Startup Therapy

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Startup Therapy episodes

October 10, 2022Founders, We Only Have To Be Right Once
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss how founders sometimes think that they’ve reached that billion dollar moment in their Startup and then end up being disappointed by the result. Now, the billion dollar question is - how many shots do we actually have? The thing is, we really won’t know when that moment happens so we just have to keep going and continue trying, gathering information as we move forward, because if we can only be right once, at least we are fully equipped once we get to that point.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
00:08 That one hockey stick moment
01:40 When it doesn’t change the way you expected it to happen
03:36 How many shots do you have?
07:56 Every shot comes with information
09:42 You’ll never see that moment coming
12:36 Just stay and keep trying
14:32 You have a decade
17:39 What if you're only right once?
22:16 It doesn’t have to be a mega hit
31 min
October 03, 2022Why Every Kid Should Be a Startup Founder
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss why it’s important to teach kids about entrepreneurship. You know what they say - better to start them young. Teaching about how to become a founder to kids as young as 10 years old will be an eye-opening experience. At this age, kids still have that pure mindset where they think they can do anything, and it’s important to nurture that. Planting the seed early on will bear fruit that will also be able to teach the future generations.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
00:29 What if we teach kids to be founders?
02:20 10 year olds are like a relatively complete processor
04:17 Kids have a business idea
05:36 They don’t know they can’t do it yet
07:59 Explore your interests
11:51 There’s a hundred different path
16:29 Opening the pandora’s box of entrepreneurship
18:28 We have one shot in life
21:05 Agency and ownership
24:04 Early experience is important
26:23 Planting the seed on the next generation
29 min
September 26, 2022How Big of a Failure Can I Survive as a Founder?
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss how founders can survive a failed Startup. For some founders, when they experience failure, they immediately think that it’s the end, that it’s a complete failure. But one thing's for sure though – we will all get over it. Failure has always been a part of the process and it will teach us valuable lessons along the way. And it also gives us the most important ammunition: a chance to start again.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
00:28 What happens to the founder after a startup fails?
03:00 No one cares your startup failed
05:05 Everyone is going through the same thing
06:06 And then what?
09:53 You won’t even remember it
13:22 You can just try again
14:56 Losses are momentary
16:59 Your failures can be anecdotes to teach people
18:17 You get a clean slate
21:39 This is not your only chance
23:09 You’re not starting from zero
28 min
September 19, 2022Why Are All My Founder Friends Ahead of Me?
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the problem of comparing yourself with other founders. Sometimes, we look at the success of others and immediately think we’re falling behind. We always compare ourselves to others without even realizing that we all had a different head start and were influenced by varied outside factors. Remember, success is a process, and we go through it in different phases.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
00:20 How to level up
02:51 Stop comparing yourself with other founders
05:43 The milestones doesn’t end
08:24 We all grow differently
11:20 It might look similar – but it’s totally different
12:47 Sometimes the right decision is not the right direction
14:31 Comparison kills progress
17:30 Even the most successful people still fails
21:04 Stay around for a long time
23:41 You’re only entitled to your own outcome
25:06 All accomplishments are fleeting
28:16 The benchmark paradigm shift
30:33 Focusing on the money
33:58 Comparing your startup with another startup with the same services
41 min
September 12, 2022Are Startup CEOs Really CEOs?
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss if startup CEOs can really be considered as CEOs. The CEO title bears a lot of responsibility – it’s a nice title to have alongside your name but the question is, are you qualified to have it? It’s easy to get the title, in fact, anyone can become one but do you have the right qualifications and enough experience to be called a CEO?

