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Word of mouth is often the best advertising strategy, but it isn’t easy to achieve. In this episode, investment firm and brand agency Bullish’s Mike Duda shares his strategy for finding the companies that you would want to recommend. Through Duda's experience with companies such as Peloton and Warby Parker, you'll dive into investing strategies for creating household names.

Social media content takes time to create and distribute, but there are new and innovative platforms to ease up the process of sharing it with your fans. In this episode, Opendorse founder Blake Lawrence talks with Jay and Eric on how to leverage social media to build your brand and expand endorsement opportunities.

Finding the next successful startup to invest in can be as simple as understanding consumer needs and what's lacking in the current market. In this episode, managing partner of Upslope Ventures, Kate Shillo Beardsley discusses how she uses her diverse background to succeed in early-stage venture capital investing.

Everyone loves a great dining experience when they go to a restaurant, especially when they are getting a good deal. In this episode, inKind co-founder and CEO Johann Moonesinghe joins Jay and Eric to discuss how inKind not only provides an innovative restaurant financial model built by restaurateurs—not bankers—and how the app also allows for better customer loyalty.

Today’s high school students are faced with an ever growing number of requirements and scores they need to fulfill to be competitive in the college admissions process. That also means students are also dealing with an unprecedented amount of test preparation. The challenge? How to help students feel prepared when it comes to those tests, and how to do it in an equitable way. In this episode, Fiveable’s CEO and founder Amanda DoAmaral shares how her startup is providing accessible, equitable support services for these students.

You don’t have to be the next Facebook to get funding for your startup. In this episode, Earnest Capital’s founder Tyler Tringas joins Jay and Eric to highlight how he's creating a new model for building sustainable, profitable businesses that provides an alternative to the traditional venture capital route.

Ever wondered what it feels like to witness a rocket launching into space firsthand? In this episode, The Launch Company’s CEO and founder Ben Kellie talks with Jay and Eric to talk about the space industry and share how his company is changing it from the inside out. You'll learn about the history of SpaceX, the different ways satellites are being used in our day-to-day lives, and how Kellie is working to get companies to space faster, cheaper, and more reliably than ever before.

With digital art entering the picture, it's part of our daily lives now more than ever. In this episode, John Crain—founder of digital art market SuperRare—joins Jay and Eric to discuss digital art and the role cryptocurrency plays in its market. Technology, John believes, is allowing artists to greatly expand the possibilities of the art they can create. You'll learn more about these new forms of art, and Ethereum, a form of blockchain currency which allows for new payment options in how digital art is bought and sold.