STARTUP or SHUTUP! | Small Business & Entrepreneurship Podcast with Colin Fraley

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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 12: Tiny machines, big AI risks, and an expensive diesel promise 12.10.2026 14хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today: Atomic Machines emerges from stealth with a factory that turns code into tiny physical devices, while Anthropic reports unsettling model behavior and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella argues AI systems need emergency brakes. Plus, a disputed US-Russia diesel plan, storm aftermath, Apple’s home-device event, and smart basketballs.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 11: Horror’s Surprisingly Good Business 11.10.2026 9хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today’s episode looks at why horror remains one of Hollywood’s most reliable—and profitable—genres, from micro-budget hits to prestige films and practical effects. Plus, a few Halloween-season recommendations from Morning Brew.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 10: The bill always finds a way 10.10.2026 14хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today’s episode follows the rising cost of getting around, living comfortably, and investing in the market—plus what Delta, Walmart, SpaceX, and a concentrated S&P 500 reveal about the economy. We also cover fresh developments involving the Federal Reserve, severe weather, and a few wonderfully strange headlines.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 9: The AI Trust Bill Comes Due 09.10.2026 15хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. OpenAI faces fresh scrutiny from fired safety researchers and disappointing revenue, while Hollywood turns Big Tech’s power struggles into entertainment. Plus: PepsiCo’s healthier-snack pivot, tariffs’ slow price impact, prediction-market regulation, and a hurricane headed toward the Gulf Coast.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 8: The AI bill comes due 08.10.2026 16хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today: AI is reaching into biology, shopping, pricing, retirement accounts, and even SpaceX’s balance sheet. Meanwhile, rates are rising, private-credit liquidity is getting tested, and mathematicians are asking whether a proof is still a proof if the author is a machine.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 7: The Open-Model Moment 07.10.2026 17хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Open-weight AI is moving into the center of the competitive map, while OpenAI makes a sweeping mathematics claim and Google signs up nuclear power for its AI ambitions. Plus: the Skydance merger closes under a mountain of debt, markets hit records, and Oura shelves its IPO.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 6, 2026: The AI race gets cheaper, faster, and weirder 06.10.2026 17хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today: Reflection AI enters the open-model race, Cerebras makes a high-speed inference bet, and investors debate whether the AI boom still has easy money left. Plus, a Supreme Court climate case, bullish midterm market history, and the latest attempt to turn friendship into venture capital.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 4: When luxury food goes mainstream 04.10.2026 10хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today’s episode follows the democratization of delicacies, from farmed caviar showing up at McDonald’s to truffle oil masquerading as the real thing. We also sort out Champagne’s legal identity, the risks behind illegal foods, and the global foods that remain wonderfully unfamiliar.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 3, 2026: The AI bill comes due 03.10.2026 14хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. A weak U.S. jobs report shifts expectations for the Federal Reserve, while the enormous cost of AI infrastructure raises a basic question: who ultimately pays for all those chips and data centers? Plus, markets rally, energy reserves open, and a few unusually edible endurance-sport decisions.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 2: Bonds, bots, and the business of AI 02.10.2026 18хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today’s episode covers a global bond-market sell-off, Accenture’s surge on AI consulting demand, Tavus’s increasingly human-looking video agent, and Grindr’s acquisition of HIV-prevention telehealth company PurposeMed. Plus: private-market access expands, Google tests AI chips in orbit, and the market gets a little more casino-like.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 1: Gemini’s comeback bid and the rate-hike maybe 01.10.2026 14хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Google is making a fresh frontier-model push with Gemini 4 Argon, while softer inflation data has markets reconsidering another 2026 Fed hike. Plus: new AI oversight efforts, Apple’s delayed smart-home hub, and a few stories where reality remains aggressively complicated.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 30: The trillion-dollar AI reality check 30.09.2026 14хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Anthropic’s reported IPO plans put AI’s enormous costs, risks, and ambitions under a very bright financial spotlight. Meanwhile, OpenAI launches always-on agents, Oura pauses its IPO, and markets discover that consumer confidence is not, in fact, powered by vibes alone.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 29: The AI safety stack gets a safety stack 29.09.2026 17хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Today’s episode tracks a new wave of AI model launches, agent-security systems, and AI infrastructure deals, led by Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Nvidia’s OpenShell. We also cover Starship’s first orbital success, the ETF market’s increasingly strange menu, fuel-economy changes, and workers quietly paying for workplace AI.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 28: When the agents stop taking notes 28.09.2026 14хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. OpenAI’s agents reportedly crossed boundaries on government websites, while Meta’s Muse turns subscription cancellation into a breakout consumer feature. Plus: retail investors retreat, the East Coast cleans up after a deadly nor’easter, and a hawk solves Ford’s pigeon problem.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 27: The Alternative-Investment Industrial Complex 27.09.2026 10хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Young investors are moving beyond stocks and bonds into crypto, collectibles, private markets, sports betting, racehorses, and even domain names. Today’s episode examines why alternatives are growing—and where the excitement starts to look suspiciously like risk wearing a fun hat.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 26: The 7% Wall of Money 26.09.2026 11хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Mortgage rates climb above 7% as markets watch geopolitics, while Microsoft reshapes Copilot, Anthropic stays in a Pentagon fight, and a French literary prize gets pulled into the AI-authorship debate. Plus: Costco’s big beat, a nor’easter, and one very small California town with a surprisingly large price tag.
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  BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 25: AI gets wearable, orbital, and oddly practical 25.09.2026 15хв

  Colin's Daily SOS is the daily briefing from STARTUP or SHUTUP! Use these bonus episodes to stay sharp between the flagship long-form conversations. For the full founder interviews and high-quality video show, follow STARTUP or SHUTUP! on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. Meta expands its Muse AI across glasses and a new device, while Google prepares to test AI chips in orbit. Plus, a fresh look at AI infrastructure, the White House press-access fight, markets, and the lower-volume stories worth knowing.
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  Building Community as a Creator | PKFire on Parties & Entrepreneurship 02.06.2026 1год 4хв

  Founder interviews meet creator economy strategy. In this deep dive, PK Fire reveals how they transitioned from software engineering to building a thriving event and community business—and how that founder mindset applies to launching any venture. Learn the business validation techniques behind community building, the power of early partnerships, and why today's best entrepreneurs are doubling down on experiences and niche audiences. A must-listen for solopreneurs and small business owners exploring alternative revenue streams.
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  Silent Retreats: A Path to Clarity 21.04.2026 3хв

  Jason VanDevere shares his experience with silent retreats and how they have shaped his perspective and goals. He discusses the impact of silent retreats on his clarity, goal-setting, and overall happiness, emphasizing the shift from self-focused goals to others-focused goals.TakeawaysSilent retreats provide clarity and perspectiveShift from self-focused goals to others-focused goalsChapters00:00 The Impact of Silent Retreats
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  Empathy is Best for Business 26.03.2026 1хв

  The conversation emphasizes the importance of cultivating empathy and understanding others' perspectives, highlighting its impact on various aspects of business and life.TakeawaysCultivate empathyUnderstanding others' perspectivesChapters00:00 Cultivating Empathy for Success