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  On parle presque tous les jours de séries, celles qu’on a regardé la veille, celle qu’on a adoré, qui nous ont transporté, touché, bouleversé, mais rarement de ceux qui les écrivent. Alors pour y remédier, aujourd’hui on s’interesse au discret métier de scénariste.

Comment devient on scenariste ? Comment se déroule une séance d’écriture ? Qui décide de quoi on va parler ? Comment on écrit ou réecrit des scènes ? Le scénario c’est quand même le point de départ de nos émotions, nan ? Avant le jeu des comédiens il faut une histoire, des personnages, une intrigue et des dialogues .. alors aujourd’hui c’est Caroline qui va répondre à toutes mes questions des plus fines... aux moins fines. Cette ancienne journaliste et bloggeuse à succès nous raconte comment les rencontres ont orienté sa carrière vers le métier dont elle a toujours rêvé, pour pénétrer discrètement dans l’imaginaire de milliers de spectateurs.

  Ecriture, reflexion, la Petite maison dans la prairie, rythme, Sex and the city, cliffhanger, game of thrones, on a ratissé très large dans cet épisode. Commandez une pizza, installez vous sous un plaid et sortez la Ben and Jerry’s du congé, The good place saison 1 épisode 6, Caroline Franc, Scénariste appuyez sur PLAY !

Clem and Kush can't stop. Have you ever wondered what it sounds like when Bubba is interviewing someone for a job? Me neither. On this episode Bubba interviews Rhett. Rhett just left the radio station of broken dreams and is looking for more opportunities. We also find out what Bone personality blocked Rhett when he tweeted Seth. It's a good one!!! Rate us 5 stars please!!! Our home is https://www.twitch.tv/thebubbaarmy

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“Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counter-intuitive, but it is reality.”

What if scientists could plan and run experiments much faster? Meenta’s software platform is making the use of high-end research equipment far more efficient. Co-Founder & CTO Stephan Smith is excited by the massive opportunity his startup is addressing.

Highlights include:

• Sal Daher’s Intro
• Stephan Smith’s Bio
• “Half the time they sit idle and half the time if someone owns one of these instruments, there's still a long wait to get on them. They're not simple devices, but they are crucial for research.”
• “Used to take 3 months for you to book time on one of these high-end sequencing machines and have all the reagents and everything else lined up and the right people and so forth, and now you're doing it within 2 weeks, 12 days.”
• Biggest Obstacle: Convincing People That They Don’t Have to Do Things the Old, Slow Way
• The Unique Challenges of a Multi-Sided Marketplace
• “…we let our users make a decision based on whether they care about speed, or quality, or price.”
• How the Co-Founders, Stephan & Gabor, Came Together
• “…we were 10 minutes into him telling me about the problem and I think the top of my head blew off. I was like, this is what I've been waiting for. This is a massive market.”
• “We allow them [universities] to make their core labs more efficient by having more samples throw flow through these machines. These machines are able to run actually more efficiently.”
• “Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counterintuitive, but it is reality.”
• When it Costs $15,000 per Run, You’re Not Going to Run Your Sequencer Half Full. It Pays to Get Others on the Machine to Share the Cost.
• Sal Daher Talks About Portfolio Company FineTune Learning
• The Burning Question for All Angel Investors: How Am I Going to Make Money on This Company?
• Academic Study on Meenta’s Approach to Two-Sided Markets
• “The bigger problem that I see is how do you provide value for both sides of the marketplace so you don't have a churn retention issue.”
• How Meenta Keeps Clients from Going Direct and Cutting them Out of the Business
• “…we assumed the $2,000 order size. Our order sizes are dramatically bigger.”
• “Our clear North Star is $1.6 million worth of gross revenue per month by December of 2020. That's our goal.”
• Meenta Is Hiring Geneticists, Field Application Scientists – Screen for High Emotional Intelligence
• Finding Your Calling
• Sharing Your Wisdom - Techstars
• We Are All Fans of Clem Cazalot of Techstars Boston
• “I would say your podcast helped people learn fast.”

