HeyJaredThe Reluctant Entrepreneur Podcast
I’m your host, Mike Konrad, the author of The Reluctant Entrepreneur - Anatomy of a Business Start-Up - From Uncertainty to Unstoppable, available on Amazon as a paperback, e-book, and an audible book, and I’m excited to share real stories that reveal the many paths people…
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The Problem Everyone Accepted: Tina Larsson on Building a Business by Asking Why (opens the original)
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Most people who discover that their building is wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars complain about it. My guest today helped organize a board takeover, fixed the problem, and accidentally discovered a business opportunity hiding inside the chaos. Some businesses begin with a carefully researched idea, a detailed plan, and a founder determined to become an entrepreneur. Others begin with a frustrating question: Why do the costs keep going up when no one can explain where the money is going?
The Exit Trap: Matt DiFrancesco on Planning Before It’s Too Late (opens the original)
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Successful business owners rarely ignore exit planning because they don’t care about the future. They postpone it because the business is thriving, customers keep coming, and leaving still feels years away. But waiting too long can reduce a company’s value, limit an owner’s options, and turn an expected transition into a difficult financial and personal crisis. We’ve explored exit planning with other guests, but this conversation examines it through a very different lens. Matt DiFrancesco is a F
Build the Moat First: Scherrie L. Prince on Protecting What Entrepreneurs Create (opens the original)
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Most entrepreneurs spend their time thinking about how to build a business. How do I find customers? How do I increase revenue? How do I grow faster? ' But far fewer stop to ask a different set of questions. What happens if my partner and I have a falling-out? What happens if the business is sued? What happens if I become seriously ill or die? And what happens to everything I’ve worked so hard to build if I never created a plan to protect it? Those aren’t particularly exciting questions. They do
Built It, Nearly Lost It, Built Again: Joshua Griffin on Reinvention and Resilience (opens the original)
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Building a successful business is difficult. Building one, watching it begin to fall apart, and then finding the courage to start again is something entirely different. Entrepreneurship is often presented as a steady climb. You start with an idea, work hard, gain momentum, and eventually arrive at success. But for many entrepreneurs, the real journey looks nothing like that. It includes exhaustion, financial pressure, painful decisions, and moments when the person behind the business begins to d
Revenue Rich, Freedom Poor: James Graham on Building a Business Without Becoming Its Prisoner (opens the original)
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There’s a dangerous moment in entrepreneurship that doesn’t get talked about nearly enough. It’s the moment when your business starts looking successful from the outside, but inside, you realize you’ve created something that can’t function without you. The revenue is growing. The customers are coming in. Employees are depending on you. By almost every traditional measure, things are going well. Except you can’t leave. Every decision still comes across your desk. Every problem eventually finds it
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