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DOM CHRONICLES - Use Your Imagination (music video)

STREAM "Use Your Imagination" on Soundcloud http://bit.ly/1Sb6eF6

video directed by Kendu

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DOM CHRONICLES - The Metro (music video)

Buy The Metro on iTunes here: http://apple.co/1TtQ50E Get Reality Makers on Bandcamp: http://bit.ly/1UdLLoI Stream Reality Makers on Soundcloud: http://bit.ly/1qOeYuy Stream Reality Makers on Spotify: http://bit.ly/1MUIXev Song produced by Abjo Video shot and directed by Kendu @DomChronicles #RealityMakers

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DOM CHRONICLES - Reality Makers available now as a free download

release date: 03.25.16

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REALITY MAKERS TOUR 2016 - SXSW LEG

03.02.16 - Chicago, IL - SubT Lounge | RSVP 03.04.16 - St. Louis, MO - Cicero's  | RSVP 03.05.16 - Cincinnati, OH - The Mockbee Theatre   | RSVP 03.09.16 - Pittsburgh, PA - Howler's Cafe  | RSVP 03.11.16 - Oshkosh, WI @ Reptile Palace  | RSVP 03.12.16 - Minneapolis, MO @ The Triple Rock  | RSVP 03.13.16 - Columbia, MO @ The Social Room  | RSVP 03.16.16 - Austin, TX @ Sledgehammer (SXSW) | RSVP 03.18.16 - Austin, TX @ Love Goat (SXSW) | RSVP 03.19.16 - SENSEI PARTY (The Riot Room, KCMO) | RSVP 03.26.16 - Overland Park, KS - The Roxy  | RSVP

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Reality Makers 3: Wade Foster of Zapier

In this third episode of Reality Makers, I talk with Y Combinator alum Wade Foster, the incredibly inspiring CEO and co-founder of the quickly growing Zapier. Check out the highlights below!

Episode 3 Highlights

0:54 - Q: Who is Wade Foster? 1:40 - Q: What spurred your interest into entrepreneurship? 2:33 - "My first foray into entrepreneurship was through music." 4:31 - "At my first internship at 'Big Corp'...I did spreadsheets. I hated it. I'd spend 15-30 minutes doing actual work and my bosses loved it. I couldn't imagine doing this for 40 more years." 6:06 - "They didn't know anything about marketing either. I didn't know anything about marketing. So they couldn't call me out on stuff. I'd suggest all kinds of things! I learned a ton." 6:50 - "I finally decided that I really do want to own my own business. I want to do this for myself because it was so much fun being able to control your own destiny. I finally realized that I could turn entrepreneurship into something I can do." 8:50 - Q: Why did you decide to team with your co-founders? 9:30 - "Even if we weren't doing Zapier together. We'd still be friends. I think that's how some of the best co-founder relationships work--when there's something more that connects the two of you than just your startup." 10:24 - Q: How do you and your co-founders balance each other out? 11:15 - Q: Where did the idea for Zapier come from? 12:35 - "Customers were always asking for integrations with other products...Between the three of us we thought, 'Man there should be a product that exists that lets people do this stuff.'" 15:57 - "Even our beta customers paid us some amount of money to use the product." 16:20 - Q: Why $100? "$100 is significant. It's not chump change but not so much a business couldn't pay for it." 17:15 - Q: Why Y Combinator? Why do you think you were able to get in? 19:24 - "Whether they [partners] liked it or not, they would judge you based on the seriousness of the company. Three random guys from Missouri just didn't sound as serious as Silicon Valley, Y Combinator funded company." 22:16 - "10 times out of 10 we would go through YC again...It'd be hard to replicate that by yourself." 23:05 - Q: What's the most troubling experiences you've had? 25:42 - "It wasn't just the three of us deciding if this was the right move. There were also three fantastic women in our lives we had to convince this was the right move." 27:00 - Q: What are you guys most excited for in the coming future? 28:30 - Q: Any tools that you use that help Zapier achieve success? 32:00 - Q: What was the experience like hiring your first employee? 34:25 - Q: What advice would you give someone to get to where you're at today? "Just start doing something." 34:35 - "People spend too much time thinking about things that aren't really that important." 34:55 - "If you've got an idea for something, go find someone that would be a customer and go sell them that thing." 35:20 - "Day one, get customers." 36:20 - "5 years from today, Zapier will be bigger than it is today." 36:54 - "The goal is to keep building a customer we enjoy showing up to everyday."

