to be looking. Samuel Dergel of Dergel Executive Search joins me to discuss this phenomenon, what skills are most in-demand, and how CFOs are finding their next gigs. We also cover what aspiring CFOs should be doing to prepare for their turn in the seat. Grab onto something as we unpack this seismic topic on this episode of Upside/Downside.
Thank you for listening and please tell your friends about Upside/Downside - a podcast about value creation.
If your organization needs customized assistance, I may be able to help. All revenues after taxes earned from consulting engagements are donated to registered charities working on challenges in the United States. See my host page for more details. -
Data analytics has moved quickly into the realm of self-service. How do Finance Business Partners know the models, dashboards and advice they are providing are reliable? Assistant Professor Gregory Kogan returns to Upside/Downside to talk about integrity of output, and to share insights from a new book he has co-authored, "Self-Service Data Analytics and Governance for Managers" published by Wiley. Join us!
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