E87 Scale It with Will Deane
Episode 87: Scale it!
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Welcome to the Biz4GoodShow
I am your host Bobby Glen James along with the… Ryan Pilkington
Bobby: Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome today’s amazing guest. Presenting Will Deane ( Not the county star…) But, Will Deane the successful entrepreneur.
Ryan! Let’s get this show on the road.
Will: I am Ready!!!
Ryan: Thanks for joining the Biz4GoodShow. We are marching to the 90s here with episode 87.
Bobby: WOW! You beat me to the punch Ryan.
Ryan: (Laughs and ignores Bobby) Yeah… Episode 87 Sale It, with Will Deane.
Bobby: Welcome to the Biz 4 Good Show where two fun adventurous entrepreneurs are sharing their experiences of the real secret to success. The business of doing all things with a be good do good mindset. There is so much bad noise in the world, lets fight against the noise and flood the world with the good so come on and go for the ride with us.
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(Background noise)
OH! Sounds like we are in for some fun sound effects today. The construction workers are going to town on the rooftop. We are on the third floor of the Miller Corporate Partnership Building. Shout out to them!
Ryan: Bring the Thunder!
(All Laugh)
Bobby: Hey Ryan. Tell us about Will.
Ryan: Will Deane is a CEO of Unstoppable.co and a lifelong entrepreneur with several successful startups under his belt. Starting from the early age of 15 he has been building companies. He is a lover of all things marketing consumer trends branding and team building.
Bobby: Let’s introduce Will, but first lets throw a Google Challenge on him.
(Will looks unprepared)
This is how the Google challenge works. Will, we are going to ask Google a question.
Ryan: Has he accepted the challenge?
(All Laugh)
Bobby: Oh yeah… Will have you accepted the challenge? Will you go against Google?
(Will hesitant to answer, then answers with confidence)
Will: I will go against Google.
Bobby: Let’s do this!
Will: What are my options here?
Bobby: Here is how it’s going to work and you will see your options are actually pretty good. We ask Google a question through the web browser and then answers begin to populate. We go to the third page on the web because everyone goes straight for the first and second page.
We are going to grab the answer of the question from the third page and we are going to read what it says. The thing that is not an Ad. You are going to give insight to that and give us the answer or say it’s bullcrap and give us a better answer.
Will: I love it! Let’s do it.
Bobby: How do you scale it?
(Ryan types the question and searches for the answer.)
Bobby: Drum roll please…
Here we go ladies and gentlemen. Page three. The Best way to scale and deliver your startup… oh that’s lame. Let’s go to the next one. How to find the tools to scale your startup?
(Scrolling down)
Bobby: You’re the driver Ryan.
Ryan: I am the driver? What if I am drunk?
Bobby: Well you’re the drunk driver. Driving the internet drunk is a bad idea.
(All laugh)
Bobby: So starting a company is really hard, it says. Psh.. that’s not true. Starting a company is easy. Making it work is the hard part.
Sure you may read that some random medium post like this one, but it is near impossible to truly empathize with the difficulties of a founding company until you are standing in the trenches of the startup battlefield sweating out the pain. Something like, 92% of new companies die within three years of the 8% remaining. Only a handful end up making a major impact in the world, as much as it is a game of skill and purpose ask any rare successful founder in the industry and they will tell you that luck is certainly a very influential factor. While you cannot directly control lucky, the least you can do is set yourself up for success by striking the chips in your favor. There are lots of ways to do this. Some more proven than others so what they have here are: Work with the best people, Raise the right money at the right time, Find good mentors, and Use the right tools.
That’s what we got from Google. Mr. Dean. What are your thoughts on the matter?
That was quite the answer
Will: I think luck is BS. I think you make your own luck, to put that out there.
Bobby: I am with you 100% my friend.
Will: Yeah, I think grit is a big part of success. A lot of people quit way too early and I think Google’s answer might be using the word luck wrong. Um… the rest of it is great advice. Not very actionable, but I would agree getting a great mentor or somebody to emulate is a really good idea when you’re starting a business. I think that a lot of people go into business coming up with their own plans and own ideas when millions of entrepreneurs have either been successful or failed doing the exact same thing before so you might as well find somebody who you want to emulate and try to map their plan or map their process. I think the other stuff is good as well.