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Action Jack Barker move over! Chainsaw Jack Huntress is the real deal. CEOs don’t get more dynamic than this geologist turned founder. Jack's startup, HomeBinder offers invaluable tools to help homeowners manage and record work done on their most valuable asset. It’s getting real traction via home inspectors eager to help home buyers. Breaking News: HomeBinder is in Techstars!

Special mention in this episode:  Ed Hosepian and Dean Kahr. Thanks for your generous help in the purchase of the big, dilapidated house in Cambridge. Guys, you were right!

• Jack Huntress trained as a geologist and geophysicist then worked as a consultant for decades.
• Acted as an intrapreneur in building a new practice at an existing firm.
• No Conjoined Triangles of Success for this Jack – he’s a truly action-prone CEO.
• How “Chainsaw Jack” got his name. Story told by super angel and CEO whisperer Joe Caruso (Link to Joe Caruso Episode Page)
• Jack’s owned a bunch of homes including one built in the 1700s. Having been orphaned at an early age he had to come up to speed fast on home maintenance.
• Homeowner is more like a home steward. Lack of continuity on home maintenance information. HomeBinder solves that problem.
• Jack bought a house from an owner who had a binder with loads of details about the house including paint colors, receipts for work done, warranties and manuals. This gave Jack the idea for HomeBinder.
• We homeowners did not have a good way to keep information about the home before HomeBinder.
• Proactive home maintenance rather than reactive. For the most valuable asset homeowners own, their house.
• Home inspectors create binder for homeowner, making their life easier.
• Integrated into home inspection software.
• Someday, you won’t buy a house without a HomeBinder report.
• Sal thanks Jack for helping in a crucial moment in the purchase of big dilapidated house in Cambridge. Thank you, Ed and Dean!
• Getting tens of thousands of HomeBinders set up by home inspectors. Need to enlist other players in the home buying process to grow even faster.
• Building valuable data on the home.
• Can tell you about the electricians and plumbers who will show up. Really important!
• Biggest complaint for plumbers & electricians is that they don’t call you back.
• Career advice for your kid who’s handy but not a great student. Get the kid into the trades; they’re not going away!
• HomeBinder is like a drip campaign for the home inspectors in helping inspectors stay in touch with home owners.
• Sal reads inspiring review from listener Andy_C_B. He points out an underappreciated objective of the podcast, to inspire young people to take on big challenges.
• Please leave a review on iTunes.
• Jack’s pivot. Thought real estate brokers were the best initial channel for HomeBinder. Discovered they were not.
• Real estate agents actually do few transactions per year compared to home inspectors.
• Average home inspector does 250 to 300 home per year.
• Home inspectors are ideally positioned to create the HomeBinder.
• Jack used to dodge managing people; he’s now embraced people management in his startup.
• Jack Huntress thinks people management can be greatly improved to the huge benefit of our economy.
• When you get a high-performing team it’s glorious. We should want to go to work.
• HomeBinder will be in Techstars Boston this year. Inspired by Clem Cazalot of Techstars to apply.
• Ideas are easy, getting it right is far more valuable than being the first to do something.
• There was Friendster, then there was My Space and then there was Facebook.
• Instant success that’s taken seven years.
• TED Talk by Bill Gross, a very useful way for angels and founders to spend seven minutes: (https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed?language=en)
• CORRECTION: during the interview I mentioned Bill Gross, the bond genius. The Bill Gross I should have mentioned is the startup genius with the TED Talk linked above.
• The biggest factor for startup success is market timing, i.e.
• Lots of companies throw in the towel and a year later their market takes off.
• Why Jack decided to start a company.
• Jack was not a good fit at a large company; too impatient with things not being done right.
• First run at it was as an intrapreneur.
• Starting a company is like an itch. Like Jack’s need to build potato canons, trebuchets and the like.
• If you find yourself spending too much time on your hobby and too little time at work, you should take the hint that you’re in the wrong job.
• Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone was a ditherer but his future father in law was not. Filed patent on the telephone just hours prior to another person.
• Jack’s story about Arthur D. Little & Co. Invented synthetic penicillin, color contact lenses, inkjet printing etc. Sold at a fire sale.
• Biggest obstacle was raising money. Bootstrapped for four years.
• Jack read his family into the business he was founding, yet being a startup CEO has been a very lonely experience. Techstars is a great place to find peers to talk to.
• Sal recommends finding a board member/investor that you can open up to.
• Jack Huntress’ parting thoughts: founders need to take care of themselves. Eat well, exercise and get enough sleep.
• Brings to mind wisdom of Brendan Schwartz that you can’t out hustle the competition, you can only out think them. How are you going to out think the competition if you’re exhausted from working twenty-hour days? Link to the Wistia Episode

