FounderPodcast.net talks with early-stage startup founders about creative ways to develop a product, get traction, and go to market without spending millions of dollars or giving up equity to venture capitalists. Just like the music industry has been democratized to allow musicians to skip million dollar record deals and launch on their own terms, venture building has been democratized to allow startup founders to skip investor funding and create impact without compromise.
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Learn how to profit from the metaverse with breaking NFT headlines, analysis of emerging metaverse and NFT projects, an overview of trading software and tools, and how-to videos so you can educate and establish yourself as a Metaverse OG. This channel is for both experts and beginners alike where we help traders, investors, and entrepreneurs profit from the metaverse. Follow us here for more: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLCNFT YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MetaverseLandClub Discord: ht ...
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In a Clubhouse room the other night, angel investor and venture capitalist David Rose suggested that there are three types of entrepreneurs. Type 1: circumstantial entrepreneurs trying to survive and get themselves out of poverty Type 2: natural-born entrepreneurs Type 3: self-made entrepreneurs David goes on to mention that he only invests in Type 2s. He later revealed that Type 2s are hypomanic. A survey of college students revealed that six percent scored high on hypomanic traits. This is ...
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Does Kanye West really love Nazis? Or is this a genius marketing play?
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Does Kanye West really love Nazis or is this some part of his genius marketing play? So in this episode we're going to talk about the exact formula Kanye West is using for his marketing playbook and before we talk about the formula, I want you to remember these two things. The first one is to be polarizing and the second one is equity and fairness …
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In this episode we discussed: 1. Celsius and Binance halt BTC withdrawals 2. Minted Green 1/1 Corvette Z06 NFT and car to be auctioned 3. Paypal allows crypto withdrawals 4. Qatar Airways announces metaverse 5. Neil Stephens author of Snow Crash to launch a metaverse 6. NFT trading volume falls 7. Holland & Knight issue restraining order via NFT 8.…
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OpenSea Head of Product arrested for insider trading
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. OpenSea Head of Product arrested for insider trading 2. Snoop Dogg launches BAYC themed dessert parlour Dr. Bombay’s Sweet Exploration 3. Gary Vee launches Vayner3 Consulting 4. Kanye West files NFT trademarks 5. Prada NFT drop coming 6. Battlestar Galacta NFT Game 7. 200 …
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. Luna tanks $BTC price 2. Spotify is testing artist NFT galleries 3. Emirates airlines accepts BTC and adds NFTs 4. Dwayne Wade to launch Budweiser Zero NFTs 5. Madonna and Beeple launch nude NFTs 6. Otherside launches lore 7. DeviantArt adds search tool that detects stolen…
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. Luna tanks $BTC price 2. Spotify is testing artist NFT galleries 3. Emirates airlines accepts BTC and adds NFTs 4. Dwayne Wade to launch Budweiser Zero NFTs 5. Madonna and Beeple launch nude NFTs 6. Otherside launches lore 7. DeviantArt adds search tool that detects stolen…
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. Instagram begins testing NFTs 2. Starbucks offers loyalty rewards via Web3 3. The Vatican enters Web3 4. 35% are scared of the metaverse 5. Dubai’s Virtual Asset regulator sets up HQ in The Sandbox 6. Gatorade owner files trademark for virtual beverage products 7. Kraken o…
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. Otherside Land Deeds drop from BAYC creator YugaLabs faces harsh criticism on Crypto Twitter 2. Meta to launch four new VR headsets 3. OpenSea acquires GEM 4. Will Netflix launch NFTs? 5. Coinbase NFT Marketplace flop? 6. International Tax Consortium issues list of NFT fra…
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$34M held hostage on the blockchain from Akutar NFT mint
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. Price for ETH & Gas 2. MLC Discord News 3. The Road to NFT Adoption 4. MLC Radar 5. Right-click Heist 6. Top Headlines of the Week 7. WACHUTOMBOUT 8. Misleading Headlines Follow us here for more: Twitter: https://twitter.com/MLCNFT Discord: https://discord.gg/metaverseland…
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. NBA buys ENS domains 2. Mastercard files NFT trademarks 3. Sony and Lego fund Epic games to build metaverse 4. AC Milan launches NFT collection 5. Indian Government Twitter accounts hacked to shill NFTs 6. Snoop Dogg launches Cardano NFT 7. 4,400 ETH burned in VSP mint 8. …
