Forging Your Own Path to Success with Scott Paul (Wooly)

12/01/21 • 57 min

Welcome back to How To Build An App!

As much as we’d all love a step by step roadmap as entrepreneurs, there is no exact formula.
There’s no exact formula for building a successful startup, or a company that you can have a successful exit from.
Being an entrepreneur is unpredictable and you have to be ready to forge your own way and solve problems that you won’t find the answers to on google.
This week’s episode is all about breaking the mold and forging your own path to success.
Our guest this week is Scott Paul, a repeat startup founder, angel investor, youtuber, and self-proclaimed hairfluencer!
Having already founded 5 companies, Scott wanted to get in on helping to fund and mentor new founders, so they started HyperActive, seed capital for fellow founders.
Since then, they’ve invested in over 65 startups, primarily in tech.
We’ve quickly learned that an experience with Scott is always out of the box and against the grain—just how they like it.
As Scott says, “Out of chaos comes greatness.”
In this episode Scott shares the hard truth of being an entrepreneur and the mentality you need to succeed.
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Learn more about Wooly here:
https://www.wooly.com/
Learn more about HyperActive here:
https://hyperactivecap.com/
Follow Scott on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottpaul2/
Follow Scott on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/scottycoin
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This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.
We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.
If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.
Make sure you’re following Strides:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/
Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/

Previous Episode

Securing Early Seed Funding with John Mayfield (Album VC)

Welcome back to How To Build An App!
This week, we’ve got John Mayfield on the show with us.
He’s the founder of a venture capital firm called Album VC, that invests in early-stage tech ventures.
They’ve invested in over 80 companies and have grown to the point that their average investment is $1.5 million.
You might recognize some of the big names they’ve worked with here in Utah, like Podium, Homie, and Divvy—which just sold for $2.5 billion by the way.
You’re about to get a whole bunch of dating advice from John.
And by dating advice, we mean advice on how to secure early-stage funding which is a process John relates to dating.
Finding an investor isn’t just a one and done deal where they write a check and you‘re done with them.
It’s a partnership that will go on for years, so you’ve got to make sure your vision is aligned, that you work well together, and things click.
In this episode, John dives into the “courtship” process of finding an investor.
He’s got some great insight on the do’s and don’ts of approaching investors, what will make you stick out as a founder, and what working with investors actually looks like.
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Learn more about Album VC here:
https://www.album.vc/
Follow Harlan on Linkedin here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmayfield/#
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This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.
We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.
If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.
Make sure you’re following Strides:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/
Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/

Next Episode

Organic and Ad-Based Growth Tactics with Darius Mora (Reflectly)

Welcome back to How To Build An App!
Today’s episode may be a little shorter than usual, but it packs a punch!
We got together with Darius Mora, the Chief Marketing Officer of the app Reflectly.
If you haven’t heard much about it, Reflectly is an AI journaling app that has gained tens of millions of users and seen massive growth over the last 3 years.
Not only is it the world’s biggest journaling app, Reflectly also won the Google Design Award for Innovation and is consistently in the top 10 Health & Fitness iOS apps in the US.
So how did a simple, one-feature journaling app find this level of success?
In this week’s episode of How to Build an App, you’ll get the inside scoop with some great takeaways for your own app startup.
Stick around for an info-packed discussion of several different marketing strategies for organic AND ad-based growth intermixed with Darius’s wealth of knowledge and experience in high conversion marketing.
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Learn more about Reflectly here:
https://reflectly.app/
Follow Darius on TikTok here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@darius.mora?lang=en
Follow Darius on LinkedIn here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/moravcik/?originalSubdomain=pt
Subscribe to Darius’s Youtube channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfaxmVZDN-hqV6HfMbcCOwA
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This show is produced by Strides Development, a full-service app development agency.
We specialize in taking your ideas and turning them into a finished app in only a few months.
If you have an app you’re building, we would love to talk to you. You can schedule your free strategy call by clicking here.
Make sure you’re following Strides:
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/strides.dev/
Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/betzeraustin/