How To Founder
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220 Is Your Company Treating Old Guesses as Facts?
220 Is Your Company Treating Old Guesses as Facts?
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Founders are pioneers of economic prosperity. We equip them for the journey.
Think you know the real story of entrepreneurship? Think again. "How to Founder" dives headfirst into the messy, often unspoken realities of building a business. We're not here for the typical success stories; we're challenging conventional wisdom, tackling tough topics, and giving you the unfiltered truth about what it actually takes to succeed. If you're ready to move beyond the status quo and are looking for a podcast that's as ambitious as you are, subscribe now. It's time to rewrite the rules and build your own
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- 220 Is Your Company Treating Old Guesses as Facts? · 40 min · Avsnitt 220Oxide labels every idea it writes down: ideation, discussion, published, committed, or abandoned. That last label matters, because a written guess turns dangerous once nobody…
- 219 Is Your Diversified Business Riding on One Platform? · 36 min · Avsnitt 219Morgan McBride spun Charleston Crafted into four websites. Then, she said, Google traffic fell 96 to 99 percent across all four. How diversified is your business if every revenue…
- 218 White Space Your Market Leader Can't Afford to Close · 35 min · Avsnitt 218When Tally launched its form builder, competitors made users hit a paywall fast. Tally gave unlimited forms and responses away. What if the best gap in a crowded market is the…
- 217 Operating Agreements and the Cofounder Who Walks Away · 42 min · Avsnitt 217Two restaurant partners wrote an exit clause into their operating agreement. It let one of them sell his stake. It didn't release him from his personal guarantee on the mortgage…
- 216 Your Team Didn't Decide, They Just Waited For You · 34 min · Avsnitt 216A founder went dark for a month — no Slack, no email. The first thing he wrote down when he came back was that the company takes too long to make decisions. Chris Franks and…
- 215 Your To-Do List Is Full Of Decisions You're Dodging · 41 min · Avsnitt 215A hundred and one of those three hundred open issues weren't work. They were waiting on one person to decide. Chris Franks and Anthony Franco pull apart the founder to-do list…
- 214 Stop Grinding: Where Founder Time Actually Goes · 39 min · Avsnitt 214You have eighty hours a week and four jobs pulling at it, and by Friday you still can't say whether you spent them right. This episode pulls apart the real math of founder time…
- 213 Dashboards Hide the Call You Won't Own · 51 min · Avsnitt 213Dashboards do not make the call. They hide it. Founders drown in market reports and still have to decide whether to start, keep going, or kill the company. Chris Franks…
- 212 Your Org Chart Is Charging Interest · 49 min · Avsnitt 212Every new box on the org chart is a loan against the speed of your company. Most founders take that loan without reading the rate. The interest shows up later as lag, translation…
- 210 Hard Work Hides Broken Systems · 40 min · Avsnitt 210The longest weeks a founder works are evidence the plan is failing, not proof they are leading. Hard work feels like leadership. Often it is just a broken system wearing a heroic…
- 209 Your Exhaustion Is Contagious (And Expensive) · 33 min · Avsnitt 209Founders treat personal health like a side quest they will unlock after the next milestone. Meanwhile their short fuse, foggy judgment, and heroic overwork quietly become the…
- 208 Fire Customers Before They Rot Your Team · 39 min · Avsnitt 208What if your hardest client is the reason your best employees quit? Chris Franks, Anthony Franco, and Stephanie Hays dig into the decision founders delay until the damage is…
- 207 Are You Scaling to Win or Just to Hide? · 38 min · Avsnitt 207In 2011, a photo-sharing app raised 1 million before it launched, turned down a 00 million buyout from Google, and was dead within sixteen months. The money didn't save it. The…
- 206 Build Brand Before the Cult · 33 min · Avsnitt 206A cult brand is not a costume. It is identity people can wear. Chris Franks and Stephanie Hays dig into brand versus cult, and why founders who chase logos, merch, and mass…
- 205 Build Luck Before You Need It · 40 min · Avsnitt 205Luck is not a strategy, but waiting for it is worse. Chris Franks, Anthony Franco, and Stephanie Hays dig into the uncomfortable founder problem hiding inside every success…
- 205 Build Luck Before You Need It · 40 min · Avsnitt 205Luck is not a strategy, but waiting for it is worse. Chris Franks, Anthony Franco, and Stephanie Hays dig into the uncomfortable founder problem hiding inside every success…
- 204 Kill Weak Ideas Before They Eat the Good Ones · 43 minWhat if the idea you love most is quietly draining the business you are trying to build? Chris Franks, Anthony Franco, and Stephanie Hays dig into idea triage: the uncomfortable…
- 203 When to Hire and Fire Your Marketing Agency · 51 min · Avsnitt 203What if most of what your marketing agency does could be done in an afternoon with AI? Chris Franks, Stephanie Hays, and Anthony Franco pull apart the agency model in 2026. They…
- 202 Your Real Competitor Isn't in Your Category · 42 min · Avsnitt 202Your toughest competitor may not be another company. It may be a spreadsheet, a lawyer, an old internal tool, or the customer doing nothing. In episode 202, Chris Franks, Anthony…
- 201 Why Your First Pitch Can Kill Your Patent Rights · 42 min · Avsnitt 201The moment you start selling your invention, the clock to losing your patent rights starts ticking. Anthony Franco, Chris Franks, and Stephanie Hayes break down intellectual…
