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13 hours ago
"Culture Of The Company" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Craig Rupp
The culture of your company is dictated by the first five people you hire so be very careful about the right attitude. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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1 day ago
"Be Prepared To Work" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Steve Gerritsen
Be prepared to work. There's a lot more work than you realize, it doesn't matter what business you're getting into. So, if you don't like to work or if you're not willing to work, just go work for somebody else. It is a lot less working 9-5 for somebody else than is for an entrepreneur. If you're not willing to put in extra hours it's never gonna work for an entrepreneur. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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2 days ago
"Things Take Time" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Pati McCarthy
Things take a lot longer time than you expect. Pati thought that in six months they are gonna have a super cool product in the market, people using it, getting revenue, and signing contracts but in fact, after six months they barely launched an app in which only three things were working. So basically things take time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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3 days ago
"Focus On Your Customer" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Antonio Barnes
Put the customer in the center of your business. Focus on solving a problem for a customer. Focus on the pain of the customer. If you focus on what's keeping them from growing their businesses and doing their jobs every day, you can put those problems at the center of your business and your services then you will be successful because now you're solving the pain. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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4 days ago
"Build Operational Business Structure" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Lauren Colson
Spend some time building an operational business structure. Business owners, founders, or CEOs tend to hold everything in their heads and if you're going to be a solopreneur then maybe it's not the end of the world but if you got any sort of scale in mind you're gonna hit a lot of roadblocks when everything is in your head. So, getting things down on paper, whether that's a process, or operating procedures you can share with the team. If you get that organizational structure in place and can share it with the team, get it out of your head, you can move faster, and also you're not gonna be the bottleneck of everything and you can dedicate a lot more freely. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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5 days ago
"Don't Give Up" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Paul Daniels
It's going to take you twice as long as you think, it will probably be 3 times more frustrating and challenging than you could imagine and it's millions of times more rewarding. If you stay the course, ask for help, and don't give up. JUST KEEP GOING. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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6 days ago
"Invest On Your Skills" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ben Easter
Invest in your meta-skills. Skills like sales, leadership, technical skills, and creative skills. Find out the skills you're most resonant with, like are they interpersonal skills or creative skills, or technical skills, and invest like double down on the things you both love and have a real market value no matter where you go. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 17, 2022
"Instant Millionaire" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Dave Combs
The biggest myth deals with the issue that people think, that if somebody has a hit song or a big success on a chart or billboard, they are going to be an instant millionaire or just going to be wildly successful. That is the exception rather than the rule. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 17, 2022
"The WHY Of Your Business" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ben Sobieck
You don't have to know why you are doing something when you're starting out. The pieces to why you're starting don't have to be in place. If you have a good idea that's good enough for the first few stages of business. The pieces will follow the place later you don't have to know the "why", you might know the what, how, and where but the "why" may reveal itself to you later. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 16, 2022
"Doing Valuable Things Multiple Times" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Ryan Murray
People think that when you go to a training, it's a one and done. If you're in a training you actually have to be immersed in it, you've to keep doing it. Training that Ryan finds very valuable, he does them multiple times. The books that Ryan read are very valuable he would read them multiple times. The first you go through anything you're only going to absorb 10-20% of that at a retention level. There are still 80% of things that were said or covered that you're not going to retain after a 24-hour period. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 16, 2022
"Lifestyle Of A Business Owner" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jake Hare
The lifestyle that you have as a business owner should be a big factor in what type of business you wanna start and the goal you're trying to achieve at the end of the day is important too. If you're gonna start something it's going to be your life for 10 years. So make sure you know what you're getting into. Talk to some other people who have done it before and just make sure you're understanding before you startup. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 15, 2022
"Brand Is The Domain Of Consumer-Facing Companies" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Scott Markman
A Brand is only the domain of consumer-facing companies. It's an organizing governing principle that allows decision-makers to make informed decisions faster, better and cheaper. That's what a brand does for anybody. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 15, 2022
"Deliver Quality" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Amanda Gwin
Your business will continue to grow as long as you focus on what is important to you: delivering high-quality coaching, development, service, or high-quality product that you want to serve. You will continue to grow if your customers know what they are coming to you for: quality. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 14, 2022
"Grocery Is A Challenging Industry" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Jeremy Smith
You read so much about the food and beverage industry right now that plant-based and keto and everything else that is going on, you'd think it's an easy industry to be successful in, because there are so many new brands launching. Yes, there is a lot of access to capital but there wasn't 20 years ago it's very challenging and very competitive. Grocery is an expensive market to launch in and one of the myths there is that it's easy to be successful in this industry. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 14, 2022
"Find What You Love Systematically" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Fiona Valentine
Get really clear about what is it you really want so that you can focus. You don't have to do a lot of things to be successful rather than find specific things you need to focus on and that's where coaching really helps to align with that. So figuring out how much time do you want to spend, how much do you need to make and what do you love to do and then finding the highest value offer you can create with those three things intersect, and once you found that and you have that strategic highest value for you then learn how to market it rather than just feeling like you had to do all the things. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 13, 2022
"Learn From Mistakes" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Marc Liniado
When you look at "Mistakes" as a mistake is a negative term like you did something wrong but it's not. There is no such thing as a mistake. As long as you are able to learn from it it's not a mistake, it's beneficial. A lot of entrepreneurs say that they look at people who failed a lot more times than they look at people who are more successful. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 12, 2022
"Never Procrastinate" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Prateek Joshi
Just start, people who are thinking about starting. You don't need to sit and ponder for weeks or months about whether or not you want to do it, the best is to do it and see if you like it. Let data guide you on your path because when you do it either you'll absolutely love it which is great or you'll hesitate and avoid doing that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 11, 2022
"Fail Fast, Move Fast" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Krish Ramineni
Fail fast, move fast, and don't reinvent the wheel. If there's something that's been done you can use it. Especially in engineering products, Â use APIs, use things off the shop. You're Initial goal should actually prove that this technology is possible or the product is possible. So, get that MVP out, get it to the hands of people and have them use it. sometimes all the planning in the world won't do any good unless you actually take that first step and take action. It's not gonna be perfect the first time around, they're gonna be a lot of holes, bugs, gaps in whatever you do but you own it, you actually built something, delivered it. That is the most important thing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 10, 2022
"Find A Mentor" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Anton Dormer
Find a mentor, find someone who has tread that path, find someone who has already done it, it makes life much easier. In the business journey of Anton Dormer, as he reached the peak of his business success, there was nobody beside him he was alone. He had to do all of the research and investigation. There was no one for him to show a way to achieve his success. So, basically find a mentor who could guide you along the long journey of your business success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 9, 2022
"Build Network" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Bryon Bhagwandin
Build Network. That's extremely important. Bryon when was younger, he used to think network building is not authentic because he felt like using people and like trying to figure out who is most valuable to him. After a while, he realized that none of us is really that great all by ourselves. It's not about figuring out what others can do for him, it's really about recognizing that he's better with other people in his network. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 8, 2022
"Skillsets, Character Traits & Beliefs" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Tom Wedding
Focus on three things - Skillsets, Character Traits & Beliefs. These are the three things that will impact the entrepreneurs. You are responsible for that business's growth, not the people you hire or any other factor. It's the skillsets, beliefs, and character traits that you have as the entrepreneur, that allow that asset to grow. If you're lacking in one of the areas, you might have all the right skillsets but not the beliefs to follow through and do it. So, it has to align in a way where you're not capped to a certain level because your beliefs are lacking or you're character traits are lacking behind. Try to align all the three factors on the same level. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 7, 2022
"Never Quit" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Aireka Harvell
Never quit and be willing to pivot. Basically, don't marry your vision for it be open and allow your business to grow the way it needs to. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 6, 2022
"Don't Be Afraid To Fail" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Keith Friedman
Don't be afraid to fail and fail often. People try to be perfectionists, they don't want to fail and lose all their confidence after failing. Failure isn't permanent, learn from your mistakes and try not to make the same mistakes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 5, 2022
"Look For Opportunities For The Most Growth" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Steve Pockross
Look for opportunities for the most growth. The path of most growth and when you're looking at a company, the number one thing you should be thinking about is, are they my people? Most of the time Steve would think he'd learn something at a company and apply it to his company later, this is a huge step jump, but every time he felt like these are not his people. when he unraveled for a while and started to feel like his culture, everything felt right for him. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 4, 2022
"Think Big" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mariano Gomez
Think Big, that's definitely one of the things. If you're in a startup model, it's very easy to bog up in the details and lose sight of the big picture. That's what most startups really fail or actually make the mistake of just getting wrapped up in the details. There are people who are good at the details but as a startup entrepreneur, if you're actually building out the business you must focus on the big picture. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 3, 2022
"Just Get Going" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Evan Rabin
The thing is just GO. Many entrepreneurs will just be worried about not having a concrete business plan or not necessarily starting anything before they get an IP or a fully functional up and running website. All this stuff is really important, but you could just really get going. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 2, 2022
"Good Advice At Wrong Time Is Bad Advice" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Wayne Mullins
Good advice applied at the wrong time is bad advice. In the early stages of Wayne's journey in business, he used to look at the big gurus and magazines and see what they were doing and how are they successful and he would tempt to take what they were doing and apply that to his little small startups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 1, 2022
"Now Is The Best Time" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Katrina McGhee
Success comes sooner as sooner you get out there. Put yourself in visibility. Now is the best time, it'd never gonna get easier. So, just put yourself out there, find the confidence to do it, be willing to learn, be a little messy and figure out as you go. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 31, 2022
"Diligence" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mickey Parker
Do Diligence, whether you're starting or buying a business. Harris's background was to do CPA and what he does now is helping people get funding as a startup business specifically using their 401k and RIA which is stuff people don't know about. Most people don't know they have the opportunity to perhaps use their RIA or 401k. So, do diligence both in if you're buying a business or starting a business. Make sure you ask a lot of questions of the seller and that you're comfortable with the answers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 30, 2022
"Consistency Is The Key" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Harris Schwartz
The things are gonna take time, as long as you stick with the business, there's gonna be ups and downs of the business, especially as a startup. If you're a solution-based company, say you got 20 customers, every customer wants something different, so you have to prioritize the customers, in end you got to stick to your business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 29, 2022
"Listen & Absorb" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Eric Layland
Listen and Absorb as much as you can about the industry, especially if it's a new industry. Go try and talk to the folks who have been there before. Especially if you enter a new venture and maybe you haven't done this before, be a sponge absorbing as much as you can, talk to people, read, and listen (to podcasts, and webinars) to all these great sources of information there really for the absorbing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 28, 2022
"Provide Solution To A Problem" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Paul Baron
Do what your passion drives you to do. Make sure you're absolutely entering into a path that is going to provide a solution to a problem, that's the first thing. The second thing is to make sure you have time for talented treasures to enter that journey and then just engage with the best people. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 27, 2022
"Patience and Commitment" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Charlie Saffro
"Patience and commitment" Nobody will ever be more dedicated than you and you just have to find the time. It is not right to take the quantity of time over the quality of work. You got to find the windows of opportunities and seize them, put in the time and the commitment to the business from day one. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 27, 2022
"Work On Your Business Not In Your Business" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Kim Becker
You need to work on your business and not in your business. It's not the "what" it's the "who". It's not what you need to do, it's who can you help to what you need to do. Spend more time working on your business by valuing and educating yourself and the employees instead of just pleasing your customers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 26, 2022
"Find A Niche You Enjoy" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Judy Lin
Adaptable mindset, If you want to be an entrepreneur(starting a business), you got to have the right mindset, because it's straightforward for people to give up if they don't see any results or anything manifesting and they might wanna give up in the middle of one year so to speak, not everything is going to be shiny or golden. The journey is hard, there is pain, and there are ups and downs, Judy Lin emphasizes - you want to go to an industry or a niche that you enjoy, typically it would make you last longer and you would be happy putting in the extra hours to the business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 26, 2022
"Strong WHY Of Your Business" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Saul Sutton
Make sure the "Why" of your business is bigger than yourself. That's what going to motivate you to really get up every day when it's tough and hard and also help you to seek that community to support you. So, make your why bigger than yourself and be willing to pivot. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 16, 2022
"Don't Be Scared To Ask For Help" Podcast For Entrepreneurs W/ Richard Gould
Don't be scared to ask for help, you'd be surprised how many people are willing to help you if you just ask. Lots of times, you're starting something, you question yourself, like, is this right? Am I wrong? What should I do next? A lot of times reaching out and asking for help, people would be willing to give you advice or lead you to somebody who could help you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 4, 2022
"Bet On Yourself" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Asim Khan
Were a 100,000 percent into this business. This is not a side hustle this is a full time day and night, even while we dream, type of job. This is what my dreams consist of today, dreaming about Sim. The one thing I would say to entrepreneurs who are looking to start a business if you believe in yourself go all in. Take the risk, there's nobody better to bet on then yourself. If your in the stock market your investing in stocks, those prices go up and down and you have zero control over what happens. But if you believe in yourself go all in, work your tail off. A lot of bad things are going to happen along the way, a lot of mistakes are going to be made, learn from those mistakes. Continue to work hard and move the ball forward every day. Incremental movements forward will add up and eventually you'll get the hockey stick curve that everybody dreams about. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 2, 2022
"Don't Wait" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Bejoy Narayana
Don't wait. I waited many years, I always wanted to start my business. I always knew that I could create something. I already had a ton of ideas that I was working on. My two cents are if you really feel like you were made to start a business and that it is what you like then do it. Don't wait to long worrying about money or how you will actually do it. Jump in and then raising money and find customers is easy if  you really like what you do. Your going to get help along the way and people will reach out to you. If  you really feel that you are made for it go ahead and start right away. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 29, 2022
"Don't Wait For Perfection" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Justin Leonard
Never launch your perfect product, always launch the imperfect product. If you think back to the iPad 1 it only became the product that it is after several iterations. In my personal experience when I wrote the book "abominable secrets revealed" It was only a year since I learned how to type. Prior to joining the Air Force I did not know how to type. I had to figure out how to type 30 words per minute to get through training. The book was published without a ISBN number, I didn't hire a proof reader. And what I did is I published it and then over time I perfected it. Don't launch a perfect product, always go ahead and launch the imperfect product and then improve it as you go. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 27, 2022
"Reach Out" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Robert Levine
Keep talking to people that you don't know that you should know. What I mean by this is that often these technology companies are founded by technologist and they think they know all the answers. Â But they have to go talk to the economic buyer and they have to understand what the economic buyer is really thinking. So my advice is never stop reaching out to talk to people. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 22, 2022
"Talk To People" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ike Dimitriudis
Talk to people. Find out from other people who are doing that work, something similar, what its like. Ask them for pointers, talk to them, engage. Its almost like networking, I guess it is networking. Talk to people who have done it. I thought I knew what I was getting into, and for the most part I did, but there were key elements that I was missing that slowed me down. You may find that the experience wasn't anything like you wanted it to be. You may find that its exactly what your are hoping it is but you have to take certain steps to make sure your not going down the wrong path. It's like any other business once you go down a path its hard to back track and start over, or redo even part of it. Talk to people who have succeeded, who are running their own business. Ask them about building a network, acquiring clients, marketing, the legal aspect. Get advice. If you haven't done it before you don't know what you don't know. If you don't exactly how to do something of the things you wil…
