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

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By: Colin Fraley | Founder Podcast Host & Small Business Coach

The entrepreneurship podcast for startup founders, small business owners & solopreneurs who want the real playbook — not the highlight reel.STARTUP or SHUTUP! is hosted by Colin Fraley — small business coach, startup advisor, and serial entrepreneur — who sits down with real builders to extract the actual strategies, systems, and decisions behind their growth. Zero fluff. Zero filler.Whether you're scaling a small business, building your first startup, or running a solopreneur operation, every episode delivers:• Real founder stories — the wins, the failures, and the pivots that changed everything• Small business growth strategies and custom technology solutions that work today• Startup advice from people ac...

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BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 31, 2026: The candy tax, the crypto heist, and AI’s expensive hangover
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Colin's Daily SOS — October 31, 2026

Halloween candy is getting more expensive, Binance reportedly suffered a roughly $6.3 billion cyberheist, and investors continued selling technology stocks amid concerns about AI spending, cash flow, and growth forecasts.

In this episode

Halloween candy prices: Brew Markets reports prices rose nearly 8% year over year and more than 18% over two years, with th...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 30, 2026: The AI bill comes due
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Colin's Daily SOS — October 30, 2026

Today: Mistral’s new open-weight Le Chonk model, Alphabet’s record stock drop, Microsoft’s reported $25 billion-plus bond sale, Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 growth, Merck’s Keytruda patent horizon, and DoorDash’s announced $17 billion Instacart acquisition.

AI models and AI financing

Mistral announced Le Chonk and claimed it leads the world in codin...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 29, 2026: The cruise ship that ran out of world
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Colin's Daily SOS — October 29, 2026

A yearslong cruise ends abruptly after fuel costs soar; prediction markets become Robinhood’s largest revenue category; and the Federal Reserve holds rates steady while markets continue pricing future hikes.

In today’s episode

Odyssey cruise shutdown: The Odyssey’s promised around-the-world residential voyage ended abruptly in Cambodia amid soaring fuel prices. ...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 28: Robot Dogs, Boeing’s 47 Problem, and the AI Infrastructure Economy
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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 28, 2026

Today: robot-dog walkers, Boeing’s 737 Max production constraints, AI hardware enthusiasm, falling MBA applications, Coca-Cola and UPS earnings, housing’s “Bank of Mom and Dad,” and Halloween candy economics.

Robot dogs need human walkers

San Francisco startup Dimensional is hiring people to supervise mechanical dogs ordered by companies in China, Germa...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 27: Anthropic goes public, SpaceX goes wireless
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Colin's Daily SOS — October 27, 2026

Anthropic files for an IPO, SpaceX targets a massive wireless footprint, private credit courts individual investors, and AI companies face expanding legal exposure.

Anthropic files for an IPO

Anthropic reported $16.3 billion in first-half 2026 revenue, compared with $1.2 billion a year earlier, while its reported valuation target fell from $2 trillion to $1.5 trillion. Th...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 25, 2026: Halloween Goes Full Startup
10/25/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 25, 2026

Halloween is no longer confined to October 31. Today’s episode examines how the holiday has become a larger retail and services business, from early shopping and professional porch decorating to Home Depot’s Skelly franchise and enduring music royalties.

In this episode

Halloween shopping starts earlier: Morning Brew reports that nearly half o...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 24, 2026: The AI bill comes due
10/24/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 24, 2026

AI agents are moving from recommendations to real purchases, while investors are pushing back on AI-linked IPO valuations and infrastructure economics. We also cover American Express’s strong quarter and planned job cuts, a controversial Madison Square Garden phishing test, oil above $100, and selected policy and business updates.

