How To Overcome The Early Stage Challenges Every Founder Will Face

Dan Martell
2 min readAug 16, 2021

As a business owner, you’ve likely sailed through “company killing storms”…

No new customers for weeks.

A key team member abandons ship when you need them the most.

Mass ‘customer exodus’. You name it.

But some of the worst storms happen during the early stages.

And Ryan and Wissam, founders of Rise, are sailing through the early stages now.

Rise gives founders corporate credit cards without a traditional 2 year history check. So long as there’s cash, Rise uses the cash as security to back the card.

I think it’s an awesome solution.

Now for the implementation.

The other day, I hopped on zoom with them to break through their toughest challenges and identify their biggest growth opportunities.

What’s the best way to pre-sell? Is there a script?

How do you solve “chicken and egg” problems?

Etc…

In this week’s video, I want to share some of my top tips for getting out of the harbour in one piece.

Check it out.

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Here’s a preview of what we talked about:

  1. Leveraging Partner Credibility
  2. Echo-Marketing
  3. Crowdfunding Ideas
  4. Failure Reframing
  5. Why You Want Your MVP To Be Hard
  6. Chocolate Broccoli Marketing
  7. Best Way To Presell ( + Pre-Sell Script)

How do you get someone to buy into your product idea based on the few minutes you spend with them?

Well, in this week’s video I’m going to save you a lot of time and pain and share the exact script you can use for your next pre-sell pitch.

If you’re looking to fund a project without digging into your own pocket, check it out.

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Dan Martell is a serial entrepreneur, an investor in 40+ startups like Intercom, Udemy, and Unbounce and the creator of SaaS Academy, helping over 500 B2B SaaS founders scale faster. He’s founded five SaaS companies and successfully exited three of them. If you want to scale faster without hitting the usual roadblocks, make sure to follow him on Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn & Twitter.

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Originally published at https://www.danmartell.com on August 16th, 2021.

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Dan Martell

I coach ambitious software founders | Award-winning angel investor / 5x founder with 3x exits | Speaker | Proud Father.