Scaling Smarter: How Founder Forums Propel Success, with Kevin Lavelle

Peer Effect

11/13/24 • 29 min

What does it really take to scale beyond the early wins?

For founders who’ve already seen a degree of success, reaching the next level means facing new challenges, and Keven Lavelle, founder of Harbor and Mizzen + Main knows all about it.

He’s taken both companies to impressive heights, from securing a spot on Time Magazine’s 2024 Best Inventions list to hitting hundreds of millions in revenue!

Together, we dive in:

How joining a founder forum can offer you unmatched support & accountability– and where to find them!
The differences between founding your first and second startup—and why experience doesn’t always mean an easier road ahead.
Lessons learned in building a peer network that challenges you to make better decisions, see blind spots, and avoid common scaling mistakes.

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11/13/24 • 29 min

Peer Effect - Scaling Smarter: How Founder Forums Propel Success, with Kevin Lavelle

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:00.059

So my second startup , harbor . I officially started working about two and a half years ago and we are in month two of shipping product to customers . So post revenue which is a very nice shift spent about two years getting the product ready to launch Very , very complicated product to build

Speaker 100:00:19.140

A great co-founder . We started the two of

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