Startup Hypeman: The GOAT to Market Show

“Stress. I can feel that it’s something that’s always on my mind. And it’s something that’s always pressing. And when it’s there, and it’s there daily, it kind of eats at you. And you’re like, “Am I doing something wrong? Is everything not in order as it should be?” And so I think it’s just better ahead of time as I’m just learning to get this all together, specifically the biggest thing stressing...

“In 2017, Mondays started feeling like Mondays...As we were pursuing profit as a company, a lot of startups have this -- you scale and you grow and you have to pursue profit...you become more of a household name. However, we were becoming siloed as founders, and this is a conversation that’s very important for cofounders and founders in general need to have with their team, is ‘what is it that you...

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“Here’s what I wish we would have done from Day 1: I wish we would have turned on monetization before we even gave it to one person. Because then we can measure the value they’re getting out of it...It came down to we can either focus on developers, or we can focus on business customers, but we can’t focus on both. That was our challenge and ultimately led to our demise….You need to figure out fro...

"During interviews, of course you’ll get some of those reactions and think ‘Oh I’ve found the right person!’, and then as time goes you learn a bit more about the people you bring into your team. And you find that it’s really challenging. And you don’t really know until you come across an issue or challenge you have to address as a team, and that’s where I find out a lot about (them). Their skills...

“In the military you have this environment that allows transparency. It allows candor to just run rampant. And there’s a reason for that on so many different levels, it has to take place. For example, if I’m about to jump out of a plane, and I’ve got a guy in front of me who’s about to jump out of a plane, and your job is to check over their parachute and make sure it’s safe. Now if I tap that guy...

“You can’t be an entrepreneur without resilience. You just can’t. Because you’re gonna get knocked down, and you have to get up, and you have to always get up. It’s kind of like ants. When I was little kid I used to like to mess with anthills. And you’d watch them re-dig that hill over and over again. And that’s what the entrepreneur has to do. If you look at wild animals…and you look at lions att...

"For the social entrepreneur, or the social enterprise, you are quite often changing behavior. And that is so much different than trying to get someone to buy something that would benefit them."Beth Bond, Founder of Community Startups, joins us. Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“...We had every kind of client you could imagine. We had $20 million deals, but every time we would get on the brink of major success, something would impact us. (We had an embezzlement) but we didn’t let that embezzlement bring us down. We instead took it, and when we would sit in front of another investor or corporate partner, we would be honest with them. And it’s interesting because some peop...

We've reached our 100th episode!“So many times, we don’t even know when we should ask for help. As entrepreneurs, we want to be a jack-of-all-trades and do it all ourselves. But when someone offers to help, or take things off your plate, it was one of the biggest things I realized this year. Instead of me saying ‘no thanks, I’ve got it’, I said ‘sure, let’s give it a shot. I would love it if you c...

"I think that moment where I realized I really needed to do something was when I saw those empty bottles of sleeping pills. I felt broken-spirited, and I knew that this was not the answer. And I had that epiphany of getting rid of your ego. There's something deeper than just what I'm pursuing. And that's when I realized that--you know what--MAYBE there's a chance to be satisfied. Maybe not forever...

“I don’t want to live a life where I’m behind an office, and when I have to reach out to my CEO or my business partner it’s uncomfortable. We just got done with a trip to Germany, and we took a weekend in Amsterdam, and that was our business trip! If you’re gonna spend so much time working, and make that such a big part of your life, why in the world would you do it with someone you don’t like. Wh...

“...That’s what I heard a lot (when I got started). It’s an app, it’s tech, I have ‘zero experience in tech’. And every time I heard that, it was almost debilitating. If you’re thinking ‘I’m starting from nothing, how do I even start, I have zero experience’ and all the time that’s constantly what you’re hearing, it is kind of hard to get started. But I look at it like we’re never really starting...

“As I’ve grown and been influenced by people, and had mentors that have been very successful in the venture capital community, very successful businesspeople, the connection between all of them is their integrity. And it doesn’t matter what kind of vertical they’re in, what kind of market they’re in, that’s what makes them successful.”​Ben Hewitt, Partner & Head of Sales at Hunt Club, and Oper...

“Something in the order of 70-80% of companies fail, and they don’t fail because the entrepreneurs are weak, or because they just don’t give up--as the advice suggests. It’s actually a far more complicated phenomenon than that. But we reduce it into this idea that you just keep fighting through the abyss and you’ll get there. And so, this oftentimes ends in tragedy in a lot of ways for entrepreneu...

“I just started going down this rabbit hole of self-discovery because I knew the person that I was at that time was not who I wanted to be. I was not connected with the things that I love, which are the outdoors, being in nature, doing action sports and activities, being physical with my body. It was literally being hunched over my computer all the time, with these devices resting on my genitals.....

"When I got signed to my first record deal...I remember I was making really experimental pop music. I wanted to make things that were what we associate with alt-R&B today, but it was 2006 or 2007 and that wasn't a trend in music yet. And I remember all the label executives telling me I should go in the direction of Alicia Keys. And the only reason I could justify that in my head was I'm light-...

"A father and son are riding together in a car and get in a horrible car crash, killing the father. The son is rushed to the hospital. Just as he's about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, 'I cant operate, that boy is my son'. Explain?"​Cayla Weisberg, Venture Capitalist partner at InvestHER Ventures, joins us. Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. S...

"I don’t know that I trained myself to not be an introvert, or I grew out of it. But there are parts of being on center-stage that actually are really good being an introvert. And I think in today’s world that the natural characteristics of being an introvert are actually to our favor. I think we’re naturally empathic, we’re very good listeners. There’s something very lonely about being the only p...

"Somehow along my journey I had attributed working slowly to being unworthy in some way. Like I'm not doing enough, or I'm not good enough if I'm working slow...then I had a breakthrough...if I'm in a relationship with time, let's say I'm dating it, I have a very hostile relationship with it. Either I'm trying to control it, or it's trying to attack me."​Samira Far, Serial Entrepreneur and Inc.com...

“My adrenals were totally shot about a year ago, to the point where the doctor told me if a tiger were chasing me, my body would have no fight or flight response...I’m not going to set up my life to jump every time some random person who I have no connection with asks me to.” Joe Parisi, Founder & CEO of Guard Llama (and Shark Tank alumnus) joins us. Full show notes available at www.discoveryo...

“If you can give somebody the Currency of Kindness then I think you can do nothing but really smile...The more we can create opportunities to give back, the more we can make an impact.”​Maggie Pawelko, Cofounder of Swapadventure, joins us. Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“No matter what bad is happening, I have 3 kids and I have to set an example for them, and be a mentor for them.”Angelika Babich, Cofounder of Swapadventure, joins us. Full show notes available at www.discoveryourinnerawesome.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“It is human nature to an extent to look for stability. It truly is. That’s how we function in communities and families, and that’s a large part of how we grow. But there needs to be an ELEMENT of discomfort, an ELEMENT of unanswered questions about the world at all times in our lives if we really want to keep learning and growing. For entrepreneurs in particular that’s really important. The power...

“When I talk about police brutality I’m not talking about it from an observer standpoint. I’m talking about my own experience with a police officer’s hands on my neck, which is an experience I’ve had more than once, or having a taser pointed in my face more than once, or having handcuffs on me more than once...Let’s talk about it through my own personal experiences rather than as this broad concep...