🎙 Inventive Journey | Real Stories From the Startup Survival Club

"I would advise to be ready for everything. Don't take anything for granted. So sit tight, be ready, and if you enjoy roller coasters, this will be a hit for you!"

"Go along the ride, and make the best out of it. Don't be disappointed when you hit roadblocks, because there will be a lot of them. So be ready, motivated, and move forward."

I think this is probably true of almost every founder, but certainly first-time founders. For every person that truly believes in you, there's gonna be 100 that either doesn't believe in you, or don't care. That could be investors, that could be potential customers, it can be potential team members.

From the people who believe in you (those are gold), draw your inspiration from those people.

"I think the worst business decision I've ever made is to not go into business for myself. Because, you know, I was so miserable for so long & working for other people & not having things the way that I would do them. It was a big struggle."

"So I think that the biggest part of the bad decisions that I'd made was that I didn't go into business for myself."

“Always focus on solving a problem, and having a differentiator. From the time you start your business, to the time it's ready to launch, or you are raising money, the market may be evolving. Anything may happen, etc.

One thing that I think we've done well, and what I would recommend to any new entrepreneur is to adapt to the situation while still trying to solve the problem that you were trying to solve in the first place."

"The best strategists I've seen have very strong viewpoints in what they believe, BUT they listen to everyone else's."

“Most entrepreneurs, they are going to want to do it themselves. Piggybacking on the previous conversation, you are right. It is easier to do it yourself. It is faster to do it yourself, because, guess what. you HAVE been doing it yourself. But draw a line."

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Mitch Colleran, CEO and Entrepreneur in the tech industry, as he shares his inventive journey.

“If you don't know where to get started, then look at what is in front of you and try to distill what you see as success into the smallest, most manageable, and most accomplishable thing. Do that one thing.

When that one is done, do that same process. Figure out what the next, tiny, manageable thing is. When you do that every day, and you build a pattern of progress, you'll be pretty surprised at how far you get."

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from John Hallman, entrepreneur in the field of brand management, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Make sure you are capitalized personally to be able to play the ball game. Because revenue sometimes is a bit of a challenging item, especially if you are building a tech platform. Something that requires many many man years of time time to develop. You really have to have a personal financial situation to be able to do that, so don't just quit your job because of the lure and the fun of being at a start up. Make sure you have the run way to do that because raising capitol is not easy!”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Ajay Bam, entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Focus on the problem, and focus on whether there is a problem, or someone actually cares about the problem. And whether someone is willing to pay for you to solve that problem.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Malinda Coler as she shares her inventive journey.

"You can test anything right now. People get all of these hangups, 'Well, I have to develop it, I have to build this, I have to have money..." and you don't have to. You can go out and start talking about it. You can identify your target market and start running ads or posts and talking to people and see if it resonates. The minute you think you're onto something, start running tests!