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Hosted by Amazon · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 161 episodes
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Welcome to This Is Small Business, an Amazon podcast hosted by Andrea Marquez—where we talk about entrepreneurship the way it actually feels: exciting, chaotic, personal, and honestly… kind of life-changing.Follow along for unfiltered conversations with founders and creators as they open up about the wins worth celebrating, the messy middle nobody posts about, and the behind-the-scenes wisdom you won’t find in a textbook. If you’re dreaming, building, or just curious about how people actually make it happen—you’re in the right spot.
Amazon hosts This Is Small Business, a business show with 161 episodes published.
Your culture may already be shaping your business – through the problem you noticed, the traditions that inspired you, or the story behind your product. Bringing those influences forward can help customers understand wha
When you’re building a business, it can be tempting to keep tweaking until everything feels perfect. But sometimes, the next step isn’t more polishing. It’s putting something real in front of people and learning from the
You don’t need to have it all figured out before you start. This latest season of This Is Small Business was full of founders who began with a problem they couldn’t ignore, made mistakes, changed direction, and learned a
What if the conversation you’re avoiding is the one your business needs most? A lot of founders start a business because they have an idea, a product, or a vision they believe in. But at some point, building the business
Your first business might not work out but it can show you how to build a better one. After years in hospitality and teaching cocktail classes to thousands of people, April Wachtel saw a gap: people wanted bar-quality dr
What would you give up to build something bigger than yourself? After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Reubens Amedee left his successful finance career to build a school on his grandfather’s land. But keeping that dream al
What if your biggest competitive advantage is your story? When Akruti Babaria couldn’t find tools to help her son connect with his Indian heritage, she turned that gap into a business. What started as selling curated chi
What separates the businesses that get funded from the ones that don’t? Angela Lee, a professor at Columbia Business School and founder of 37 Angels, has helped evaluate over 20,000 startups and knows exactly what makes
What happens when a simple craving turns into a nationally recognized brand? For Alejandro Lopez, it started with brunch. Frustrated by inconsistent Bloody Marys at restaurants, he began experimenting in his own kitchen
What happens when you take a centuries-old tradition and introduce it to a modern audience? That’s the question Brenden Silverman set out to answer with Leilo, a wellness drink inspired by kava – a traditional beverage f
What if design isn’t the finishing touch on your business but the foundation? Sally Chung thinks most founders have it backwards. They obsess over logos, colors, and aesthetics, while skipping the deeper work that actual
She didn’t mean to disrupt the gum industry. She just wanted gum that wasn’t made of plastic. When Caron Proschan first found that out, she couldn’t ignore it. One piece of neon-blue gum after a healthy lunch sent her do
What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your idea… it’s the way you’ve been trained to think? Ashish Bhatia is basically a therapist for entrepreneurs and in this episode of This Is Small Business, he breaks dow
What do you do when you realize the “safe” path isn’t actually your dream? Brandon Fuhrmann went to law school, passed the bar… and then walked away – because building Cooler Kitchen, a space-saving kitchen brand born in
What if the thing everyone avoids talking about is actually your best business idea? When Katie Diasti realized how awkward and outdated period care still felt, she didn’t wait for someone else to fix it. She built Viv –
Running a business is more than strategy and numbers. It’s momentum, pressure, excitement, and responsibility–often all in the same day. It’s making decisions without perfect information, trusting your instincts, and liv
Building a business can often seem like a solo mission. But founders who thrive know that success doesn’t come from hard work alone — it comes from having the right people in your corner: those who understand your missio
Every small business owner dreams of seeing their product go viral. It’s exciting to imagine your business blowing up out of the blue, but these moments aren’t as random as they seem. What looks like a sudden spike in at
No one gets it right on the first try. But every great idea has a few misses behind it – because getting it wrong is how you finally get it right. In this Small Business Byte on This is Small Business, host Andrea Marque
Before you pour time, money, and energy into a new idea, how do you know if people actually want what you’re offering? The answer: market research. In this Small Business Byte on This is Small Business, host Andrea Marqu
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This Is Small Business is hosted by Amazon. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 161 episodes.
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