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Join us live for this week's NFT Headlines. In this episode we discussed: 1. Vayner Sports Pass: https://pass.vaynersports.com/ 2. The Royal Mint NFT: https://twitter.com/hmtreasury/status... 3. EU Passes KYV Law: https://thedefiant.io/eu-crypto-kyc/ 4. Tesla Loan on MakerDao: https://forum.makerdao.com/t/6s-capit... 5. The Shib Metaverse Land Sale…
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We've been building quietly and wanted to share all the progress we've made so far. Here are some updates: 1. Metaverse Land Club has a fresh look and a new website 2. We received our OpenSea API license so we can begin developing our analysis tools 3. We acquired source code for a trading bot and will plan to develop a front-end when we start whit…
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Learn how to profit from the metaverse with breaking NFT headlines, analysis of emerging metaverse and NFT projects, an overview of trading software and tools, and how-to videos so you can educate and establish yourself as a Metaverse OG. This channel is for both experts and beginners alike where we help traders, investors, and entrepreneurs profit…
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One of my clients tests was asking me earlier today how one of my recent promotions went. And I was actually telling her that I wasn't really happy with the conversion rates. We did convert some, but not at numbers that would be typical of a normal campaign. So I'm in the middle of troubleshooting that and then it got her thinking is like, oh you'r…
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One of the reasons it's always a good idea to keep on reminding yourself to keep an open mind is because you don't know what you don't know, right? Oftentimes when we're educated on something, we're actually miseducated. We don't have all the information. Sometimes it's because the information is changing. Sometimes it's because the information is …
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So the question is, what is it like to be a digital nomad? And the thing is I think digital nomad... this term is fairly new. However, this is something that I've actually just always done, this is the only life that I've known and really it's because of my parents. They are, I guess quote unquote digital nomads, I don't know, they started doing th…
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How to get attention for your startup with cold outreach
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One of the questions that I get is what is one of the best ways to cold outreach? Now, while I may not be a cold outreach expert, I will share a technique that actually works for me and this doesn't matter what kind of cold outreach you're doing if you're doing it to reach out to an influencer, for example, an A-list celebrity that you want to conn…
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What does it mean to build an empire? When people think of empires, they usually think of huge empires, right? So you might think of the British Empire for example. The British Empire had its presence all over the world, or you might think of it in terms of lasting effect. So the Roman empire or the Ottoman empire, had lasting effects on our curren…
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What’s the difference between selling a product-based business and service-based business?
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One of the more common questions that I get asked pretty often is what is the difference when you are selling a product-based business and a service-based business? And people usually ask this question in terms of when they're applying the vertical method, which is the method that we use in the Vertical Liftoff accelerator program. And if you are m…
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How to establish yourself as an influencer with your own platform in one day
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When I was younger, I used to have a music studio in my apartment. I would run out of studio time. I would make my own music. I would produce my music. I would write. I would design my album covers. I would do pretty much everything like your one-man studio, one-man shop and it was a lot of fun. One of the coolest things is out of this, I was able …
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What do we need you for? This is a question that you might hear from investors or from people that seemingly have power over you, and seemingly have power over your dreams, right? They're like the enablers of your dreams. And if you don't have something proprietary to show them or something proprietary for yourself in terms of your character, your …
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What if they steal my idea? This is a concern that many early-stage founders have where they try to protect their idea. They will go into stealth mode. They want NDAs from all these different people before they even share their idea. When the fact is ideas are not exclusive. There are probably 100 maybe 1,000 other people working on the same idea. …
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Should you trust the Covid experts and scientists?
