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New podcast episode with the founders of @chatbooks ! 🎙️

Nate @nquigley and Vanessa @vanessaquigley share how three years of building the wrong product led to a breakthrough when they finally listened to what customers wanted.

The lesson for founders: adding more features won’t fix a product nobody wants. Sometimes the biggest opportunity is the simpler idea you keep dismissing.

Watch the full episode on the Startup Ignition Podcast! @si_pod

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Basic startup building principles still exist. @si_pod

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AI has founders measuring the wrong progress.

A polished product can create confidence you haven’t earned yet. The question is whether you’ve learned enough about the customer to justify what you’re building.

Getting to the wrong destination faster still costs you time.

Watch @johnstartup and @t_rich discuss this in Episode 58 of the Startup Ignition Podcast: “Is Your Startup Idea Actually Good?” @si_pod

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What kind of business should you start?

On the Startup Ignition Podcast Travis Cook talks about a good place to start. Do something that you love so much that would do it for free.

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How you treat people determines whether they recommend you, introduce you, or choose to work with you again.

Your reputation follows you into every new venture and opportunity.

Cydni Tetro @cydtetro talks about this in her full episode, #39, on the Startup Ignition Podcast @si_pod.

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New Episode #63 of the Startup Ignition Podcast @si_pod !

Peter Harris, co-founder and partner at University Growth Fund, talks shop with John and Tyler, explains why VC money can become addictive, and shares the story of passing on SpaceX.

Awesome investments, missed opportunities, hard lessons, and an unfiltered take on startup funding.

Watch the full conversation on episode #63 of the Startup Ignition Podcast. 🎙️

What would you do? You investing?

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"You should never raise money”. 👀

That's coming from Tyler @t_rich, someone who runs a venture fund.

Tyler's point: new founders get stars in their eyes about VC, the big check, the headline, the validation that someone finally said yes. But venture capital is the most expensive money you will ever take, and almost every experienced founder lands in the same place: if you can avoid it, avoid it at all costs.

Full episode 40 with Dave Bateman: who did just that, bootstrapping to a unicorn. 🎧 You know where to watch!

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His own engineers locked him out of his own codebase.

Dave Bateman was 18 months into building Entrata with nothing to sell. No product, no revenue, and he'd already given up 12.5% of the company just to keep the lights on. The engineers kept saying "it's coming, it's coming", and wouldn't hand over the codebase passwords.

So he taught himself the architecture, gave an ultimatum, and fired the person blocking him.

Three weeks in the code and he found it: one guy gatekeeping every schema change, quietly stalling every engineer on the team.

Entrata is worth $4B today, and he still owned 60%+ of it when he walked away.

Full episode 40 with Dave Bateman: bootstrapping to a unicorn, the 19-year build, and why he never raised another dime. 🎧 Link in bio.

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New podcast episode featuring @bubbapage who raised $1.25M, went through Techstars, and built his whole startup on LinkedIn's data. Then LinkedIn shut it off 👇

→ listen to his story about paying out investors in office chairs
→ he says "don't tie your business to someone else's platform"
→ having success and then failure, he said he lost myself
→ what one investor told him after it all fell apart
→ the only thing he wants to talk about on his deathbed

Full episode out now · link in bio
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#StartupIgnition #BubbaPage #Techstars #StartupFailure #FounderStory #Entrepreneur #StartupStory #Bootstrapping #AngelInvesting #VentureCapital #LinkedIn #StartupAdvice #UtahTech #SiliconSlopes #FaithAndBusiness

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Arian Lewis (@lewis.arian) bet on a coworking company right as the most famous one in the world was imploding.

Today @kiln.co serves 3,500 companies a day, from billion-dollar corporations down to the startup looking to leave the garage.

On WeWork, "You can't fill a Ferrari full of tequila and then get mad that the kid who likes tequila drove the Ferrari and wrecked it."

And his advice for founders is the opposite of what you usually hear, he doesn't think you should follow your passion.

Full episode #61 out now. 🎧

#startupignition #entrepreneurship #coworking #founders #utahtech #siliconslopes #smallbusiness #startuppodcast

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Maybe a what-if, but Jeremy says @traegergrills isn’t just an appliance company. It’s building the entire cooking experience.

And it sounds like @jeremy_andrus was kinda into @t_rich ‘s suggestion of something AI. 👀🔥

Check out the full conversation with Jeremy Andrus of Traeger, on the Startup Ignition Podcast episode 45! @si_pod

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Blake Modersitzki (@blakemod ) of Pelion Venture Partners (@pelionvp ) tells John Richards (@johnstartup ) the story of one of Utah‘s most successful startup stories in @cloudflare

Catch the whole story on Episode 49 of the Startup Ignition Podcast (@si_pod )

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