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Alessandro Bogliari, CEO and Co-Founder of The Influencer Marketing Factory, a global influencer marketing agency, talks with great guests about influencer marketing, social media, the creator economy, social commerce and much more.
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Are you repeating any of these mistakes in your business?
In this episode, Rob Walling walks through his ‘founder regret list’, detailing 12 key mistakes from his 20-year entrepreneurial journey. In this very personal episode, he tells some stories he’s never shared publicly before.
Topics we cover:
- (4:17) – Thinking venture capital was the only path
- (6:12) – Launching without validating the idea
- (9:26) – Choosing ideas that couldn’t be bootstrapped
- (12:48) – Relying too much on books
- (16:36) – Trying to do everything solo
- (21:10) – The arrival fallacy
- (23:19) – Delaying email list growth
- (25:51) – Taking random advice too seriously
- (28:43) – Overestimating skills after early wins
- (30:29) – Letting anxiety steal the joy from success
- (32:34) – Not letting wins build confidence
- (33:50) – Holding onto a scarcity mindset
Links from the Show:
- TinySeed Institute
- Sponsor the Podcast or MicroConf
- Start Small, Stay Small
- The SaaS Playbook
- Zero to Sold by Arvid Kahl
If you have questions about starting or scaling a software business that you’d like for us to cover, please submit your question for an upcoming episode. We’d love to hear from you!
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