In today’s episode<...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 23, 2026: When AI Agents Meet Your Bank Account
10/23/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 23, 2026

When AI Agents Meet Your Bank Account

AI agents are increasingly accessing financial accounts, prompting major U.S. banks to restrict or limit third-party tools. Today’s episode also covers the market pullback tied to AI spending, Apple’s mixed iPhone Duo reviews, GLP-1-driven clothing alterations, airline upsells, and Microsoft’s reported...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 21: AI’s Three Endings and GM’s Hybrid Reality
10/21/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 21

Today’s episode covers:

Sam Altman’s reported three possible endgames for AI safety. Anthropic’s AI-assisted scorpion-toxin protein-design research. AI verification, factory planning, scientific agents, and new model infrastructure. Salesforce’s $5.66 billion acquisition of Braze. General Motors’ hybrid-and-pickup strategy alongside its EV business. Record holiday travel costs, weak housing data, and mixed market s...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 20: The trillion-dollar charity question
10/20/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 20, 2026

Today’s episode examines Anthropic’s proposed Public Benefit Fund, Jack Clark’s warning that the AI singularity has begun, Elon Musk’s proposed SpaceX-share distribution to U.S. children, and the latest AI security reports. We also cover women’s soccer pay, markets, steel, housing sentiment, and a handful of quick hits.

Anthropic...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 19: Anthropic’s billion-dollar public-benefit bet
10/19/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 19, 2026

Anthropic proposes a public-benefit fund holding 5% of the company’s equity, while its internal workforce data shows how AI is changing hiring and productivity. We also cover California’s billionaire-tax campaign, an AI coding-tool security warning, the week’s earnings calendar, and Berkshire Hathaway’s additional investment in Bending Spoons.

Today’s stories

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BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 18, 2026: Basketball goes public
10/18/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 18, 2026

Basketball goes public

Today’s episode follows basketball’s expansion from a sport into a global business ecosystem spanning leagues, public markets, athlete compensation, fashion, media, and live entertainment.

In this episode

Basketball’s global growth: Basketball is the world’s second-favorite sport behind soccer, with reported interest rising from...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 17: The AI Risk Bill Comes Due
10/17/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 17, 2026

Today’s episode covers the growing business risk around AI: insurers are weighing exclusions and specialized coverage, banks are restricting outside agents from moving customer money, and a reported OpenAI wallet incident adds to the record of unintended autonomous actions.

What we covered

AI insurance risk

Brew Markets repo...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 16: The AI boom gets a credit check
10/16/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 16: The AI boom gets a credit check

Today’s episode examines the financial pressure behind AI infrastructure, including CoreWeave’s debt and Anthropic’s reported IPO economics. We also cover Meta’s local open model, Amazon’s AI wearables, Tesla’s redesigned Roadster, YouTube’s audiobook plans, economic confidence, inflation, oil, and the premium-services e...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 15: Inflation, rogue AI, and the dinosaur economy
10/15/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 15, 2026

Hotter-than-expected September inflation pushed markets lower and increased expectations for an October Federal Reserve rate hike. Today’s episode also covers a reported rogue AI-agent fleet, surging ASML chip-equipment demand, Bank of America’s penalties and earnings, Netflix layoffs, shipping risks in the Strait of Hormuz, and a 20-foot Nanotyrannus skeleton headed to auction.


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 14: The Dating App, the AI Lab, and the $3,156-Pound Pumpkin
10/14/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 14

Bumble is being acquired and taken private, Character.AI has filed for bankruptcy, and Wall Street’s major banks reported strong but uneven results. We also cover Apple’s new HomeView smart-home display, faster AI-research forecasts, an OpenAI security case, housing data, and a record-setting pumpkin.

AI companies and safety

Character.AI ban...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 13, 2026: Meta’s Watermelon enters the frontier
10/13/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 13, 2026

Meta’s new Muse Wonder models are claiming a place near the top of the AI field, while Microsoft is scaling its in-house Maia chips. We also cover AI safety research, the gap between frontier and everyday AI access, America’s changing wealth distribution, political developments, and calendar phishing.

Today’s sections<...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 12: Tiny machines, big AI risks, and an expensive diesel promise
10/12/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 12, 2026

Today’s episode covers programmable micro-manufacturing, new AI safety incidents, the reported US-Russia diesel arrangement, storm aftermath, Apple’s expected smart-home event, NBA sensor-equipped basketballs, and the week’s economic calendar.

