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The Spanner & Spoon ShowWe interview the fabulous David Mindel (Songwriter) and release the first part of our Crazy show Where Did All The Cow's Go.Spanner and Spoon interview the amazing songwriter David Mindel and release episode one of Where Do All The Cow's Go. Spanner attacks a Dinasour with a Cattle prod and gets into hot water with the local police.David MindelIn 1972, David Mindel joined the Noel Gay Organisation as a record plugger and junior A&R person. The company also published Mindel's songs, and the first to be recorded was "Let Him Go Home" by Canadian artist Nanette Workman and then by Palk Salad in 1971. In 1972 David Ballantyne and Solitude recorded "Roof Above Our Head" on...2024-12-1142 min
Daily TriviaDaily Trivia 172: The Mighty Ducks, Corn Pops and moreEvery weekday morning at 7:40 AM Dale and Charlie give you the chance to put your knowledge to the test in a quest for $1,000!Learn more by visiting the website or listening live at 1075koolfm.com
Today is September 16th, how many more sleeps until it’s October 1st? Answer: 15
Which company makes and distributes Corn Pop Cereal? Answer: Kellogg’s
What letter does pterodactyl start with? Answer: P
What was the name given to a group of young popular 80’s actors? Answer: The Brat Pack
This Brat Pack actor portrayed Coach Bombay in Disney...2024-09-1602 min
The Financially Mindful PodcastWho Wants to be a Millionaire? The traits, habits and behavior’s of the self made wealthy.In this episode Dan and Jim talk with Dr. Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Ph. D. author of "The Next Millionaire Next Door" about the habits and traits researchers find most often amongst the self made wealthy.
About our Guest:
Sarah Stanley Fallaw, Ph.D., is the author of The Next Millionaire Next Door and the founder and President of DataPoints LLC, a company that provides technologically-enabled financial psychology tools to enhance wealth-building.
In her role at DataPoints and her research, Dr. Fallaw continues the study on self-made wealth begun by her late fath...2023-04-2739 min
Learnings from Leaders: the P&G Alumni PodcastCraig Bahner, Sara Lee Frozen Bakery CEO“You have to work harder with international assignments. Get to know the people, the culture - and see your own country through somebody else’s eyes.”
Craig Bahner is the CEO of Sara Lee Frozen Bakery - leading iconic brands like Sara Lee, Van’s, Chef Pierre and Bistro Collection. An 80 year old brand, Craig was there for the recent spin-off, putting in place pieces to accelerate growth, operations, and innovation. Previously, Craig was Kellogg’s President of US Morning Foods, and Wendy’s CMO - helping transform the iconic restaurant brand for the first time in decades. Cra...2021-10-1752 min
The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave interviews Sandi Lin, CEO and co-founder of SkilljarSandi has had a remarkable career so far. She trained as a civil engineer at MIT, did an MBA at Stadford, moved into product management at Amazon, and now runs a very successful SaaS company, Skilljar. Skilljar, founded in Seattle in 2013, is a fully distributed, ~150-person company that provides a customer education platform to over 400 customers.
We discuss:
Why do product managers make great founders?
How has your product planning process evolved from founder to startup to scaleup stages?
As CEO with a product background, how do you interact with your product team now? Has it be...2021-09-2658 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave and Thomas on big co vs small co Product ManagementDave and Thomas talk about their experiences as product leaders, and the differences between PM in big companies and small companies.
We look at how Salesforce, SuccessFactors and other large companies manage product teams, and explore if that helps or hinders in the context of small companies. One nugget. Big company product management is usually big M small p. Start-up product management is big P small m. We talk about the day in the life of a product leader, and we also mention rhinos and kangaroos.
2021-09-1257 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Thomas interviews Simon Bouchez, CEO and founder at Reveal.coSimon sold his first venture, an HRTECH company, multiposting, to SAP. After successfully delivering on the post merger integration, Simon has started a new venture, Reveal.co. It aims to revolutionise how sales and marketeers collaborate between companies.
