The Startup Different Podcast

It's a beautiful Tuesday morning, and you're just stepping into a semi-annual review with one of your favorite employees. You're excited to recap all the progress the employee has had over the past six months, and eager to plan out what's next. What you don't realize is that your employee has some huge expectations, and you're about to get blindsided. Welcome to the wild world of employee reviews.

Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 2 and the first episode in our latest series "Employee Shenanigans"! Today we’re talking interviews - and specifically how tough they can be to properly evaluate candidates. We’ll share some of the hiring best practices and toughest lessons we learned.

It's Episode 8 of season 2 and the finale of our Startup TakeOff series! We conclude the series by getting at "Employment Remorse"; that is, helping your new employees buy into your super-early startup. You want to believe they’re as "into it" as you and your Co-Founder but they’re going to take some convincing. Oh, and don’t forget about their family or friends either.

So far in our ongoing Startup Takeoff series we've touched on a number of myths around launching your business. But the Funding Myth - that you need funding to get your business off of the ground is so pervasive that we’ve opted to give it its own episode. Today we'll cover the myths of early funding and help you understand if funding will help - or hurt - your business.

So you’ve gotten your fledgling startup going. You’re at a co-working space, starbucks in hand, and wondering if this is "it". Is this really what all the hype is about? And cue the doubts: "Is this a good idea?", "am I the right person for this?", "what am I doing here?" There's glamor in starting a business, but it can fade in a real hurry. In our second episode of the "Startup Takeoff" four part series, we tackle the credibility crisis of starting a company.

Welcome to Episode 5 of Season 2 and the first episode of our Startup Takeoff series. Today we tackle the psychological barriers to entrepreneurship. The first biggie? Breaking the mold and starting your own company can feel unnatural and intimidating. You might think you’re not cut out for entrepreneurship. But here’s the thing: entrepreneurs are made, not born. You are an entrepreneur and you can do this.

Oh boy. Cue the existential crisis. You’ve successfully brought two companies together except for one nagging detail: you. Turns out you successfully made yourself irrelevant to the operations of the business and now it’s time to walk away. It’ll be one of the toughest walks of your life.

Listen to more on this episode of the Startup Different Podcast!

You've just had a life-changing event - you sold your business and locked in your financial freedom for the rest of your life. But you're not off the hook yet - you've got to navigate the complexities of taking your company and merging it with the acquirer's firm. In this episode of the Startup Different Podcast, we'll cover what it takes to bring two companies together.

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Everyone has heard of companies being acquired, but do you know the actual steps of the acquisition process?

From the outside looking in, getting your company acquired is pretty mysterious. Basically all founders want this, but they don’t really know how they’ll get there.

In part one of a four part series, we’re going to go into how you actually get your company in a position to be acquired. We’ll discuss our real world experience of selling our company, and compare it with data on when and how most startups are sold.