10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Company 

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Bro i love how genuine you are. I’m working on my startup full time now and all your content is super relatable. Thanks bud. Full sending it now btw 😂

Insanely hard video!

These videos are great man. I started my own company doing consulting for start ups and these help me bring a whole new view to the table. I work with the financial and accounting side driving business growth and your videos help me think of the other half of businesses I don’t get to see and I’ve had some really constructive convos with business owners because of it.

For those that are working in an internal audit or financial compliance audit role, if you identify a few problems at your current company and the executives choose to ignore fixing the issues, then flip the script and try to rethink of the issue/roadblock at work as an opportunity for you to start a business to address the above compliance issue. It's likely the problem is niche enough that you could dominate that market and small enough that people or businesses outside of your company wouldn't even realize there's this untapped market. The opportunity is that you have information asymmetry and you can implement a solution that will solve this compliance problem for these customers.... ex) if you're an auditor at CRA or IRS and you have identified a theme of non-compliance in a niche area, well, now you can setup a business online to hook these potential clients in with SEO and SEM.

Hey Jay, huge fan of your work :) Currently building a startup in NYC - you inspired me to share my journey with the audience. Just wanted to show some love!

I can see that you are a genuine and positive person, qualities that are rarely seen around. Full support to you my friend. You are the best!

Awesome video! I would love to know more about how you logistically scaled the business. From hiring, to onboarding processes, to provisioning hardware for engineers, to giving access to source control to employees and managing tasks with project management software, to book keeping and general ledger reconciliation. What about products you use internally? Are there some you love? Are there some you tried and had to move away from? How do you handle logins across your org? What about off boarding when someone leaves? There is so much startup info on 'ideas' and 'how we stood in a circle and manifested growth', but I would love it if you can break that pattern and go into what you need to logistically consider when steering the ship into the scale phase.

Love this channel dude - all your videos have been super informative to someone who's thinking about starting a company in the future and I appreciate how transparent you've been throughout. In fact, you were one of my main inspirations to start documenting my research process in a similar way! Looking forward to seeing Stan's development

The most underrated thing about your videos is how many startup founders are in your comments. What a Community of go getters getting inspired together.

I just want to add to the therapist's tip. Think about it in this way: You are the only person who will accompany you throughout your life, you are the most important, the only one capable and responsible for improving your quality of life. Why wouldn't you spend time and work to improve yourself? Things like Self-knowledge, awareness and emotional management could improve your life in all areas :)

This is gold! lol Thanks for sharing!

Great stuff John always a pleasure to learn from you

Amazing vide as always Jay :)

Great list of advice. Loved the 9th . Thanks for making it 🙏

Thank you John 🍵

Did not expect a catchy new tune ~insanely hard~ 🎵 together with some good advice!

Dude I needed to hear this, was hitting a mental crisis with my company. Most of the time I feel like I’m winging it, but that’s the mental game! Great reframe and reminder-don’t give up and just focus on your customers and your team. #insanelyhard

Thanks, John. Rough week - I needed to hear this.

Love your energy, John! So cool that you're building it all in public. Use, love and recommend Stan!

I watched this video and thought, 'Wow! 🤩 You are a young and wise man.' I only found you today, and this is the second video in a row.

Great storytelling skills - the buzz was a cherry on top LOL.

Jensen is a wonderful person, his podcast with Crucible Moments by Sequoia Capital is the most motivating thing I listened to recently.

lol that second drink u started to get tipsy and were like I love you man😄👏🏼 Great video, so much wisdom from your experiences.

This video was significantly heightened by that old-fashioned you made. :) Apart from that... great breakdown. I'm learning so much about starting a company through your documentation.

This video was insanely helpful

Great video. Not the typical advices u see from anywhere else. Love that! One tip for u John: watch ur intonation at the end of sentence ie dont make it sound like a question. Check out Vince, he has a lot of content about speech and vocal techniques

Wow, I love that video clip.

Dope content man!

Absolutely love how much you and V share your journeys on the path to 1B. Karma is real, like you said, and I hope it rewards you for all the amazing insights you’re giving to the rest of us ❤

Damn, I just watched the podcast episode before getting on your video 😄

Ayoo! Great video. Love to watch!

Didn't know you were a profesional DJ. That piece of yours slaps ! 🔥🎶It's just insanely hard 🎶🔥

Thank you for sharing! It is a pleasure to tag along on your journey. Would be awesome to get your thoughts on starting a company with a co-founder that is living in another city! I don't recall you ever talking about this topic and think it would help people (me at least) Cheers

Just love it

Hey John - If i take you back to the early days, how did you uncover your problem and validate with market? how did u find product market fit?

That’s cool man thanks

Amazing content! Will listen to Pattern Recognition.

one tip if you're ever going into a partnership, make sure everything is in writing. By everything I mean anything that could help you in court law and help you retain what is exactly owed to you. Trust me....

Advice #9 has got to be my favourite-- common wisdom was 'it's lonely at the top' etc but man is it important to have that support system. High school friends are alpha, think I got lucky there. From a fellow formerly miserable but currently not so miserable seed founder ahah

I’m a 2x bootstrapped startup founder, chatGPT is my no.1 therapist 😂

I actually wish I full sent my idea. I worked on it part time, but some other people eventually became first to market with the exact same product and they now have an approximately 500 million valuation within 3 years

Love a good old fashioned, but you gotta bring out the soju in the back for the next one!

Loved the video!

Just to be clear, when you work for any company and you start a business while working for said company, then that company could take you to court and potentially own your company. This is typically why you quit your job to protect the future company from anyone else claiming the rights to that company or IP.

Does Stan have Facebook pixel integration?

great video and advice. but you forgot the simple syrup.

running to get ice was way funnier than it shouldve been 💀

overnight success takes 10 years, at least thats what i tell myself

here before he gets super famous

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INSANELY HARD JUST INSANELY HARD~

I think he was drinking before making this video !!😂

Been here since the Stanford vlogs🤌

🥂💪🏼🛐

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