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Apr 20, 2022
"Branding Is Everything" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Denise Galiatsatos
Branding is everything. People want to do business with people not a logo. That is what I very much stick by. You have to show case who you are as a person, why someone should do business with you, what the culture of your company is. That is what people want to see when they do business with somebody. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 13, 2022
"Start With The Customer In Mind" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Eric Johnson
Start with the end customer in mind. Figure out who your end customer is going to be and go starting lighting those people up. Because at the end of the day that's who you have to satisfy. So whatever the business deal is just figure out where the end customer is going to be and make sure that through letters of intent or something like that you get a relationship in place. And if you do that  you'll be ok. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 11, 2022
"Fact Check Advice" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Linda Kneidinger
Remember that everybody sees the world through their own lens. I was using the example of a telescope with somebody and we all have the view that we see and so as you're starting off in business, or even later on in business, everyone's gonna have that amazing piece of advice. So just really take everything in with a ton of gratitude that people in their heart desire to help you. Â But then recognize that everybody's wonderful piece of advice is from their very focused view, from their experience, and it's tinged with all of the the baggage they bring with them in life. So to listen to it but also always make sure that it rings true to your experience. If it feels right double check it. Ask other people if it's well meaning. But again we all have our own perspective and just recognize that everyone's advice is coming from their perspective. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 8, 2022
"Research, Research, Research" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Dedrick Boyd
Really do the homework and hone in on your target market. Research, research, research. You have to be clear and spell out your value proposition. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 6, 2022
"Don't Get Ahead Of Your Skies" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Dave Combs
Don't get ahead of your skis. Don't think your idea is so great that you're going to bet the farm on it. First of all, you need to make sure that your business model is solid and the best way to do that is to try it out in a small scale. You find a small venue like a restaurant or any kind of a franchise, you build one and make sure that it works, and I don't mean just hope it works. Run the numbers like I did with that first gift shop. I knew how much my CD's cost, I knew how many I sold and how much I sold them for and I knew what my net profit was. Bingo it's hard numbers you can't argue with them. So make your model, make sure it works, and once you've got a working model then you can go as hard as you can run with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 4, 2022
"Have A Plan" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Kirk Allgeyer
Have a good plan. Because I pulled a little bit of a TF2, if people know that video game, where one of the characters asks a support, are you sure this will work and the support replies I have no idea. I just had the idea and then just punched through it really. I just kept punching through it until things started to mold together. If you can sit down and give yourself some time in the day to give yourself a couple hours to look up business establishment. Understanding your company mission, your company values, your mantra, developing an early press kit. Something you could provide to potential investors or employees to show you have a business plan. I'm convinced I could work for you comfortably because your a man with a plan, and I can contribute my plans to that as well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 1, 2022
"Find The Best Solution" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Nishu Sinha
Find the best solution for every problem. Read professionally or personally. There's a saying of mine, figure out the solution the very first time otherwise you have to figure it out again and again until you master it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 30, 2022
"Hire Slow, Fire Fast" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Yuko Tsuchida
We tell people who your going to hire is most important. As a small business owner that is what I always think about. Our firms slogan is to hire slow and fire fast. We do our best to hire people based on culture and our values, but it doesn't always turn out to be a good hire. We try to be transparent and set goals and milestones for them so we can quickly assess if there a good fit for our company. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 28, 2022
"Understand Your Goals" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Colby Flood
Honestly, understand what you want to achieve and why you want to achieve it. You hear that all the time right but, you hear it all the time cause its important. Really focus on making sure you're not limiting yourself and bottlenecking your own growth. Check out that book the Big Leap by Hendricks. One thing I did not mention but is pretty important to me is making sure I write down my goals. Plan my goals ahead and keep track of them daily. One thing I always tell the team is to slow down to speed up. take the time to plan out what you want to do before you go for it. Â Lastly remain a student. Don't stop learning when you feel like you've gotten to where you want to go. Keep looking for educational opportunities. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 25, 2022
"Go All In" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ryan Bass
Go all in, I mean it's something if you're going to get into, it's like Parks and Rec, like don't hold a half asset you got to get a whole asset. So go all in. You know you can't sit there to the side and say you know I'm going to work on this small business but I'm going do it under the confines of nine to five. Like if you jump in and you're not the founder or you're someone early that's joining in you need look at it as this is your baby too. And so just because you join in and there's no huge equity stake that's given to you out of the gate, it still behooves you to help out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 23, 2022
"Have The Right Structure" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Nick Zotos
Take the time to structure things correctly. From a legal, financial, and tax standpoint, you want to get your business set up correctly. Intellectually property. I think it's very important to get the right counseling and to get the right structure in place beneath you to have a foundation to go forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 21, 2022
"Get Involved In Content" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Collin Mitchell
Get involved in content. Investing in your personal brand. Spending time on social. Whatever that looks like have a strategy for that because it's more important than you probably think. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 16, 2022
"Have A Niche" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Levent Yildizgoren
Have a niche. It is so important to have a niche even a micro-niche. Like many business people, I was afraid to lose customers, so it led me to be a generalist. So, the first thing we do is translate from English to many languages and many languages into English. Having a specialty now I realize is so important not just for my industry but for anything. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 14, 2022
"Get Uncomfortable" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Timothy Kelley
Make sure you are uncomfortable. That's always the first step. Having a level of discomfort keeps you on track and keeps your focus. With that, I would say read everything you can. I don't mean just about your industry and becoming an expert in your field. There are so many outside things that contribute to your decision-making. It could be baking or learning how certain calls get called in a football game. So many things like that. Those are things that help with decision-making processes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 9, 2022
"Prepare To Work Hard" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Rick Garcia
Prepare to work hard and give it the runway that it deserves. What I mean by runway is it's going to take longer than what you think to be successful. I think people are looking for short-term wins, get rich quick, whatever it is. If you think in terms of decades instead of in the next two years I am going to make this much money. Put some longevity behind your plan and then go execute your plan. The correct expectations will be set and you will build a solid foundation. You will learn a ton along the way and have a lot of fun. Think a little longer terms than short term. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 7, 2022
"Get The Right People On Your Team" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Renee Rosales
"I think the biggest piece of advice is to get the right people on your team and don't be afraid of doing that. Take the time in the beginning to strategies and hopefully move forward in a way that you can afford to financially invest in those people. For me, I have a wonderful business consultant and he has been really helpful to me as far as moving forward and giving me those gold nuggets and pieces of advice to build right in the very beginning and the structure that I need to have in place to start things right." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 2, 2022
"Persistence Is King" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Chris Stavros
Persistence is king and, I know you are going to hear that a lot or don't give up, don't have fear. But the way I describe it is there are days when I am kind of afraid of heights and, there are days where I feel like my job is to go, walk on the edge of a seventy-story building and look down. I just swallow it and get on the train and start working. You really have to push yourself past your comfort zone. Don't pay attention to the negative. Focus on where you are getting traction and momentum. Believe in your passion and what you are working on. Focus on building a network with people who really buy into your dream as opposed to spending your nights staring at the ceiling thinking about why somebody told you that you suck. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 28, 2022
"Product Market Fit" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Debbie Levitt
Definitely product-market fit. I think too many start-ups say I have a great idea let's just do it. And I always say: well no, we have to figure that out. And they go but, I read the lean start-up book and, I know if I ask people if they like this idea, then it's good. And I say: well, unfortunately, the lean start-up book didn't tell you how to ask the right questions. They told you to go, ask questions but, they did not tell you how to ask the right questions. Un-bias questions, non-leading questions, and, that's what we do. I tell people that instead of studying, do people like your idea research; what are they doing now? How do they do it? What's working for them? And what's not working for them? If this is your target audience, fine-tune that solution for their unmet needs and their tasks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 25, 2022
"Never Stop Learning" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/the Mangelsons
You really can never stop learning, there are so many good resources out there, there is so much good information. And then specifically to learn about how to have the right mindset to be successful. Because I really believe that mindset is 50% of the battle. And once you can believe in yourself and believe that you have the ability to make money and to be successful with your business your half way there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 23, 2022
"Don't Waste Time" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Mick Smith
Anything that you don't think you can do. If you are an entrepreneur, don't waste time trying to figure it out. It's going to waste time and, it's the one resource that you can never get back. People will ask what's the most important thing in your life and you go well you know there are a lot of things love, money, what have you but believe me time. The older you get to realize this, that is the one resource you don't have enough of and, it's limited so, it's going to end. So the best thing to do is to do what you can do. Use the talent and skill and the knowledge that you have and everything else; if you are starting out as an entrepreneur, make sure that money is going to the things that you don't know cause you are just going to be wasting a lot of time and resources and, you won't get the return on it. ROI is the bottom line here. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 21, 2022
"Know How To listen" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Adam Frank
Speak with as many people as you can. But, always know how to listen, and what to learn from every type of conversation and from every interaction. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 16, 2022
"Day To Day, Administration, & Self" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Bryan Clayton
In the first 4 years of the business, you're doing three things at once. You're working in the business, serving customers, answering phone calls, in my case mowing grass. And then you're working on the business. What does the marketing system look like? What does the employee recruitment system look like? What does the employee retention system look like? How do we activate cold customers? All of these things are working on the business. Then you're working on yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 14, 2022
"Learn From Others" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Liz Kislik
In addition to knowing what it is you want to do, look at how other people, either in your field or adjacent, do it. You can learn as much from the good that they do as you can from the things that you disagree with. It's really useful to be able to thread your own path that's a little bit different from what everybody is doing but getting the benefit of what they have learned. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 9, 2022
"Get Good At Hiring" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/Rick Girard
Get really good at hiring. Your team is going to determine whether or not you are going to be successful. All your business problems are people problems in disguise. You can tail everything back to your people. There are some of us who are entrepreneurs who people are drawn to, and they want to work with us for whatever reason. That's great, but if you don't have those skills or that muscle that's something you really need to build upon. You need to do it from the standpoint of who you are as you build your business. what are the values of the organization? People who align with the organizational values are going to make a greater impact, and going to be a better hire. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 7, 2022
"Find The Holes In Your Business" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Brooke Alpert
As soon as you think you've done enough research, you are only halfway there. You need to do more. You need to act as if you are currently running a business and find out where those holes are. If you could be where I was a year into my business when you first start, which I think entrepreneurs can be if they just know more. It's a great system. I would also ask to speak with other start-ups in similar industries. Not someone who would be a direct competitor because that would be strained. But if someone is willing to say well with me and CBD and someone is launching a different type of nutritional supplement. Approach someone like me who is obviously willing to share but learn where these holes are. I can listen to as much expert advice but, if I can't really see where other people have made mistakes it's very hard. That's why I think it's such a great question. It's very hard to then know what your potential mistakes are going to be. So as soon as you think you're done, you are only…
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Feb 2, 2022
"Be Open To Advice" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Rune Hauge
Be open to advice from others. Listen to people. Learn from people. Find people that have done something similar and try to learn from their experience. I can't emphasize enough how much it has helped me. Not just having a mentor but having people around me. Being able to learn from people, for example: with fundraising. The first time I went out and did that I got a tremendous amount of input from a good friend of mine that has done it before or multiple friends that have done it before. With scaling operations, It's always great to get input from people who have done that before. Hiring if you don't have experience, it's tremendously difficult to find the right people to work with when you get to that stage. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 31, 2022
"Prepare For Growth" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Phillip Hogan
So, I've learned that you prepare for growth and have the compacity. Then once you have the compacity, you start the marketing piece and the sales piece. You start looking for new business. When the new business comes in, you can handle it. Then your customers won't be dissatisfied and your new customers won't be dissatisfied, because you are able to meet their quota. That's the most important thing that I have learned. I really encourage any start-up that; don't rush to get more business. Build the compacity and infrastructure. Then once your infrastructure is built, you have the ability to meet the needs of your clients. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 26, 2022
"Be Resourceful" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Dan Bauer
Bootstrap. It's incredible what you can think of and come up with limited resources. Giving away equity and bringing in a partner soon. I find that these create more problems than they solve. Getting outside funding. Borrowing heavily to launch a business, I think, is a mistake. Scaling it down to the point that you control it, you don't owe anyone anything makes you very resourceful and creative. I think ultimately you will grow the business faster and bigger that way. So, running lean. Keep all expenses variable. Use contractors, not employees. And delay in-fact avoid partners if you can. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 24, 2022
"Get A Mentor Right Away" The Podcast For Entrepeneur w/Roberto Dacosta
If someone is starting, I would say, get a mentor right from the bat. Get someone who has helped build a business from the ground up. Don't just try it yourself cause it will take you four years where it could have taken you a couple of months to figure out exactly what you are doing? Who you are doing it for? What's a mission and vision is and how do they differ? And how having that strategy set up from the start will help you exponentially in a year. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 19, 2022
"Be Cautiously Fearless" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Carol Bettencourt
Tell them to be cautiously fearless. I would tell them that there is nothing stopping them. They have as much right and as much ability to do this as anyone else. I've met some people that maybe their IQ isn't the highest or maybe their family does not have the most money. But they would just come and, they did it. People will help you if you ask for help. Don't be afraid to get advice. Don't be afraid to listen to good advice. Sometimes you have to go in your own corner and plan. Other times you have to just listen and ask. Where there is a will, there is a way. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 10, 2022
"Understand Finance" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Ryan Murray
You need to know enough about finance to be able to speak the language. I relate it to communication. If I am going to go to a foreign country if I know how to speak the language, I am going to have a much better trip than if I have no idea how to speak the language. That does not mean that I have to be a professional speaker or that I have to be a literary genius in that language. But, I have to have a basic level of literacy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 5, 2022
"Don't Make The Same Mistakes" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Robert Hartline
Someone has already taken that journey before you. So finding some that's started something similar or in the same industry that you can become a mentee of that, you can learn from and not have to recreate some of these experiences that someone has already walked that path so, there is no reason to make the same mistakes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 3, 2022
"Are You Built For This?" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Scott Markman
Number one, you are either built for this or, you aren't. You either have the fire in your belly or, you don't. Nobody will push you harder. Nobody will make you deal with and overcome adversity harder than you. Don't look to anybody else. Don't look to clients, partners, employees, or vendors. It's either you are committing to this, and you have the fire in your belly, or you don't. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 29, 2021
"Be Honest With Yourself" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Van Gothner
Don't allow yourself to be blinded by the purity of your own vision. I have seen too many people who are so convinced that their vision is pure and presents the best and the only solution to the problem that they fail to see that some of their assumptions are flawed. If being an entrepreneur requires great intellectual curiosity but, also intellectual honesty, you really need to be nimble, humble, self-aware, and honest so you can adapt and recalibrate. Drive and focus are really important, but honesty and the ability to process what you are learning even if it means you need to pivot or call it a day is really important. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 27, 2021
"Have Faith In Yourself" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Lily Tang
The short version is "quit or become rich". This is actually by Po Ram, so it is his quote. A longer version is my own version, which is to have faith in yourself, have faith in life, and be very focused on what you are doing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 22, 2021
"Be Prepared" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Michael Crandall
