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#039 Track Zach Marshall #3: 10x-ing your company in 4 Months
Smart Friends
English - May 31, 2022 08:30 - 1 hour - ★★★★★ - 96 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business entrepreneurship angelinvesting business coursecorrectly ericjorgenson evergreen happiness health investing leverage Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
(2:29) - How clear is the picture of how far you’ve come in the past 4 months?
(3:27) - Recapping Track Zach #2
(10:36) - What are customers buying now and how have the service offerings changed?
(20:06) - Do you know the bootstrapping process of these other industry marketplace products?
(21:49) - How did you arrive at home security audit and family protection as the right first products to offer?
(29:20) - What’s your ultimate revenue goal as it pertains to fundraising?
(38:35) - What do your internal operations look like?
(41:06) - Zach’s experience in Launch New York
(43:32) - Spending too much time on “shiny object” opportunities
(48:55) - Traction and the fundraising process
(57:01) - Entrepreneurship is really hard
(1:06:01) - Is there anything you’ve changed your mind on in the past quarter?
(1:17:06) - Are there other mental models from your time as a SEAL that you apply in business?
(1:20:44) - Feeling high leverage work shift over time
(1:26:22) - How can people listening help Conterra?
Links:
ConterraSecurity.com
LaunchNY.org
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
NfX Marketplaces
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Kevin Espiritu: Bootstrapping Epic Gardening to 8 Figgures by mixing Media + D2C Biz Models. Oh and Poker, Pink Pineapples, and Male Models.
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(2:29) - How clear is the picture of how far you’ve come in the past 4 months?
(3:27) - Recapping Track Zach #2
(10:36) - What are customers buying now and how have the service offerings changed?
(20:06) - Do you know the bootstrapping process of these other industry marketplace products?
(21:49) - How did you arrive at home security audit and family protection as the right first products to offer?
(29:20) - What’s your ultimate revenue goal as it pertains to fundraising?
(38:35) - What do your internal operations look like?
(41:06) - Zach’s experience in Launch New York
(43:32) - Spending too much time on “shiny object” opportunities
(48:55) - Traction and the fundraising process
(57:01) - Entrepreneurship is really hard
(1:06:01) - Is there anything you’ve changed your mind on in the past quarter?
(1:17:06) - Are there other mental models from your time as a SEAL that you apply in business?
(1:20:44) - Feeling high leverage work shift over time
(1:26:22) - How can people listening help Conterra?
Links:
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
The Cold Start Problem by Andrew Chen
Other Episode You’ll Like:
To support this costs of producing this podcast:
>> Buy a copy of the Navalmanak: www.navalmanack.com/
>> Sign up for my online course and community about building your Personal Leverage: https://www.ejorgenson.com/leverage
>> Invest in early-stage companies alongside Eric and his partners at Rolling Fun: https://angel.co/v/back/rolling-fun
>> Join the free weekly email list at ejorgenson.com/newsletter
>> Text the podcast to a friend
>> Give the podcast a positive review to help us reach new listeners
>> Name-your-price subscription monthly, annual, or one-time: https://app.omella.com/o/9Bufa
>> Follow me on Twitter: @ericjorgenson
>> Get in touch about sponsoring this podcast by replying to an email or DMing me on Twitter.