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How to Get Booked on Idea to Startup
Idea to Startup is a startups podcast hosted by Brian Scordato | Tacklebox with 280 episodes. Your strongest route into Idea to Startup starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Idea to Startup is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Idea to Startup is about
A podcast for people working on startup ideas. We have 15-minute tactical episodes and occasional interviews with people who did the early things exceptionally well. We've helped launch hundreds of startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and these are the building blocks.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- weekly
- Latest episode
- Jul 1, 2026
- Catalogue
- 280 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- Starting a wine company in 17 minutes (ITS CLASSIC)
- An Operating System to Help You Move Faster By Focusing On Less (feat. a monkey reciting Hamlet)
- 15 Min(ish) Skill: Script the Start and End (ITS Classic)
- Thrust and Drag, Part 1: A System to Keep Momentum
- A Framework to Make Sure You're Building Something Useful
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-07-16.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Idea to Startup
- 1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Idea to Startup, which publishes weekly, currently “Starting a wine company in 17 minutes (ITS CLASSIC)”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Idea to Startup.
- 2
Send it to the address Idea to Startup publishes
Idea to Startup's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Idea to Startup's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Idea to Startup in your mail app; we never send it. Get the address for Idea to Startup.
- 3
Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want early-stage specifics: fundraising, product bets, and go-to-market experiments others can learn from. Open with one sentence on why you fit Idea to Startup and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Idea to Startup, then grade the draft against Idea to Startup.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Idea to Startup is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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