When Our Startup Works for Everyone But Us
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about what happens when things work for everyone else but not for you. The effort founders put into our Startup is a sacrifice in all forms and shapes, to the extent of spending less time with family,
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Show Notes
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about what happens when things work for everyone else but not for you. The effort founders put into our Startup is a sacrifice in all forms and shapes, to the extent of spending less time with family, neglecting our health, or even getting a pay cut just to keep the business rolling. Yes, you are the founder but you’ve become a slave to your own business.
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What to Listen For
- 00:00 Intro
- 00:11 Things are going great for everyone except for you
- 04:20 Concepts that led to you being a founder
- 07:17 We're essentially mortgaging our goals without realizing it
- 12:36 When we take an investor, the investor becomes our boss
- 15:32 You need to set goals that are unchangeable
- 21:24 There is a threshold where commitment becomes destructive
- 26:12 It’s disruptive when you pick up on things your employees didn’t do