Robots In Space founder Dr. Gordon Roesler returns to the Cold Star Project following his appearance as a speaker at the State of the Space…
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Bleddyn Bowen, PhD, is the author of War In Space: Strategy, Space Power, Geopolitics. He has a different point of view on space warfare than…
Past Associate Administrator, Human Exploration and Operations at NASA and US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy Douglas Loverro is on the Cold…
Dr. TS Kelso is a principle scientist behind understanding and using TLE data for identifying, tracking and predicting the orbital paths of satellites. For decades…
State of Readiness author Joseph Paris is the inaugural guest on Season Four of the Cold Star Project. Joseph is also the founder of the…
Tim Anderson, US Naval Reserve Commander and defense contractor, discusses how the DoD makes up his mind in this appearance on the Cold Star Project.…
Col. Eric Felt, Director at Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, joins Jason Kanigan on the Cold Star Project to discuss latest developments. Col.…
Dr. Moriba Jah returns to the Cold Star Project so we can have an even more in-depth discussion about space situational awareness. As host Jason…
United Space Structures founder Bill Kemp is on the Cold Star Project, and we’re talking about creating space structures on the Moon. USS’ goal is…
Dylan Taylor, founder of space investment firm Voyager Space Holdings, has a perspective on growing companies that’s different from traditional venture capitalists. Voyager takes a…
General Partner at Starbridge Venture Capital and President of the Moon Society Michael Mealling is on the Cold Star Project. Michael has long been both…
Dr. Andrew Aldrin is Director of the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida Institute of Tech, ISU Center for Space Entrepreneurship; past President of Moon…
Dr. Gordon Roesler, past DARPA Program Manager and founder of Robots In Space, is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan of Cold…
Astralytical founder Dr. Laura Forczyk is on the Cold Star Project with host Jason Kanigan to talk about her new book, Rise of the Space…
Space lawyer and Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center Christopher Johnson is on the Cold Star Project. With host Jason Kanigan, the…
Dr. Pete Worden, NASA Ames Research Center Director from 2006 – 2015, is the guest on this special episode of the Cold Star Project. Dr.…
Verne Harnish has a great diagram in his book Scaling Up. I use it all over the place. The diagram shows 28 million firms in…
On this episode on the Cold Star Project, hosted by Jason Kanigan, our guest is Dr. Moriba Jah. Dr. Jah had an amazing career as…
Dr. Rick Fleeter, associate adjunct professor at Brown University and visiting lecturer at La Sapienza (Rome), has decades of personal history with small satellites. “I…
This time on the Cold Star Project we’re looking at Albert Kahn. Kahn’s firm pioneered standardization and modular systems, and had the biggest impact on…
Brian Reynolds helps family-run firms, often in the manufacturing space, in the $50 – 100 million revenue range “replace stale and ineffective business models with…
In this solo episode of the Cold Star Project, I’m sharing an example of how harsh demands force people to think outside the box. And…
10XTS (advanced fintech and regtech solutions provider) and Founder Institute – Cincinnati prime mover Michael Hiles is on the Cold Star Project and we’re talking…
Especially since the day Facebook and several other platforms crashed on March 13, 2019, business owners and ads managers have noticed a rise in the…
We act (or fail to act) based on what we believe to be true. Bruce Lee said, “Defeat is a state of mind; No one…
What does it take to charge a $50K setup fee for working with your firm? How To Command A Significant Startup Fee For Working With…
Derek Schmidt lives in the same town I do, so we were able to meet in person! For the first time we have an on-location…
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a unified system of business processes delivered through software. Despite ERP having been around for over 25 years, the problems…
Ben Watkins of Intrinsic Executive Search is here to share the challenges of hiring as your tech firm is scaling fast. We discover just how…
“Extruded Book Product” may be a bad-sounding phrase but it’s great business! Ever heard of The Hardy Boys…Nancy Drew…The Bobsey Twins? These and many more…
The next step for humanity is to become a spacefaring society. What kinds of things should we expect to be necessary as we make that…
Tired of working for “billable hours” and not being able to charge for all the work you do? Frustrated with scope creep in your projects,…
In this solo episode of the Cold Star Project, founder Jason Kanigan explores an example of perverse incentives. The Belgian Congo and atrocities committed there…
Matt Kurleto has built a tech business of over 60 staff…and he has a lot to share about what to do at what stage in…
CEO of $50 million software firm Datastorm and outsourced CMO Stephen Monaco joins us on the Cold Star Project to share his expertise on Voice…
The sales problems SaaS firms had in 2007 persist today! It’s as if nobody has learned anything over the past decade. In this episode of…
Channel strategist Stewart Townsend joins us on the Cold Star Project to share stories from both the low and the high perspective in scaling SaaS.…
My previous co-founder, Jeremy Pope of The Closing Engine, joins me on this episode of the Cold Star Project for a fun and relaxed discussion.…
Every day people use things they don’t really understand. Things like their vehicles, televisions, and computers. Do you use your business the same way? If…
You have your blinders on when it comes to where you’d get your biggest bang for your buck in improvement projects! Sure, the bonfires are…
The founder of Hello Process, Matt Daniell, is here not only to share his experience in the value of processes in scaling, but also a…
Convertri founder Andy Fletcher shares all the challenges of scaling a saas to $500K ARR…the lead generation, the payment processing, the operations, and more… If…
CTO of Kyvio (know your visitors inside out) Steven Peijl joins Jason Kanigan to share the power of processes in scaling from 7 to 8…
Your business has weak points. One of them may be you. Remember the CEO of Uber? Jason Kanigan of the Cold Star Project takes you…
You can’t wait for SEO to kick in and start driving leads to your startup. Nor do you have a huge budget for paid ads.…
The Gilbreths as successors to Taylor are the founders of modern scientific management. Their story is fascinating: the deeper you dig, the more odd facts…
Jason Kanigan of the Cold Star Project explains how humans WILL game any system and take advantage of whatever measures you set up…and why you…
Health care industry marketing & tech expert Andy Greene joins us to share a chilling tale of scaling hell on this episode of the Cold…
Cold Star Tech shares experiences with internal communications as the business scales. If you’re not careful, your leadership will be overwhelmed by chatter and you…
Cold Star Tech explains how changes in technology can cause unexpected people problems. Behind every tech problem is a people problem, and we’ll dig more…