🎙 Inventive Journey | Real Stories From the Startup Survival Club

Just be curious, you have something in you that you want to offer, and being curious and talking to people, being empathetic and listening to their stories, you begin to match what you have in you to what the world needs from you.

Don't quit your day job, not that you won't succeed, don't take it that way but when somebody has an idea that they would like to pursue it does take a lot of time to do it but when start to run out of the money because it not taking off like you wanted it to, it does put a lot of stress.

Make sure you have a single problem that you are focused on at any given point in time and treat it as existential. It is just what is the single thing that is the most critical for your business at this point in time and actually worry about that one thing and then move on to the next thing. It is the behavior that could be the most useful.

Be very clear about where you're headed. What is it that you want to do, what timeline, how much revenue, how big a company, how big a footprint, and what is your market? Be very clear on all these things that will take to satisfy you because in the end getting exactly what you want is what's going to be the ultimate satisfaction in life.

Work with folks who value what you bring to the organization. Whether you are a subcontractor or not, you bring value and should be valued. Folks should respect that and if they don't you can walk away. All money ain't good money.

Never get too high, never get too low. The swings in the startup are insane. One day you'll go from "Wow we just got 500 users on your platform" to "Wow this platform sucks because of the way it's built". Find the silver lining in everything and always try to learn and be better the next day you came in the day before.

What are your goals? Goals are like road maps; they get you from one point to another. Goals provide the direction you need to reach your destination, the motivation to sustain you on your trip, and a way to measure your progress.

Put yourself in uncomfortable situations. Do things that make you uncomfortable because that's how you grow as a person. So when it comes time to make decisions as an entrepreneur, they are never emotional you're just doing it because you know you have to and growing is uncomfortable.

Have a plan. Maybe you have heard this before, create one page about what your business is gonna be about, what's your product and services, what you think your market will be, what your pricing would be, and do some quick math if you can make money and have all that in a place. Start with a one-page plan.

Know yourself. Absolutely know yourself. You are the leader. At the end of the day, you are launching something and you have to innately know your strengths and your weaknesses and who you are and what makes you tick, and what you need. It's like you are the generator, you're the sole inspiration.