Bobby: Is there anything you would personally add to it?
Will: Hiring a good team is obviously the most important. Having a mentor is very good. READ! I think that goes along with finding a good mentor. I think that a lot of entrepreneurs like I said before, just go at it thinking that they’ve got this. Everytime I open another book about someone’s journey or whatever. I learn something that I don’t have to learn the hard way. Reading is very very important as it’s very overlooked, but it’s very important to achieve what you want as an entrepreneur.
Bobby: That was super powerful. I was reading in an article the other day and it was talking about Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and I think it was Elon Musk and how much of ferocious readers they were. I was an interesting article because they said Bill Gates takes like two-week called “reading vacations” where for two weeks he just sits and reads. I have always been a proponent of reading and how it can guide you to becoming a great leader and entrepreneur, so read.
Thank you for hitting that right on the head Will. When I hear people say I don’t have time to read it’s like you don’t have time not to learn stuff because you will make a crapload more mistakes.
Will: It’s insane the amount of stuff you can actually bypass by reading a story or a journey or you know an actionable advice from somebody. It’s successful and absolutely crazy.
Bobby: I believe it’s one of the top 10 secrets to being successful. Don’t you think? Learning is such a big part of business.
We think, all we have to do is get out there and do it and that’s great, but eventually it’s not going to be good enough. You have to learn to be successful.
Will: I totally agree.
Bobby: Thanks Will.
Will: Did I pass the challenge?
Bobby: What do you think Ryan? Did he beat Google?
Ryan: He’s a winner!
Bobby/Ryan: Ding Ding DIng Ding…
Bobby: Will has officially beat Google in the Google challenge so Google you have lost once again. Alright. Will, let’s get to know you a little bit more and what led you to this crazy entrepreneur world of a business owner. We all know that every entrepreneur has their own weird mind. We all have this strange mind that just doesn’t fit the mold of having a job and going to work 9:00am to 5:00pm.
So when did you realize you wanted to be an entrepreneur?
Will: That’s a great question. Well… I had my entrepreneurial experiments when I was in high school. I didn’t really know I was an entrepreneurial at the time. I just kind of wanted to make money or at least be kind of the leader of my own domain. I’ll give you a quick embarrassing story.
Bobby: Perfect! We love those.
Will: Back in high school I remember my family and I went on a cruise and I think you had to be 18 to be on a cruise. I was not 18, but I wanted to be able to buy beer or buy something and so I didn’t know how to make this possible. Actually it was to play, it was to gamble at the casino that’s really what I wanted to do and I wasn’t of age. I was like…I’m gonna make myself a fake ID. I didn’t know what that was back then and so you know being teksavvy I made a fake ID. Fast forward a couple months from the cruise, everybody wanted one.
I basically manufactured a business that was highly lucrative in my early teens. I then took that and put into the stock market and it was actually my seed money for my first company. But you know… I’ve had some scared-straight learning experiences from that. My parents actually hired a lawyer pretending to be onto this and scared me straight.
I was like okay.. I am done. I am done.
Bobby: Your life of crime was over.
Ryan: You just wanted to gamble.
Bobby: Yeah, but you know that’s the entrepreneur mindset. You see the opportunities wherever they are and we do like it to be legit, but still you realized the opportunities at a young age.
Will: There is a problem here that compels me to solve. Once I solved it, I realized that a lot of other people were having the same problem and so I went about trying to solve that problem and the fine line between legal or illegal.
Bobby: That’s awesome, that’s perfect. With that let’s get to our question of the day that we ask everyone who is on the show.
Ryan: Will. I know that you stated before you have a lot to talk about on the subject here so what does Biz4Good mean to you?
Will: That is definitely a loaded question because I’ve got a lot to talk about but Biz4Good is basically figuring out a way to work with companies and help them talk to their customers
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