The Journey: Stories Of Startup Success

By: Zachary Phillips & Matt Antonello
  • Summary

  • Join Matt Antonello and Zachary Phillips each month as they discuss the lessons learnt on their entrepreneurial journey.

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Episodes
  • You Win Or You Learn | Ep 02
    Sep 30 2024

    September 2024, Talking points:
    - What does success even look like?
    - Effective communication of expectations and roles to employees
    - Leveraging the power of employees to scale businesses
    - Outsourcing all tasks that can be more efficiently performed by others
    - The meta skills of problem solving & skill attainment being more important than the skill itself
    - A willingness to fail as a necessary process of learning the craft and producing quality
    - The importance of mental health as a function of business growth
    - Tripling down on what is working until that leverage point is maximised
    - How to capitalise on viral success
    - Knowing the soft and hard bottlenecks that are stopping growth
    - 10x is easier than 2x thinking - book recommendation
    - Focusing on success metrics (profit) over vanity metrics (social media numbers)
    - Focusing on authenticity as a social media strategy

    Matt’s current focus: Setting up and releasing a website and online store with SEO optimised
    Follow: Matt @thebeardedpigau

    Zac’s current focus: Building up the online shop, adding the collection of audio files and video files for purchase. Start promoting Hunt Your Own Shadow
    Follow: Zac @zacpphillips & zachary-phillips.com

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy Of Good | Ep 01
    Sep 19 2024

    August 2024, Talking points:
    - How to transition from employee to entrepreneurship
    - Using mental reframes and mindset shifts to overcome business challenges
    - Hiring your 1st employee profitably
    - The importance of trust, consistency and self awareness
    - Iterative learning, the ‘shotgun’ approach, and try/fail cycles as a method of improvement
    - Matt’s ‘3 ways to get paid’ - money, assets, & learning
    - What is the next boss and how will you beat it?

    Matt’s current focus: Stepping out of service and into a managerial roll, with a look to being able to take time off
    Follow: Matt @thebeardedpigau

    Zac’s current focus: Transitioning Hunt Your Own Shadow from free to paid and tweaking the email grab
    Follow: Zac @zacpphillips & zachary-phillips.com

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    2 hrs and 1 min

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