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Reality Makers 2: Joshua Davidson

In this amazing second episode of Reality Makers, I talk with Joshua Davidson, an incredibly inspiring 20-year-old startup founder who already has two companies under his belt, Chop Dawg and Subtle. Check out the highlights below!

Episode 2 Highlights

2:13 - Q: What is Chop Dawg? 8:07 - Q: How big is your team? Where are you all located? 10:00 - "We don't have set hours because if someone is going to wake up at 2AM with that great idea, let them work then." 11:00 - Q: Hiring? 11:50 - "Our product isn't our product. Our product is our people." 13:17 - Q: Why the hell did you decide to become an entrepreneur in the first place? 19:45 - "We didn't want to create some new market that didn't exist. We wanted to solve problems in a market where we saw plenty of business." 20:03 - Q: Why do you think you've been able to have success? A: "Quality work and referrals." 20:05 - "We want to run a business the way we want to be treated." 22:16 - "There's two things you need to have to be successful: 1. You have to recognize opportunities that people wouldn't recognize. [...] 2. Be naively optimistic. [...]" 28:46 - "I think the best thing in the world is: you believe in your idea and you get paid to do it." 29:23 - Q: What is Subtle? 33:38 - "How can we make this complex functionality serve so much purpose and be easy for the user? The answer is pretty simple: they don't have to do anything!" 35:30 - "Last year more small businesses were registering in the US than in the last 10 years combined and 81% of those had an average founder age between 20-30." 36:57 - "We built a product that is probably still 5 years away from being something...but that's okay." 39:25 - Q: What's your role amongst the team? 42:17 - Q: What advice would you give people who have ideas they want to make a reality? A: "Do it." 43:00 - "If you're going to live once you might as well do something that you're passionate about. In my case I'm passionate about helping others and making things people use." 45:14 - "Can you be a [Foursquare] mayor when getting takeout or do you have to actually be there?"

This episode is brought to you by Chop Dawg.

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My Interview on Reality Makers

I’m honored to be the first guest on Corey Gwin's new show, Reality Makers. He describes it as:

Reality Makers came about out of my interest in asking people on Twitter if I could pick their brain for 30-45 min via a Google Hangout. I quickly realized that the conversations I was having were so incredibly insightful that I had to share the experience with others. These individuals are the future Musks, possible Vaynerchuks, Roses or Zuck’s. It’s been exciting and intriguing to hear from these inspiring entrepreneurs and thinkers currently in the thick of it and I’m excited for others to learn from them too.

I may never become a “muskvaynerrosezuck” but nevertheless, it was fun talking about myself. ;)

Enjoy.

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Reality Makers 1: Ryan Hoover

In this inaugural episode of Reality Makers, I talk with with the inspiring Ryan Hoover, a PandoDaily contributor, Director of Product at PlayHaven and the brains behind the quickly growing newsletter Startup Edition. Ryan shares with us his journey in to startups from Oregon to the Silicon Valley as a product manager, why he believes writing plays such an important role in the startup community, and how it was he was able to meet Phil of Philz Coffee.

Reality Makers came about out of my interest in asking people on Twitter if I could pick their brain for 30-45 min via a Google Hangout. I quickly realized that the conversations I was having were so incredibly insightful that I had to share the experience with others. These individuals are the future Musks, possible Vaynerchuks, Roses or Zuck's. It's been exciting and intriguing to hear from these inspiring entrepreneurs and thinkers currently in the thick of it and I'm excited for others to learn from them too.

I am completely winging it (interviewing, video editing, audio, etc.). I would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, interest of being a guest yourself, or sponsoring the show.

Please share and let me know what you think.