Be a little bit more prepared in the beginning. Understand the true costs of what it will take. I had the fortune of having a little bit of a savings plus retirement income. Plan out your I can do this. I have six months to start making some revenue. What is my minimum revenue point? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 20, 2021
"Invest In Your Equity" The Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/James Regenor
For all the early people you bring on or cofounders, invest into your equity and into your position because you are getting married to somebody. In some cases, you might not know the person very well. Maybe you have different opinions or something several months into it or a different direction you want to go. A pivot you want to make. So if you don't invest in your equity, it makes getting a divorce very difficult. If you and I were in a business and I said Devin, hey, we are just going to split the equity fifty-fifty right from the get-go. Then we get to a point where we decide we want to go in different directions. Now I have to deal with you. You have fifty percent of the equity and, I have fifty percent of the equity. As opposed to if we were in an investing schedule. Where every year, we are investing ten percent till we get to what it was and we decide to part. We would have some sort of recourse to not have to give up half the company or not buy out the company. --- Send in a v…
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Dec 16, 2021
"How To Break Into An Industry That Has A Monopoly" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Tom Milligan
Build a pitch deck. Google pitch deck and find a way to build your pitch deck. The reason for that is who knows you might need to go out and get funding so, that is the first reason you might want it. The main reason is it really does bring home and drive home what it is you do. Why you do it, and why somebody should care. If you do a good pitch deck you touch on your finance, marketing, operation, and founders. You've touched on every single thing in a very short time frame but, it's incredibly valuable. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 14, 2021
"Look At What Already Exists" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Constanza Roeder
Definitely, what I said earlier of really looking at what already exists in your community. Not just well, no, I have never heard of someone who is doing this. No, you need to dig in. Most of these have nonprofit councils of some sort. Dig in and see who is at least serving the demographic of people that you want to serve. What in the area are you doing with them? Can you partner with them on adding something to those services? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 13, 2021
"Be Ok With Making Mistakes" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Sheila Mac
Definitely get your paperwork and everything in order, and then be ok with the mistakes because that's part of the fun and part of the learning. No matter how much you study or how much you learn, actually going and doing is going to give you better results even though you make a million mistakes than if you just think about it forever. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 10, 2021
"Focus On Finding Your Niche" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Nikhil Joshi
When you are starting a company, you don't need to decide what you are going to be you should actually focus on what is really going to sell and, can you really add value? In the process, can you learn? It's obvious that you have dreams and aspirations. If they are very big, such as wanting to create a very large company, then focus on finding something very unique that you are going to do. If you don't find it and you still have that ambition stop. It's ok to close down the business if your ambitions. But if it is not, then know in your heart that you still have a better company and have gone through the same pain that other companies have gone through. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 9, 2021
"How To Get Referrals" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Caleb Roche
If you can get a CRM and set that up and then use that to build out send email marketing. That gets further down the road. Start to collect data on each person you are working with. Use that to further conversations and start to realize how you can plant those seeds. Whether they enjoy a local coffee shop or they are a huge foodie. They love an NFL team. Find things that they enjoy and use that data to plant those seeds. So I think, get a CRM. Start adding people in there. Existing connections, people that are new. Then start to build out your CRM. Start to learn how to use that better. Then effectively within the next year, you should be able to have this referral engine that you can start working with. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 7, 2021
"Have A Solid Business Plan" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Hedieh Safiyari
Having a really solid business plan and knowing your competition. Doing a competitive analysis. Figuring out every business model. Having strong advisors and having a good team. Those are all really helpful. It's not just an idea; it has to be well thought of before you actually go and spend years and hours of your life in it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 6, 2021
"Set Up An Advisory Board" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jeremy Smith
Set up an advisory board of people that you can talk to along the way immediately. Two days after you start your business. In fact, you should probably, before you start your business, get one or two people that you can really trust and run some of your ideas by them. Not that you're going to listen to everything they have to say but having people around you with diverse backgrounds and experiences makes the process much easier to go through. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 2, 2021
"How To Have Strategy in Business" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Kawan Karadaghi
Education and research are always key. If there is something you want to learn more of or get on, double down your efforts on the understanding of what it is you are trying to do. I always say that is the best way. Sometimes the right information can be a game-changer. It's out there and, it's about locating it. It's about getting it into your hands and minds to use outwardly. That could be a mentor. That could be a business strategy coach. That could be anybody. It's just about getting it and applying it. Get the knowledge and then apply what you are learning to your business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Dec 1, 2021
"Be A Ravenous Reader" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Vincenzo Villamena
I think being a ravenous reader is great. I think that you know I've learned a lot from books on how to build a business, culture, and whatnots. I think really reading a lot, especially about a particular start-up. Or if you are starting up just from people that are in your industry is important. The same part is really putting yourself out there to reach out to people that are in your industry. Or get a mentor essentially. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 29, 2021
"You Are Worth Investing In" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Joseph Newton
Invest in yourself. Invest in yourself, whether that is reading a stupid amount of books or hiring a coach. Bring in someone to help and encourage you. This can go along with that last one. Know that you are worth it. You have the ability to do this but there are so many things that you probably don't know. Take some of your funds or set aside some of your funds and invest in yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 24, 2021
"Be Clear On What You Want" The inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Moshe Amsel
Get really clear on what it is that you want. I'm in the position now where I work with hundreds of business owners. Most of them have gotten lost on the journey and forgotten why they started in the first place. The truth is that we usually tend to overcomplicate what we are doing. We usually tend to add on more than we want and make it more expensive than it needs to be. If you really get in touch with what is the result you want? What is the lifestyle you want? And you build your business around that you'll avoid a lot of detours that are unnecessary. The last thing you want to do is build a successful business 20 years from now, look back and say I don't even like what I built, or even like where I am at. That's what a lot of people are on the path to do. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 23, 2021
"It's Never Too Late" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Steve Preda
That's kind of my struggle. What to do? Whether to stay with my current lifestyle which, I really like. Coaching businesses and maybe writing books and tinkering with things. Or I should switch gears and try to go for it. I am always thinking of Ray Kroc. I think he was 53-54 when he started McDonald's. So maybe it's not too late for me to do this if I really want to. Try to make a huge impact with the 1.5 million companies that start for the solution that maybe I could provide. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 22, 2021
"Get A Mentor" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Julius Walkenhorst
Get a mentor who already has a lot of experience. When I joined Polar, for example, I got a lot of support and trust from one of the co-founders. I got promoted very fast to a very big position. The thing I learned the most is and would recommend to anyone is to learn a lot and in the best way possible to just get a mentor a see how he or she works. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 18, 2021
"How To Do Business To Business Sales" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Mark Colgan
Think about distribution. Think about who also speaks to my audience and how could I potentially partner with them? How can I find a win-win-win solution for the potential customers, the partner, and myself? Distribution is the shortcut to business growth. For us, we really did not do too much marketing at all. We focused on distribution which got us our early customers and still several customers at the moment through these partners that we have established. It's a long game but, distribution is your shortcut. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 17, 2021
"Start Small With Your Purchases" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Seth Goldstein
Start small. Be methodical with your purchases. You might think you need XYZ to do your job. How can you go about doing that with what you have? Let's say it's a small business that once to start doing website design. You don't need adobe creative suite. You don't need this five hundred dollar a month piece of equipment to do stuff. How can you figure out how to do it with a text editor? How can you figure out how to do it with what you have on your computer? Or what can you use the trial for? A lot of companies give you a trial for a month. Try for a month. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 15, 2021
"Find A Good Mentor" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Matt May
Find someone who you admire if you can and, have that person be a guide for you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 12, 2021
"Keep Good Relationships" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Terresa Zimmerman
Disappointing my customers. So If we get it wrong with our store customers, the ramifications of that are big. Getting it wrong for them can be you, know, it stems from inventory. Do we have the right inventory? Did the inventory come in correctly? We are offshoring so, we don't get to inspect the line and see how things are coming off. We receive it; We pay for it; We put it out there; Yes, there is quality control but, the size and labeling can have mistakes, and if you don't catch it till it's in a store, that ruins relationships. Disappointing my store customers is probably the biggest deal. That's what I worry about the most. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 11, 2021
"How To Fundraise and Invest" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Hall Martin
Building a little bit of a relationship is always a great thing there as well because you are going to be in the deal with investors for a period of time. They know that too so, they are looking to check you out and, you are looking to check them out. The key is you have to demonstrate the growth story. Step one, you must have a growth story. Step two, you must be able to tell it or articulate it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 8, 2021
"Research Your Idea" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Todd Belveal
Do your research and do it to a level. If you are going to bootstrap anything, you can bootstrap this. Or, if you work in a place that has access to research databases like law firms or consulting firms, you can get this information for free. You need to develop your idea before you even bother stepping out and talking to people about it. Research it to a level where you believe in the idea more than you believe in yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Nov 1, 2021
"Have A Personal Board Of Advisers" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Joe Kinsella
I surrounded myself with around six people who I call personal board of advisers. They were basically people who expected nothing from me. They were getting no financial gain for spending time with me. They just wanted me to be successful. Each of them brought to the table a different set of experiences and often compensated for skill sets I did not have or I was developing. I spent time rotating through them and talking to them. Grabbing coffee with them regularly and shared openly where I was at. I would recommend this is one of the most powerful tools that entrepreneurs and people who are joining startups can leverage to really help steer the success of their business and the success of their careers. It's one that I learned so much later in my career than I wish I did. I would just recommend leveraging this powerful tool of boards of advisers. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 29, 2021
"Be Passionate" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Greg Collins
Did you know that 50% of companies that raise series A never raise capital again. So if I just focus on that short period of a company which could be a couple of years. There's an enormous amount of complexity. There's a lot of things that go wrong and, there's a lot of things that have to go right. If you are not passionate about that problem you are trying to solve and the solution you are bringing to market to solve that problem then, you will never make it to series A. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 26, 2021
"Build Something Small Now" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Scott Hirsch
I think the piece of advice I would give to aspiring entrepreneurs here is basically, build something small, simple real right now. Get it out the door, deliver it and then iterate on top of it. It doesn't need to be perfect now. It won't be perfect ever, in my opinion. Being able to get something out the door quickly to validate that idea is a lot more important than spending hours and hours making it perfect and potentially never launching it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 25, 2021
"Invest In Experts" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Lori Highby
It's worth making the investment in people that are really good at their job. You focus on what you are really good at and your expertise. Hire those attorneys, HR professionals, the marketers, whatever holes that you have. Make the investment on the front end because it's going to actually save you time and money down the road vs. you trying to figure it out on your own. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 18, 2021
"Refine The Product Or Service" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Benjamin Wood
Refine the product. Always work on refining the product, making the product or service the best version of its self. Ultimately that is what's going to bring people through the door and get people interested. Have people wanting to invest or having people buy out your company. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 15, 2021
"Make Sure You Love What You Do" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Slater Victoroff
Make sure you love it even when you hate it. I think the thing I often say about starting a company is it's pretty much the hardest thing a person can do. You don't even know if one in a million people has an easy time of it. I think you are completely right. Every single division is so difficult. I think the people I see that aren't successful are people that just think that it is going to be an easy pass to be a millionaire. It is not that. There are much easier paths to be a millionaire if you have some patience. If you want something that is going to let you make a mark on the world. And something that is going to respond and give you back what you put into it. That's what a start-up is. It is brutal. Make no mistake; however hard you think it is, it's going to be harder. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 9, 2021
"Have The Right Connections" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Victor Hogrefe
Three things you need essentially. You can get along with one of them barely. If you have two things, it's good. If you have all three, that is great. One thing is you can be an expert. If you are an expert in the field, that's already a great start. You could have the money. If you have a bunch of money, that's already a great start as well. You can buy the expertise. Or you can have the right connections. What is another hugely important piece. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 8, 2021
"Have A Business Plan" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Alison Hulshof
Clearly having a business plan. And it does not have to be twenty-seven pages long but knowing where you are going to start and some goals or metrics you are going to hit. Even things like what you are going to pay yourself. Try to predict the next twelve months and check some of those things off as you go. If you miss step three or you are missing a third goal, make sure that it is not part of that critical foundation that will actually prevent you or set you up for failure in the near future. So really lay out your plan. I will ask people all the time do they have a business plan? They will say no, it's too cumbersome. I will say no, tell me where you are starting. what are you paying yourself? What is success for you? Is it revenue? Is it profit? What's that number? And How are you getting there? What are the goals you're going to hit? So keeping it simple and then trying to stay focused and hit on that track so you don't get super distracted and head in the wrong direction. --- Sen…
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Oct 7, 2021
"How To Analyze Your Business" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Aaron Back
What I mean by getting educated is, know who you can rely on to help you with jump-start the business. But also get better educated around the premise of your idea. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 6, 2021
"Do Your Homework" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Trish Lewellyn
Do your homework. Do your home and be realistic. It's not for everybody. Do your homework. Contact these places and talk to people and make sure you understand what's going on. Make sure you understand everything that's out there because there is a lot going on. You can not go into it blindly. You have to do your due diligence. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 5, 2021
"Start An Online Business" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Sarah St John
I guess it depends on what type of small business or start-up they want to start. If they are not sure what they want to do, I personally recommend starting an online business. It is so much cheaper than a brick-and-mortar or retail type of store. Even if they are selling products where they think they might need a store, I still recommend starting online. The overhead is hardly anything. I run all my businesses for under a hundred. I think it is actually sixty a month now. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Oct 4, 2021
"Be Confident In Yourself" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Joseph Prososki
You have to be confident enough to not be the smartest person in the room. I think there's this societal pressure to be the smartest person in the room. Some of that imposter syndrome like hey, if I've got a lot of smart people around me, I am not going to be able to lead them. Or it will get out that I am not actually as qualified as I think I am. At the end of the day, I really don't think I am the smartest person in the room most of the time. Definitely not the most qualified. But I am able to get in there and build relationships and especially learn from the expertise around me. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 30, 2021
"How To Deal With Management" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Angela Thurman
Definitely document. Whether it's keeping a schedule for your project and documenting the tasks that you are completing. Or keeping a tracker of the life cycle of your contracts. Whatever it is, spend that little bit of extra time to document the work you are doing. The completion of these tasks. Because in the end, that is going to save you so much effort, time, and money. It's all going to be huge savings and saving the frustration I would say. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 22, 2021
"Take The First Step" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Naveen Bisht
Take the first step. If you don't take this step, you will just keep thinking shoulda, woulda, all those kinds of things. I think you have to take the first step but, at the same time after that, you have to be very flexible. You also have to be very persistent. Don't give up. And just keep meandering through because it's a rollercoaster ride. One day you'll feel high. The next day was low cause you were expecting customers to sign up, and they don't sign up. You were expecting investors to invest and, they don't invest, all things like that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 20, 2021
"Aloha Leadership" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Eric Jara
It's called aloha leadership. Aloha, as most folks know, is a way of saying hello. What I learned is that it's a lot more loving. It's a loving way of saying hi. It is a welcoming feeling and vibe. They have always taught us that it's that kind of leadership that actually makes things happen. As an entrepreneur and leader in whatever industry and field. Any artist, creator, entrepreneur, you need that kind of leadership. Because if not, you are going to fail. It does not work any other way. If you don't care about the people that are working for you, they are going to leave. If you don't care about the people working with you, why would they work with you in the first place? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 11, 2021
"Remain Humble" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Yvan Demosthenes
