E876 Founder Lessons: 5 founders w/startups from shut-down to success share advice,tactics,mistakes

E876: "Founder Lessons": 5 founders whose startups range from shut down to scaling share their best advice, mistakes they will never repeat & strategies they will double-down on for future success @ LAUNCH Scale

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Show notes:

0:57 - Allen Chen, CEO of Fitbod: How Fitbod retains users and makes paid UI work for them

7:38 - Cooper Harris, CEO of Klickly: Knowing when the right time to scale is

16:22 - David Temple, Pinterest: What to and not to do, especially as a second-time founder

23:08 - Jordan Stone, Co-founder of Project Admission: Top 10 things you should know as a founder for your startup

31:23 - Abby Kiefer, Founder of Red Clay: The Do’s and Don’ts of a startup

40:23 - Transition and recovery from being a founder

45:25 - Jordan’s journey from shutting down the company to starting the next one

46:28 - Growing founders Cooper and Allen talk about truths that David, Jordan and Abby have shed light upon for them

48:35 - What investor relationships look like in the most difficult times for a startup

[SnoopyDoofie]

The only issue I have with Jordan Stone's advice on outsourcing your HR is that when it comes to technical recruitment, almost all recruiters suck at this. They simply match resumes to job specs. Anyone can do that. You need to do this entirely on your own and it should be done in such a way that you have candidates write some real code that gets reviewed by the founders and any technical devs they already have onboard.

[greenteammobile]

Tremendously helpful video. Thanks to all who participated.

[mariojohnson]

Mushrooms and lions mane coffee, ok!. You know the scary part is the founders who failed are pretty intelligent, sheesh, the world of startup investing can be brutal! I’ve lost money on startups, I just look at it as part of the process until I hit that one or two successful startup exit or IPO.