S2E25 What Lifestyle Business Means
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Sobre este episodio
“This is fine as a lifestyle business.” Says every VC with a slight look of disdain after you pitch them your brilliant idea they don’t want to invest in.
The industry has given “lifestyle business” such a bad reputation by commonly using it to describe non-venture scalable businesses with less ambitious founders. Only 1% of startups are venture funded, which means the other 99% are bootstrapped and by industry standard, lifestyle businesses. If anything between zero and unicorn is “lifestyle”, I’d happily take it.
eWebinar was founded intentionally as a lifestyle business, and that means choosing happiness over revenue for all decisions as it relates to the wellbeing of every team member, product, pricing, customer support, operations…
On this episode, Melissa and Todd discuss what a “lifestyle business” is for them, and the things they do to achieve the dream company that gives everyone involved (not just the founders) a great lifestyle.
Takeaways:
• How the industry and VCs (negatively) perceive lifestyle businesses
• Melissa’s 10 non-negotiables to happiness that led her to found eWebinar
• Intentional decisions we make to achieve our dream lifestyle business
• How choosing happiness over revenue impact product, operations and team
• The culture we try to create at eWebinar and what it’s like to work here
Conectar con Melissa
- Sigue a Melissa Kwan en LinkedIn, donde comparte semanalmente historias y lecciones de su viaje como fundadora.
- Encuéntrala en @themelissakwan en Instagram, TikTok, Twitter y YouTube, donde comparte vídeos cortos de consejos de negocios y otras bombas de verdad.
Acerca de ProfitLed
En la segunda temporada de ProfitLed, Melissa (CEO y cofundadora de eWebinar) y Todd (COO) profundizan en un tema por episodio sobre su "Viaje a los 1M$" en eWebinar.
Comparten historias de guerra, errores y lecciones aprendidas mientras hacían crecer la empresa hasta alcanzar un millón de ARR en 36 meses. Su objetivo es desmitificar el bootstrapping compartiendo su experiencia, y contarte cómo es realmente descubrir las cosas sobre la marcha.
ProfitLed es un podcast por y para fundadores lo suficientemente valientes (y locos) como para hacer crecer sus startups hasta la rentabilidad sin capital riesgo.
Obtenga más información sobre el podcast ProfitLed y tuitéenos en @profitledfm.
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