10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It
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10-Minute Tech Talks: How Tech Entrepreneurs Fail & How You Can Avoid It
Are you an entrepreneur building a technology company and looking to grow fast? This show teaches and inspires entrepreneurs to build better companies by learning from the failures of other tech companies and entrepreneurs. If you're striving for rapid growth while avoiding the mistakes that have le...
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From Prototype to Payoff: Using AI to Build, Scale and Prove ROI
Every entrepreneur has had this moment: you have an idea, you can see the product in your head and you know there is a market problem to solve. Then r...
Beyond Vibe Coding: Building AI Apps That Don't Break
What happens when your AI-built app looks amazing, but it is not ready for real customers?
That is the question we are tackling on this episode...
Growth Code: Tech Entrepreneurs Need More Cowbell!
Can having more fun actually help build a more serious company?
In this episode of Growth Code: How to Crack the Inc. 5000, Dan Desko, Founder o...
Growth Code: Tech Entrepreneur Hiring Lessons From Echelon Risk + Cyber
How do you build a high-growth company without hiring a team full of clones?
In this episode of Growth Code: How to Crack the Inc. 5000, Dan Des...
Growth Code: Tech Entrepreneur Lessons From Echelon's Inc. 5000 Growth
What does it really take to build a company that clients trust when the stakes are sky-high?
In this first episode of Growth Code: How to Crack...
Wins, Worries and Wild Cards: Huntington Bank's Economic Outlook For the Tech Entrepreneur
We are officially at the halfway point of the year, which makes this a perfect time to pop the hood on the economy and see what is really driving the...
Father-Son Entrepreneurs Are Using AI and Gaming to Find Future Innovators
What if the next great engineer, roboticist or AI innovator is already here in Pittsburgh, but just hasn't been discovered yet?
On this episode...
Entrepreneurial Triple Threat: How Ecotone's Zeus Converts Food Waste Into Soil Sauce
What if the leftovers from lunch could become fertilizer, data and a climate solution?
On this 10 Minute Tech Talk, we're digging into one of th...
AI Cybersecurity Risks Every Business Needs to Understand
On this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, we're diving into the fast-moving, slightly chaotic and very real world of AI and cybersecurity with Isabelle...
FBI Cyber Advice Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs to Hear
Cybersecurity is not just an IT issue. It is now a core business discipline.
In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Jonathan Kersting talks wi...
What Makes a Tech Company Worth Buying? A Pittsburgh Entrepreneur Explains
What makes a company worth buying?
Most people think it's revenue. Or technology. Or market share.
But after spending more than 30 years b...
Tech Entrepreneur Hiring Hack: Why AI Skills Matter More Than Experience
What if the best hire for your company isn't the most experienced… but the most AI-enabled?
In this quick hit from the Pittsburgh Technology Cou...
Tech First, Not Tech Only: How Entrepreneurs Can Find Friction, Fix Processes, and Lead With Data
What happens when you stop treating technology like overhead and start using it to give people their time back?
In this episode, we talk with Mo...
Product Management Whiz Dan Olsen on Why Entrepreneurs Need to Pay Attention to Vibe Coding Right Now
What happens when building a product gets radically easier?
You're about to find out. Today's featured voice is Dan Olsen, author of The Lean Pr...
The Real Cost of Building Robots? Time. HEBI Robotics Explains
What if the biggest breakthrough in robotics is not the robot itself, but the time you save building it?
In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks...
From Idea to Market: How HEBI Robotics Found the Real Business
What happens when a company starts with one cool idea, then realizes the real business is hiding in the pieces they built along the way?
In thi...
How Tech Entrepreneurs Can Grow Companies Without Losing Their Souls
How do you build a business that can stand the test of time and keep your soul intact?
In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Lou Camerlengo o...
How AI and Lidar Are Turning Maps Into Intelligent Machines
AI is transforming everything — but some of the most powerful applications are happening in places most people never see.
In our Techvibe inter...
From Steel Mills to AI: Why Pittsburgh's Tech Future Is Built on Its Industrial DNA
Pittsburgh is often called a comeback city. But Woolpert CEO Neil Churman sees something deeper.
As discovered in his Techvibe interview, Neil b...