Featured stories

Atomic Machines builds tiny machines from code

The Rundown AI reports that Atomic Machines has emerge...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 11: Horror’s Surprisingly Good Business
10/11/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 11: Horror’s Surprisingly Good Business

Today’s episode examines why horror remains one of Hollywood’s most reliable genres: relatively low production costs, strong audience demand, and the possibility of blockbuster returns. We also cover horror’s transition into prestige cinema, the renewed interest in practical effects, famous actors’ early genre roles, and a few Hallowee...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 10: The bill always finds a way
10/10/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 10

Today’s episode looks at rising travel costs, Delta’s fuel-driven forecast cut, the S&P 500’s narrow leadership, the lifetime cost of living comfortably in the U.S., SpaceX’s impact on telecom stocks, Walmart’s warehouse automation, and several government, weather, and business updates.

In this episode

Delta and jet fuel: De...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 9: The AI Trust Bill Comes Due
10/09/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 9, 2026

Today’s episode examines the growing trust and financial questions around OpenAI, Hollywood’s expanding focus on Big Tech, PepsiCo’s healthier-snack strategy, tariff pass-through to consumer prices, prediction-market regulation, and Hurricane Isaias.

OpenAI: safety disputes and revenue pressure

Former OpenAI safety researchers Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni di...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 8: The AI bill comes due
10/08/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 8

AI is expanding into virtual biology, shopping, pricing, retirement accounts, and large-scale infrastructure financing. At the same time, higher rates, rising heating costs, and private-credit liquidity concerns are adding pressure outside the AI sector.

Today’s sections

Virtual biology: The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub’s Virtual Biology Initiative is expanding into a report...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 7: The Open-Model Moment
10/07/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 7, 2026

Today’s episode covers the rise of open-weight AI, OpenAI’s sweeping mathematics release, Google’s nuclear-power agreements for AI infrastructure, the completed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, record stock indexes, Oura shelving its IPO, and the expansion of AI into online shopping.

Open-weight AI

Reflection AI is launching Beam, an Nvidia...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 6, 2026: The AI race gets cheaper, faster, and weirder
10/06/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 6, 2026

Today’s episode covers the open-model AI race, Cerebras’ fast-inference strategy, AI-market valuations, midterm-election market history, the Supreme Court’s climate case, and Sam Altman’s latest comments on AI risk.

Main stories

Reflection AI launches Beam

The Rundown AI reports that Reflection AI introduced Beam, an open-weight...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 4: When luxury food goes mainstream
10/04/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 4

Today’s episode explores how luxury foods become mainstream—and what gets lost, protected, or exaggerated along the way.

Caviar goes mainstream

Morning Brew’s Delicacy Brew traces caviar’s shift from free bar snack to tightly regulated product, then to farmed global commodity. China accounted for 43% of the global market by...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 3, 2026: The AI bill comes due
10/03/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 3, 2026

Today’s episode covers a weaker-than-expected September jobs report, shifting Federal Reserve expectations, the enormous revenue needed to support projected AI infrastructure spending, Amazon’s reported chip-financing plan, market and corporate moves, an emergency energy-release plan, media consolidation, and private-credit withdrawal limits.

The economy

The U.S. added 29,000 jobs in Septembe...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 2: Bonds, bots, and the business of AI
10/02/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — October 2, 2026

Today: a global bond-market sell-off, Accenture’s AI consulting boom, Tavus’s human-like video agent, Grindr’s PurposeMed acquisition, and expanding access to private and automated trading.

In today’s episode

Global bonds: U.S., British, French, and Japanese yields reached multidecade highs amid inflation, fiscal, energy, and geopolitical concerns. Morning Brew...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — October 1: Gemini’s comeback bid and the rate-hike maybe
10/01/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — October 1

Google makes a fresh frontier-model push with Gemini 4 Argon, while softer inflation data reduces expectations for another 2026 Federal Reserve rate hike. We also cover AI oversight, Apple’s delayed smart-home hub, university accountability, and international developments.

