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The hard work starts after the first sale 💧 Eric Kurbanov
The hard work starts after the first sale 💧 Eric Kurbanov
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Conversations with founders and leaders about the decisions shaping modern businesses
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- The hard work starts after the first sale 💧 Eric Kurbanov · 33 min · Season 1 Episode 83Getting the first customers proves that somebody wants what you’re selling. Eric Kurbanov found the harder problem came next: making a physical-product business capable of…
- The Exit Files 🚪 The Long Way Out · 1 h 25 min · Season 1Building towards an exit can make it feel like the finish line. The founders in The Exit Files describe what happens when the money arrives and the business is suddenly gone…
- The buyer in your head isn't your market 🎯 Ayse Guvencer · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 82Being close to a problem can make you dangerously confident about the buyer. Ayse Guvencer calls this the domain expert trap: lived pain can narrow how you see the market. Ayse…
- The race to prove which space startups are real 🚀 Philip Hover-Smoot · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 81Space startups can raise hundreds of millions before their technology ever flies. Philip Hover-Smoot thinks that can distort what investors see as real progress. Philip left…
- You can’t run a business you don’t understand 📊 Lauren Pearl · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 80You can hand finance to someone else, but you still need to understand what the numbers are saying. Otherwise, you can easily make big decisions without seeing what's really…
- Build less before you know more 🧪 Sophia Matveeva · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 79You can build a tech company without becoming a developer, as long as you understand enough to work properly with the people building it. Sophia Matveeva, founder of Tech for…
- AI can build it. But should you? 🤖 Konstantin Klyagin · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 78Konstantin Klyagin has spent more than two decades building software for other companies, and lately he’s also been fixing more of what AI helps people build. Through his…
- Success can break the business too ☕ Zain Peer · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 77Getting more orders sounds like the answer until the business cannot keep up. Zain Peer found that out when London Nootropics appeared on Dragons’ Den, the UK version of Shark…
- Every tiny decision is costing you 🔋 Barry Cryan · 49 min · Season 1 Episode 76Tiny decisions rarely feel expensive in the moment. One more email, one quick question from the team, one interruption you deal with before getting back to the work you were…
- AI built the product. Investors still said no 💸 Vinnie Lauria · 58 min · Season 1 Episode 75Building a startup has never been easier. Convincing someone to invest in it is a different problem. Vinnie Lauria has spent more than 15 years on the other side of that…
- Build like the buyer is already watching 👀 Luke Tobin · 1 h 13 min · Season 1 Episode 74Luke Tobin built Digital Ethos from a startup into an international agency before selling the business in 2022. By the time the offer arrived, the real work had already happened…
- The video isn’t your real problem 🎬 Dustin Schultz · 1 h 14 min · Season 1 Episode 73Spending more on a video won't make your business easier to understand. That's the mistake Dustin Schultz sees all the time. Companies decide they need a better video, then jump…
- The shortcut always costs more 🧼 Kate Assaraf · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 72Kate Assaraf built Dip to seven figures while turning down some of the growth channels most founders chase. She does not sell on Amazon, and she has not relied on Meta or TikTok…
- Revenue can hide a broken business 📉 Nate Littlewood · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 71Nate Littlewood has seen both sides of business growth. He started out in finance, then went on to bootstrap a seven-figure consumer brand, where the theory of growth met the…
- Relevance means presence 🌱 Hugo Pereira · 1 h 3 min · Season 1 Episode 70Hugo Pereira thinks a lot of people are struggling with a version of work that no longer feels stable. He has spent the last decade moving through startups, scale-ups…
- Why builders make bad entrepreneurs 🧱 Matt Watson · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 69Matt Watson has spent years building software companies, including Full Scale, where he helps businesses hire and manage software development teams. He is also the author of…
- Don’t hire helpers, hire owners 👑 Gavin Bell · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 68Gavin Bell built and sold a paid media agency by the age of 30. From the start, he wanted the business to become sellable, which forced a different kind of thinking around…
- Investors don’t fund ideas 💸 James Church · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 67James Church sees what most founders miss about raising money. He works closely with companies going through the process, and the pattern is consistent. Founders focus on the…
- Hire your army, don’t rent mercenaries ⚔️ Yannik Schrade · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 66Yannik Schrade thinks a lot of founders are too casual about what they outsource. He is the founder of Arcium, building privacy infrastructure at a time when AI is making…
- A good business can still trap you 🪤 Melissa Kwan · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 65Melissa Kwan has spent years building, selling, and starting again. By the time she launched eWebinar, she had a much clearer idea of what she wanted this time and what she was…