Last year Peter Thiel secretly funded Hulk Hogan's lawsuit that destroyed Gawker. Should the wealthy be able to ruin a publication if they don't like what it has to say? We discuss the new precedent this case set between privacy and Freedom of Speech, all while tumbling down the rabbit hole of trashy media and big money.

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Additional Resources:

• Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War With Gawker
• Did I Kill Gawker?
• How Univision’s purchase of Gawker could alter the future of online journalism
• A Huge, Huge Deal
• This Is Why Billionaire Peter Thiel Wants to End Gawker
• NICK DENTON, PETER THIEL, AND THE PLOT TO MURDER GAWKER

This week we have two interviews from DENVER COMIC CON!! First off, we do a man on the street style chat with SAM SPINA, indie comix creator turned Nickelodeon Cartoon Creator and Storyboard artist for REGULAR SHOW!!

Then Dammit Damian hosts a Panel interview with the almighty LIZ PRINCE! Liz Prince is of course the artist of the graphic novel TOMBOY and Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed, and Ignatz award winning comic. You may have also seen Liz's work grace the covers of Masked Intruder records, Razorcake Magazine or taking over the world of the Tumblrspheer.

AND NOT TO MENTION I GOT TURNED INTO A LIZ PRINCE COMIC! IT'S A DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LEMURIA are our guests this week on the Mostly Harmless Podcast! We meet up and interview Alex, Max and Sheena in the basement green room of the Hi-Dive in Denver! We chat with them about their newest release and appearance in Turnstile Comix #3, appearing in Entertainment Weekly, and the art of becoming a comic book characters in both Turnstile #3 and Li'l Depressed Boy! All of this and more in today's interview!

In Episode 6 of Accredited Investor Markets Radio, host Chris Cahill and Jesse Clem, the co-founder and CEO of Loquidity, talk about investing in real estate. Their discussion includes changes in how real estate investment opportunity and accredited investors find one another, changes in state law that abet the JOBS Act in encouraging general solicitation of accredited investors, and potential advantages for investors presented by a regionally-focused real estate investment platform.

You can learn more about investing in real estate by visiting www.accreditedinvestormarkets.com

You can learn more about Jesse Clem and Loquidity by visiting www.loquidity.com

You can also find them on Twitter at:

@loquidity

@jesseclem

Jesse Clem is the co­founder and CEO of Loquidity, bringing more than 15 years of experience as a senior leader at Fortune 500 corporations within the IT industry to bear in developing a seamless user experience for Loquidity’s community of investors. Aspiring to disrupt the traditionally opaque real estate investment process, he helped found the company to bring high­ quality opportunities to a wide range of investors, catering to those interested in revitalizing their local communities. He is also a seasoned investor with more than seven years’ experience investing in multifamily and commercial real estate.

Jesse has a unique ability to blend business, real estate and technology into his ventures, having launched and sold numerous successful enterprises. In addition to his extensive personal real estate portfolio, he also created a hard money lending capital company to provide debt financing for numerous projects in the West Michigan area. He received his Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Taylor University and also holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Will, Barrett and Chris count down their respective lists of their top ten albums of 2010.