Feel the Boot delivers advice and experience to entrepreneurs, helping them create and grow successful businesses. We help founders go from overwhelmed entrepreneur to successful CEO.
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Signup to Generate a PitchFeel the Boot delivers advice and experience to entrepreneurs, helping them create and grow successful businesses. We help founders go from overwhelmed entrepreneur to successful CEO.
Recent episodes include "Why Great Advisors Give Terrible Startup Advice" (25 August 2026, 19 minutes), "Investors Judge You Before You Say a Word" (23 June 2026, 37 minutes), and "Stop Asking for Warm Intros First (They Come Last)" (2 June 2026).
Feel the Boot publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 137 episodes.
Booking probability for Feel the Boot is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Feel the Boot requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Feel the Boot's contact route on record: verified email.
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Feel the Boot is a business podcast with 137 episodes published.
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Bad startup advice usually comes from smart, successful, well-meaning people. That's exactly what makes it so hard to catch. A prototype-stage hardware founder was told by a reputable investor at a large VC firm never...
Episode #133
Investors form their first judgment about you before you've said a word about your product. At the early stage they bet on the founder, not the idea, which makes the signal you send long before the pitch one of the most...
Feel the Boot
Warm introductions are the gold standard for getting investor meetings. But most founders chase them at the wrong time, and it actually hurts their raise.
The friends and family round is how most founders raise their first capital — but it's also where the most relationships get damaged. If you don't structure it right, you can accidentally screw over the people trying to...
Episode #130
Most founders are doing "random acts of marketing" — a little LinkedIn, some ads, a blog here and there. Trying to be everywhere, succeeding nowhere. Javier Lozano Jr. was the CMO at Wrapmate during their run from ~$1M...
Episode #129
Most technical founders think their product will do the talking. It won't. Shayna Rattler-Davis has spent 15+ years helping leaders at companies like IBM, L'Oréal, and dozens of STEM startups learn how to show up with...
Former hockey enforcer Dave Burnett took punches for a living, then helped build Achievers.com (sold for $110M), watched his own business go to zero twice, and came back both times. In this episode, we dig into why...
Episode #127
Most founders think fundraising fails because of "bad luck." Usually, it fails because of simple physics. Fundraising is a sales funnel. If you have a structural leak at the top, no amount of "slick" pitching will...
If your first interaction with an investor is asking for money, you have already lost. Cold pitching investors has a success rate of nearly 0%. Warm introductions have a success rate of over 50%. The gap between those...
🛑 Stop Networking! Build Trust and Community to Fund Your Startup | David Homan Are you an introverted founder struggling to raise capital? Do you find most networking events to be a waste of time and purely...
Episode #124
The 6 Startup Pitches Every Founder Needs Most founders only create one pitch deck, and it costs them investors. In this video, I’ll show you the six pitches every startup founder needs to win...
Founder/Market Fit: Your Startup’s Early-Stage Advantage Stop guessing about “Founder–Market Fit.” In this episode I break down how investors spot it at the pre-seed stage— and what to do if you don’t have...
Are you outsourcing your thinking to ChatGPT? That’s a fast track to sabotaging your startup. In this episode, I share two real conversations I had with founders who said they got their market size numbers from...
Episode #121
Most founders don’t fail because of a bad idea. They fail because fear, doubt, and hesitation stop them before they ever really start. In this episode of Feel the Boot , I sit down with internationally...
Episode #120
Unlocking Startup Growth: Fundraising Strategies and Resilience Tips with Paulo Andrez What separates the startups that raise capital and scale… from those that stall out? In this episode of Feel the...
Episode #119
Pre-Sell Before You Build: Avoid Costly Startup Mistakes — with David Hirschfeld Most startups fail because they build something no one wants. In this episode of Feel the Boot , I talk with David Hirschfeld...
Avoid These Startup Finance Mistakes — Insights from a Fractional CFO Most founders ignore finance until it becomes a problem—don’t be that founder. In this episode of Feel the Boot , I sit down...
🔥 Your Pitch is Losing Investors in the First 5 Seconds—Here’s How to Fix It! Most founders waste the most critical part of their pitch—the opening. Investors remember the first and last things you say. But...
What’s stopping you from starting your dream business? For most people, it’s fear. Fear of failure, financial loss, looking foolish—or even fear of success. In this episode, we break down the most common fears...
Why Startup Plans Fail (and Why That’s Okay) Welcome to Feel the Boot, the science of startups! In this episode, host I share three insightful sayings about planning and their relevance to startups. Using quotes...
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