The Power of Community When Launching A New Business

Welcome to The Early Days Podcast — a show about the hustle, the excitement, and doubts, the successes, and failures, the ups and downs of building a business from scratch.

My name is Marin Gerov and with my co-founder Julian Samarjiev, we interview fellow entrepreneurs about their experience of starting and building businesses. We go behind the scenes and try to unearth what their early first days, weeks, months, and years were like.

Our guest today is Ryan Heybourn (@ryanheybourn) - the creator of instaaa.com - a service that helps you promote your business. Instaaa takes the stress out of marketing by promoting your business on 125 media outlets and directories for you. The whole process is really quick and simple, you should check it out!

In our conversation, we learn the origin story of Instaaa, Ryan's career as a builder and programmer, hustling at a young age, jailbreaking phones, using niche communities like Reddit and Pr