4.5 years in, my voice AI marketing startup has been continually profitable since Month 1. Here are three essential early stage startup tips for founders. These tips are simple and may seem obvious but they are so easy to forget when you're busy building a business. WealthVoice is a bootstrapped SaaS I founded March 2020. If you want to go deeper, check out my startup story playlist on YouTube.
Timestamps:
(0:00) Three things I'd do differently in the first year or two
(0:55) Tip 1) Hiring (beyond obsessive about references)
(2:00) Tip 2) Tech stack (simplify)
(2:30) Tip 3) Hit by a bus fail-safe: Document processes, tools, and back-end of how the business runs. Be meticulous and continually update.
(4:08) Final thoughts and recap tips
(5:24) Bonus tip: Create a living will. Tip: My financial advisor set me up with wealth.com.
(6:00) Startup story playlist
7:00 Related: You want people to unsubscribe: 1-minute YouTube Short / 4-minute podcast: "Unsubscribing is a Gift"
Links:
WealthVoice Startup Story - YouTube playlist
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