In any consumer app, attracting your first 1,000 users is a critical milestone to successfully launching your solution. In this episode, Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt discuss various strategies for successfully reaching this milestone and discuss how Dave will be applying these strategies as he launches his new social solution called “ComeWith."

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In this episode, Paul Benevich  and Dave Linhardt discuss Greg Nigro’s successful journey on Shark Tank. It’s a story with twists and turns, has a very unexpected outcome, and provides insight into how the show operates behind the scenes.  

In many ways, preparing for Shark Tank is similar to preparing for any investor pitch. The primary difference is the magnitude of the audience you are pitching. Anyone that has ever pitched to a group of investors knows it can be a stressful experience, but to pitch in front of a million or more people ... that’s downright frightening.   

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In this episode, we focus on three important questions to ask when you are thinking about raising capital for your venture: 

1.     Should I raise capital? and if you decide the answer is yes, then

2.     When should I raise capital? and

3.     How do I find a compatible investor? 

Raising capital can be a significant commitment in regards to time and resources for a startup, and it can be a humiliating and excruciatingly long process with no guarantee of success.  Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt discuss the pros and cons of raising funds. 

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In this episode, we discuss Not Sweating the Details Until you Need to Sweat the Details.  

Often as entrepreneurs, we can over-think an idea or concept. We painstakingly try to map out the entire business model in our head and in doing so, complicate the idea to a point where we get defeated, even before we have a chance to truly explore it.  

I think if we can keep an idea pure, it gives us the best chance of giving that idea life.  In this episode, Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt discuss the idea of keeping an idea pure, and when you have an idea: Not Sweating the Details Until you Need to Sweat the Details.  

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In our podcast, we try to portray the raw mindset of an entrepreneur as we build our startups. In this episode, we take a look at why entrepreneurs often experience "FEELINGS OF GUILT" as we venture out to create our companies, and we discuss and how we go about taming these feelings.  

Today, Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt discuss the origin of this GUILT, why it can be so destructive, and how we handle it. We don’t want these emotions to interfere with the creative process.  And we certainly don’t want them to kill the joy of our entrepreneurship. 

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This podcast episode is dedicated to discussing the benefits of being our authentic selves. 

I have found that almost all entrepreneurs are a bit broken. In a way, I think you have to be. It comes with the job. While pursuing an idea that you have faith in, but one that is new and untested, you get beat up along the way. You will face doubters and rejection. So, you pick yourself up, dust yourself off, put on a smile, and walk into another beating. Keep your chin up. This is our life.

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In this episode, Dave Linhardt is trying to launch a business that is leveraging a very hot political topic right now.  Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt discuss this trend and Dave’s strategy for fast-tracking his concept and building a streamlined solution that will hopefully allow Dave’s company to participate in this trend and gain enough momentum to launch a sustainable business from it.  

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In this episode, Dave takes us through the process of navigating his new startup’s first product build and making decisions on the resources he needs to initiate operations.

Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt discuss issues like:

·      Finding a development team

·      Fixed bid vs. hourly

·      1st build budget

·      Negotiating pricing

·      Managing a build

·      Development team skills

·      and Goals of the first product.

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It’s so easy to lose focus when you’re building a business.  And when you lose focus, you lose traction.  Sometimes it’s difficult to decide which of the challenges you face has the highest priority.  Which one do you tackle first?  Are you wasting your time and energy on the wrong things?  Creativity has so many avenues – it can lead to opportunity or a curse.   

In this episode, we explore what methods and processes Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt put in place to help them stay focused and give them a chance to move their startups from concept to traction.   

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The focus of this episode is on the importance of building a community of advocates around your business or startup. The community can consist of advisors, supporters and solution evangelists, investors, and customers.

Each of these advocates can have a profound influence on your business success. Whether it’s welcome advice, public approval and commendation, financial support, influence, or someone becoming a buyer, you can never have enough support and acceptance. Building a community of followers will strengthen your image and help you gain market momentum.

In this episode, we discuss how Paul Benevich and Dave Linhardt approach this process of building a community that helps bring their businesses to life.

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