The InNOLEvation® Mindset Podcast

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Welcome to Florida State University's official entrepreneurship and innovation podcast, The InNOLEvation® Mindset! Hosted by Mark McNees and powered by the Jim Moran College of Entrepreneurship. This podcast features audio and video versions of our podcast, which highlights student and alumni entrepreneurs and innovators from FSU.

Get inspired by the next generation of young business leaders and hear their inside stories. Learn from faculty who teach entrepreneurship and innovation courses at FSU as they share key insights.

On this channel, you'll find:
-Full video episodes of our podcast conversations with founders of startups born at FSU
-Business advice and thought leadership from FSU professors focused on entrepreneurship
-Fireside chats and interviews recorded live with enterprising alumni making their mark
-Special segments and speaker events at FSU focused on innovation

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a current business owner, or you just love hearing success stories - subscribe now to see inspiring individuals daring to turn ideas into reality. With new episodic content added regularly, The Innovation Mindset podcast tells tales of vision, grit, failure, and triumph straight from the FSU community.

This channel visually brings the podcast to life with photos, graphics, and video. Join us by subscribing if you bleed garnet and gold!

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7 hours ago

148 - Flip Pick Founders on Building a Guitar Pick System, Iterating Through Feedback, & Using AI

7 hours ago

1 hr 12 min

Mark McNees hosts Tim and Jamie, FSU alumni and founders of Flip Pick, on the InNOLEvation® Mindset podcast to discuss their guitar pick system that lets players rotate a pick out of the way for fingerstyle and back for strumming, improving speed, grip, and reducing dropped picks while helping users with dexterity issues. They share how the idea began with a quick 3D-printed prototype, evolved through many iterations, and shifted from a “clever gadget” to a mission-driven product in response to customer stories. The conversation covers entrepreneurship lessons in execution, patience, communication, and building a feedback culture, as well as their validation process, manufacturing challenges, packaging pivots, and partnerships with Rapid Press and D’Andrea/Del Mar for higher-quality production. They also describe how they created the free Flip Pick Companion app with ChatGPT, why they chose an app over a web solution, and how AI became a force multiplier for their small team.

Websites:

https://modernfitnesstally.com/

https://flowstatemidtown.com/

00:00 Meet Flip Pick Founders

01:01 What Flip Pick Does

03:14 From Prototype to Mission

05:40 Entrepreneurship Mindset Basics

07:37 Feedback and Iteration Culture

17:46 Scaling and Market Reality

19:50 FSU Roots and Family Story

24:47 Tech Ideas and Guitar Training

32:43 Validating and Redesigning Flip Pick