From Founder To CEO

From Founder To CEO

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From Founder To CEO episodes

  • 083: From Blogging King To Founding CEO Of 8-Figure Online Kingdom
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    Brian Clark, Founder & CEO - Rainmaker Digital
     

    Brian is digital entrepreneur royalty. He has created MASSIVE value for MANY businesses for MANY years and because of that he has earned tremendous success as a Founder and CEO. You may know him for his WILDLY successful copyblogger platform. But, as a leader he has grown that one platform to a multimedia company that contains many brands all under the Rainmaker Digital umbrella - a complete marketing technology platform. As with all our guests, he gets detailed about his personal journey from Founder to CEO and talks about:

    • This quote: "Whether you write a word ever, studying copy writing will make you a good business person...because it makes you focus so much on your customers and clients, or prospects..."
    • This quote: "I was a great marketer...but, I didn't understand how to manage people..."
    • This quote: "I've always had trouble with delegating...back in 2002 to 2005 I was the classic E-Myth case study..."
    • This quote: "Letting your team do their job is such a crucial step..."
    • This quote: "Every single person in this company, all my partners, all our employees, they came from the audience I created."
    • This quote: "Getting talent...that's the whole thing."
    • This quote: "Take good care of the people you've got because you don't want them running off."
    • This quote: "When you pack your schedule to the brim with meetings and phone calls and and desk work...and don't allow yourself to think, that's when you make bad decisions."
      • 31 min
    • 082: Lasers, Birds, & Interns, Oh My!
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      Steinar Henskes, Founder & CEO - Bird Control Group

      He speaks about:

      • This quote: "I really took the lean startup approach...I developed a very simple product...sold it to farmers because they were the easiest customers. From the money I earned from that we started to develop more and produce more...so really bootstrapping..."
      • This quote: "One trick I discovered....if we had a certain development project...I outsourced to our main contractor..."
      • This quote: "I spend my time at hiring, marketing, strategy, and business development...sometimes a little product development."
      • This quote: "The sales funnel is not something that I would not want to manage."
      • Hiring:
        1. "In the beginning what was very difficult for me was to get the right people on board on the team....I actually learned...that you should aim for the best and do not compromise."
        2. "Just aim for the best."
        3. "I made...some mistakes hiring people who were not very competent..."
        4. "I gave too much responsibility to people who were not up to the job."
        5. "Interns can not be...part of your core team...they should have a project to finish..."
        6. Granting equity:
          1. "When you are successful as a company...people...want a piece of the pie..."
          2. Use it to "commit people to a longer period of time."
          3. "Do not make the decision too soon."
            4. 27 min
          4. 081: AI+Focus+Transparency=Recipe for Success for Dennis Mortensen
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            Dennis Mortensen, CEO & Founder - x.ai
             
            What do you get when you add ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to FOCUS with a dash of RADICAL TRANSPARENCY? Your get a Danish Founding CEO name Dennis Mortensen and a high performing team who are on a mission to democratize the personal assistant. Dennis gives us a peek into his "AI" world, what leadership mindset his brings to scaling his company, and why he shares bank statements with his team.
            34 min
          5. 080: "Your number one job is to hire great leadership teams."
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            Brian Wong, CEO & Co-founder - Kiip
            • He shares his insights about:
            • Where he got the idea for Kiip.
            • Why he enjoys management.
            • How he uses his youth to his advantage as a young CEO.
            • His favorite "management moments."
            • What he thinks the job of Founding CEO actually is.
            • Why he thinks it's so important to finish what you started.
            • What he learned about building an executive team.
              • 22 min
            • 079: Using LinkedIn to Build a $45 million logistics company
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              Dennis Brown, Founder and former CEO - Logistic Dynamics
               
              1. How he used LinkedIn to grow his $45 million company
              2. His unwillingness to giving up control in order to grow the company.
              3. This quote: "You can't do it alone."
              4. This quote: "I started hiring to my weaknesses and giving them more control."
                5. 31 min
              5. 078: How to Build a Lobster Empire
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                Jim Tselikis, Co-CEO & Co-Founder - Cousins Maine Lobster
                 
                1. How he and his cousin, Sabin, divide the CEO responsibilities.
                2. How assessment tools helped he and his cousin, Sabin, build a strong relationship.
                3. Why they chose the franchise route.
                4. "It's about how to make this better and how to humanize this."
                5. How to navigate being friendly with staff and holding staff accountable.
                6. "We've stayed true...to what we've done with our product with our sourcing with everything with our supply in our family in Maine...keep the brand consistency...proud of that."
                  7. 27 min
                7. 077: Three Keys To A Successful Exit
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                  Doug Lyon, Founder and Chief Happiness Officer - Paqui
                   
                   
                  3 Keys To A Successful Exit
                  36 min
                8. 076: SPECIAL: The POWER of Founding CEO Reflection Time
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                  Bret Hurt, Owner - Hurt Family Investments
                   
                   
                  The power of CEO reflection time
                  38 min
                9. 075: What's it really like to be a BIG VC Backed CEO?
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                  Apu Gupta, CEO & Co-founder - Curalate
                  • "I think that consumers and brands really like each other, if they respect each other."
                  • "I was frankly really scared to start a company."
                  • "That pressure for growth never leaves...it becomes a part of your every day"
                  • "The tech industry...it's like the only industry on the planet where growing 100% year over year is considered ok."
                  • "You have to grow...the pressure to grow is non-stop, you think about it every moment of the day."
                  • "I can't bring myself to lose other people's money."
                  • "These people have placed their faith in me...to make good decisions on their behalf."
                  • "People look to you to be the CEO at a time when you still don't look to yourself as a CEO."
                    • 40 min
                  • 074: The importance of a CEO Confidant - Allyson Downey
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                    Allyson Downey, Co-founder and CEO - weeSpring
                     
                    1. Having your team members write down their core values and create a framework from which you can all work from...one of her company's core values is "keep it simple."
                    2. How weeSpring grows...by partnering with other brands and companies that have an audience similar to their audience.
                    3. How she spends her time: She tries to spend her time on vision and big picture strategy, but gets bogged down in the little stuff...but is now disciplined about not doing things that are not a good use of her CEO time.
                    4. How being self-aware CEO has been key to her success.
                    5. This quote: "Leadership comes from within...leadership is something you need to develop personally...be self reflective about your strengths and weaknesses."
                    6. This quote: "As an entrepreneur I can have my worst day and best day in the same six hours."
                    7. Why finding people that you can be open and candid with is an essential to your success.
                    8. This quote: "Don't over innovative. If you are too innovative, you are not going to fit into anyone's life or budget."
                      9. 32 min

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