🎙 Inventive Journey | Real Stories From the Startup Survival Club

Spend some time building an operational business structure. Business owners, founders, or CEOs tend to hold everything in their heads and if you're going to be a solopreneur then maybe it's not the end of the world but if you got any sort of scale in mind you're gonna hit a lot of roadblocks when everything is in your head. So, getting things down on paper, whether that's a process, or operating procedures you can share with the team. If you get that organizational structure in place and can share it with the team, get it out of your head, you can move faster, and also you're not gonna be the bottleneck of everything and you can dedicate a lot more freely.

It's going to take you twice as long as you think, it will probably be 3 times more frustrating and challenging than you could imagine and it's millions of times more rewarding. If you stay the course, ask for help, and don't give up. JUST KEEP GOING.

Invest in your meta-skills. Skills like sales, leadership, technical skills, and creative skills. Find out the skills you're most resonant with, like are they interpersonal skills or creative skills, or technical skills, and invest like double down on the things you both love and have a real market value no matter where you go.

The biggest myth deals with the issue that people think, that if somebody has a hit song or a big success on a chart or billboard, they are going to be an instant millionaire or just going to be wildly successful. That is the exception rather than the rule.

You don't have to know why you are doing something when you're starting out. The pieces to why you're starting don't have to be in place. If you have a good idea that's good enough for the first few stages of business. The pieces will follow the place later you don't have to know the "why", you might know the what, how, and where but the "why" may reveal itself to you later.

People think that when you go to a training, it's a one and done. If you're in a training you actually have to be immersed in it, you've to keep doing it. Training that Ryan finds very valuable, he does them multiple times. The books that Ryan read are very valuable he would read them multiple times. The first you go through anything you're only going to absorb 10-20% of that at a retention level. There are still 80% of things that were said or covered that you're not going to retain after a 24-hour period.

The lifestyle that you have as a business owner should be a big factor in what type of business you wanna start and the goal you're trying to achieve at the end of the day is important too. If you're gonna start something it's going to be your life for 10 years. So make sure you know what you're getting into. Talk to some other people who have done it before and just make sure you're understanding before you startup.

A Brand is only the domain of consumer-facing companies. It's an organizing governing principle that allows decision-makers to make informed decisions faster, better and cheaper. That's what a brand does for anybody.

Your business will continue to grow as long as you focus on what is important to you: delivering high-quality coaching, development, service, or high-quality product that you want to serve. You will continue to grow if your customers know what they are coming to you for: quality.

You read so much about the food and beverage industry right now that plant-based and keto and everything else that is going on, you'd think it's an easy industry to be successful in, because there are so many new brands launching. Yes, there is a lot of access to capital but there wasn't 20 years ago it's very challenging and very competitive. Grocery is an expensive market to launch in and one of the myths there is that it's easy to be successful in this industry.