GrowthX Academy: Recent Episodes
GrowthX Academy
GrowthX Academy helps individuals transition into a new career and find a job they love in just 12 weeks in the fields of in Sales and Business Development, Growth Marketing and UX Design.
Hosts Brian Church and Les Stouder talk to GrowthX cofounders Sean Sheppard and Andrew Goldner.
In this episode of the GrowthX Academy Podcast, we interview Raquel Rodriguez, a graduate of the GrowthX Academy UX Design program. Raquel discusses why she chose to attend GrowthX Academy and shares her experience both as a student and a graduate of the academy. After completing the UX Design program at GrowthX Academy, Raquel moved to New York City to work for Code and Theory, a digital agency.
About Raquel
Raquel received her B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University. She worked in applied research at the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital’s Icahn School of Medicine in New York, then performed User Research at Sailo, a startup part of the Columbia Startup Lab. She was then a part of Customer Success at Bloomberg working with clients such as Nike, Paypal and Ebay. Raquel has always been client-facing and customer focused.
How do you really do UX design in Agile mode? Do usability testing on just your roommates? Just follow those tips from a random blog? Learn how to be Agile without kicking good UX design to the curb with Marcin Treder of UXPin. Marcin explores how to drive an Agile UX process by speaking on…
- How to balance Agile processes with user-centered design.
- How to drive and govern collaborative design.
- How to stagger UX and dev sprints, how to minimize documentation, run user research, and more!
About Marcin
Marcin Treder is the CEO and co-founder of UXPin, a collaborative design platform. Since co-founding UXPin in 2010, he has helped build and lead product teams in the Poland and Silicon Valley office. Previously, he was a UX Manager at Grupa Nokaut, an enterprise ecommerce platform. He holds an M.A. in Ps [...]
This podcast was produced by Veteranology, a online resource for military veterans. In this episode, host Jay Knight interviews GrowthX Academy mentor and veteran, Ian Faison.
Getting hired is tough, no matter who you are. Veterans face their own hurdles to finding employment, but there are people and organizations on our side, one of them is Ian Faison. Ian has spent his post-service career helping leaders build amazing companies. He’s been hired by companies to build better veteran hiring practices, and gives them the tools to connect smarter and faster with the 1% of the US population that serves in the military.
Beyond his work in the military hiring arena, he’s also an avid mentor when it comes to veteran entrepreneurs, often giving them valuable insights into sales and business development practices that [...]
From Snooze to Snort: How to Make Your Presentations Hilarious!
David Nihill joins GrowthX Academy co-founder, Sean Sheppard, to share the principles of stand-up comedy and how they can be applied to all public speaking in a humorous talk based on his bestselling book Do You Talk Funny? 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (And Funnier) Public Speaker.
David Nihill is the Founder of FunnyBizz, a community, writer platform, and conference series, where business meets humor to abolish boring content. His work has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, The Irish Times, WSJ, and Forbes. A graduate of the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School he calls San Francisco home these days (when immigration officials permit).
Hosted by Sean Shep [...]
What did you want to be when you grew up? And are you as passionate about your career now as you were then? If not, get ready to Hack Your Career!
This podcast was recorded at the Hack Your Career event with Sean Sheppard, co-founder of GrowthX Academy from The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco. Sean walks through a series of proven concepts and exercises to go back to the time when you knew what you wanted, where passion about it, and helps you identify what you want to be doing now, and (just as importantly) where.
Highlights include:
- Your Personal Vision
- Building a Career Funnel
- 90-day Action Plan
You can also download the Hack Your Career slide deck from Sean’s presentation.
Will Bunker, co-founder of GrowthX Academy, talks with international marketing expert Eli Schwartz as he takes us on a journey across the Pacific to the dynamic and different world of marketing in Asia Pacific. If you are already selling into APAC, considering breaking into those markets, or interested in international marketing, this presentation is not to be missed. Cultural differences, competitive products and business training, and dedicated work ethics are just some of the crucial components to consider when crafting and executing your growth campaigns.
About El [...]
This episode of the GrowthX Academy podcast features Dan Olsen, author of the best-selling book, The Lean Product Playbook. It was recorded at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco, where Dan was our guest speaker as part of the GrowthX Academy UX Speaker Series.
Dan shared insights from his book featuring best practices in achieving product-market fit. Although product-market fit is one of the most important Lean Startup concepts, it’s also the least well defined. Dan Olsen shares the top advice from his book including the Product-Market Fit Pyramid: an actionable model that breaks product-market fit down into 5 key elements. Dan will teach you his simple but effective process for achieving product-market fit. The Lean Product Process is a 6-step methodology that guides you through how to:< [...]
Renowned marketing expert Jon Miller speaks with GrowthX Academy founder Sean Sheppard on the intimate and crucial approach of account-based marketing (ABM). B2B is Business-to-Business, not Business-to-Lead. So, why would we keep marketing to individual leads? Jon will explain the fundamentals behind Account-Based Marketing, and why this crucial adoption will change the way you approach customers, the way customers respond to you, and your overall ROI and success metrics.
About Jon Miller Original co-founder of marketing automation’s leading tool, Marketo, and current co-founder of ABM platform Engagio, Jon has authored the popular books
Sean Sheppard, Founder of GrowthX and Huffington Post Contributor, joins Entrepreneur Hour to discuss how early stage entrepreneurs can start building to attract the interest of a VC Firm.
Bio Sean has successfully grown dozens of early stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets, As founding partner, he currently leads market development strategy for the GrowthX portfolio of companies.
A leader in strategic revenue planning and execution, he makes growth the Number One priority. Providing highly effective, long-term go-to-market strategies, Sean creates product demand and boosts revenue. He defines sales channels, identifies markets and aligns functional teams to support and compliment overall corporate strategies.
His broad experience in all facets of product validation, marketing, sales and commercialization instills confidence and ensures a level-headed yet innovative approach to growth.
Episode [...]
Popping the Bubbl is a podcast hosted by Pete Turner and Sandra Ponce De Leon. In this episode, they interview GrowthX and GrowthX Academy co-founders Sean Sheppard and Will Bunker, serial entrepreneurs and investors. Sean and Will share the story of starting the GrowthX venture fund and GrowthX Academy and also discuss how to drive start-up growth and the importance of giving back.