startup founder

“It set me on a journey by demonstrating just exactly how little I knew, which is probably a good thing for most startup founders to get, get a grip on fairly early on in the journey.”

“When your wife is working and making money, you have less pressure on yourself to be, you know, profitable and make money. And in a way, Okay. Maybe you have less time for your project, but you are more relaxed because if you're not making money with your star…”

“Taking a secondary sort of like an insurance policy. Like you don't want to cash out your insurance policy. You pay it because you should have it. You don't want to use it. And for me, selling some of those shares just meant that if things went bad, at least I…”

“The problem that I see with many startup founders is that they want to outsource everything that they can before they make it predictable. And it will just not work out. Like if you find an agency that like will do certain things For you, they will not probabl…”

“Like, if you're not, if you're making less than a quarter million dollars a year, personally, like, I don't see how you could survive there. And I, a lot of startup founders I know are not bringing home a quarter million a year.”

“A lot of people become founders and they really, they've never really led anything. They have been managers. They may have even been people managers, but they've never actually been entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial inside of a large company.”

“I would say by far the most difficult client to work with is that of a startup founder.”

“The longer you can go bootstrapping, you know, the, you build, the more you build that you own. And so a lot of times bootstrapping can be a secret weapon and can have incredible advantages. And I think build stronger, more investable companies in the longterm…”

“If you are not part of that, you know, kind of two percent of entrepreneurs that fall into that lucky bucket, then, you know, people are not likely to bet on the jockey. They're gonna have to see the horse. And that's, you know, that a lot of times that's call…”

“Just take them outside their comfort zone, take them to an escape room, take them to, I don't know, a meditation, something that they're not really used to and just see how they are as a human being.”

“When you were bringing on some early investors, many of them want you to continue to be eating on a ramen budget, you know, until they get paid.”

“Probably a lot. It's a very, when it comes to securities and capital raising or raising capital in relation to securities, it's a very easy rule to violate.”

“A lot of people think it's risky and the best way to de-risk it is for them to see your progress.”

“So if you just rely on your experience from 10 years ago, even though you may have been successful, I think that's actually makes you like really dangerous because now you're like credible and wrong. It's one thing when you're just wrong and you don't have cre…”