Problem Solvers Podcast

Here's the difficult truth about growing a business: Not all growth is equal.

After realizing his accounting and invoicing company FreshBooks wasn't innovating fast enough, Mike McDerment had to take extreme measures.

Raquel Tavares had just finished raising a round of funding -- and then her team looked at the company's numbers and realized they were almost out of money.

The email marketing company's staff was once a disorganized mess. But before fixing that, its co-founder had to fix himself.

When a change in the tax law nearly wiped out Saima Khan's company, she was forced to reconsider exactly what kind of business she was running.

After hearing 'no' over and over again, Mike Rothman starting making strategic decisions to confirm his idea was a good one.

Greg Steltenpohl set out to make plant-based milk. But when his product became too popular, he had to make some tough decisions.

This online shopping site had a promising platform and a talented team. But they had two very different ideas about what the company should prioritize.

It's a question almost every entrepreneur will at some point face: How do you keep a company stable while you're pulled into a personal crisis? Learn how Chris Carter did it.

When most platforms wouldn't even allow this company to advertise on their sites, the founder had to get creative.

Learn how Neil Vogel took over the old internet giant About.com and transformed it into a thriving company called Dotdash.

When Eric Korman told everyone he wanted to sell perfume online, everyone thought he was crazy. He ended up proving them wrong.

The founder of Shift shares how he was forced to get rid of a feature everyone loved.

The founder of Policygenius walks us through the rigorous process she went through to scrap a confusing name and create one that led to success.

After setting aside his music career, Sean Dowdell wanted to start his own tattoo parlor, but he needed to find a way to make a traditionally lowbrow product appeal to a high-end, but still edgy, audience.

After his early customers weren't paying their invoices, the founder of pizza app Slice began the long process of figuring out what (and how) people were willing to pay.

Sometimes, you have to let some problems go unsolved.

The co-founder of Musicbed shares how his company became more than just a place for music licensing.

The apparel startup Richer Poorer thought it had found the perfect deal, but then everything went wrong.

From finding the right customers to creating an apparel brand in a few weeks, founders share their first-time challenges.

The chairman of DocuSign explains how to turn a company's first customers into valuable ambassadors.