Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

In this instalment of Fast Fix Friday I explore how the real reason traditional large companies struggle to innovate could be physiological.  

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Rand Fishkin is the founder of SparkToro and was previously cofounder of Moz and Inbound.org. He’s dedicated his professional life to helping people do better marketing through the Whiteboard Friday video series and his blog. If you feed him great pasta or great whisky, he’ll give you the cheat code to rank #1 on Google.

Long time listeners of Future Squared might remember Rand from episode #22, when we discussed content marketing for large organisations as well as more importantly perhaps, Australia's Sullivan’s Cove whisky. One thing we also touched on in that conversation was Rand’s tussle with depression and how he ultimately had to step down as the CEO of the company he founded.

While Rand has gone on to start another company, he hasn’t done so without coming to a number of confronting realisations about building a company that he has captured in his brand new book, Lost and Founder: A Painfully Honest Field Guide to the Startup World.

This book will form the basis of today’s conversation and with so much “Rah rah overnight success stories” out there, arguably polluting the public’s perception of startup life, it’s refreshing to read the take of a respected founder like Rand on the truth about building a company and how it’s not all unicorns and ping pong tables. Having read the book and found it very informative, I couldn’t wait to get linked up with Rand again, after more than 2 years, to dive in, so with that, I bring you the one and only Rand Fishkin!

In this episode we discussed:

• Why startups don’t need venture capital to get going
• Why founding a top 5% startup won’t necessarily make you rich
• The benefits of starting with a service based business before building a product
• The importance of values alignment in hiring and firing
• How to keep your energy and enthusiasm levels high
• Radical transparency
• Hiring for diversity of what you can’t see, not just what you can
• SparkToro

Show Notes:

Twitter: @randfish

Get his books on Amazon:

• Lost and Founder: https://amzn.to/2BSOSRA
• The Art of SEO: https://amzn.to/2PAGt8m

Rand’s new company: Sparktoro.com  

Open source funding document: sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-funding-were-open-sourcing-our-docs/

Show Notes: www.linkedin.com/in/steveglaveski 

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Oftentimes when we first embark upon something, be it a new romantic relationship, or a new business, our dopamine receptors are super-active. However, over time, they get blunted and require a higher frequency or intensity of exposure to that thing that got us buzzing in the first place. So many entrepreneurs get excited when they start something but their investment and energy tapers off once that initial buzz wears off. 

With that in mind, How might you maintain the enthusiasm and energy required to maintain your investment and effort in X? 

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday, I explore 12 tools and techniques that can help you to stay focused long after the initial buzz o the honeymoon period wears off. 

Show Notes:

www.linkedin.com/in/steveglaveski

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James Nguyen is the co-founder and managing partner of Anti-Hero Capital, the first investment fund exclusively dedicated to investing in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies using evolutionary science. He previously founded the global app agency M5859 Apps, is a contributing writer at Forbes and is somebody that I would consider deeply introspective and curious, as you’ll discover in today’s episode.

Having known James for a few years, we decided to record a podcast episode together after catching up for brunch on a relatively cold Melbourne morning. Our gameplan? Talk about life.

And talk about life we did, getting into flow and exploring a number of topics in our two hour conversation, breaking a Future Squared record in the process previously.

We discussed:

• The Critical Importance of Finding Purpose and Meaning
• How to Break Out of Moulds of Societal Convention
• How to Stay the Path When Giving Up is Easier
• Decision Making and How to Avoid Paralysis Analysis
• First Principles
• Evaluating Orders of Consequence
• Imposter Syndrome
• Values Alignment and Personal and Professional Relationships
• Biological Evolution and Neuroscience
• Getting into Flow
• The Intimacy Vacuum
• How to Maintain Your Enthusiasm for Things Once the Initial Shine Wears Off

Show Notes:

1. James on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-nguyen-b3a41aa2/
2. Anti-Hero Capital: www.antiherocapital.com
3. Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamesnguyenahc

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Many have credited Optus for taking ownership with the advertisements it took out on page two of newspaper across Australia, admitting its “monumental stuff up” and announcing that it would be refunding Floptus, er, Optus Sport subscribers and giving them an additional six weeks of free access to the service after the World Cup comes to a close in mid-July.

But was this a case of extreme ownership or of simply being backed into a corner?

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In this funisode of Future Squared, I welcome back into the fold my colleagues Sean and Shay to talk about, well...everything we wanted to.

Namely, we explored, or ranted rather, about:

• End of Financial Year shenanigans
• Political correctness and the intellectual dark web
• The problem with labels and putting things into neatly demarcated buckets
• Phone addiction and the impact on humanity
• The Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator and Village Xperience Accelerator
• World Cup 2018 and Floptus Sport
• Our new Nitro coffee tap
• GDPR and Privacy
• People being “busy" but not really
• UBER's win in London and Rydo
• ICOs and Cryptocurrency
• Sensory deprivation tanks
• My forthcoming book
• New ebooks we’ve published
• AI and existentialism
• Standup comedy

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This week I explore existing literature on strategies of war, and discuss many of them that are relevant to the workplace as well. 

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I cringe when I hear of school debates that advise students to argue a position even if the factual information they use isn’t 100% accurate, so long as it serves their position. School debates tend to be based students never changing their mind, and sadly, this misguided thinking has graduated and is pervasive in today’s corporate and political arenas, where they often have devastating effect on the common good.

This week I explore the notion of 'strong opinions, loosely held' and why it is one of the most profound philosophies you can take with you in business and life.

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This week, I tell the 100 word version of the Odyssey and relate it to entrepreneurship. 

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