In this episode we talk how product management has changed in the last 10 years, becoming more commercially savvy, and aware of what it takes to build a successful business. We talk M&A, and how to do post merger integration well, and we continue to explore the themes of product led growth. We also talk Paris as an innovation hub...2021-08-2856 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Thomas interviews Tim Geisenheimer, CEO /Cofounder of Correlated.Tim is the CEO and Co-Founder of Correlated, the leading product-led revenue platform for sales teams. Correlated recently launched publicly and announced an $8.3 million round of funding led by Harrison Metal and NextView Ventures. Prior to founding Correlated, Tim was an early executive team member at two data and analytics startups: Facet and Timescale. Timescale recently raised a $40 million Series B from Redpoint. Earlier in his career he was on the founding team of TapCommerce, a leading marketing tech startup which was acquired by Twitter for a reported $100 million. Tim has led sales, partnerships and go-to-market teams throughout his c...2021-08-1557 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave and Thomas interview Dan Faulkner from Plannuh. How to build great product teams.We speak with Dan Faulkner, CTO of Plannuh, about building great product teams. Dave is an advisor to Plannuh.
After getting a master’s in speech and language processing, Dan worked for speech recognition powerhouse Nuance for well over a decade, first as a researcher and later moving into product and business unit management.
Our topic is how to build great product teams. Among other questions, we ask Dan:
What makes a great product team?
What is his four-part framework for thinking about product teams (e.g., context, talent, change, and location)?
Why context matt...2021-08-0759 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB Dave and Thomas Interview Paul Jozefak, CEO of ReceevePaul was a successful VC, but moved to become a founder and CEO. In this episode we explore how to build a successful enterprise SaaS business, targeting the complex problem of accounting collections. It sounds niche, but there is lots to learn from Paul about building products for the line of business. Niches can be super profitable, and can grow into significant market categories. We look at how SaaS products can function as a layer on top of existing applications, partner strategies and much more.
2021-08-0157 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave interviews Aaron Kalb, Alation co-founder This show is with Alation cofounder Aaron Kalb. Our topics: design, data, and disagreement in the context of product and product management.
Aaron serves as Alation’s chief data & analytics officer (CDAO) and before that worked as a designer and researcher in Apple’s Siri advanced development group after graduating from Stanford with a master’s in symbolic systems.
Questions include:
How do you synthesize data-led and design-led product management?
How did your psychology and software engineering background help you as a product leader?
How do you hire strong product leaders?
What was like for a pr...2021-07-2259 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Thomas interviews Holger Müller. Constellation Industry Analyst and former product leaderHolger is one of the leading industry analysts (at Constellation Research) and former product leader. In this episode, Holger and Thomas talk about the dynamics in enterprise software. We dig into history and the current state of product management, the shift and limits of more analytical PM, the growth of DIY (low code no code) tools, and the imbalances between tech vision and business process. We also talk Tour De France. And Holger gives some blunt advice on working with Analysts. Warning: Holger thinks and talks fast.
2021-07-2059 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave and Thomas with Andy MacMillan, CEO of UserTestingAndy’s got a great background, some real product chops, and can simultaneously give us both the Product and the CEO perspective on product issues. Our topic is Andy’s framework for hiring product managers and product management teams. Key questions for this episode.
Why do I need a framework for hiring PM teams?
What is your framework for hiring PM teams?
What goes wrong in hiring PM teams?
What do you think of the PM as GM or mini-CEO concept?
When should an early-stage company start using such a hiring framework?
We cover most of these...
2021-07-091h 01The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave interviews Evan Kaplan, CEO of Influx DataEvan Kaplan is the CEO of Influx Data. It helps developers to build IoT, analytics and monitoring software. In this episode we continue to discuss how open source is changing with the Cloud. We talk in depth about what it is be to cloud native and open source. We also digress into ingress and database history.
2021-06-241h 00The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Thomas and Dave interview Prof Dirk RiehleThis episode goes deep into open source, especially open source licensing models and how they are evolving. Prof Dirk Riehle is one of the leading researchers on open source. We dig into the recent MongoDB licence, amongst other things. We also discuss product management education.
