What keeps entrepreneurs up at night? This is something I've been thinking a lot about lately: having launched a brand new company (matchist), I'm constantly worried about getting new customers.
Five years from now when the business (hopefully!) will be more established...will I have the same concerns?
For this reason, I'm bringing in the big guns to talk about how problems change (or stay the same) throughout a startup's lifetime.
-Liz Kammel, of Zipfit Denim, just launched her first retail shop last month. She'd been working on her concept for over a year and experienced success for the first month. The questions she faces are: How do you scale a proven concept? How do maintain the same quality as you grow?
-Jason Fried, of 37Signals, is an outspoken member of the business/startup community regarding optimizing company practices by espousing non traditional techniques (read ReWork!). His company is over 10 years old and has some of the most popular small business tools around: What are his company's goals and future prospects? What are his challenges now that brand is solid?
-Scott Lerner, of Solixir, owns a beverage company whose products are widely distributed across the United States. Now that he's got Whole Foods as a buyer and an extremely well known name in the health beverage industry...what still worries him? What problems or potential issus could derail his successful venture?
Learn all of this and more at next week's Entrepreneurs Unpluggd!
