The Sweaty Startup
Nick Huber
Want to build a successful business? Packed with the principles, strategies, and methods used to grow successful companies, The Sweaty Startup will help you make your vision a reality. Hosted by successful entrepreneur Nick Huber. Short, to the point and no fluff.
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Jan 8, 2020 • 26min
#130 Businesses I Love #3 - A pool business, closet building, pest control, damage remediation, property management
Nick and Max talk about businesses they love and how they would start them. https://sweatystartup.com/businesses-i-love/
Jan 6, 2020 • 43min
#129 How to start a window cleaning business - concept breakdown with Nick and Max
How would I start a window cleaning business? In this episode we lay out the steps of exactly how we'd do it. https://sweatystartup.com/essential-tools/
Jan 1, 2020 • 11min
#128 The mindset that makes an entrepreneur more likely to succeed
What makes an entrepreneur better? What sets them apart? What makes them more likely to succeed? Mindset. Nick and Max discuss it.
Dec 30, 2019 • 25min
#127 The 10 best business books that you should read right now
Nick and Max talk about their 10 favorite business books and what they like about each. https://sweatystartup.com/booklist/
Dec 25, 2019 • 16min
#126 The one thing that took my business from a $350k a year stressfest to a scalable business ready to grow
The shift was the moment we stopped pointing fingers and started taking the blame for things going wrong within our business. Instead of texting the employees the night before about their shift we scheduled them out a week in advance. Even if we weren't sure exactly what they'd be doing. We overemphasized their schedules and set up automated emails and texts to constantly remind them as the day approached. Instead of training them by walking around the warehouse pointing at things we spent time recording training videos with perfect voice overs. We quizzed them at the end of the training videos with real on-the-job problems.
Dec 23, 2019 • 15min
#125 Making money is a skill
You wouldn’t expect to be able to pick up a basketball and play for an NBA team day 1. So why do we expect to start a business and get rich or make good money on day one? It’s a skill. You get better at it by PRACTICING. Making decisions. Communicating. Selling. You can read all the books you want but it just takes getting out there and doing it. Starting small and working your way up. Stop reading this and start putting yourself out there. Start something.
Dec 18, 2019 • 26min
#124 Businesses I Love #2 - Mobile Mechanic, AirBnb Management, The Trades
Dan Nick and Max sit around and talk business once again to discuss trends and businesses they would love to start right now and how they would do it.
Dec 16, 2019 • 26min
#123 My favorite book - Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
This book outlines and reinforces the fact that business, negotiation and any human interaction is inherently very emotional. It’s centered around negotiation but this book has so many solid management and leadership principles. Mirroring, tactical empathy, starting with no and labeling are all phenomenal. https://sweatystartup.com/booklist/
Dec 11, 2019 • 20min
#122 Businesses I Love #1 - Lawn Care, Christmas Lights, Mobile Locksmithing
Nick, Max and Dan get together to brainstorm business ideas and how they would launch and market a lawn care, Christmas light installation and mobile locksmithing company. This episode was a ton of fun.
Dec 9, 2019 • 11min
#121 Don't try to reinvent the wheel with entrepreneurship
You have to be really good, have money, and have a lot of luck to make a new revolutionary idea work. There are a lot of bad businesses out there right now making good money. Some of them suck at sales. Some suck at recruiting. Or marketing. Or SEO. Maybe they run their businesses like its 1980. Some suck at many of these! Yet they still make really good money. Don't try to reinvent the wheel with a revolutionary idea. Its expensive. The odds of success are low. Its risky.
