ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Stu Draper, a serial entrepreneur, knows just how exhilarating it is to launch a startup to the moon. He is a 9-time Inc. 5000 honoree before age 40 with tens of millions generated in revenue from his startups and an angel investor in 8 businesses. He's also the co-author of the bestselling textbook Digital Marketing Essentials. Stu knows just what it takes to transform an innovative idea into a thriving business. Inspired by the creators of groundbreaking ventures, Startups With Stu is an illuminating podcast that dives into the trials and triumphs of startup founders and investors who have committed their lives to reaching financial freedom through entrepreneurship. Podcast guests will be seeking advice on how to overcome the obstacles they're facing. Expect motivating stories as Stu spotlights the hard-fought victories that reveal the inner workings of entrepreneurship. By demystifying the startup process, Startups With Stu aims to equip aspiring founders with the grit and know-how to transform visionary concepts into startup success.
Startups With Stu is produced using PodUp podcasting software.
Startups With Stu is produced using PodUp podcasting software.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 9 days
Average audio length:
48 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
84 episodes
since Aug. 28, 2024
episodic
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Ryan Bush came home from a humanitarian trip in Africa to find that one of his two salespeople had left for a job across the country and the other had been lying and stealing from him. He went from two salespeople to zero, with nothing new coming in the door. A few months later, he had rebuilt h…
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Jacob Walter worked from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 the next morning, slept a few hours, and did it again. Then he left for the College World Series, where he was about to work 12-hour days for ten straight days, and had a mental breakdown on the way. That's when he knew the garage model was done.
Jacob …
Sanjiv Lal generated about $15 million in revenue for a startup and walked away with a small slice of it. Not long after, he bought a failing genetic laboratory on a handshake over dinner in Cincinnati.
Sanjiv Lal is a former Eli Lilly drug rep who went on to own labs, hotels, and the Beverly Hi…
A founder sat down to pitch a $75,000 investment and said there was just one little problem: a developer in Ukraine was holding her code base hostage. She told the investors before the wire cleared. She bought the shares back for $225,000, and a month later they were worth $2.5 million.
Erica Wa…
Tim Klich raised $1 million from pickleball players before he'd built a single court. Then he gave every dollar back, because the project ran so late he felt bad keeping it.
Tim spent 35 years as a commercial banker, the last 20 lending to tech startups, and never once got in trouble with a regu…
Tim Shea's data analytics company has clients that include the NBA, UFC, Princess Cruise Lines,
and Reddit. He started the company solo, scaled to five employees during Covid, then went back
to solo — by choice. He calls VC "another form of poverty." He calls his current setup "crush…
Fadi Alshalabi had 48 hours to leave Syria. He left behind his wife, his six-year-old daughter,
and his sick father. One week later, his wife told him she was pregnant with their second child.
He was starting over in Berlin with nothing but a research contract and a dream about educa…
Matt Friedman had a commercial kitchen available every night after 6:30pm — the fraternity
house kitchen. He installed a phone line, printed some flyers, went to Sam's Club for wings
and one type of Coke, and started delivering buffalo wings to college students at the University …
A dentist Stu knew from church retired after decades of practice and just closed the doors.
Didn't sell it. Didn't know he could. Just locked up and walked away from what could have been
a real exit. Jason Morris heard the story and said it almost happened to a company he knows …
Aaron Pridmore watched a kid rip his shirt off, climb the backstop to the song "Rodeo,"
and dance for the entire crowd at his first Banana Ball youth tournament. 75 teams had
shown up from 48 different states. Parents were cheering for both sides. Kids who were
about to quit ba…
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