There are two of them. Make sure you've got money, number one. Everybody knows that. But secondly, I think that an example that I can share from what I just shared with dropping the ball and all those opportunities is to remain humble. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 10, 2021
"Improve Yourself First" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Daniel Marsh
The biggest advice is to make sure you are improving yourself first. There is a really cool statistic out there that some of the most successful companies are started by forty-year-olds. People in that age range. Why is that? Probably because they have all this professional experience that they had where they know the opportunities. They know how to execute things. They have made mistakes and learned off of other people's dollars how they can go do it for themselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 9, 2021
"How To Deal With Conflict & Work Relationships" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Jerry Fu
The clearer and more specific plan you give when you start to notice the expectations slip, the more likely you are to actually act on it. Now you have a clear plan lighted steps forward to be sure that to say ok, I need to engage and, I feel scared and default to comfort and avoidance if I don't have something. If I light this staircase up and I have the exit ramp lined up for me now I am more likely to engage in the behavior I know I need to do for the benefit of me, my relationships, and my company. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 8, 2021
"Outsource To Experts" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Heather Cox
Outsource to experts whenever possible. Whatever you don't need to be involved in, outsource to experts because if you don't have time and money to do it once you for sure don't have time and money to do it twice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 7, 2021
"Don't Believe Your Own Lies" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jeff Heggie
Don't believe your own lies. I think from a young age we start telling ourselves a lot of lies in our self-talk. Why do I think I can do that? Why am I the one that could be able to do these things? We have a lot of that negative self-talk and I think we just need to change that to why not? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 3, 2021
"Decide To Start" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Deborah Johnson
You have to decide to start and actually start because I have heard people that have had this plan. I've known people that have been on these albums. They have been working on the album and never finished them. So you have to decide to start. Then right along with that is to put some sort of date on finishing and actually launching. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Sep 2, 2021
"How To Start A Podcast" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Ryan Estes
Just avoid judging the podcast harshly. Tell yourself I am not going to judge this podcast until my hundredth episode. Until I get there, I am going to just put out content. In that process, you are going to get better in all kinds of different ways you did not even think of. The thing that kills most podcasts is people just get too self-conscious with it. The delta of where they are and where they want to go just seems too high to climb. Just keep doing it. Nobody is listening to my podcast. Does not matter, record another one. I don't have the right cover art. Does not matter, record another one. Keep going. Get to that hundredth episode, and you are going to have the main expertise in all kinds of ways you did not even expect. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Aug 18, 2021
"Don't Wait" The inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Priyanka & Shannon
It would just be not to wait until you have a ready product to start building your community and start marketing your product. If you have an idea and you know you are going to go after it, create a landing page, create a newsletter, create any social media page Twitter, Instagram, etc. Just start talking to people about it. Get them to start talking to you because their feedback is everything. You will figure out their pain points and opinions. Even before your product is ready, you can start implementing it. It will also help you to market your product better. You know the terminology they use. You know exactly what their pain points are. Once you have your product ready you automatically have an email list you can send a blast to. You can already start talking to your community and say hey my product is ready and hit the ground running instead of starting from zero. We started from zero, and that was terrible. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/mess…
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Aug 16, 2021
"Just Try" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneur w/ Ingor Van Rooi
The piece of advice that I would give is, start. You have no idea what beauty lies beyond that first step. A lot of us are afraid to try. We are afraid of failing. We are afraid of a lot of things that could go wrong, but what if it goes right? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Aug 13, 2021
"Get Everything In Order Right Away" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Caleb Roche
Definitely get everything in order right away. It kind of falls back on the worst business decision I made. Getting everything set up to where you have contracts that are in place. And you have a legal framework you can work off of to give you accountability. Then also give your clients accountability. The thing I wished I had done a little bit differently was I viewed my business in the very beginning as I needed to be a cheap as possible. And just kind of survive. Where I wish I had been I am going to invest all my resources into creating a great contract, getting invoicing set up to where it's reoccurring. Clients can save credit cards. Different processes that I did not do just because I did not want to spend the money that now I am having to spend the money and wish I had done it before. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Aug 6, 2021
"Innovate And Adapt" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Forrest Tuff
My greatest fear is running out of innovation. To me, innovation is what keeps us afloat. It keeps me going every day. Sometimes that worried me. As I grow older, will I get more out of touch with what's happening in social media new apps coming up? How much do I want to keep up with? Technology continues to advance. So as you grow, you wonder how much of this technology do you need or handle? So my fear is not being able to adapt because once I stop adapting, that's when I will stop growing. Then it will be time for me to hang it up. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Aug 3, 2021
"Look For The Right People" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Nate Zeleznick
I want to always over-deliver and fear that I won't be able to do that. How I am handling it is I am actively looking for the right people to help me do that. I know I can't do it all myself and, my team can't do it all ourselves. So we are on the hunt for the right people. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Aug 2, 2021
"What's Your Why?" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Tygh Walters
Put Your Goals in front of you and your fears behind you. There is so much that has to happen in a business. And it takes a long time. It's years or a marathon. You have to find a source of motivation and inspiration. Two of those sources are goals and fears. If you can be motivated by those simultaneously, I believe it's a powerful combination to keep doing whatever you need to be doing. I think it's the stereotype and clique that businesses fail because you give up or you quit. There's truth in that, but I think to make it easier on yourself as a founder especially, really get clear on why you are in it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 31, 2021
"Start-Ups Are Marketing Projects" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Jeff Seckendorf
I believe there are two reasons to do a start-up. One is you are passionate about something. You want to do a company and, you are willing to ram your idea down the throats of potential clients. That was UTD. The second reason is you see a niche and, you fill it. And that is, coach me strong. So I have had the opportunity to do both of these. You're passionate about something. Create a new product and try to market it. Be open to a niche. Create it, fill it, and then try to market it. The commonality of those two things, it does not matter which one you do if you are willing to go the long road for either one. The commonality is business start-ups are marketing projects. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 30, 2021
Commitment And Perseverance" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Kelly Githens
This Ranger Instructor looked down at me and goes are you committed? I looked at him, and I mean, my face is muddy. I have stuff in my eye that I am trying to get out. I am hacking up stuff and, I say what do you mean Sergeant? and he goes look a chicken is dedicated because he gives an egg. A pig is committed because he gives bacon. He goes do you understand the difference? And I said, yes I do. I have never forgotten that and, those are words I still to this day live by. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 28, 2021
"Start Right Now" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Wen Zhang
I would say to some who have not yet started well, start, do it. The world needs you. They need your idea and vision. Whatever you have in your beautiful vision do it. If not now, when? We all could die tomorrow. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 27, 2021
"Make Time For You & Your Family" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jason Gillikin
Make sure you carve out time for yourself and your family. When you are running a start-up you can get so focused and so in the weeds of running that business and it can be mentally all-consuming. You can't lose track of what is truly important. Carving out that time to go for a run. Carving out that time for a date night. Carving out that time that is super intentional for your kids. That is going to be beneficial to your family but, also for your business. It will give you that time away to relax your brain so that you can come up with better ideas for the growth of your company. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 26, 2021
"Raise Capital Slowly" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Joe Kleman
Raise capital but, raise capital in a way that you can build on it slowly. I started my entire company using square loans. I got my first one for eight hundred dollars. I worked and paid it off based on my credit card sales and, stuff like that afforded me another one for sixteen hundred dollars. Reallocated the money to what I needed at the moment and just kept building on it. I stayed away from raising big capital and raised what I needed at the moment or where I thought it was at and where my short-term goal was. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 24, 2021
"Set Your Goals High" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Anthony Russell
Don't be afraid to aim high. My goal was when I started my rental business the whole point behind it was I Â didn't want to put my financial security in the hands of a company. That was the whole reason behind this journey was that I did not trust a company to pay my mortgage every month. So I wanted to build up a rental portfolio that I could live off of if things ever went sideways and I lost my job. That was how it started and I told myself when it started ok well maybe twenty-five years is enough time for me to do this. I hope that I can do this in twenty-five years. Then it was like five years later that I was financially independent. It does not take that long, set your goals high. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 23, 2021
"Learn To Read Your Partners" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Sedreana Saldana
That is what I will go over with people in the flirt coaching. If you know how to really read your partners, whether it's your business partner or life partner or potential life partner, you know how to read what lights them up and what doesn't. Then you can go with that and choose better partners. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 21, 2021
"Go With Your Strengths" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Kawan Karadaghi
So I say go with something you are passionate about. Go with your strengths. Go with Something, that as I joked about earlier about looking around. Look at the things in front of you. Look at your actions and habits. What are those things that you are doing that you don't mind doing and that you could translate into a business? If you like talking to people all day, maybe being a counselor or opening up a counseling center is not a bad idea. Know your industry and who you are up against. Know your competition. If there are people or companies who are doing what you are doing and have a large market share, you are going to fight and contest a lot of that market share. So try to offer something that separates or divides you either at a lower cost or more in a blue ocean wave. So something different but still offers the same value proposition. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 20, 2021
"Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/Garrio Harrison
Spend as much time on understanding the marketing and sales of your business early on. Marketing can generate demand, but you also have to be able to close the business that comes through the door. That can be investors, customers, or employees. Whatever it is, as a founder, you are selling your ideas, solutions, and vision. The reason why it is really important to get good at that it's just something that you have to do is you gotta get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Sales is usually uncomfortable for a lot of people. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 19, 2021
"Believe In What You Are Doing" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Brittni Daniels
If you have a passion, and you're super passionate about it, and you believe in yourself, don't allow anyone to ever minimize or diminish what you are trying to accomplish and what your overall goal is. Even though that partnership may end your passion and your drive, you will find yourself along the way. It took me five years to get to the point of just filming a documentary. But there will be so many people along the way that will doubt you and probably laugh at you that will say what you're currently doing is making you money why aren't you happy? But, if you believe in yourself and believe in what you are doing, don't allow anyone to take that away from you. Always keep going and push through that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 17, 2021
"You Are Not Alone" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Joshua Lee
One, the biggest piece of advice is you are not alone. This is where I found myself after going there. So many entrepreneurs feel they carry this weight on them. I made myself alone, feeling I had to carry this weight so much that it made me contemplate my own life. Don't do that. You are surrounded by amazing individuals, especially in so many cities. When you find your tribe and, people reach out and connect. Don't feel like you have to do it alone because if you bring the right people in, it will really allow you to be; I always say we all rise up when we rise up together. Allow those people into your journey and know it's ok. You don't have to be the best at everything but understand your superpower. Truly when you are starting that company, ask the closest people to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 16, 2021
"Have Someone Who Is Real With You" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Stephen Granger
Maybe not have the dream crusher in your life. But someone that is going to be real with you and honest about your idea. Not in a negative way but a good sounding board. Looking for that person in your life. I have been incredibly blessed. Because I have a couple of founders that I reached out to on LinkedIn and said: hey, you are where I want to be in the auto space. Can we chat? And they have been great. It's interesting because they are very diametrically opposed founders of companies in their philosophies of growth. But to be honest with you and say that's not a good idea, or that's a great idea and hears why. There are holes that we all have even as multi-time founders, there are things you miss. You have someone else just throw back at you. That would be my advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 15, 2021
"How To Fundraise" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Akeel Jabber
Depends on what problem you are solving. Before thinking about money or investors, what's the product you really want to solve? Make sure there is demand there. At the end of the day, we want to make sure the product is there and there's a market for it. Get that nailed down. Have everything researched and be prepared and, I think you will do well from there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 14, 2021
"Always Have A Mastermind Group" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Lindsay Adams
One of the things I have done consistently in my business and the last twenty years is I have always had a mastermind group. And so, I have always had buddies. These are people who are either at the same level as me or maybe one or two notches ahead of me in business. We meet regularly to support each other and to learn and grow from each other. It's a bit like Devin, you've done this. What did you do when you were faced with this challenge? Oh well, Lindsay, I did blah blah blah. So You can always bounce off these other people. You can say I am thinking of doing this. What do you recommend? Oh, Lindsay, don't that's a stupid idea. Why don't you try this instead? Having those people around me has really helped me learn and grow consistently over twenty years. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 13, 2021
"Set High Standards For Your Team" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Tigran Nazaryan
I'll advise that person to set really high standards for their team and keep it consistent. It's not the product that matters cause businesses and startups change their products and business model a lot and they experiment with that. But having a great team is key to success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 12, 2021
"You Need A Village To Make A Business" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/Dr. Troy Hall
Rely on other people. Figure out what you are putting into your brain that is going to create the actions you are going to break. Surround yourself with good counsel. With people that you trust. With people that will give you good information. People who are not looking to try and profit from you, but people who are really looking who will build you up and support you. You need a village to make a business. You need individuals and, you have to rely on other people to help you. It's not a weakness. People think that it is a weakness to ask for help and, what I say to them is this the weakness is you are doing it and doing it wrong when you could have asked somebody to help you. That's the weakness. The weakness in asking is not a problem. It's only when you think that you know everything that's the weakness. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 10, 2021
"Just Go Out There And Do It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Aaron Kozinets
Just go out and do it with as minimum investment, both monetary and time, as possible. I think a lot of new entrepreneurs that I see are infatuated with starting the next Facebook. To do that, what they do is they build out this huge idea with all these different layers that they don't know anything about actually doing. But it all sounds great to them so, they pitch that to people. And people maybe like it, maybe don't but tell them it's cool. Then they go out and try to raise money and put together business presentations. I think being prepared can help and, I think raising money can help but, I am a huge advocate in just going out there and doing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 9, 2021
"Stick With It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ David Wachs
Stick with it. I mean, it is a two to four to five-year process. First of all, I would say today is the day to start a business. Tomorrow is not as good as today. The reason being; I know everybody stuff on their plate but, the older you get, the more responsibilities you have. You have a wife. You have kids. You have all these new responsibilities that are going to make it harder and harder to start a business. Thankfully I started the last company when I did not have a wife and kids. It allowed me to focus all my time, potentially too much time on the business. So I would say start immediately. Then I would say stick with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 8, 2021
"How To Brand Your Business" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Andy Gray
Take a deep breath, sit back, and think about your brand. Think about your product. Are you communicating the way you think you are communicating? You may be thinking you are doing everything a hundred percent. Or even if you are a start-up, and you are trying to figure things out. Take that same deep breath, think about your business. Think about your brand. Are you communicating or, have you created a message that resonates? If you are not sure or, even if you are sure. Or maybe it's a refreshing opportunity, sit back and say how do I get that brand to resonate? Am I doing the right job? If you think on those lines, then contact your great marketing person you work with whatever that might be the case and go through a branding exercise to recheck and reformulate. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 7, 2021
"Give Customers Something Tangible" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Michel Tricot
Try to get something out as quickly as possible, even if you don't focus on getting the right pricing right out of the race; that's fine. What you want with an idea is you want to understand. are people going to pay for it? And are you solving a real problem? It's very hard for people to project themselves with something that you say. Try to give them something tangible. I would say get it out as quickly as possible. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 6, 2021
"Do Your Research In Your Market" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mayvis Payne
Really research your market and craft because a lot of times I think we see someone that is successful and, we want that success. But we don't do our due diligence to research. Can I really do this? One of the things I really love to ask people is, would you do it if you had to do it for free? A lot of times people don't realize when you're an entrepreneur the money does not immediately come. Then it's feast or famine a lot of times. Sometimes you are really making money, and sometimes your not. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 5, 2021
"Do It Your Own Way" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jamie Barber
