Join SwagUp for Episode 2 of the SyncUp live podcast!
In the latest episode, SwagUp Head of Help Wade Lowe and BurnRate.io Founder and CEO Robert McLaws talk about scaling responsibly and what it takes to scale your team during uncertain times.
💡 5 Big Ideas: [1] Why 50 years of VC has not dramatically changed the success rate of companies [2] How sales is an engine for the business that can be taught and scaled efficiently [3] The invisible danger of the IKEA effect in spreadsheets [4] How ‘minor’ spreadsheet mistakes become a $20,000/day problem [5] Why you should always find (and solve) the problem underneath the problem
🎁 Extras: Connect with Robert • Connect with Wade • Explore BurnRate for your company • See the case study on How BurnRate Uses Swag Packs to Take Care of Their Top Supporters
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A SNEAK PREVIEW....
“I have been inventive, creative, entrepreneurial, pretty much my whole life,” says Robert McLaws, co-founder and CEO of BurnRate. Robert took to computers in first or second grade working on an Apple IIc. Later on he taught himself to program. At the time, Robert had a plan. He would do 20 years with the military, get a government retirement, and work on a startup.
But the plan, as best-laid plans tend to do, went awry. And Robert found himself wondering about his path forward. He realized he didn’t want to wait six years for a piece of paper just to get a job. “I hated that whole concept,” Robert says, “Shouldn't need a piece of paper to say I can go do something in the world. And so I said, I don't need to have that to be a programmer. So that's what I'm gonna go do.”
After high school, Robert experimented with several entrepreneurial pursuits with his friends, including a marketplace for Thomas Kinkade art galleries, a residential real estate startup, and some consulting work. Along the way, Robert built one of PC magazine's top 100 websites for 2004: Longhorn Blogs. “It was the first blogging community for Windows,” Robert says, “I got to meet Bill Gates because of that. So that was me. Just done a bunch of crazy, weird interesting things along the way of trying to be an entrepreneur.”
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