How to Survive the First 6 Months ft. Albert Behr | Revenue and Investment Consultant
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Funds and Founders: Untold Journeys Behind Their Breakthroughs
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Why did Albert leave his corporate career to become an entrepreneur?
What was the first six months like?
Go fucking make money.
What was your first stint into entrepreneurship? How did you stumble into that and starting your first company?
Being an entrepreneur is a crazy freaking job.
You mentioned you had a deal with your wife. How important is having the right kind of companion in this journey?
I was on at six in the morning with Asia and I'm gonna be on at ten o'clock tonight. And you need to have someone who understands
I don't wanna rather tell the story that don't be an entrepreneur. You know, if you if you make money you live another day. And now you have five percent of the company, you get nothing.
I highly recommend for the people who are listening to this podcast. I love this show.
Hey guys, welcome back to Funds and Founders. We have Albert with us today. I met Albert as v at VC Immersions in Bentonville, Arkansas. I think you were in town for some work with fuel and just um in town for the event. But love the energy. We chatted for like an hour or two outside of the deck of the Heartland Health Center. And I just I just love the vibe and you su so supercharged. You're waiting for a trip to Taiwan. But just quickly Tell folks what's top of mind right now. For anyone listening, what do you want to plug? Where should folks reach out? What do you want them to go see about you and then we'll head into the conversation after.
So I'm a little desert. Um I I describe myself as as an American trained Canadian. I've literally lived on the Klingon homeworld and back. I've I've been everywhere and I've been in tech for a long, long time. And for the last twenty five years was give me give me congratulations. I never thought I could ever do anything like this. Last February was the twenty-fifth anniversary of my company, Baron Associates. Congrats. Where we find the coolest IP on the planet in all areas of science, and we go into strategic partnership deals to drive to drive the companies, these little startup companies, to become world dominant players and ultimately create liquidity events. You can check Check out my website at Bearassociates.com.
No, I'm not the Bear Paint guy. Although I was on the phone with Bear Paint this morning, which is really funny. They go, Bear, are you the same bear? I go, no, I'm not. If it was we wouldn't be having this conversation. I would be sitting in Taiwan or Aruba or something right now. And uh so yeah, w and if you have some interesting intellectual property, please reach out to me and we'll see if we can help you out.
Well, so one thing I'd I like to focus on in the podcast is just entrepreneurship in general. And I feel like nowadays the word the word entrepreneurship is so easily thrown around that I think people don't completely understand what it means to build a true company, what it means to build a well balanced, profitable company, whether you're building it to cash out or building it to like innovate and change some industry. But what was your first stint into entrepreneurship? How did you stumble Yeah.
didn't really stumble into it. I got federal working for the man. Right? So, you know, again, this American trained Canadian. Uh so I have the everyone loves Canadians, right? 'Cause we're kind of harmless and everything, but American training with the aggressiveness. So yeah. So for I work for some of the world's largest tech companies and people like me that can talk technology and talk finance and are natural sales guys, they turn us into product managers. And ultimately product managers turn into CEOs of companies. And and so, you know, after a while the money wasn't really the issue 'cause you're getting your paycheck every two weeks, you're paying your bills, it's not just an existential issue.
And I was missing something, you know, another product release, another product release, another product release from companies that you know really, really well. And you just get tired of it and you lose the passion for it. And I and I felt that there there had to be more. And after fifteen, seventeen years something like that, of working for, you know, the Microsofts and the IBM's and the Fujitsus and the ATTs and the Symantecs.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Albert leave his corporate career to become an entrepreneur?
0:00–7:43
2
What was the six‑month ‘deal with my wife’ and how did it shape the startup?
7:43–14:36
3
Why does Albert say ‘Go f***ing make money’ is the core rule for founders?
14:36–22:42
4
How do VC funding and licensing deals differ in creating founder wealth?
22:42–30:46
5
What is ‘healthy paranoia’ and why is it essential for staying in the game?
30:46–38:24
6
Why does Albert claim America produces the most fearless entrepreneurs?
38:24–44:53
7
What is the #1 mistake founders keep repeating and how can it be avoided?
44:53–53:09
8
What are the main liquidity‑event options for tech founders and how to choose them?
53:09–1:01:04
Speakers
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