#8 What a Roadmap for a Successful Startup Looks Like | Gordon Daugherty, MD Capital Factory

Today, whenever that is for you, I am sitting down with Gordon Daugherty, Managing Director is Cap FAC, Investor, and recovering Startup Executive. Over a 29-year career, Gordon has worked at Startups in Strategy, Operations, Marketing, in multiple countries. Currently, he is on the board of multiple startups, and invests in some as well. he’s the Managing Director of Capital Factory and leads the Accelerator program in downtown Austin.
In this episode, we go through the common milestones in an entrepreneur's journey, blind spots that come up at different stages, and what to do when you’re starting out. I get the chance to ask some questions I wonder about, and hear from entrepreneurs regularly:
What does entrepreneurs passion even come from?
What are bigger blocks that entrepreneur have?
Why would we want a cofounder? How should we start looking for one?
What do I need to have as a minimum in order to start convos with investors?
And, this one was cool, what is the difference between a product and a company? Because investors invest in companies, not in products. We might be working on something that is a product, but investors want to see the institutes that can sustain that products development,launch, and marketing.
Gordon knows a lot more than I ever even ask about. And I do mean, a lot. In fact, to learn even more from Gordon, check his website, shockwaveinnovations.com where has 100s of hours of content around pretty much everything entrepreneurship. If you like tactical content like we talk on this show, and want more, keep listening, but also check out shockwave innovations.
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