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This podcast is about building a strong customer experience (CX) community. Each episode will be packed with information at your fingertips. Think of this podcast as talking to the speaker right across the table and walk away with content to actually use. No more list posts because most people struggle with implementation. This is about proving CX through small, simple actionable ideas that make huge impacts.
We dive deeper in the 4 go to market (GTM) success cores to achieve and prove customer experience: Messaging, Design, Tech, and Experience. These 4 essentials don't only apply to marketing. Guests have marketing, sales, customer experience, revops, recruiting, data, and product backgrounds. Today, each business function grows either through customers or employees converging back to those 4 success cores.
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  <title>Episode 109: How to Survive a Startup - Learning About the Murky Middle</title>
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  <itunes:subtitle>In this episode, Sean sits down with Steve Hoffman, aka Captain Hoff. They dive into why Steve started Founders Space and why he wrote Surviving a Startup. They go deeper into his experience helping hundreds of startups which is findings are broken down in his book. Steve shares insights in his book about how entrepreneurs can build successful companies with healthy mindsets and how to make the biggest and best impact for customers and employees a like. Steve's jovial and passionate tone shows how passionate he is about helping others with achieving their dreams in growing successful companies. </itunes:subtitle>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, Sean sits down with Steve Hoffman, aka Captain Hoff. They dive into why Steve started &lt;a href="https://www.foundersspace.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Founders Space&lt;/a&gt; and why he wrote &lt;a href="https://www.foundersspace.com/surviving-a-startup/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;Surviving a Startup&lt;/a&gt;. They go deeper into his experience helping hundreds of startups which is findings are broken down in his book. Steve shares insights in his book about how entrepreneurs can build successful companies with healthy mindsets and how to make the biggest and best impact for customers and employees a like. Steve's jovial and passionate tone shows how passionate he is about helping others with achieving their dreams in growing successful companies. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More About Steve. &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"&gt;https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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<p>More About Steve. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/</a></p>]]>
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<p>More About Steve. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/" rel="nofollow">https://www.linkedin.com/in/foundersspace/</a></p>]]>
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