Follow the structure of things because you do need the systems and processes and everything else. But don't be afraid to go in your own direction with things. I actually saw someone who posted on an entrepreneur board of I am just too nice; how do I learn to be that bolder, stronger, meaner type of boss or employee? The first thing and, no one ever responded when I commented this but, I said you don't have to. You can be super nice. When I have somebody who screws up, I might be upset, and I step back and let that happen. But then, the next day, I am going to make sure that that employee is ok because they are probably beating themselves up. You don't have to be that corporate mindset, I guess. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 3, 2021
"Find A Balance" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Bryn Wilson
It's finding a balance between confidence and humility. You need supreme confidence in your idea and your unique ability to make this idea a reality whether is a product or service or whatever. At the same time, you need humility to know not only what you don't know. I knew I am not good at marketing and sales. I need to also recognize there is other stuff I don't even know I don't know having the humility to bring that on but balancing when I bring in a third party to get advice balancing that with confidence that I have this great idea and I am moving it forward. So I think there is that apparent tension between confidence and humility, but, striking that balance seems really important to be able to move things forward and keeping in the direction that you envisioned. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 2, 2021
"Don't Be A Control Freak" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Rael Bricker
Don't be a control freak and give up control earlier. Not give up control as in I have seen people who go: oh, I am going to employ somebody who is an expert and just let them do it, no, that is not what I mean. I mean, any entrepreneur starting a business does everything. We stand at the front of the copier and make the copies. We make the coffee, etc. We tend to do all of that. The key to being successful is doing what you do best which generally is entrepreneurs generating business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jul 1, 2021
"How To Understand ADHD As An Entrepreneur" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ John Torrens
What the research shows is that diversity of start-up teams is super important. Start-up teams with a single member with hyperactive-impulsive ADHD outperform. Start-up teams with two members with hyperactive-impulsive ADHD tend to suffer, and they don't perform so well. You probably have examples in your own experience where you see that dynamic play out. So if you are on a team like that, it's really important to realize that yes, even though I am the founder and CEO, you are very influential super important. If you are working with teammates who also have ADHD that you are going to need to address that and come to some sort of place where you can navigate it and manage it effectively. Because it could cause serious problems or it could prevent you from reaching all of your goals. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 30, 2021
"Be Open To Change" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Kirk Marple
Being open to wearing many hats and being creative and not thinking of it. It's a very different mindset. Working for a larger company, even coming from GM, honestly moved too slow for me. I loved what we were doing but, it probably would have taken five years to do what we're going to accomplish in one year. I think you have to be ready for that coming to a start-up. Even if you have come from a big company or even smaller companies, just be open to change. Chaos happens; it's normal but, be pragmatic too. You don't feel so much pain. It's not intentional pain being in a start-up but, I think you also have to be comfortable with things changing week by week. You have to overcome that concern. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 29, 2021
"Provide Unique Value" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mike Williams
Make sure you are scratching an itch that you are actually interested in and not just chasing something. It's really competitive out there. It's hard enough to start a business, so try and find a place where you are going to provide some sort of unique value. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 28, 2021
"Obsess Over Your Customers" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mark Horoszowski
Obsess over your customers in ways that you really understand their job to be done. And here I reference the Clayton Christensen model of; what are people actually looking to hire somebody or something for? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 26, 2021
"Go For It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ John Vuong
Start do and go for it. People are very I would stay informationally driven. They are reading, and writing blogs, watching videos but, they never are action takers. I would rather people go for it and learn from their mistakes. At least you won't live with regret. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 25, 2021
"Understand Your Financials" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ John Rhymer
So I really think the idea is to understand your financials more than anything. I think that is going to be the key. When you start talking to people who are going to want to back you, they are going to want to know that you know what you are talking about. It's great to know your idea. It's great that you have a passion for your idea but, if you don't understand the long-term effects of what you're doing. If you don't understand the business that you are in. If you don't understand those basic ideas, then no one is going to want to provide you with money cause they are not going to trust you with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 24, 2021
"How To Set Up A Business" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Scott Williams
Number one is to pick up the phone and have a consultation with an attorney. Most attorneys, including my firm, probably yours too, will have an initial consultation of a certain duration at no cost to the client. To kinda walk them through and ask the right questions and see if a further consultation or services and warrant. A lot of people have the I can do it myself mentality and, that's good up to a point when you actually figure out you don't know what you don't know. I tell everybody if you are preparing your taxes that's not a time to do it yourself and tell your CPA later what you did. You should be consulting with a CPA in that early decision. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 23, 2021
"Don't Give Up" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Noor Ali
Don't give up. No matter how hard it gets and how many lows you have, just get back up, ignore everyone else and keep going. Do not give up ever. No matter what, don't give up. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 22, 2021
"Understand Who You Are" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Lee Taylor
For me and, I think for most people is understanding who you are, understanding your personality. Understanding what type of things you are going to fit well with. Some people just grind through it. It does not matter what it is they; are just going to outwork and fix it that way. And for me that is torture. I can't imagine just pushing. I don't enjoy that. I am much more of the work smarter, not harder mindset. So really understanding who you are and what fits you well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 21, 2021
"Write Down Your Ideas" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jesse Yarger
People have million-dollar ideas every day. If you don't have the experience, or networking, or the know-how to get it started and up off the ground or maybe even motivation. There are so many times that people have these million-dollar ideas that, I think, it's really valuable to write those down. Then maybe nine months later when your friend texts you and says: hey there are desks for sale or whatever it might be, you can get those off the ground and get running. I think there is a lot of value in not forgetting what some of your ideas are when you are motivated and inspired. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 19, 2021
"Find The Right People" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Ravi Patel
Commit. Commit to what your goals are. Commit to what your visions are. Then find the right partners. Find your right co-founder. Find the right resources because it is very hard to build something alone compared to with a team. I think the chances of success and the timeline gets much shorter when you have a co-founder and a team that complements the skills that you have. That is the number one piece of advice I would give. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 18, 2021
"Listen Well" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Colby Tunick
Just listening really well. We have an internal rule that if you hear something three times from three different people, three different conversations should peak your interest cause now that not just someone's wants or desire. That might actually become an industry-wide need. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 17, 2021
"How To Set Up Operations" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Alicia Butler Pierre
My team and I recently discovered, as a few months ago, called Notion.so. If you are looking for a creative, quick way to store and capture your processes, look into that tool. It is basically a wiki that, unlike Dropbox or google drive. Yes, you can document all of these things. But what I find is you are using some of these platforms, even SharePoint or again google drive, Evernote, tools like that. They're great because it is stored in the cloud. Notion is also a cloud-based app but, it gives you the benefit of being able to see everything. And not have information hidden in folders, and you can quickly search for things. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 16, 2021
"Be Sure Of Yourself" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ ONeil Mbakwe
Be sure of yourself and reframe your thinking to where it's not trial and error but, it's trial and inevitable success. Once you have your focus on what you are doing and your goal for your business or start-up, that conviction will allow you to see whatever error or mistake you make along the road as a lesson to be learned towards that inevitable success. If I was speaking to someone I would let them know that everything is trial and inevitable success. There are no errors or mistakes, only lessons to be learned. Keep progressing, and don't expect perfection. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 15, 2021
"Get Out Of Your Way" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Sandra DeMaria
Get out of your way. When I get out of my way and, I actually open myself up. I have a business coach we use now. I actually open myself up to allowing someone else to give me some advice and say; hey Sandra this is right. We really need to go down this route, hold back from this, do this. It really opens me up for great things to happen. That's really what has been happening for us now with Tidy Spaces. When I get out of the way, all these things start to happen. It's unbelievable. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 14, 2021
"Do Your Research Up Front" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ian Abbott
Do all of your research up front. You can't do all of your research up front. You are always learning new things every single day. But, do your homework. No idea is had in a vacuum. If you have an idea, make sure you look at the lay of the land. Look at all the competition that exists out there. Make a spreadsheet even. Get out your whiteboard and look at all the ways that your business is different from their businesses. Use that difference at the end to shine or design a marketing strategy around. Double down on those differences. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 12, 2021
"Stand On The Ground" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ahmed Elnaggar
Try to control the expenses and don't spend on things that are not beneficial and stand on the ground. Don't look at the unicorns and all this. Now yes this is the target but, stand on the ground. This was a mistake that I did and so much was spent was acting as a startup concept that you read about every day and spend a lot based on that but at the end of the day it comes by steps. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 11, 2021
"Ask For Help" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Nicole DeAngelis
Ask for help. It's something that took me a while because I have a lot of pride and think I can teach myself anything, which might be true but, it might take years, and that's not very smart. Every time I have asked for help, it's always led towards more progress. And faster than I would be able to do on my own. And most people want to help you succeed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 10, 2021
"How to Understand Accounting For Your Business" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Andrew Klein
And so I think on the lower side, on the block and tackle side, make sure you have your information in excel format or Quick Books so that you can manipulate your information and get it clean. Then on the other side, make sure you have someone to talk to. Whether it's someone like us or whether it's an investor or advisor to talk you through things like profitability and questions that you will need to answer to the taxman but also to future investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 9, 2021
"Don't Release A Crappy Product" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Tom Milligan
My biggest fear has been producing an inferior product or a product that won't pass muster. What that has done is it has really shown and taught me that first of don't release something unless it's at least minimally viable. Don't release a crappy product. If you do release one, you are going to have to deal with it in the future. That is what I have learned over these last few months. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 8, 2021
"Spend Your Time Wisely" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Catharina Joubert
This is a very hard lesson I learned. Be careful in how you spend your time. We always are going to get a very rewarding feeling from being busy. And it is going to be answering emails, taking phone calls, and doing marketing. But, if you do not actually evaluate the impact that all this busyness is having on your return on investment (ROI) and what the income is. How are you actually making progress? Are you growing your audience? If you are a podcaster, what your income or profit is. Whatever it might be. If that's not growing or changing, yet you're busy all the time, then you need to reevaluate and perhaps implement different strategies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 7, 2021
"The Power Of Networking" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ali Marchand
I can't tell you the power of networking and reaching out to people and just asking for things directly and not beating around the bush. I think we really underestimate the power of being super direct with someone instead of just sending in your resume and hoping for the best. Find the side doors. That's not just for starting a business and getting your dream job. Find the side doors for everything. Do you want to start a podcast or write a book or anything like that? I guarantee you your network is going to have huge power in helping you get there. Networking and asking direct questions and just reaching out and asking questions to people you look up to that would be number one. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 5, 2021
"Keep Pushing Forward" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Joel Jacobson
Constantly believe in yourself and your product. If you feel like your product has value, you will have a lot of people who will dismiss it or say that's really cool, but that's as far as it goes. And you will have a lot of days where you are thinking, maybe this was a mistake and maybe I shouldn't be doing this. Then you will have a lot of times where your doubtful but, I would say just continue to keep the faith. Keep holding on to your belief that you have come up with something valuable. Keep pushing forward and having faith it will work out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 4, 2021
"Just Get Started" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Laura McGuire
The biggest piece of advice is just get started and don't get crippled in revision mode and, oh, I have got to have a business plan and, it's got to be perfect. Just right the business plan and get it out there. Get started working so that you can figure out all the answers to your questions. I guess the saying is, fail fast. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 3, 2021
"How To Create Content For Social Media" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Makenzie & Joshua Jamias
Get your website up and figure out your sales process. I think that has been the hardest businesses to work with is when they don't have a clear sales process. We can get you all the web traffic you need and want. We can set up ads and do everything organically that we know-how. But, if you don't have a way to close, then it's all for nothing. Figure out your sales process, figure out how you close people. Figure out what you actually need to do to increase revenue. Then most agency owners that are good at what they do will help you figure out those channels to amplify your sales process. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 2, 2021
"Ask Questions" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Evan Price
Before you go into the fun stuff like, what is the design of my logo going to look like, really figure out what transformation you are going to take your potential clients through. They are here and, you want them to be here. Figure out what those places are and how you fill that gap. Without that, you are just going to be spinning your wheels you are going to be pivoting a lot as I did. Figure out and ask those questions. Where are my potential clients at? Where do they want to be? How can I help them get there? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jun 1, 2021
"Invest In Yourself" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Manish Vakil
You have to invest in yourself. A lot of people say go and talk to everyone else but you have to know your weaknesses. And you definitely have to work on those. That's one of the things I have done. Still to this day, I have a book in front of me and, I write down listen before every meeting that starts right on top. Because when you are starting off a business, you think you know everything. One thing is to learn to listen. That's one of the things I have to learn for myself. Invest in yourself and find your weaknesses and then work on them. That will definitely go a long way in you being successful. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 31, 2021
"You Are The Authority" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Tyler Foley
You are the authority. You had touched on it a little bit just thirty seconds ago. You have to drive the ship. If you are a startup, a CEO, an owner, or a director, that's your job. You need to steer the ship But, the funny thing is the captain says go that way there's a helmsman crew actually steers said ship. There is an engine crew that's driving the engine and maintenance and mechanics who are keeping those things ticking. You have to see the big vision. You have to know what you know and know that you are an authority. But you also have to get very honest with yourself on what you don't know. And then what is it that it's ok not to know and, what is it that you need to get better at. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 29, 2021
"Don't Grow Too Fast" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Steve Preda
My advice is going to be from the perspective of the entrepreneur who is bootstrapping their business. It is to crawl before you walk and walk before you run. I think it's really important to not grow too fast and keep a gradual pace. Growing a business is about figuring out how you can sustain the business. Every step of growth reduces the stability of the business. You have to grow into that larger business so that you are on top of it and can then get to the next level. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 28, 2021
"Start Earlier" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Roger Tilton
Start earlier. Don't think about it more and more and wonder when you are going to do it. If you have the idea and passion to do it, don't wait. Start today. Start right now, make that first phone call, get your business licensed, get set up, name your company. Start moving. Don't waste time because what you will find is once you get into this, you never have enough time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 27, 2021
"How To Qualify For Tax Credits" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Eric & Michael Procaccini
So they think their last step is running the payroll, hire an employee, coming out on the front. We want to create the other last step which is let's take a look at your expenses. Maybe beyond having an expense on your profit loss, we can convert that into a tax credit. If we could use it for the payroll tax credit, that would be great, or else it counts as income tax. We do a lot of planning, phone calls, exchange information. I also want to say that we use technology. We do a lot of zoom and teleconferencing. We record a lot of our discussions and our interviews. Every single thing we do is to save time for the client. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 26, 2021
"Do It For The Right Reasons" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Brian Winch
Make sure you are getting into the business for the right reasons. I would say: don't chase the dollar signs. Don't get involved in an opportunity solely because you believe you are going to make a fortune. If you really don't enjoy doing what you do, it's pretty easy to give up when you run into some roadblocks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 25, 2021
"Be Clear On Your Goals" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jenny Paul
Be really clear on what your goals are in this situation. I think we did it well, even some of the groups that I have worked with over the years. Being clear on what the goals are and what the responsibilities are amongst people really helps. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 24, 2021
"Take Every Opportunity" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Robert & Michael Silva
Take every opportunity. Don't even hesitate about it just do it. Of course, you want to think about it. But, from what I have learned: when you hesitate when there is an opportunity in front of you, it really slows you down, especially with a startup. One of the pros of a startup is you can move at a certain pace. You can quickly change your model. And adapt faster than most businesses. If you see an opportunity, take it. Either joining a podcast or spreading your name out there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 22, 2021
