Let's Make a Unicorn Jonathan Smith & Levi Bethune

Video software startup mmhmm's recent round of funding has got us thinking about the next big trend in startups: names that are just noises. Levi has a product that solves all kinds of everyday problems, and it's not scary at all! I mean, why would it be? What a strange thing to ask...

Want VCs to think you're cool? That's easy. Just pretend you read something on Techcrunch! This week, we hone our pretending skills by reading some very fake startup headlines and talking about them.

This week, to pretend we know stuff, we used Startup Ipsum (created by Party Round) found at https://startipsum.com/ (and you can too!)

When pitching, you have to be willing to throw out your old startup idea and invent an entirely new one on the spot, sometimes in the same investor meeting! Jonathan puts Levi and special guest Jane Decker through their paces with an improv game involving Snails, Circus Peanuts, a Weed Volcano, and -- just in time for father's day -- entirely too many dad-based product ideas.

This week, to make our unicorns, we used the Aesthetic Generator found at https://claireeeep.github.io/generator/ (and you can too!)

Join Jonathan and Levi a for a little ~bRaInStOrM~ as they growth-hack their podcast to fame and fortune. Or at least one of those. Or neither.

Levi has the cure for your streaming service woes. Jonathan puts the compassion in Compassion International. Our shortest episode ever, so listen twice!

Levi and Jonathan interview for the big job. It doesn't go well. Levi pitches his vision for the future of the Creator Economy. It doesn't go well (for creators).

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