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Jonathan Courtney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
3654 total appearances

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

Just topless, but like not in shape.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

twitter's api you know is is being shut off or whatever it is okay okay well you can tell i came to this uh session today uh in a stressed mode and i just wanted you to say you get stressed too but fuck you greg yeah yeah i mean i do get stressed but But you never get to the point where you're like, fuck this thing. Fuck LCA. I'm selling it. I'm done with all this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

twitter's api you know is is being shut off or whatever it is okay okay well you can tell i came to this uh session today uh in a stressed mode and i just wanted you to say you get stressed too but fuck you greg yeah yeah i mean i do get stressed but But you never get to the point where you're like, fuck this thing. Fuck LCA. I'm selling it. I'm done with all this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

twitter's api you know is is being shut off or whatever it is okay okay well you can tell i came to this uh session today uh in a stressed mode and i just wanted you to say you get stressed too but fuck you greg yeah yeah i mean i do get stressed but But you never get to the point where you're like, fuck this thing. Fuck LCA. I'm selling it. I'm done with all this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I'm going to go live in a cabin and then I'll get, I'll think about what I want to do in about five years.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I'm going to go live in a cabin and then I'll get, I'll think about what I want to do in about five years.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I'm going to go live in a cabin and then I'll get, I'll think about what I want to do in about five years.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I get to that point multiple times per year, not just with it. Like just it's part of the way my brain works. Sometimes I'm like, ah,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I get to that point multiple times per year, not just with it. Like just it's part of the way my brain works. Sometimes I'm like, ah,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I get to that point multiple times per year, not just with it. Like just it's part of the way my brain works. Sometimes I'm like, ah,

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

Well, first of all, I'm very grateful for the revenue and profit it generates. And I love the business and it is a big part of my life. It's just sort of part of how my brain works, I would say. Sometimes I just hit a wall and get sick of something and I just want to move on to something new and interesting. I generally... Hold myself back from doing that and like stay on the core business.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

Well, first of all, I'm very grateful for the revenue and profit it generates. And I love the business and it is a big part of my life. It's just sort of part of how my brain works, I would say. Sometimes I just hit a wall and get sick of something and I just want to move on to something new and interesting. I generally... Hold myself back from doing that and like stay on the core business.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

Well, first of all, I'm very grateful for the revenue and profit it generates. And I love the business and it is a big part of my life. It's just sort of part of how my brain works, I would say. Sometimes I just hit a wall and get sick of something and I just want to move on to something new and interesting. I generally... Hold myself back from doing that and like stay on the core business.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

And the problem is sometimes it's also worked out really well. Like I remember a couple of years ago, like seven or eight years ago, I was so sick of just focus or relying on client work to make money. And you maybe know the cash flow kind of variation when you're just doing client consulting work. And we started the education business with in-person training and then online training.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

And the problem is sometimes it's also worked out really well. Like I remember a couple of years ago, like seven or eight years ago, I was so sick of just focus or relying on client work to make money. And you maybe know the cash flow kind of variation when you're just doing client consulting work. And we started the education business with in-person training and then online training.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

And the problem is sometimes it's also worked out really well. Like I remember a couple of years ago, like seven or eight years ago, I was so sick of just focus or relying on client work to make money. And you maybe know the cash flow kind of variation when you're just doing client consulting work. And we started the education business with in-person training and then online training.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

And that moved our burn rate from three months to 15 months to 18 months. And I was like, holy shit, just being super annoyed at something sometimes generates interesting things. Yeah. I mean, what I often say is I'm not the right person to be the CEO because I am the person when I get annoyed with something, even if it's making money, I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

And that moved our burn rate from three months to 15 months to 18 months. And I was like, holy shit, just being super annoyed at something sometimes generates interesting things. Yeah. I mean, what I often say is I'm not the right person to be the CEO because I am the person when I get annoyed with something, even if it's making money, I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

And that moved our burn rate from three months to 15 months to 18 months. And I was like, holy shit, just being super annoyed at something sometimes generates interesting things. Yeah. I mean, what I often say is I'm not the right person to be the CEO because I am the person when I get annoyed with something, even if it's making money, I'm like, I don't want to do this anymore.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
Local businesses to start with NO startup costs

I don't want us to do this anymore.