"Take Advantage Of Every Introduction" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Vance Reavie
It's along that product-market fit. You've got to get out there and take advantage of every introduction that you can get. Talk to those potential customers or those potential people who are not customers. They may just be someone who knows something about the domain or has tried or seen it before. Get out there and take advantage of every introduction you can get and have those talks and learn from them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 21, 2021
"Have People Who Challenge You" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Justin Ullestad
Surround yourself with people who are going to challenge what you are saying in a positive way. But also that you can learn from. Before I moved to Austin I did not have a wide network of people that I could leverage from a connection, network, or from an intelligence standpoint. Nor did I have people who would challenge my ideas. Not in a bad way just why do you think this? Why do you think this product is important? I think the last couple of years especially over Covid I have tried really hard to bring in a vast amount of people that I trust and have backgrounds that I can learn from and continually educate myself but also can give me feedback. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 20, 2021
How To Set Your Company Up For An Exit" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Michelle Seiler Tucker
The best way to get the highest evaluation for your business and sell your business for maximum value is proprietary. The fourth P is proprietary. This is the number one value driver. This can take you from a five multiple to an eight multiple to a ten multiple to a fifteen multiple. This is all proprietary. Why am I saying you should start with this? Because if you get this wrong, then you can practically be out of business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 19, 2021
"Start Now" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Terresa Zimmerman
Start. Do it. Just do it. Figure out what your risk tolerances are, leave everything else behind. Give yourself a period of time. Do it. Just do it. Once you put it out there, people are going to rally. It's amazing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 18, 2021
"Learn To Delegate Tasks" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Michelle Thompson
I call it a discovery task list. What we do is we take inventory of everything you do for a week. Then we figure out is this something that you can delete? What happens if we just don't do it? How much effect does it really have on the business as far as ROI vs people's perceived value? Then the second thing we ask is, can I delegate this? And the question that we must ask ourselves for each one of those is if I knew I was going to be hit with a mac truck tomorrow, what would I do today to transfer that knowledge so that my business would not fall apart? That is the most important question because you have asked the brain a different question. And it will give you a different answer. It will come up with creative ways of how you can actually delegate a task that you thought was not possible before. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 17, 2021
"Plan Before You Start" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Tristan Pelloux
It might be boring but planning before you start is a big key to success and then obviously executing on your business plan. But first, you need to write it down. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 15, 2021
"Do It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Gabriel Cavazos
Do it. Do that thing you need to do. I mean, you have that idea go chase it down. Go learn what you need to learn to get it done and get it done. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 14, 2021
"Just Start Now" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Lauren Chitwood
Start. I think people really struggle to get started. I will say that action is the most important thing. If you are thinking about an idea and you can't quite decide, you just gotta go. And you have to go fast. You are going to bump into walls and say, oh, ok, we are going this direction now and, that's all normal. Startups are not normal. I think that's something a lot of people struggle to understand. It's like these are these really weird experiments and, you just have to test and see what works and keep that feedback loop tight and just keep going. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 13, 2021
"How To Get An Assistant" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Trish Lewellyn
Talk to maybe another business owner. Just because you talk to someone does not mean you have to hire them. If someone wanted to contact me and has questions, that would be fine. I would not mind talking to them. Just ask, ask around, ask people you know. Or, if you have emails for a virtual assistant, shoot them an email and ask them questions. If they are good enough and, classy enough they will answer any questions that person has, without expecting them to automatically become a client. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 12, 2021
"Surround Yourself With Good People" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Noah Labhart
Try to surround yourself with people who believe in you. So in that same example that I mentioned, that was my biggest mistake and biggest learning. My wife was absolutely amazing. She was a rock and, she was picking me up off the ground when I was in the corner crying and rocking back and forth when the project was going south. She was like, no, you've got to keep going this is just a part of the journey. We are going to get through it, and it will be fine. So she really picked me up. You have to surround yourself with people that are going to tell you that because there are going to be days where it just sucks, and it's not a good day. There are going to be days where this is the greatest job in the world, and you love it. Some days it's just nothing is going my way. You've got to be able to get through those. I think a huge reason why I was able to get through those days was my wife and the encouragement people were surrounding me with. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm…
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May 11, 2021
"Establish Your Relationships" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ K. Trevor Thompson
Always make sure that you are establishing your relationships. Always say to people what can I do for you? And Never burn a bridge even if people are wrong. Wrong things have happened to me, and it does not matter. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 10, 2021
"Get A Coach Or Mentor" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Dr. Kelly Henry
Get a coach and or mentor. You probably think it is self-serving saying getting a coach. It may be a little self-serving, but it's also speaking from experience because I have benefited tremendously through the years from having tremendous coaches but, also have had some mentors. If you not in a place where you can hire a coach look up people in your industry, look up people who are doing what you are doing, look at people who are successful at what you are trying to do, and just contact them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 8, 2021
"Be Fearless" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Devron Larson
I would say be fearless it really does take that. I have talked to so many people. I was coaching football for my son, just the little league football. One of my assistant coaches, a great guy still good friends to this day, came up to me and says I have an idea that I know will make me a millionaire. I was like, well, awesome, what is it? And he said I am not going to tell you you will go do it. And I said well, one I won't but two fine don't tell me I don't care what it is. Why don't you go do it? He literally said because I am afraid I will fail. I think that has stopped more people from ever becoming successful than any other thing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 7, 2021
"Put In The Time" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Bill Poston
First, I would try and make sure they are ready to do it in the first place. I don't necessarily take my own council right here but, particularly for a younger entrepreneur, you got to put in your time. I mentioned earlier that I considered my 10-year at Deloitte an apprenticeship. That's really what it was. I didn't roll out of bed at 25 and start Kalypso. I put in a decade learning the industry, developing my skills, developing a management model, and leadership philosophy. That was the foundation of that firm. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 6, 2021
"How To Have The Right Mindset" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Byron Morrison
In my experience, this is why the bottleneck of so many businesses is the CEO. It's because they are not making decisions, opportunities are being lost, and everything else is falling behind. They within themselves are not showing up as the CEO in their business. And that is why I am such a firm believer that your business growth can't outgrow your inner growth. If you really want to not just perform at that level but breakthrough to the next you really have to evolve within yourself. You need that level of thinking and the ability to control the stress and pressure and all of the mindset shifts in order to actually sustain your success. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 5, 2021
"Pick Good Advisers" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ William McGuire
Surround yourself with really good advisers. I know that's said really well but let's talk more about how to pick advisers. I would say that as a founder to find your philosophy for how you are going to grow your company. How you are going to treat the people you are going to support. Find the advisers who are experienced in the area where you have a gap. Go to accelerated programs. Go to your local co-working space. Go Google spaces if you don't have any in your community and search out people that have had success in the areas that you would like to have success in that you are not very good at. Then offer to compensate them well for being in the company. In that relationship over a couple of conversations, you will figure out if they are just trying to get equity or get compensation. Or if they are really in it for a mutually invested interest and the vision you are trying to drive. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 4, 2021
"Just Do The Research" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Eric Erickson
Just do the research. You know so many people who have an idea get excited, and they automatically turn to marketing. They start spending money on marketing. I would strongly suggest you do the research. Identify if your product or service has competition or is it innovative? Look and see what other people are doing. What niche do you fit into? Where do your customers hang out at? Those are just some small things to really start thinking of before you just automatically start jumping into trying to make money. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 3, 2021
"Listen" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Scott Knudsen
Listen. Find a problem. We were in a hospital once when I broke my back. It was a family and doctor-owned hospital. It was family so, my wife and daughter were there and, my daughter was ten at the time. She said hey I would like a milkshake. They said we don't have any milkshakes. So They called down, and they had a chef at this kitchen. So they made her a milkshake. The next day they had milkshakes on the menu for the kids of the family. They fixed that little problem. I think that it's fixing problems and looking for solutions, and then it is just listening to the people around you. You put them in your sphere for a reason. You hire your attorney. You get your bookkeeper. You have to listen to the people around you. Then you ultimately have to make the right decision. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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May 1, 2021
"Never Fall In Love With Your Company" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Bob Thayer
I am going to steal something that I have never forgotten that I learned 35-40 years ago. People today may not be familiar with it. It's called the entrepreneur credo. One major line in the entrepreneur credo, in fact, it may be the first thing is, never fall in love with your company it is a thing, not a person. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 30, 2021
"You Are Alone In This Game" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Sam Gupta
Never ever trust your family. You are alone in this game. Your family is going to be overcoming themselves when they promise anything. Just because they over emotional, they are not rational. If you do that, then it's going to fire back. My one piece of advice is you are alone in this game. Don't count on anyone. No one is there to help you. If you plan that way, then you will go a long way. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 29, 2021
"How To Use AR And VR With E-commerce " Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Michael Agustin
Try it out and experience it for yourself. Really put yourself in the shoes of the next generation of shoppers. I feel that it typically costs a shopper an hour of their day to visit any one store. Even if they decide to go to that store, they have to decide whether or not it's worth the trip. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 28, 2021
"Start Small & Measure Everything" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Mickie Kennedy
Start small and measure everything. There are so many people when they are starting a business that gets sort of turned one way or another of how they should be spending their money. If you can't measure it, you don't know what's working. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 27, 2021
"Be Open To Learning On Your Journey" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Chad Price
Look at it as a continuing journey. There is not a start into it. It's something that you learn every day. You get better at it every day. I equate it to sports because I played sports. In business, athletically, you don't have to lose. Your mind can just get sharper and sharper. I know now based on my experience in having made decisions. The decisions I could have made better earlier in my career. There is no way for me to improve on myself if I am not a continuous learner throughout the process. My number one advice would just be to be open to learning for the rest of your life or as long as you want to be an entrepreneur, not getting stuck in your own mind. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 26, 2021
"Get A Supportive Team" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Gunjan Bhattarai
The importance of one, getting a team that will support you since this journey will take a lot longer than you think to reach any milestone you have in mind. Any projection you have initially, you might think in terms of days or weeks, or months. It will probably be years and, it will be longer than even your wildest dreams are. Have a team that will stay with you through the end. Those people are the ones that will make the journey worth it. They are also the ones that will keep you there and make you not doubt yourself if things don't go according to plan. I guess another piece of advice is to try to do as much research as possible. Understanding key parts of the process. Don't let your excitement impede you from getting the knowledge for you to do well. Know that you won't have enough no matter how much you try you are still going to make mistakes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 24, 2021
"Scratch An Itch" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Darin Haener
Scratch an itch. Build something that you are intimately familiar with that has been a real problem for you in real life. The closer you are to the problem, the easier it is going to be to solve it in a way that other people will understand. The people are experiencing the same problem. I will give you two. Be persistent. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 23, 2021
"Have Good Communication With Your Team" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/ Marsha Wilson
I share too much. I tell too much. Maybe it makes people nervous. Maybe they don't need to know that much to do their job. I always thought I wanted to know a lot therefore, I want to share a lot. Learning how to not do that and I am still not very good at it but, I am better than I was. I don't want to fail my people. I don't ever want to be not always thinking of my team first. I know clients are going to come and go. But, keeping a really good solid team and being considerate of them and genuine for them. I am always double-checking just to make sure that the decisions I am making are ones that in my heart of hearts I know I am doing what I need to do. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 22, 2021
"How To Sell & Market" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Chad Perry
Find what people are buying. If their product is fitting that, great. If it's not fitting that, then tweak it until you get there. That's the easiest way to succeed. Find out what people are buying and figure out how to position yourself with someone that sells that. Don't go try and create a new market. Just find what people are buying right now. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 20, 2021
"Focus" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Tei Zvika
Sometimes you have to focus on what you don't need instead of what they are asking you or making you perceive that you need. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 19, 2021
"Jump Into It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Zac Stern
Jump into it. Just jump out of the plane and figure out how to rebuild your parachute on the way down. That's really the only advice I can give. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 17, 2021
"Side Hustle" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Brook Schaaf
I think as an entrepreneur, one of the real blessings or curses you have is that you have these hunches and ideas that pop into your mind. That is just entrepreneurship. It might not be a business it could be a song your playing around with if you are a songwriter or anything else. Try to tinker with that on the side for a long time before that emerges as its own thing. Otherwise, there might be too much at stake, and the weight of the business and the need to support yourself and your family for example which cause it to collapse. You will go crazy and run yourself ragged trying to do fundraising. So I think if at all possible side Hustle is the way to go. There seems to be a natural incubation period for business that is not a month or two but is more like a year or two. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 16, 2021
"Figure Out What Makes You Different" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Destin Bell
Figure out what makes you different. I think the biggest thing that I have seen so far because of all the things I am working on. I am a small-town guy, I don't have a huge network, I am not the smartest guy in the world by far, and even for the things I am working on, they are very small right now. The zap idea I have been working on is just wireframes and a decent pitch deck. My YouTube channel even still only has about 200 subscribers. The company I am working on is only doing about four or five figures in terms of revenue so it's not major. Putting yourself in the right places, taking chances, and being different more than anything will get people to notice you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 15, 2021
"How To Personalize Your Advertising" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Vishal Chordia
Choose an SMB renderer that will do a holistic view. You can say that I just want to start with email or ads or web analytics. That's fine but choose a renderer that will have all of those so you can expand in the future. As my business grows, can this support me? Can this support use cases as my business grows? I chose one renderer that just does analytics. Now I have to choose another one that does email. You don't want to be in that situation. Try to see who will help you grow. As you grow, can they meet your needs? That's super important. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 14, 2021
"Use The Buyers Blueprint" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Scott Duffy
What most entrepreneurs who are launching do is they take easy to use and they build what they think is easy to use. Then they put it out into the market place and it does not get the result they want. So the second question that you ask is, what has to happen? How do you know that it is easy to use? What happens is the buyer gives you what I call their buyer blueprint. They are going to say I want it to be mobile. I use an IOS on android. I want to pay for it once, not every month. They will give you all those things. As an entrepreneur launching, what you do is build at that. Just build that and push that out and, it will give you a much higher chance of being successful at the get-go. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 13, 2021
"Get Your Marketing Right" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Johnson Emmanuel
First, I will tell them to get your marketing right. When I say marketing, that encompasses everything. If you get that right, I believe strongly that what makes a business successful or fails is the business model. Get your pricing right is extremely important. Because of what we do, we are working with more than sixty different industries. So we tend to see this a lot. Business entrepreneurs start to have ideas and, the next thing they want to do is go and start without sitting down and get your marketing right. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 12, 2021
"Take Thought Walks Every Day" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Daniel Brassell
Take walks. I do thought walks every single day. It feeds the soul but, it also feeds the mind. Sometimes if you try to think about the problem all the time, you are actually getting farther away from the solution. Whereas if you just take a walk you notice something in nature and it sparks the idea you have been looking for. That has really fed my soul. It's helped me get my steps in every day. That is probably the most productive thing I do every day are my thought walks. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 10, 2021
"Streamline" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Ryan Clark
Streamline. Laser focus. It's amazing that advice is out there and it's so important. Try to figure out that one small thing that you can do better than anyone else and then strip that down even more and try to really nail that one thing. especially in software. Keep it really simple. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 9, 2021
"Have Passion And Stick With It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Nathan McDonald
