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Dan and Ian traveled to Barcelona with 12 other CEOs and founders to spend the week with Scaling Up

Does your business feel stuck in 'idea mode,' constantly jumping from project to project? If

Dan revives his Re-Readables series with a discussion inspired by Frank Slootman's business book

Dan & Ian talk to Lucas Peters, founder of Journey Beyond Travel, about his plans to get to $10M

Dan and Ian discuss the importance of three key executive roles—CEO, COO, and CFO—within bootstrappe

This week’s episode is for the business finance and idea nerds. We’re joined this week in a busine

Selling your product or service requires using words to convey what you offer. But words alone don’t

Dan and Ian talk to 100s of listeners a year via 1:1 coaching. In this episode they distill those ca

Dan considers why many of us are resistant to a certain type of business idea even when it’s been pr

Dan paid big money for a business coach who only gave him one piece of advice. Listen to the episode

Dan & Ian get real about what it takes to create and maintain a successful business. They’ll wal

“Manager mode is so tempting…” Dan & Ian discuss Paul Graham’s most recent essay titled “Founder

Many founders think they have an operations problem - delivery, trust, staffing, leadership. But Dan

This founder started an Upwork agency less than 2 years ago and is making $30K a month… JUST on Upwo

These co-founders want to more than triple their revenue in the next 12 months. Despite stagnation t

Go from being trapped in the job you’ve built for yourself to building a wealth-generating machine.

Dan & Ian talk to a listener who’s running a SaaS business that within one year got to $8K MRR.

Dan & Ian talk to a listener who’s running a $1M D2C e-commerce business about the challenges an

Tackling one of the biggest problems entrepreneurs struggle with: separating their business from the

We speak to hundreds of entrepreneurs every year through one-on-one coaching and live events. Many