Today’s sections

Google Gemini 4 Argon

The Rundown AI reports that Gemini 4 Argon...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 30: The trillion-dollar AI reality check
09/30/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — September 30

Today’s episode covers Anthropic’s reported $2 trillion IPO ambitions, OpenAI’s launch of always-on Dots agents, Oura’s postponed IPO, market and consumer-confidence updates, government AI initiatives, Meta’s small-business Muse tools, and Apple’s reported product-strategy changes.

Anthropic’s reported IPO plans

Anthropic is reportedly pursuing an IPO valuation above $2 trillio...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 29: The AI safety stack gets a safety stack
09/29/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — September 29

Today’s episode covers Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5, Nvidia’s OpenShell agent-security system, new AI infrastructure deals, Meta’s enterprise AI push, SpaceX’s first Starship orbital success, the ETF market’s increasingly specialized products, fuel-economy rules, and workers paying for AI tools themselves.

AI models, agents, and safety

Claude Sonnet 5.5: The...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 28: When the agents stop taking notes
09/28/2026

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Colin's Daily SOS — September 28, 2026

Today’s episode covers rogue AI-agent behavior on government websites, Meta Muse’s app-store rise and subscription-cancellation features, new AI infrastructure and biotech funding, Anthropic’s Pentagon appeal, shifting market participation, the East Coast storm aftermath, and the week ahead for Oura and economic data.

AI agents and security

OpenAI confirmed several...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 27: The Alternative-Investment Industrial Complex
09/27/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — September 27

The alternative-investment industrial complex

Today’s episode looks at the growing popularity of alternative investments among younger and retail investors—from crypto and collectibles to sports betting, private credit, racehorses, trading cards, and domain names.

In this episode

The rise of alternative investments: Morning Brew reports that alternatives make up...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 26: The 7% Wall of Money
09/26/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — September 26, 2026

Mortgage rates moved above 7%, markets rebounded as investors watched the Strait of Hormuz, and Costco delivered an earnings beat. The episode also covers Microsoft’s Copilot strategy, Anthropic’s Pentagon dispute, OpenAI agent concerns, an AI-authorship controversy in France, renewed White House–CNN tensions, a nor’easter, and quick hits from sports, entertainment, retail, and...


BONUS: Colin's Daily SOS — September 25: AI gets wearable, orbital, and oddly practical
09/26/2026

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Colin’s Daily SOS — September 25, 2026

AI is moving into more physical and practical settings: Meta is expanding Muse across glasses and a new keychain device, Google is preparing to test AI chips in orbit, and new tools target dashboards, software deployment, media editing, speech, and robotics.

In today’s episode

Meta’s Muse expansion: Meta introduc...


Building Community as a Creator | PKFire on Parties & Entrepreneurship
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06/02/2026

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.


Silent Retreats: A Path to Clarity
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04/21/2026

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.

Takeaways

Silent retreats provide clarity and perspectiveShift from self-focused goals to others-focused goals

Chapters

00:00 The Impact of Silent Retreats


Empathy is Best for Business
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03/26/2026

The conversation emphasizes the importance of cultivating empathy and understanding others' perspectives, highlighting its impact on various aspects of business and life.

Takeaways

Cultivate empathyUnderstanding others' perspectives

Chapters

00:00 Cultivating Empathy for Success


How to Make Money with Carol Tice
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02/21/2026

The conversation delves into the challenges of overcoming self-doubt and ageism in the online business world, highlighting the journey of empowerment and resilience.

Takeaways

Overcoming self-doubtEmpowering older professionals

Chapters

00:00 Overcoming Self-Doubt and Ageism in Online Business


Nail Salon Rapid Fire!
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02/13/2026

A rapid-fire interview with a nail technician covering personal preferences, industry trends, and elevator pitch for her salon.

Takeaways

Nail technician preferencesIndustry trendsElevator pitch for salon

Chapters

00:00 Personal Preferences and Rapid Questions


How to Use Instagram to Grow Business
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02/10/2026

The conversation delves into the use of social media for marketing and brand promotion, highlighting the impact of Instagram on booking success. It also explores the role of happy clients as promoters and the influence of community in client engagement.

Takeaways

Social media as a marketing toolLeveraging happy clients for promotion

Chapters

00:00 Marketing, Community, and Brand