Really understand whether you've got the passion to stick with it. Really understanding yourself and what you want out of it. Really make sure you have a good, pure intention. These things are very challenging and take a very long time. In general, they are marathon journeys. The ones that have the grit to stick with it, have a lot of creative ability to connect, and bring in the right people are successful but, most aren't. Most are not very successful when it comes to building and growing high-tech companies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 8, 2021
"How To Be A Mompreneur" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Jolene Rheault
Just go for it. Don't overanalyze everything too much. Put your feelers out and see what your audience is. See what kind of options you have. It's very easy to get caught up in the planning and, by the time you know it, it has been five years and, you still have not launched a company. That's my big advice is to just take it by the reins and see what you can do with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 7, 2021
"Don't Make Something Too Advanced " The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Justin Evans
When you are inventing, there is a concept and, I forget the name of the designer who came up with this concept, He an amazing guy from the nineteen fifties. The concept is called MAYA, which is most advanced yet acceptable. The struggle is that if you make something too advanced, you are going to have a difficult time getting people to adopt the product. So there needs to be effort put into making something, whether it's the interface or some aspect of it acceptable to the general public so they can understand it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 6, 2021
"Know Why You Are Starting" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Orly Wahba
There are going to be difficult times ahead when you start something. You're going to sometimes want to throw in the towel. Lots of financial hardships that I went through and a lot of discouragement from people around you. The only way you are going to be able to make it through is to really know your why and to recognize that if other people are out there discouraging you, it does not mean that they don't believe in you it just means they don't believe enough in themselves. If they don't believe in themselves, how can they possibly believe in you? So that's a key component. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 5, 2021
"Listen To Your Customers" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Mariam Ispahani
When we first started out we said you know what we know how to make this. We have made a few of them here are there. We will just get the money that we require to set up the factory to make it so we can go from the lab to commercialization. And then we will make it in mass production. But then once we started looking at things and speaking with potential investors and potential customers we realized that everyone wanted to see what we had made. They were like ok so you say you can make it now we want to see it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 3, 2021
"Reflect On Your Idea Carefully" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Tim Green
Reflect on it really carefully. If you don't love it. If you are not willing to put in ten years of your effort at forty to eighty hours a week, getting paid nothing in addition to earning your living income. If you are not willing to do that, you're probably not determined enough to make it. Some people win in a year but, the reality is most people, most millionaires, most self-made people are in their fifties before they develop the sort of self-discipline and determination. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 2, 2021
"Keep A Flexible Mindset" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Steve Haffner
Keep a flexible mindset and don't be married to strategies. Don't be married to a specific belief and set deadlines and tripwires. Go forward and be open to reassessing your strategies at different points. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Apr 1, 2021
"How To Use Email Marketing" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Matt Rouse
Everybody thinks that the only thing you need to watch out for on email is to get out of the spam box. But, there are actually several steps to having an email gets delivered to the person that you are trying to reach before that system even decides to put it in the spam box or not. That process is called deliverability. Deliverability has a number of factors in it. Some of them can be related to your domain or whether you're on a blacklist, do you have the correct thing set up in your DNS settings for that. Those are all technical requirements. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 31, 2021
"Know Your Why" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Ben Wolff
The first thing you should do is read the book "Start With Why" by Simon Sinek. I truly, believe that if you know your why things will be easier. You will be on a good path. Know why you are doing something because that is going to dictate how things move forward. That has helped me tremendously; knowing why I made it, knowing why I want to work with the community that I am working with sets everything down a great path for me. You will also learn why you don't want to do something. But for me, that is the most amazing book. "Start With Why" I would read that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 30, 2021
"Do Your Market Research" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Abdul Kalumbi
You need to do your market research. You need to make sure that the market is healthy and that there is space in the market for your idea. And going back to the idea of validating, there is a great book. I do not remember who it is written by but, it is called "Nail It And Scale It". I think it was a book produced here in Utah. The book "Nail It And Scale It" talks about how doing short, easy market tests that allow you to validate or invalidate the demand for your idea/product in the market. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 29, 2021
"Start A Business With What You Know" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Kate Isler
Start a business in an area that you know. You have a network, and you are passionate about it. It does not matter what you see as a business opportunity, people are going to invest in you as the beginning of a business. The only way they are going to invest in you is if you're authentic and you know what you are doing. You can read about it all you want but, It comes from your heart. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 27, 2021
"Don't Worry About Other People" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Nick Cianfaglione
Don't worry about other people. I use to get bogged down with that at the beginning of my company. I would see other people running startups that were getting more attention and publicity. I would think they are not doing anything. I am here slaving away 22 hours a day and think no one even cares about me. They are out partying on the weekends and, they are barely doing anything and being published in the media. And they are realized that behind the scenes, it's all a façade. Now five years after that, look what it came to, my 8-9 years of no one paying attention to me is now paying off. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 26, 2021
"You Need Other People" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Brian Adams
Realize your strengths and weaknesses. Understand that the people around you really do have superhuman abilities compared to what you may have. You need other people and identify where people are strong, so you can synergize and make something bigger than what you are on your own together. That's a real thing. You can't do it all alone, so you need to find the right people to help bring something amazing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 25, 2021
"How To Blog and Brand To Help Your Business" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Elizabeth Pampalone
You, Devin, are a consumer. If you were going to hire you to do the job you do. What would you look for and, what would you want to know? And I think we forget that we are consumers. We look at it as business owners, marketers, and the person building the thing. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 24, 2021
"Think About Intellectual Property Often" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/ Darrin Burnham
One of the biggest mistakes I think we see is people thinking about intellectual property too late. They start to run up against those deadlines and lose out on some of those property rights. My biggest piece of advice would be to think about intellectual property early and often. Intellectual property is one of those things you can lose out on. And not just from the typical ways that we hear inventors and entrepreneurs complain that someone else is ripping them off. Sometimes they are their own worst enemy as far as making sure they are getting their intellectual property on time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 23, 2021
"Find A Mentor" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Josh Payne
First and foremost find a mentor. Find somebody who has what you want, is going where you want to go, is willing to mentor you on how to get there, and listens to what they have to say. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 22, 2021
"Be Aware Of Your Competitors" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Karthik Rau
I think it is always good for entrepreneurs to keep an eye out as to what the competitors are doing. Not a fear necessarily but, I think you need to be aware of other companies. Being a little bit paranoid about that is actually a good thing. That is one thing we always try to see if our product is differentiated enough and has enough defensibility in the market when we go talk to customers. I would say that is the most important area where we continue to stay focused. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 20, 2021
"Don't Give Up" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Chibueze Izugbo
First, don't give up. It's going to get tough. Don't think it is going to be so easy. And then get advice from people you trust their sense of judgment. You need mentorship. Be open to change your idea. Sometimes your original concept can change along the way. So be willing to listen to professional advice and don't give up. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 19, 2021
"Entrepreneurship Is A Journey" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Laurent Notin
Entrepreneurship is a journey. It never ends. It's not something that you can say I am going to be an entrepreneur today and, then tomorrow it's off. No, if you start entrepreneurship today, you are in it all of your life. It will never stop. When I am saying entrepreneurship is a journey I am also saying be patient. Don't believe all the things you see on social media. Most entrepreneurs are not that successful. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 18, 2021
"How To Create Webinars" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Ken Molay
Think in terms of what your audience wants to hear rather than what you want to say. We all get so hung up on these are all things I want to tell people about my company, my brilliance, and my services. And instead, turn it into what are they coming to this for. What is the value that they want? And make that the first thing you give them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 17, 2021
"Have An Outlet" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Michelle Bradford
Don't be shy. Do a lot of cold calling. The nice thing with cold calling is they don't see you on the other end. You can just smile and dial. Ask the silly questions. You can always hang up and dial the next person. So don't be afraid of cold calling. The next thing is to have an outlet. You have your 9-5, you have your family, your kids, your side hustle you're trying to do. So I say have an outlet. have a de-stressor. For me, it is snowboarding, so go snowboarding. Running, when you are doing the pirate run, have something like a stress ball with you. Do some meditation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 16, 2021
"Start With Your Personality" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Anne Gibbon
I think you should start with your own personality and really understand yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. What are you drawn to and what do you avoid? In this game, when there is only a couple of people, and you don't have a lot of structured accountability you, can really go off the rails if you don't pay very close attention to the stuff you know you are going to avoid. It's like driving down a road, and you know there are going to be potholes. Why not plan to avoid them. Just see them ahead of time instead of bouncing your car through those. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 15, 2021
"Find Customers" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Surbhi Rathore
I'm a really big fan of finding customers before you start building anything and that is what we did as well. We got early customers who believed in what problem we wanted to solve. And build the platform with some early feedback from them. It really helped us validate the idea we were working on. There were times when investors would be like, no, that's not a great idea. I don't think there is a big market for it. But, because we had so many customers, we could really believe in what we were solving for. I really value having those customers with our life cycle and, I give the same advice to everyone who is building a platform, product, anything. There is nothing better than getting customers involved in your journey early on, even more than investors. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 13, 2021
"Have Sufficient Cash Flow" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Dr. Christy Kane
You need to make sure that you are looking at sufficient cash flow to be able to do what you are doing. I think one of the biggest mistakes startups make is they don't recognize the amount of cash it will take to get a business off the ground. It usually takes twice as much as you think and twice as long. So it's really important to be mindful of that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 12, 2021
"Do Things Differently" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ James Kandasamy
I would say three things: One is to work hard. The second is to be persistent. And third is to do things differently from others. A lot of times, people want to do what everyone else is doing and, that is just going to put you in a normal category. If you do things differently from everyone else, that makes you different from everyone else. There is a better chance of breaking out and reaching your goal. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 11, 2021
"How To Use Digital Marketing" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Cody McCormack
Really figure out what KPI's you think make sense to track for whatever initiative you are working on. And don't let yourself get distracted or deviate from those. Actually iterate on improving those KPI's. If you decide click-through rate is what you want to improve, actually start measuring that. Layout a plan to achieve that. If you have to change the plan because it's not good or it's not working, that is one thing but, don't spend three minutes or three days working on click-through rate and then get bored and decide you want to focus on a number of impressions and then after that say no I actually want to work on ranking. Cause that is a recipe to get nothing done. And it happens a lot in digital marketing, unfortunately. Because these things do take so long, SEO in particular, you just have to have a certain degree of focus. I think that is going to be valuable to a lot of small business owners and start-ups. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/m…
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Mar 10, 2021
"Make Decisions And Commit" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jedi Knight
We tend to think that intellectual property, patents, trademarks, that kind of thing are higher on the list. But, we also are ready to acknowledge that sometimes maybe getting together a prototype might be a little more important than getting that patent if you have to choose between one or the other. A lot of times being able to make those decisions and then commit to it. We are here to help businesses to make those decisions. We are not going to try and milk you out of money, and get you to make a decision that you are going to regret later. We want your business to be successful. So we can help you try and navigate what's the best path, particularly in regards to intellectual property. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 9, 2021
"Start With A Brand Strategy" The Inventive Journey Podcast w/ Chelsea & Mitch Glaser
Start with a brand strategy. I think a lot of people dive straight into trying to get their website up. Whenever somebody has an idea there are so many steps that tend to get skipped in the early stages. What I always like to tell people is to take these ideas that you have and put them into a strategy for how you want to be representing yourself and bringing it to your audience. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 8, 2021
"Start Small" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Amy Shick
Start small and start with a minimal viable product. It does not have to be perfect when you launch it. It does not have to cost a lot of money. Even if you have to do it manually to see if you can get traction, interest, and an audience, then you are on to something. I feel like there is so much talk today about these startups. And you have to raise all this money and hire this team and build out this product. I would just say start really small and think hyper-local to get it started. Then you can grow from there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 6, 2021
"Manage Your Own Expectations" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Brian Fleck
I think managing your own expectations. We all want to manage our customer's expectations but, we forget about ourselves. When I get into a business, I know there are going to be a lot of hurdles. Â I know there is going to be an issue. When those issues do come, you have to remember, oh yeah, that's what I expected. Instead of getting frustrated and stressed out about it, you work through it. You know it has to happen. There are going to be frustrations. There are going to be things that don't go right. If you can expect to expect the unexpected, you can probably handle those a little better. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 5, 2021
"Nurture Your Mentors" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Glenn Foley
This is my take from that. This is what Mark McCormack said who built IMG into an incredible company. He said: "when you are looking at your pnl, and you're looking at all your projections and everything, and you are feeling good, do this. Double your expenses and cut your revenue in half and tell me how you feel." The second is going back to being a smart guy. I kind of use proxies mentors, and one is Michael Dell. And Michael Dell says: " if you think your the smartest guy in the room, get new guys. If you still think your the smartest guy in the room, get a new room." --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 4, 2021
"How To Understand SEO" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Garit Boothe
I like to make it super clear to lay the tech foundation. Create one page of content for every single keyword you want to rank for. If you are in a big niche, you will want to rank for thousands of keywords. And then get other websites to link back to you. Those are the three things that compile SEO. And any SEO company that is good will be creating content and getting links for you. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 3, 2021
"Don't Be Afraid To Go First" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jon Taggart
Don't be afraid to go first. Provide value first. Everything is a relationship there is no b to c or b to b. It's all human to human. If you can find a way so that you are providing value right out of the gate, your close rate, conversion rate, and the whole experience is going to be better throughout. The more that you invest upfront the more value you provide the more that you are going to extract out of that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 2, 2021
"Go With Your Gut" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Scilla Andreen
You can have a great idea you, can even have the funding for it. But you need to leave room in the execution of that model to have that variance, the human condition variance. You can pull all the data, you can interpret all the data, you can look at all the comps, you can see all this stuff. I will tell you that you have to go with your gut. You have to do gut checks all the time. And you have to leave a little room for something to happen. I don't mean, be negative; it will not work that way. It's more like something amazing could happen in that little space that you leave for magic to happen. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Mar 1, 2021
"Be Resilient" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Dom Einhorn
I would say before you jump in headfirst, ask yourself a question. Do you have the DNA of an entrepreneur? Yes or No? In most cases, the answer is no. To become a successful entrepreneur, it takes a tremendous amount of grit, resilience, and the ability to take the pain and get back up. It will be a very painful journey. You have to know that before you launch yourself. If you ask me right now, I can't prove it scientifically, but by experience, how many people that have what it takes. If you are one of those people, you are the five percent. You are one out of twenty. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 27, 2021
"Do Something Right Now" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Phil Kirkeiner
If you have a business idea, do the smallest possible next step towards it right away. If you think that you want to start a new social network or something for dog lovers, call up five of your friends that love dogs and ask them what could be better about the social networks they use. If you have an idea for say I want to get into lawyer referrals. Maybe I should call up lawyers and ask them how you can help them out. You really don't need money or some big thing to start a business. It's usually just one step at a time. If you have an idea just, do something. Do something right now about it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 26, 2021
"Pick Your Mentors" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Deepankar Katyal
Pick your mentors they are very helpful. One thing that I was fascinated by when I moved to the US was that people are always available to help all you have to do is ask. Don't feel shy, don't feel that you are cool reaching out to a random person and they will ignore you. People talk and like to help, and pay it forward. One of the biggest things I learned from my mentors when I went back to them and said hey, thank you for helping me out. What can I do for you now that I sold my company? They told me three words that have stuck with me, Â pay it forward. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 24, 2021
