🎙 Inventive Journey | Real Stories From the Startup Survival Club

Build an email course. Building out an email course is the best way to have something of value right from the beginning and to stay in constant communication with your ideal client. It gives you a place to point people towards.

Go find the customers and talk to them. Never stop talking to them and just ask questions about their pain points. The thing that will make you successful or not is going to be - Do you understand these customers' pain points, can you find more of them, and can u solve them a solution.

Decide what kind of business you want. Be true to yourself. If you're an introvert or if you don't like managing projects or don't want to be a manager or whatever it is. If you just want to work 2 days a week. It's up to you to be real with yourself about that don't try to make something giant. Build what makes you happy.

Don't underestimate the power of personal branding. You go from nobody to suddenly somebody who a lot of people want to speak to and that really open doors because suddenly you got contacts, you can engage with them on social media people see that you're offering value upfront, you get to learn from them, you get to have really engaging conversations with people. There are just so many benefits.

Just go for it. There are a lot of inexperienced founders who take way too long developing an idea, getting a lot of opinions, and not just starting. That is really the number one thing, is go for it and get started right away. It doesn't have to be perfect you can always fix it as you go along.

Go take a course on what a start-up is. With high rates of failure, getting any startup off the ground is a time-consuming and difficult task. The courses can give you the help you need, equipping you with the skills and knowledge necessary to see your startup grow and prosper.

Charge for your work, charge something. There are some people who know what they are selling and are starting to sell it and there are some people who have no idea what to sell. Connect with people, and talk to people, which is hard sometimes, especially online and when you are remote. Dm them on LinkedIn, and email them to get their feedback.

Hire a copywriter first and foremost. The person who can really put your thoughts into words is a copywriter. It makes a big difference not just in influence platforms but also in the social communities. So it's nice to really be able to get your message across in a concise manner on your website, or when you're pitching just in general.

You need to become open because of the journey and the process of developing a company you're always going to learn. Be adaptable to change in a dynamic environment. So as a business person, you need to be adaptable to change and don't always be too headstrong. Listen to the advice of the others and take what is needed to be incorporated, don't be too closed.

We need to be clear about what exactly our motivations are, they could change over time. Your mission could evolve to a bigger one or a more narrowly focused one. The first question you need to ask yourself is why exactly you are doing this. What exactly motivates you will help you get through the challenges as the path is tough most of the time.