{"podcast":{"title":"21st Century Entrepreneurship","slug":"21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","podcast_index_feed_id":6829325,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2328218.rss","website_url":"https://www.21ce.biz","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/96p5ua0suhv91bd2unl1ckkbnxi5?.jpg","author":"Martin Piskoric","episode_count":544,"summary":"An entrepreneurship podcast that transforms in-depth interviews with founders, CEOs, investors, executives, creators, and business leaders into tightly edited, first-person narratives that distill what matters most from their real-world experience. A four-time Gold Award-winning show with more than 540 published interviews, 21st Century Entrepreneurship explores how businesses are built, funded, scaled, transformed, and sometimes rebuilt from failure. Host Martin Piskoric guides each conversation toward the moments, decisions, lessons, and experiences most useful to listeners, then steps out of the final edit. What remains is the guest's voice—without small talk, unnecessary promotion, or interview clutter—shaped with music and space for reflection. Episodes cover entrepreneurship, leadership, business strategy, growth, marketing, finance and investment, AI and technology, personal development, and the realities of building and leading businesses.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-11T16:18:50.859024+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325"},"episode":{"title":"#542 Robert Misheloff: How Do You Avoid a $3,000 Financing Scam?","slug":"542-robert-misheloff-how-do-you-avoid-a-3-000-financing-scam","published_at":"2026-08-25T16:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/542-robert-misheloff-how-do-you-avoid-a-3-000-financing-scam","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325","url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/19700814-542-robert-misheloff-how-do-you-avoid-a-3-000-financing-scam.mp3","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.buzzsprout.com/2328218/episodes/19700814-542-robert-misheloff-how-do-you-avoid-a-3-000-financing-scam.mp3","summary":"Robert Misheloff, Smarter Equipment Finance co-owner, is an equipment-financing entrepreneur, and we spoke about how small business owners can finance essential equipment without falling into costly traps. After running direct marketing campaigns for financing companies, Robert saw firms brag about how they “pulled the wool over the eyes of their customers.” That experience pushed him to build a business around transparency and helping owners make informed financing decisions. Robert br...","meta_description":"Robert Misheloff, Smarter Equipment Finance co-owner, is an equipment-financing entrepreneur, and we spoke about how small business owners can finance ess…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":943,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/episodes/542-robert-misheloff-how-do-you-avoid-a-3-000-financing-scam/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/21st-century-entrepreneurship-6829325/542-robert-misheloff-how-do-you-avoid-a-3-000-financing-scam.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}