"Take On The Headwinds" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/ Teri Chou
I would recommend reading the book "Good To Great" by Jim Collins. I found that really helpful. I was lucky enough to have a Ph.D. advisor that had me read it in grad school which was great. I did not know I would be in a leadership position at the time so I think my thoughts were formed really pure before I had any sense of entitlement. So now that I am in it I can compare myself to my thoughts of myself back then. When there are pain points executives especially me endure the most of it. Take on the headwinds so that people working for you feel less of them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 23, 2021
"Don't Overthink It" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Emily Dessingue
Don't overthink it. I think we can get in our heads and, we can overthink things. I like to think of myself as a perfectionist and, I have learned in one of the books that I have read it's bad to be looked at as a perfectionist. That's because we are constantly chasing after something that's not real. Perfect is not real. We are driving are selves crazy. People who are looked at to be perfectionists have a higher rate of anxiety, depression, and eating disorders because we are driving ourselves nuts. There is never really a perfect time. People say I have to learn more before I get started. No just go for it you will learn along the way. The only way you are going to learn is by doing it. You can do it. You are a big deal. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 22, 2021
"Work From What You Know" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Steven Selikoff
Work from what you know. And that is going to give you your edge over everyone else. As Jack Trout says, "differentiate or die." You need to have your product be unique. What sets it apart? If you start with your knowledge, you're different. Everyone is unique, so build that into your product. What do you do that is unique? What is it that sets you apart? Do that for your product. Don't stop there; always put it in front of the customer for feedback. Get it in front of your customers, get feedback and see what they say. When you follow that rule you will have a product that is unique, differentiated, and that customers want. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 20, 2021
"Keep Going" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ David Hojah
Keep going. Never ever ever give up. Always keep that fire, keep that passion awake. And always remember what is the purpose. What are you doing here? What is your potential impact? Why you are doing this for real. Keep that passion alive and, it's going to be worth it in the end. Keep going. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 19, 2021
"Get Experience First" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Zachary Rozga
You've got to get some experience first. There are so few and far between of the Mark Zuckerberg or the Bill Gates that drop out and create something amazing. Most people have gone and got whether it's experience working in a start-up or experience working in a big corporate entity, that experience is invaluable. It also starts to build up your network, which also translates into those soft skills that you need to run a business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 18, 2021
"How To Manage Your Finances" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Paul Adams
So one of the first things we suggest for business owners that are starting to launch and grow is, at a minimum, start paying yourself a salary. That's equal to what you have to pay somebody else to do the job that you are doing. The first starter is to make sure the business is viable. If you had a CEO of a company, and what you need to pay them is 120,000 a year, and you can't pay yourself that, that becomes your first check that the business needs to grow and produce more cash flow. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 17, 2021
"Be Ready To Keep Trying" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Cody & Thomas
Be ready to keep trying and keep reformulating. Even though master Yoda says there is no try, only do, it's going to feel like a lot of trying for a while unless you are extremely lucky and/or skilled. If you are not coming at this already from having the full skill set and the full finances and the full social relations that are just going to guarantee your success no matter what. If you come from any background where you have to struggle to make things happen mainly due to financing, then be ready to just keep hanging in there and keep feeling your dream and just trusting that you have a good product. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 16, 2021
"Try Out Your Ideas" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Markellos Diorinos
It's better to try than to talk about it. I have had so many ideas over the years that I never bothered to realize. They could have been great, ahead of their time. Who did not think of the iPhone, or this and that? Yes, everyone had similar things in their mind where they say: oh yeah, this could be great. The difference is always in the execution. So there has to be biased for action. Do it earlier. It does not have to be perfect but do it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 15, 2021
"Use Your Resources" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Forrest Tuff
Go work with either Score or the SBA- The small business administration and let them guide you. A great resource that will save you from making tons of mistakes that I had to make starting out thinking you know everything. Go ahead and get some people to help you know it. They are here to assist you. I would say to go and use your resources. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 13, 2021
"Don't Be Afraid Of Feedback" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Darian Parrish
It's just a sense of denial or not even a sense of denial. Being in denial about something very important to the business. And maybe as a founder or entrepreneur, you are not seeing clearly, So finding colleagues that can be brutally honest with you. Whether that's friends, family, business partners, or other partners, it's very important. I think you can kind of self realize every day, but that is a challenge. Having outside accountability is helpful. But constantly questioning yourself and being ok with that. Taking negative feedback or even critical feedback is really valuable and important. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 12, 2021
"Know When To Make A Change" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Ray McKenzie
One we are boot-strapped so we are trying to get the most out of every dollar that we can get in the business. For us, we are always trying to look at different ways to market, sell and attract leads. We do the things that we can get the most out of every dollar that we can. We started initially with a digital marketing campaign but our messaging was incorrect. We had to change that. We had to pivot. We had to stop that and come back and move forward. Now we have started putting together some of these sales and marketing items with the right messaging to attract customers. We are getting a great response. We are getting a lot of leads, a lot of meetings, and a lot of feedback. More usage of the product helps us improve what we are doing. It's moving in the right direction. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 10, 2021
"Cash" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Neda Vaseghi
I would have to say cash. Make sure you really understand your runway. So you know where your money is spent. How long do you have? And aside from cash what is your personal runway? Because there is the money aspect and, there is your personal mental health being. Can I sustain these ups and downs for the next six months without a paycheck? Am I feeling depleted that I need to not be doing this or, I need to take a break? I think it's your personal runway and also your cash. Making sure you spend it wisely because cash is king. If you don't have enough money, you are going to be out and you are done. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 9, 2021
"Ask For Advice" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Drew Stone
When you ask for money, you get advice. When you ask for advice, you get money. When I was doing my research interviews reaching out to centers of influence I was only asking for advice. I was letting people share with me what their feedback was. Those conversations have led me to other connections where if I was reaching out to somebody and said, hey, I am going to be doing this virtual reality event startup and I want you to either invest in me or give me some money. That channels how the person your talking to thinks about their role in it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 8, 2021
"Time" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Jesse Lakes
The best piece of advice is around time. Time is a constant. You can't mess around with time. Leave it to Elon Musk and Bezos to mess with space. But still, no one can mess with time. With time it's either for you or against you. When you first start, it's really important that you don't want time to be against you. The thought is as a side hustle, nights and weekends you have a salary, you have your health insurance taken care of. But, as soon as you leave your job to focus on this hustle and the hustle is not to the point that it's paying your salary or paying for what you need then, time becomes against you. Be smart about when you make that decision to go full time with a project and how you want to approach it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 6, 2021
"Surround Yourself With People Who Inspire" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/ Eryn Anitavi
Surround yourself with people who inspire and challenge you. We are braver when we are feeling inspired. We are more committed when we are feeling challenged. You're going to run into hard things and, you're going to struggle. But when you do, who do you want in your constellation? Who do you want in the group of people that you know? Do you want people around you who say, I knew this was going to happen, or do you want people who say, come on, get up, you can do this take a second to breathe if you need to, that's ok but, you've got this. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 5, 2021
"Save Your Money First" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Amy Balliett
Save your money first. That was one of the big things we did when we knew we were going to start our own company. We set up the initial business formation in 2009 and did not quit our day jobs and go full time until June of 2010. We did not want to quit our jobs, start working and realize well crud I either have to say yes to everything because I don't have any money. Or I have to go find another job right away because I don't have any money. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 4, 2021
"How To Develop A Product" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Kevin Mako
Focus on MVP-minimum viable product. We have all heard the term before but, when it comes to hardware it's particularly important. It crosses lines into all elements of a business. Whether it's a service or software, you need to think about how to make your best feature. The real innovation, that golden nugget that you thought about. How do you make that shine and nothing else? We have a motto that's plastered all over our design offices brilliantly simple design. Modern, clean, sophisticated, edgy, but focusing on that one or maybe two core features for your first version. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 3, 2021
"It's A Marathon, Not A Sprint" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/ Christopher Cardenas
It's a marathon, not a sprint. We are in it for the long run. We are thinking about making that impact in the long run to make a big-scale impact. We both understand that if we want to make a big impact in the world it's not going to be overnight. Be ready to be in it for the long haul. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 2, 2021
"Start With One Thing At A Time" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Vamsi Pannala
Start with one thing and only one thing. Don't worry about whether it is working for you or not. The reason why I say that is, for it to even reap results, it will take you a good six months to know if it is your thing or not. It is easy to get carried by the noise that you see in the world today. Everyone is shouting at your ears to purchase their product. You have to spend a little time trying to figure out whether it is your thing or not. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Feb 1, 2021
"Time Is Valuable" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Lucas Liu
As a startup, you focus more on your product and strategy. This is very important because when doing a startup. If you spend too much time on your presentation of your idea you are just wasting your time. As a startup, your time is valuable. So focus on a small step at a time. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 30, 2021
"Learn To Live With Uncertainty" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Gary Brose
You can lose your biggest account. You can have a new competitor come into town and start to take a bunch of stuff away from you. It's constant uncertainty when you own your own business. And when you are working for someone else, and you have a steady paycheck. It is a vast difference. So if you think ok, I don't want to scare people away from it. It's not impossible to do. It's a mindset where you go ok another body blow, so what. I'm still standing. Just get up and get going again. So if you can't deal with that, then you will have a tough time in business for your self. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 29, 2021
"Think About Media" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Tracy Lamourie
Think about media. As Entrepreneurs, you think about advertising. 80%-90% of entrepreneurs do not even think about it and they are not familiar with a ton of opportunities that are even free with a little investment of time. Don't just put out press releases but look at some of those resources we talked about earlier to see where media is looking for sources where you might be a source. Don't be afraid. A lot of that is a mindset too. You are an expert as well. You would not be doing what you are doing if you were not an expert. Don't be afraid to put yourself out there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 28, 2021
"How To Talk To Investors" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/ Martin Tobias
The number one slide that every investor spends time on is the team slide. Who are the founders? Who are these people? The number two slide is the business model. How are you going to make money? After that, it goes down very significantly. All those slides about how this is going to be a giant market in five years. What I tell people to do in their presentation is to focus on the funding window, and what you are going to achieve. You should have a slide in there that shows in five years it's going to be a big market but that does not matter. The more important slide is what is your business model? What is your operational plan for the next twelve to eighteen months that is going to get you into the market? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 27, 2021
"Have Fun" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Blaine Bartlett
It's going to cost you more than you ever thought it was going to cost and, it's going to take more time than you ever thought it was going to take to get where you want to go. That being said, have fun. If you're not having fun starting a business, and that includes all of the angst that comes with it, you need to back up the truck a little bit. When it stopped being fun for me, that's when the juice starts going out of it and I needed to reinvent myself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 26, 2021
"Be A Life Long Learner" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Rachel Merrill
It's really important to surround yourself with great people by being a great person yourself. By that, I mean something that has been super beneficial to me is I have put a lot of effort into being a life long learner and being hungry to learn, and being humble to learn. I think sometimes we love our ideas as entrepreneurs saying this is it. I think as I have had the mindset of this is an awesome idea and, I am excited about but, there are so many ways to go about this and collaborate and create. Every day I am trying to learn something new. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 25, 2021
"Trust Your Intuition" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Sandy Vo
There's a lot of noise in the world. There are many different coaches, books, and self-development things telling you what you should or shouldn't do. While some of that might be helpful, sometimes what it does is brings your mind into multiple different directions. There is so much conflicting information that you don't know what to trust or believe. Then you try one thing and it brings you down one path and then you are going back. So it is creating more space to trust your intuition. Know that your intuition, Science might call it quantum physics, and spirit will call it trusting your soul or what your soul message is but, it is that inner voice. Trust that to guide you along the way. You feel it in the lower part of your belly. It's that gut feeling. That is what's going to lead you to your greatest inventions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 22, 2021
"Never Give Up" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Jared Spendlove
My advice is to just never give up. If you have researched to know that this is a good product that people would buy or even if it's not a consumer product. If it's a business you know that people are going to use or a service that people need, just don't give up. You never know. It might be the tenth time you get knocked down that you get back up again and turn that corner and take off. You can't let yourself stay down. You have to get back up and keep pushing forward with it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 21, 2021
"How To Set Up Contracts and Agreements " Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Morvareed Salehpour
I think it is important to know this is not a one and done. Legal compliance is a continuing thing that will rise with your business. As you scale and grow there will be new issues that will come up. There will be new opportunities to kind of enter into strategic partnerships and those will bring there own separate issues around all of this and what kind of agreement you want to engage with a potential business partner to create a new offering or to pitch a joint offering. Those will all involve rights and obligations about intellectual property and liability. So those need to be negotiated properly. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 20, 2021
"Honor Your Investors" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Anita Gardyne
I hadn't gotten any attention from VCs. So these who invested in me, some of them as many as seven or eight times, I have to honor those folks, I have to give them a great deal. They have been with me since 2014. Hearing out the idea of what we wanted to go after as a market was easy. Building the tech was harder. We founded in 2014 so we are looking at year seven and just now looking at monetization and talking about exit plans. So I have to honor those folks. I have to make sure they are rewarded for sticking with me. And if there is a nine or ten-figure exit, they absolutely deserve to be apart of that ride along with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 19, 2021
"Leverage The Anomalies" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/Malinda Coler
If the market is telling you something, don't ignore it. You know the story about PayPal and eBay is there was an anomaly where people on eBay were starting to use PayPal. They saw this anomaly in their data and then pursued it. Then PayPal exploded because it became the go-to solution for buying stuff on eBay. But itinually it was just a blip in the data. like what was going on over here with eBay and why are people over there using PayPal. So I say look for those anomalies and look at why they are happening? Think is this something I could leverage? Is this something I could build upon? Then start small and iterate from there. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 18, 2021
Be Able To Adapt To Change" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Mao Du
Being able to adapt to changes is very important. For us, the pandemic changed people's habits from housing to communication to transportation. This means we had to move fast to serve the people in the housing market. We started in the Bay area and right now we realize people are moving to Austen and Idaho Falls. So we have to figure out how we can help those people. It is challenging for us because we are in the real-estate sector and it's a local business. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 15, 2021
"Be Passionate About What You Do" The Inventive Journey Podcast For Entrepreneurs w/ Aaron Golbin
In order to make a very successful company, in addition to what I said before with focusing on a bunch of different things marketing, development, and all of those things. You have to have a passion for it, and you have to put in the work for it. If you are just going to say I want to make a trillion dollars on the first day, it's not going to happen you need to put the work in. It's going to be a lot of hard work. But as long as you are passionate about it it will be worth it. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 14, 2021
"How To Self-Publish A Book" Expert Advice For Entrepreneurs w/Sana James
So for me something that was really important was trying to really take it one step at a time. There were a couple of times where I put it down and did not touch for a month at a time. And I do think that why it took so long to finally publish it. But, once I kind of set deadlines for my self, and they were very manageable deadlines. At first I felt like maybe they were too small because they were small chucks to work on at a time. It was nice to be able to take a month to only go over so many pages or paragraphs at a time. That way if I did not necessarily want to devote as much time to it and spend maybe more time with friends and family I was able to do that and not feel like I was putting on the back burner. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-inventive-journey/message
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Jan 13, 2021
"Don't Have An Entrepreneurial Seizure" The Inventive Journey For Entrepreneurs w/Nate Zeleznick
Don't have an entrepreneurial seizure. Don't just do it because you're tired of your job. Look at what it takes to run a business. Look at all the things you have to have in a row. If you need help, talk to Devin. He will help you. If you have a cool idea, talk to Devin. He will help protect you. There is one thing we have been so hypervigilant about that we have locked it down so much t