2021-06-1857 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave Interviews Chris McLaughlin of Nuxeo and LumAppsWe welcome a special friend Chris McLaughlin, currently CMO at France-based powerhouse LumApps, a collaboration and communications platform backed by top European investors including Idinvest and Goldman Sachs.
In this week’s episode we ask Chris many questions, including:
How to get product and marketing working together, especially when they aren’t under a common boss.
How European startups should organize their go-to-market functions to enter and grow in the US market
The role of both the product and marketing leaders in startups with either a technical founder or business founder
When is the right time to hire...2021-06-1158 minThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave and Thomas with Stephanie McReynolds on category creationWe have a discussion with former Alation CMO Stephanie McReynolds on the topic of category creation and her learnings as she helped drive the creation of the data catalog category and establish Alation as the leader in it [1].
In addition to her gig at Alation, Stephanie’s had a great career at many leading and/or category-defining vendors including E.piphany, Business Objects, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Aster Data, ClearStory, and Trifacta.
Questions we address include:
Does a vendor create a category or do market forces?
In creating a category do you lead with product or sol...2021-05-201h 00The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Thomas interviews Murali MazhavancheryMurali is VP PM at Utmost, and former SuccessFactors PM. We delve into some HRTECH history, the differences between PM 10 years ago and today, scaling, technical debt, understanding users v buyers, managing constraints, platforms v apps, developing the next generation of PM, and the social contract between sales and product. We may mention cricket.
2021-05-131h 02The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave interviews Brett Queener. The Product Superpowers That Few Flex: Intention and Conviction.Dave and Thomas interview Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures, former President & COO at SmartRecruiters, product-line general manager at both Salesforce.com and Siebel...
What was it like running product for Marc Benioff? (Or, for that matter, Tom Siebel?) and much more.
2021-05-061h 00The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Thomas Interviews David Clarke, former Workday CTOThe SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg, Thomas Otter and guest David Clarke. We discuss the early days of Workday. We explore acquisitions, the role of architects, what is a platform actually, and the challenge of being a small vendor with big customers, and how to say no when you need to. We also get awesome audience feedback likening us to a famous band gig, which we graciously accept. transcript.
2021-04-301h 01The SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Dave Kellogg and Thomas OtterTSPPB: Dave interviews Scott Beechuk of Norwest Venture Partners.Dave interviews special guest, entrepreneur, ex-Salesforce product leader turned venture capitalist, Scott Beechuk, of Norwest Venture Partners. Scott and Dave worked together at Salesforce almost a decade ago and work together today with Bluecore.
Recorded with the consent of the live studio Clubhouse audience.
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The Same 24 HoursDave Coulier: On Being Funny + Full House + Grilled Cheese MediaDave Coulier is perhaps best known as “Joey” from the hit ABC television series, Full House, which aired for eight seasons (1987-1995, with 192 episodes produced) and can now be seen on Nick At Nite. Additionally, the show runs worldwide, syndicated in over 100 countries.
Dave followed this success by hosting his second prime-time hit series, America's Funniest People, which ran on ABC for four seasons.
Dave is also co-starring in Fuller House, which will begin airing on Netflix in 2016. Dave also hosted ABC's World's Funniest Videos and his own series, Out of Control for Nickelodeon. Dave host...2020-12-2227 min
Conversations in Depth: A QRCA Views PodcastInterview with Dave SiegelDave Siegel is the founder and “Big Daddy” of WonderGroup, the largest independent U.S. agency specializing in marketing and advertising to today’s moms and their kids. After serving as the President of WonderGroup for the past ten years, Dave has moved over to take the Presidential reigns of WonderGroup’s Launchforce Division—a premier innovation consultancy whose clients include: Kellogg’s, Purina, Sara-Lee, Nestle’s, ConAgra, Tate & Lyle, Anheuser Busch and others. Dave has spent the past 30 years immersed in youth marketing and new product development, advising some of the country’s top corporations in the fields of: Food & Beverag...2019-12-0447 min