The Goal is NOT to be a Startup

In today’s Startup Therapy Podcast, Wil and Ryan talk about why a business shouldn’t stay a Startup. Sure, Startups get more opportunities to grow and funding offers to expand. But you can’t stay in this phase forever. Grow your business into a company that can run on its own, have a monthly recurring revenue that pays its monthly bills, and produce products that customers want to buy. That’s when you graduate from being a Startup to being a real company!

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What to Listen For

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:14 We can’t always be a “Startup”
• 05:40 The goal is to become a real money-making company
• 09:20 Why do we want to maintain the Startup facade?
• 16:57 You should graduate from being a freshman 
• 22:12 It’s not the funding that we should be celebrating