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Should you trust the scientists? Should you trust the experts when it comes to Covid? And this is a very touchy subject that gets a lot of people really upset. I'm actually far removed from this entire political thing that's happening in the States between you know Covid deniers, mask deniers or whatever you might be. I'm actually just in beautiful…
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You're probably missing out on a lot of sales if you don't have some kind of Black Friday campaign implemented. So Black Friday is a day when all these different retailers will come together and they will start offering these massive discounts and they're vying for customers attention with their discounted deals. And it's it's just a great retail h…
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When is the right time to start running ads?
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So the question is, when is the right time to do paid ads? And the mistake that most startup founders make is that they will start doing ads right away because it feels like it's easy, right? You just do this work one time and then you put it out there and if you can get leads in traffic and traction like that like it's easy. So the hope is you jus…
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The two types of organic marketing and which one is right for you
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Here's what you need to know about organic marketing. There are actually two different types of organic marketing you have inbound organic and outbound organic. Now describe inbound organic. This is usually where a lot of founders start and what they don't realize is you don't see the benefits of inbound organic for maybe years. So this is where yo…
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As a starter founder, one of the things that you absolutely have to consider is how much status is your brand delivering to your customer? Now in terms of status, I remember when I was looking for a boxing coach. So I was trying out different fitness things. I first tried out triathlons and I realized really quickly that riding bikes and also swimm…
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Visionary or idiot? How to tell the difference.
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When you are a visionary and you think differently, you think divergently, then sometimes some of your ideas doesn't make sense to other people or it might go against norms and it's unconventional. So people don't want to actually give you the time to actually think through what you're saying. So this is actually one of the frustrations or a feelin…
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One of my business school experiences included doing this business consulting competition. And for this competition, was hosted by Boston Science, I think it was Boston Science, can't remember. It was hosted by Boston Scientific. There we go. It was hosted by Boston Scientific and I was teamed up with a few people from the public Health School as w…
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Setting a future vision that increases notoriety and gets more sales
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In Tulum, Mexico, there is a group of real estate developers, they're known as Los Amigos, and they develop all these different types of hotel/residential type areas popping up all over Tulum. If you ever stay at one of their properties, then you may have come across some of their EV Vehicles that they advertise. So in terms of EV, in each of these…
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In this episode, we are going to literally talk about how to build an empire, and one of the ways to build an empire, I think what's really important to talk about is how not to build an empire. So when founders are focused on the product and they are looking to find product-market fit and they're chasing up for different customers. Well, this is t…
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Let's talk about loneliness for a second. So there was definitely a point in my time in my life where I had to embrace just being lonely and I and I can't really remember the exact specific time and I think if I probably dug deep enough, it's probably some kind of dark memory there, but I do remember that there was this probably period of time wher…
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How to protect your time by missing out on FOMO
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I met a really cool person today. He's also a Six Percenter of the Entrepreneur and we had dinner and we were talking about business and talking about a whole bunch of things after the dinner, he wanted to invite me into his WhatsApp groups. He has this WhatsApp group with a bunch of people in Medellin. I'm in Medellin right now, so any time you me…
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All right. In the previous episode, I talked about how I'm not going to do this brand new campaign where I take a SAS company from nothing to a seven-figure valuation. And I lied. I lied to myself. I lied to you. I didn't really lie. I mean this was something I wanted to do. But I lied. I am doing it anyway just because, I don't know, I just want t…
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My campaign to create a brand new SaaS company and take it from $0 to seven figures
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You know, I recorded an episode a little bit earlier and then I held onto it for about a day, and then I deleted it and the reason I deleted it is because I was trying to make an announcement that I thought might be good for my business. But then what I realized is that it's probably better off if I just hold off. So this is a struggle that entrepr…
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The one key skill that makes a good strategist
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One of the key skills to be a damn good strategist is to understand how probability works because strategy really is math. Now, in terms of probability, today we are going to go over how we can use probability to make sure that we are able to define a strategy that will bring us or that will increase the likelihood of the outcome that we're looking…
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The Bragadocious Pyramid to market your brand without bragging or sounding salesy
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One of the problems that people have when they're selling something or when they're marketing something is how to not brag. Because part of marketing and part of selling is a little bit of bragging, right? Like you do have to have conviction in your product and say, we have the best product, because if you don't believe that, then what are you doin…
