Starting from Nothing - The Foundation Podcast | Building your business ENTIRELY from scratch. (general)

Are you an entrepreneur in your heart but still living the life of an employee?

Before joining The Foundation’s first Software Roundtable, Troy Lavinia was slogging his way through his job at a hedge fund.

After the Software Roundtable, he Founded Mosaic Research Management and he’s killing it in the hedge fund management space.

 

You will learn...

  • how he stopped procrastinating and started a business.
  • how he developed a SaaS counterpart to his service business.
  • how focus improved his business.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters

Direct download: SFN207_-_Troy_Lavinia.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 6:00am CDT

Are you waiting too long to launch your business?

 

Chris Brisson Co-Founded Call Loop, the leading text messaging software for businesses, and now he’s in the process of launching a new software business called Salesmsg.

In this episode, Chris shares the strategies that worked (and didn’t work) to grow Call Loop and how he’s applying those lessons to optimize a new product launch.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources


Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN206_-_Chris_Brisson.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Do you feel guilty about making money?

Many entrepreneurs suffer from limiting beliefs about money, but we don’t have to. We can destroy those limiting beliefs when we realize that money begets impact – and you can do so many positive things in the world if you can make an impact.

Stu McLaren, Co-Founder of WishList Products and Owner of Always Thinking Creatively, used to feel guilty about the amount of money he earned. Guilt stunted his entrepreneurial growth.

He’s here to teach you why making money can be honorable, and the strategies he uses to help entrepreneurs like you launch, scale, and grow 7- and 8-figure membership sites.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN205_-_Stu_McLaren.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Are you willing to invest in yourself?

Laura Roeder is an incredibly talented bootstrapper who constantly re-invests in herself. She was 22 when she quit her job and founded her first startup. She broke six figures in the first year.

Laura then bootstrapped Meet Edgar from $0 to $4M in revenue in just 2½ years.

It’s an awesome story and I’m really excited to share it with you.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN204_-_Laura_Roeder.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Are you frustrated because you can’t sell your awesome product?

For years, Jeremy Chatelaine was frustrated. He kept building products but he wasn’t able to sell them – until he joined The Foundation.

We’re going to look at how The Foundation played a role in getting QuickMail.io off the ground and the strategies that Jeremy has implemented to scale and grow over the past two years.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters

Direct download: SFN203_-_Jeremy_Chatelaine.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Are you able to recreate success?

Brian Moran is the Founder of Get 10,000 Fans – an information business that he grew from $0 to $3M in just two years.

Now he’s applying those same strategies to his first software startup, SamCart, which made over $3M in revenue in 2016.

He shares some awesome marketing strategies for new bootstrappers and we go deep into how he has been able to grow two companies so rapidly.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN202_-_Brian_Moran.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

If you’re listening to this right now, you are ambitious.

And ambitious people want awesome sh*t.

But if you want to make that happen, you need to Master Your Inner Game first.

Jacob Sokol is a life and business coach who has been described as a mix between Jay-Z and Deepak Chopra. For the past seven years, he has been on a mission to help people live with less anxiety and greater fulfillment by mastering their Inner Game.

Jacob is known for creating The Inner Game Immersion, a 10-week immersion process that helps people level up their mental clarity, emotional mastery, physical optimization, and spiritual purpose.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN201_-_Jacob_Sokol.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Do you want to grow forever or grow quickly?

Jason Fried is one of the original SaaS bootstrappers. He co-Founded Basecamp in 1999.

He shares his valuable perspective on how to grow a business that is sustainable forever.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN200_-_Jason_Fried.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Have you ever had a bad business idea and then doubled down on it?

Have you ever solved a problem in your own life and then kept the solution to yourself?

Pat Flynn teaches proven strategies for running an online business and optimizing it for passive income.

In this episode, Pat shares why his first software business failed, and why Smart Podcast Player is succeeding.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN199_-_Pat_Flynn.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT

Stop trying to hack early-stage startup growth.

 

Get ready for real world, practical advice on bootstrapping a software business.

David Hauser has been there and done it and he isn’t brainwashed by some of the Silicon Valley methods for hacking growth.

David bootstrapped Grasshopper from $0 to $30M in revenue before selling it & founded Chargify, made it profitable then raised money through Mark Cuban.

 

Click here to learn more and read the blog post at TheFoundation.com/podcast.

 

Resources

 

Production & Development for The Foundation: Starting From Nothing Podcast by Podcast Masters.

Direct download: SFN198_-_David_Hauser.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:00am CDT