Episode 135
Sparks Weekend, Entrepreneurship in Spokane, Angel Investing April 8, 2024 with Tom Simpson
Tom Simpson, CEO of Ignite, discusses entrepreneurship in Spokane, the importance of startup culture, and the role of angel investing. He shares insights on evaluating startups, building successful teams, and the exciting Sparks Weekend event for aspiring entrepreneurs.
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Movie, at 43:25
"l people, people often come to me, and well, I often tell people that one investment areas I don't make is into films. But we all break our own rules every once in a while, right? Well, I once invested in a movie called Folk Hero and Funny Guy. A great movie. It's a tremendous movie. made it to the Tribeca Film Festival, but for whatever reason it didn't have a whole lot of box office success. But I'm one of the executive producers of the movie. I still w"
Beat Feet by Chris Kiefer
Movie, at 45:01
"business and then the movie is like 10 times harder to get it quote unquote successful. Plus you've got the creative aspect which is huge variables. But yeah, we had it on, the funny thing about the movie, it's called Beat Feet and it was on Amazon Prime forever. We got it on there and. tom simpson Yeah. Chris Kiefer it made like a total of, you know, 37 cents a day or something, because they pay you based on minutes watched. But"
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
Book, at 42:03
"George Rantz actually lived in Spokane for a while that's being turned into a movie but just a great story again and that one's another feature of culture and success and management is grit just grit and the boys in the boat just tom simpson men that just came together in a boat and succeeded. So those are kind of the three books that I've read over the years and I've really enjoyed and taken a lot out of particularly as it relates"