The Unmistakable Creative Podcast Navigating The Emotional Journey Of Entrepreneurship With Lucas Carlson
Apr 6, 2015
55:19
In this episode of the podcast, Lucas Carlson talks all about navigating the emotional journey of entrepreneurship and building a business as a tool for personal growth.
- Lessons in creativity learned from the world of computer programming
- The ins and outs of raising venture capital for a startup
- Living on the fringe of bankruptcy
- Overcoming fear ad learning to take the leap to do something
- Learning to deal with the voices of criticism, self doubt and fear
- How to keep going when you’re not seeing external results
- Balancing the tension of knowing when to persist and when to give up
- Putting enough of yourself into an idea to give it a chance
- Learning to put stop losses on your entrepreneurial ideas
- Separating your identity from the performance of your business
- Learning to set expectations for yourself that don’t create stress
- Why external wealth can serve as a metphor for internal wealth
- The importance being open and honest in relationships
Resources:
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis
Luscas Calrlson is an entrepneneur who started AppFog, in 2010, raised almost $10M in venture capital, and was acquired in 2013. Before that, he was the first employee and head of engineering for 5 years at MOG (now Beats Music acquired by Apple).. He’s also the author of Finding Success in Failure: True Confessions from 10 Years of Startup Mistakes
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