Entrepreneur on Fire 695

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Conrad Iguza. Conrad, are you prepared to ignite? Absolutely.

Alright. Conrad is a former venture beat writer and is the founder of publicize.

He is the co-owner of Columbia Reports, the largest English news publication in South America, and is a mentor at the founder institute, also in South America.

Conrad, we know a little bit about your biz and what you have going on, but take a minute and give us a few personal insights.

Before we dive on in. Yeah, my background has traditionally been through technology in the media.

I wrote for the tech publication venture beat and now in the founder of a company called publicize, which is looking to change the way startups approach PR.

And I've been fortunate to spend a fair amount of time in Medigene in South America and had some cool opportunities like meeting the president of Columbia and being involved with the startup scene down here as well.

Nice. Medigene for the Fire Nation listeners who love entourage. It was kind of made a little famous during that. Absolutely.

Very cool Conrad. Keep on going.

And the idea between publicize that I'm working on right now is that traditionally PR firms charged about $10,000 a month with six months retainers.

And the thought was, could I create the same solution but charge closer to four to $500 a month and make a month a month.

And it's been the fastest growing company I've been a part of so far. We have grew from about three people to close to about 10 right now in the past about eight weeks.

And we're fortunate to be recently on tech crunch and some other publications.

And I'm kind of excited about innovating in this industry that I think traditionally there wasn't a lot of innovation in.

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