🎙 Inventive Journey | Real Stories From the Startup Survival Club

Entrepreneurs! Would you like to increase communication in your marriage, even with the limited time that the entrepreneurial lifestyle brings?

Tune in to this episode of Expert Advice, and learn from Amanda Louder. Discover the importance of maintaining a good relationship with your spouse, and learn how you can do that while also supporting your startup or business.

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Karthik Rau, entrepreneur in the field of remote monitoring, as he shares his inventive journey.

“I think you should just do it. There are people that I'm sure have, especially here in Silicon Valley, have the ambitions for something. You are sort of a very friendly environment it’s an environment that is very forgiving. You make a mistake and you always have the opportunity to go back and do something else. So yea don't pass up the chance if you have a good idea that is worth pursuing, you should take advantage and, I wish everyone the best.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Farrukh Siddiqui, entrepreneur in the field of student loan financing, as he shares his inventive journey.

“You have to plan your boot strap, you can't just start bootstrapping. You got to think about this, you got to look at your own personal savings, what's your strategy? Are you going to maintain a second job? Are you going to tap into your savings? Whatever your strategy is, plan it out! How much runway do you really have with that type of strategy? How far can you go? What do you need, to hire people?Can you do a lot of the work yourself from the beginning? How do you maximize your credit in those early days, to leverage as much from your credit to help you offset expenses or pay for expenses? And so on, so really plan out your bootstrap. Not just jump in the water and try to swim, really plan it out then move forward.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Johnny Crowder, entrepreneur in the field of mental health importance, as he shares his inventive journey.

“You don't know how many resources are available for free, in your local community. So you just look stuff up.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Travis Jungroth, entrepreneur in the field of program development, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Find a real problem. Find a real problem and start making something that solves even some portion of it, but it is one thing! just find a real problem. You can tell its a real problem because people are willing to pay for it, and people are paying to try to solve it already, that sort of thing.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Ignacio Doncel, entrepreneur in the field of virtual gift cards, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Choose Your Advice, do your due diligence when it comes to advice. I mean due diligence can be applied to everything, it can be applied to every aspect of your business, but when it comes to advice that's where it’s more more important.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Jo Lynn Clemens, entrepreneur in the field of worker risk scoring, as she shares her inventive journey.

“documentation, the processes, right from the start I think that's so critical and key to have consistency. Because as a start up you are going to conduct. You would hope a sufficient amount planning, but as you are doing that you also need to be documenting your processes, so that hopefully you will come to a point where you won't have time to do that.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Morgan Gilliam, entrepreneur in the field of inventory tracking, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Channel of distribution, do you have the competitive advantage to a channel of distribution, or a product company, or a software or a service? I think what people don't realize is you could create an amazing product and amazing software, but if you cant get it out to the masses and sell it, then the product will just fizzle out and people will never know about it. so if your going to go into business try to find a competitive advantage to a channel of distribution.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Nuri Otis, entrepreneur in the field of communication services, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Address It upfront. Put it upfront have your story. When I met you I told you I have it written out it's sitting on the desktop of my computer and I read it. I read it because this way I know that I have given everybody the whole story. And that's what's important.”

In this podcast episode of The Inventive Journey, entrepreneurs will learn from Champion Muthe, in the field of social connections, as he shares his inventive journey.

“Be courageous. It gets really scary. I think when you go out on your own as an entrepreneur kind of navigating the world on your own without the help of a huge corporation behind you, or a big team behind you. so what I would say is sometimes you start to question yourself like am i doing the right thing? Am I going to be able to sustain this business? When you get to the point in your mind I think it's important to remind yourself of why you’re doing it, why you're passionate about it, and to find a way to inspire yourself to keep going.”