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
02:16 Just because you have the title, it doesn’t mean you’re qualified
06:12 CEOs need to manage people
09:01 CEOs have experience
13:27 Start-up CEOs can’t be corporate CEOs and vice versa
18:42 There are different types of growth
20:27 Your focus will change when you reach 80 people inflection point
23:34 The CEO job can get dreadful
25:38 The problem with hiring overqualified people than the CEO
27:16 Don’t let other people replace your CEO role entirely
30:00 Anyone can get the title, but you have to earn the job
39 min
September 05, 2022Founders, We Have SO Much Time Left In Our Careers
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss how founders should not feel like they are running out of time – because they’re not. Most young entrepreneurs feel that they should rush things just because others seem to be doing well in life already and they’re feeling left behind. Everyone has their own timeframes and maybe this year is just not your year, and that’s okay, because you still have a lot of time left in your career.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
01:07 You have so much time in your career
03:12 Be reasonable about given timeframes
05:01 Look at the long view
07:26 The most powerful companies were built over decades
09:01 Don’t allow external opinions to tell you where you should be now
10:48 What you can actually accomplish
12:44 This might not be your decade yet
13:59 Some resources will not be available now but will be in the future
17:02 You have to pace yourself
22:11 Build your pyramid
27 min
August 29, 2022Founders, Let's Live to Fight Another Day
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss the importance for founders to identify problems early on and why they should do something about it. Survival is the strategy in Startups so founders should be aware of the early signs of problems so that they can find solutions to last longer in this game.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
01:24 Living to fight another day
02:41 Lying with the full intention of making it true
04:29 Survival is the strategy
08:36 Founders should realize the situation first
12:44 Changes can make stay in the game longer
14:39 Down round
19:27 Invest in the reality of a business
22:06 Double up on your winners, and cut pay on your losers
24:24 Doing nothing is death
30 min
August 22, 2022Being a Founder Made Me a Better Parent, and Vice Versa.
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss how being a parent made them better founders, and vice versa. There are things that we won’t understand until we experience them ourselves, and in a Startup, there are similar things that we can compare when it comes to leading and being a parent. Once you start teaching your kids good values you can apply those to your company, because as they say, “being a founder is like being a parent, you always stay involved.”
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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
00:23 Does being a parent make you a better founder?
04:50 Teaching your kids to question everything
10:18 Leading with humility
11:36 The answers can change when we ask questions
14:03 Start with what makes you happy
20:08 Just because you have talent, you don’t have to do it
24:27 Give your kids permission to do something else
25:26 Having empathy
29:11 Stay curious
34 min
August 15, 2022We Need To Build A Culture of “I’m Wrong”
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss one of the most common problems with new businesses - they are afraid to do the wrong thing. In Startup you can’t always be right and have a smooth sailing path in the beginning, you will always have to be wrong and do the wrong things first before knowing what is right. Normalizing a culture of admitting and allowing mistakes will help companies know how they can perform better in the future.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
02:01 Don’t get hung up on a business idea
06:03 It’s alright to admit that you have no idea
07:49 Getting wrong advice from the wrong people
09:02 Push yourself harder to become wrong
11:23 You have to be wrong first to know what right actually looks like
12:29 Stop hiring the wrong people
16:00 People can change because of variable reasons
18:51 Hiring someone according to your own variable
23:39 How to get marketing right?
25:53 Learn to test to be less wrong
27:16 Allow people to fail and be wrong
28:59 There is a difference between being wrong and being negligent
29:55 Humility is the key to good leadership
35 min
August 08, 2022Where There's Smoke - There's Fire
In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan discuss why managers and founders need to pay more attention to small details. Sometimes companies have employees who suddenly start performing poorly. What could be the reason? Whenever there are small problems, there must be a root cause of why it’s happening, so it’s up to the founders to identify what’s causing it.

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What to Listen For
00:00 Intro
03:13 Sometimes there is a bigger problem behind any small issue
04:27 When things look off, it’s because it’s off
07:29 People don’t make excuses when they’re on their game
10:11 Pay attention to the details
18:36 Everyone is not going to be a top performer
19:19 The organization will slowly regress to its slowest mover
23:25 Ask the question, “what do you want to get done?”
25:28 Opening the conversation with “how can I help?”
28 min

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