Been binging the show since I discovered it last week. At a critical point in my journey and Brian’s knowledge and approach has been immensely helpful. I’m a regular now.🧡

Brian helps me overcome obstacles before I even see them. I come away energized with new insights and awareness motivated to tackle my ideas and turn one into a thriving business. On to it!

Good for anyone launching a business, starting their career, or intellectually curious. Delivers actionable insights, real-world advice, and good stories. Seems like an overlooked gem.

Insightful, full of helpful knowledge, great story telling, entertaining and no fluff. The perfect way to spend 25min a week to assist your business and life. I’d give it 6 stars if I could!

Fun to listen to and full of immediately actionable tips for early stage founders.

This podcast has taught me so much as I research how to go about starting up my business. I found it via a random google search and have listened back to a ton of old episodes. It’s the best small business podcast I have tried because it breaks down jargon and concepts into easy to understand ideas and relatable scenarios. Thanks Brian!

A show so good you’ll have one short pencil by the end due to the amount of golden nuggets written down in your Baronfig notebook. 👍🏼

One of the best podcasts for startups out there, Brian doing such a good job to explain complex concepts in easy to understand terms and his storytelling abilities are off the charts!! Highly recommended

So stoked to be the 100th review! Congrats Brian! Started with one episode, but couldn’t stop there. 1 month and 123 episodes later and I’ve learned so much more than any startup incubator or class I’ve attended - even paid ones. Every episode, Brian shares gold nuggets of information that permeate not only startups, but also work life balance, clarity, understanding customers, how to be agile and opportunistic with limited resources. And the stories make the learning meaningful and memorable, whether it’s the tale of Penne Vodka Pete leveraging the idea of being “something to someone” by being clear on his value proposition or the pickle ball explosion, Brian pulls insights from just about anywhere to inspire you to go ahead, and get started. If you want to build a business, this podcast is the place to start.

New to startups and entrepreneurshipSo I have tried a fair number of podcast. This show is easily my favorite as the host always has very well thought out episodes and topics. He does an excellent job of explaining how to build a successful business without the standard jargon but well thought-out explanations.

Brian makes some of the complicated theories in strategy SO easy to understand, and most importantly, MEMORABLE. His initially seeming irrelevant stories are always beautifully tied in to a handy piece of knowledge that sticks with me! He’s a talented writer and it shows!! Thanks Brian 🤘

This is one of the most insightful and inspiring podcasts that I have ever come across! Brian does such a great job of sharing his wisdom and I love how every. single. episode. is absolutely jam-packed with helpful tidbits and insights. Highly recommend checking this show out if you’re in the process of getting your startup up and running - there’s something for everyone and you’re sure to learn a ton!

Love the stories here.

Brian provides practical insights on how to go about evaluating your startup idea, conducting customer interviews and running conversion tests. This structured approach was an eye opener for me, since everyone else I meet keeps wanting to build a solution on an impulsive whim!

Excellent story teller. Great knowledge. 🔥

Brian offers unique insight that feels fresh and most importantly, actionable! Compared to the played out platitudes of most business podcasts, this one really delivers

Thank you.

I enjoyed the well-structured and intentional format of Idea to Startup. I found the speakers to be impeccable and learned a lot of tactical/practical insight from them. Brian has a thoughtful way of organizing the podcast in a high value way and consistently asks strong/helpful questions. My favorite podcast episodes were the Elizabeth Yin interview and “How to Prioritize as an Early Stage Startup.” Looking forward to more!

Awesome podcast. You can really tell that Brian values the listeners time and makes every minute count in this podcast. The interviews are on point, he never interrupts and asks thoughtful questions. His solo episodes are awesome, I’m finding myself pausing to take notes frequently.

The idea to startup podcast is just awesome. Fantastic guests, the right questions by the host, Brian to help is get the most wisdom from the guest to apply to our own experience. This podcast is not only great for early stage founders but also established entrepreneurs, who want to improve and/ or grow their businesses. I love this podcast and highly recommend it.

Brian knows what he's talking about. He gives simple lessons that are easy to take action on. I look forward to his future episodes! Yay tacos!!!

Great show with very direct important content! Looking forward to hearing more. Also signed up to join Tacklebox!

Informative and insightful. Brian extracts simple lessons from complicated situations, all while entertaining and engaging the audience.

Brian has a way of explaining a very large idea into segmented items that are carefully articulated. This shows in the podcast and is a must listen to anyone currently building a business or thinking about starting one.

Brian clearly knows his stuff, and I'm really finding myself looking forward to new episodes. The nice thing is that he's not speaking from one-off experiences working with just 1 or 2 businesses, but rather the dozens upon dozens that have gone through his Tacklebox accelerator. And the added bonus- he shares stories of successful but lesser-known brands and founders you may not have heard about before. It's always nice to hear from folks that don't make the media rounds regularly :)

While this podcast focuses on tips for early stage founders, the host provides a ton of useful advice for how to approach work and incorporate new ideas into your day to day. The guests are each unique and provide a great view on starting up your own company.

This is an awesome podcast! Informative, relevant, easy to listen to.

This is a great podcast. Super informative, honest and helpful to entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs! The host offers thoughtful tips surrounding everything “entrepreneur”. When he has guests he actually listens to them without interruption to get different ideas and perspectives on the topic. Thank you for the great podcast and keep it up!

I love how this podcast can serve as an audible how-to guide that contains so many things that you need to know about how to launch a startup. I like the balance of pointed wisdom from Brian as well as interviews with successful entrepreneurs. I would recommend this as a valuable resource to any person looking to launch a start up.

My favorite element of this podcast is that by listening, we have the ability to learn from the mistakes and victories of others who have gone before us in the startup world. It's a very valuable investment of your time! There is so much business-minded wisdom offered by both Brian and his guests!

This is a podcast that could be valuable to anyone interested in knowing more about how to launch a start up. I love that through the interviews, I was able to hear tons of tips and tricks that can apply to any startup business. Brian is such a personable and reliable resource that is easy to apply! I would recommend taking notes!

Love this podcast

Can’t describe it, just one of those pods where you feel like you are in the room instead of listening to an interview. Very inspiring.

Brian asks all of my burning questions about entrepreneurship. This is the only podcast I listen to with a pen in my hand ready for notes the entire time. He masters the art of questioning by inquiring about all the different dimensions of being a start-up founder. To top it off, he's such an engaging conversationalist. If you've got a dream seed you want to harvest, make sure to subscribe to this podcast.

If you have an idea, or lots of them, and you’re looking for smart, digestible, and useful advice to get going—listen to this. You won’t regret it.

Brian's advice is perfect for any newbie entrepreneur such as myself. No BS, just real world advice.

Brian outlines rules and steps to follow that will lead you to success (validating an idea, creating a startup) by cleverly uncovering them through successful founders’ experiences. This will motivate & inspire you.

Great show with a thoughtful host, asking and answering the questions you have about getting your idea off the ground. Can’t wait for the next episode!

Extremely pragmatic approach to building startups

A lot of nebulous BS in the business podcast space, but not here!! Loving this podcast