Hey Tech Entrepreneurs! Here's Why AI Won't Replace Experts
AI is everywhere right now, and there's a lot of fear about what it means for jobs.
And Woolpert CEO Neil Churman sees it differently. He believ...
Why Tech Entrepreneurs Win by Ignoring AI Hype
Are you building technology or are you building results?
In this episode, you are going to hear why some leaders believe AI has been massively...
Why Smart Tech Entrepreneurs Don't Let AI Make the Final Call
Here's a quick question for you. If your software can make decisions for your customers, should it, or should it simply make them smarter?
In...
What Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Scaling a Technology Venture
What does it really take to scale a startup when early traction turns into real momentum?
In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, Jonathan Kers...
Love, Leadership, and Launching a Technology Startup
Building a startup is hard.
Building a startup with your spouse? That's a whole different level of difficulty.
Today on 10 Minute Tech Tal...
Why Entrepreneurs Should Pay Attention to How Healthcare Uses Technology
What you're about to hear isn't just a conversation about healthcare. It's a masterclass in how modern organizations use technology to scale expertise...
The Fast Lane for Entrepreneurs Who Code: AI Is the On-Ramp, Not the Destination
AI is everywhere right now. It can write code, generate content, fix bugs, and give you a starting point in seconds. But if you're an entrepreneur bui...
Save Time and Frustration: Every Tech Entrepreneur That Codes Needs This Resource
You're building something. You're moving fast. And at some point, the code starts slowing you down.
Today's 10 Minute Tech Talks is for founders...
How a Tech Entrepreneur Turned Broken Networking into Scalable Opportunity
Why do so many promising business conversations quietly disappear after a handshake?
In this episode of 10 Minute Tech Talks, we explore a probl...
A Tech Entrepreneur's Wake-Up Call: When Your Product Is Just a Feature
What if the thing you're most proud of building… is the thing holding your business back?
Today on 10 Minute Tech Talks, we're digging into a mo...
The AI Mistakes Tech Entrepreneurs Keep Making
If AI is everywhere, why are so many companies still struggling to make it work?
In Part One "Why Tech Entrepreneurs Can't Treat AI as an Experi...
Why Tech Entrepreneurs Can't Treat AI as an Experiment Anymore
When did AI stop being a fun experiment… and start becoming table stakes for running a business?
In just a year, AI has gone from "interesting"...
Why Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs to Rethink 5G Connectivity in 2026
What if the next breakout startup isn't powered by better software… but by better connectivity?
Today's 10 Minute Tech Talk is all about removin...
The Hard Truth Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs Before Building Anything
What if the biggest threat to your startup isn't the competition, but the decisions you make in the first six months?
In this episode of 10 Minu...
Checkmate Thinking: How Chess Can Help Entrepreneurs Turn Strategy Into a Superpower
What if the key to better leadership, sharper decisions, and next-level strategy was sitting on a chessboard?
Host Jonathan Kersting with the Pi...
Ramen-Fueled Beginnings to $3M Breakthrough: A Tech Entrepreneur's Journey
What does it take for a small, bootstrapped tech company to leap from building dashboards… to designing AI-powered drones for the U.S. Army?
Tod...
Tech Entrepreneurs: Stop Reinventing the Wheel — Start Building Like Lego
What if scaling your tech business was as simple—and as flexible—as snapping together a few Lego bricks? In this 10 Minute Tech Talks episode, we brea...
The Tech Entrepreneur's Edge: Agility, AI, and Always Staying Curious
What if the secret to staying ahead in business isn't mastering every new technology — but learning how to adapt faster than it changes?
In this...
Key Leadership Lessons From a Black Belt: How Entrepreneurs Can Build Discipline, Confidence, and Resilience
What can earning a black belt in karate teach you about running a startup?
CGI's Manoj Mishra shares how discipline, quiet confidence, and serva...
The New F Word! Baryons Uses Human-Centered Technology to Help People FLOURISH
What if your AI could help you live well — not just work better? In this episode of TechVibe, host Jonathan Kersting talks with Mike Hruska, founder o...
Disruptive Tech Update: This Platform is Rethinking AI From the Brain Up!
What if the next breakthrough in AI doesn't come from a giant data center or another LLM, but from a small Pittsburgh startup that's building artifici...