CYLS 119: CEO Talks - The ABC's of Entrepreneurship with Eric Fondren and Todd Wahnish

Ceo talks AbC’s of Entrepreneurship
 
black hoodie season
 
 
 Insight from this episode:
ABC = Always be conversing
 
Strategies to narrowing down your end user vs. customer
Secrets to avoid the top two reasons startups fail
The ups and downs of pre- sales for Eric’s business,
CEO experience truth’s about failing and re-starting up
Strategies to figuring out where your client is now and where they want to go. T
strategies to deciphering between good and unimportant advice.
Strategies to presale your product before launch
Methods to deciphering between an opinion vs. sound advice
 
Quotes from the show:
 
“Start with a date to start, a day to complete and a go to Idea to plan to product” - Eric Fondren episode #119
 
“Your business always gets better if you expose it to the world around you” - Eric Fondren episode #119
 
“For anyone looking to start off or bootstrap their business, the conversation is the first thing you need to master because that’s how you invent word of mouth” - Todd Wahnish episode #119
 
 
 
 
“Whether its advice or not its still an opinion. Its whether or not its informed and contextual and relevant” - Eric Fondren episode #119
 
“What I learned very quickly was to trust and verify” - Todd Wahnish episode #119
 
 
“A lot of times there can be truth in the advice but its up to you to know who you are and what you don’t want to be” - Todd Wahnish episode #119
 
“If you are worried about someone stealing your idea, then you don’t have a strong enough idea…and your not doing enough competitive research” - Eric Fondren episode #119
 
“Ideas are not businesses, ideas are thoughts that don’t have any physical form” - Todd Wahnish episode #119
 
“The money valuates the building of the product” - Todd Wahnish episode #119
 
“The ups are never as good as they feel and the downs are never as bad as they feel” - Eric Fondren episode #119
 
“Stay strong, make moves, work hard, take breaks” - Todd Wahnish episode #119
 
Episode Summary
In this episode Todd, Kevin and Eric discuss the ups and downs of presales for Eric’s business, CEO experience truth’s about failing and re-starting up a business. Strategies to figuring out where your client is now and where they want to go. They also cover strategies to deciphering between good and unimportant advice.
 
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