Hooked On Startups

In this episode I speak to Joshua Long - an entrepreneur, strategy and sales guru and a consultant who focuses on helping businesses break through their current revenue plateaus and unlock rapid growth.   He launched BottleneckBreakthrough.com to focus on unlocking sustainable growth for businesses, and has just launched the‘Bottleneck Breakthrough’ book to help entrepreneurs and business owners implement his Bottleneck Breakthrough Method.   1:18 - Welcoming Joshua to the show and some of his background information, including his business, BottleneckBreakthrough.com, and his book, Bottleneck Breakthrough.   2:58 - Looking backwards as a problem for personality types and businesses.   4:22 - The importance of mindsets and why it can be difficult to address.   5:10 - Building credibility with early wins; often not being qualified to run a business when you start a business and Joshua’s experience with that.   6:30 - Venture capitalists investing in teams rather than companies and how that relates to learning