
Down, But Not Out
We all love to hear success stories of how an entrepreneur accomplished greatness. While accomplishing this is unlikely, these stories are shared far and wide. What doesn’t get talked about enough is when entrepreneurs make mistakes, or something changes in their business or industry, leading to impending doom for their businesses. On Down, But Not Out, we share those stories. The stories of pure resiliency where entrepreneurs had to fight to save their businesses after being dealt a death blow. These stories are meant to inspire future entrepreneurs while motivating current ones to keep fighting.
Episodes
13 episodes
Ep. 12 How Synapse Survived After Multiple Co-founders Walked Away
A few years into business, Ryan and his Co-Founders were faced with a difficult decision. Due to budget constraints and different skillsets, two of them had to walk away from the company. Learn how Ryan was able to face this tough decision and ...
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Episode 12
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26:35

Ep. 11 How Never Settle Survived After Losing Half of their Revenue Due to the Pandemic
In early 2020, the world was struck by uncertainty, and almost every business was impacted in one way or another. Never Settle was hit hard by their clients closing their retail stores, budget cuts, and lay...
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Episode 11
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37:39

Ep. 10 How YouMail Had to Reposition Twice After Realizing Potential in Serving Other Markets
A few years into business, YouMail realized that their current B2B sales cycle was taking too long and had to pivot to service B2C instead. During this transition and downsizing, Alex was also wrongfully served which lead to them losing thousan...
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Episode 10
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33:33

Ep. 9 How AdGreetz Survived After an Exclusivity Contract Lead to Them Losing a Fortune 500 Client
After leaving his 30-year career with Warner Bros, Eric Frankel decided to pursue his entrepreneurial dream. A few years into business, Eric signed a two week exclusivity contract with one of their clients, Flipkart. Then, Amazon asked for a ca...
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Episode 9
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46:00

Ep 8. How Hawke Media Handled an Unexpected Employee Hiatus That Almost Led to Them Losing Half of Their Clients
In 2014, Hawke Media began to grow rapidly, taking on multiple Fortune 1000 clients. Just weeks into business, a key employee who ran campaigns for half of their clients disappeared to Hawaii to get married to a girl he just met. Find out how E...
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Episode 8
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33:29

Ep. 7 How Cliently Rebuilt After Product Missteps Caused Them to Lose All Their Customers
Just a few months after launching Cliently, Spencer Farber was faced with back to back missteps of sending emails from the wrong client accounts and their entire database being erased. Find out how Spencer’s positive outlook and resiliency were...
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Episode 7
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22:44

Ep. 6 How InnoSoft Survived a Shareholder Standstill that Almost Lead to Everyone Walking Away
In this episode of Down, But Not Out Nick talks to Brian Foster about how his company, InnoSoft, almost went under due to a 3-month shareholder standstill over disagreements on how to grow the company. Due to the disagreements, Brian and the ot...
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Episode 6
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42:06

Ep. 5 How Arcane Had to Remodel After Small Changes Led to Declining Revenue
In this episode of Down, But Not out Nick talks to Eric Vardon about how his company, Arcane, began to struggle due to a combination of small changes that snowballed into a 30% drop in revenue. After growing Arcane to 15 million in revenue, cha...
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Episode 5
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37:46

Ep. 4 How Big Viking Games Fought Off a Patent Troll
In this episode of Down, But Not Out, Nick talks to Greg Thompson about how Big Viking Games was served a lawsuit early on that could have cost them millions and put them out of business. After growing Big Viking Games to generate over 3 millio...
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Episode 4
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1:04:09

Ep. 3 How Farms.com Survived the Dotcom Crash
In the third episode of Down, But Not Out Nick talks to Joe Dales about how his company, Farms.com, had to restructure after an attempt to grow too quickly. After a new CEO takes too much of a growth risk, Joe had to deal with financial hardshi...
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Episode 3
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23:08

Ep. 2 How rTraction is Rebuilding After Losing a Fortune 500 Client
In the second episode of Down, But Not Out, Nick talks to David Billson about how his company, rTraction, lost a fortune 500 client that made up ~70% of their revenue. This lead to rapid staff and attempted cost reductions that taught David a v...
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Episode 2
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47:23

Welcome to Down, But Not Out
Welcome to the Down, But Not Out podcast! In this trailer, you'll meet your host, Nick Hollinger, and learn what Down, But Not Out is really about. The idea of Down, But Not Out was born after Nick's business, Visitor Queue, was de...
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Episode 0
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2:06

Ep. 1 How Google Dealt Visitor Queue a Death Blow
In our first episode, your host, Nick Hollinger, shares how his company, Visitor Queue, almost went under due to changes Google made to their APIs. This story was the inspiration behind the Down, But Not Out show and we thought it was the perfe...
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Episode 1
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30:39