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Sometimes we just need that little bit of encouragement to move towards where we're trying to go. A lot of times we stop ourselves, we hold ourselves back because we're afraid of what other people are going to think about us. For example, when I actually first started doing podcast, I would walk around um basically pulling out my phone doing these …
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How to change product function and fulfillment without pissing off your users
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People need to be heard. If you are implementing any kind of change in your product delivery, fulfillment, features benefits, anything. Well, this change makes it feel like you are rocking the fish tank, it creates instability. People just don't like it because people have some level of expectation and if you change this expectation, they have to r…
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If you made it all the way to episode 200, then I want to thank you so much for allowing me into your life and for allowing me to share my stories and in this episode, this episode is actually a very interesting story and the title of the episode is obviously Rari and the stripper. So to give you a little bit of a background, Rari is my dog. She is…
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The trouble startup founders find when launching a new product
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If you are a brand new starter founder or even if you're a season starter founder and you're doing a product launch, one of the challenges that you'll probably find is trying to forecast what your cost of fulfillment will be. And in terms of your cost for fulfillment, this means any kind of prices that go, you're taking your time however, is taxing…
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Okay, here's the game. If I guess this thing is right, you have to give me $1. All right, Okay. I am willing to bet that if you are a startup founder or an entrepreneur, then sometime within your life you've thought about investing in real estate, you looked at investing in real estate, whether that's actually buying real estate for rental purposes…
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The number one mistake early stage founders make when launching a new product
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If you've been following me in the startup space then you know how much I preach against following unicorn founders and unicorn companies. So there are some things that yes, you can probably learn and take away. But for the most part, a lot of the strategies and techniques that these companies have used, they're antiquated because it might have wor…
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The hindsight bias mistake that ends in more losses over time
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In previous episodes that talked about the concept of expected value. So when you're making a decision, whatever decision you make, there is a probability of success and a probability of failure. And if you calculate what both of those probabilities are, you can figure out what the expected value or the expected outcome of a situation is. So today …
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How to handle trolls attempting to damage your reputation
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In the previous episode, we talked about whether Coffee Zilla is a fraud and that got me thinking what do you do if someone accuses you of doing something that you haven't done or if someone calls you a con artist or a scam or a fraud and if someone starts saying negative things about you or your business, your company, your brand, etcetera, what d…
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So here's the problem with Coffee Zilla. Coffee Zilla has a very specific message that he is trying to make. And the thing is the way that he goes about doing it is he only looks at sources that confirm his bias and not only does he look at only sources that confirm his bias, but even when he's doing interviews, for example, I saw an interview with…
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How to design your marketing campaign strategy in three easy steps
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In the previous two episodes, we talked about how to track your traffic from all of your startup marketing campaigns. And then we also talked about demystifying UTM Tracking Parameters. So you know the technical aspect of being able to track the flow of traffic through your sales funnels. And in today's episode, we're actually going to be talking a…
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Demystifying UTM tracking parameters for your startup marketing campaigns
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So in the previous episode we talked about how to start tracking traffic from all of your startup marketing distribution channels and taking an inventory of all your marketing distribution channels. And I also talked about UTM Parameters Urchin Tracking modules so you can be able to actually track where your traffic is coming from. So in this episo…
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How to track traffic from your startup marketing distribution channels
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Right. So when you're first starting to startup at some point you are going to have to start cleaning up all your business processes and start figuring out where all your traffic is coming from. And the reason why I say you would have to start doing it later is that if you try to implement these types of systems at the very early stages especially …
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Do this when you need money for your startup now
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If you need money for your startup right now, then this episode is going to help you think about how to exactly go about getting that money. So in this episode, we are going to be talking about sales cycles and sales pipelines and the most important thing that you need to know, and this is probably something you already know, but you know what? it'…
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There is a lot of hype within the marketing community for a Two Comma Club Award. If you're unfamiliar with the Two Comma Club award is an award that click funnels a landing page builder company gives you, once you processed a million dollars worth of revenue through one of their funnels. And it's a, it's a way that they can advertise that people a…
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