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🎤 😭Startup Standup: Founders Therapy [Monday MBA Series #2]
Your startup is not “crushing it.” We know.
Come hang out with other founders and talk about the stuff you usually don’t post on LinkedIn:
The customer who said “we’re ready to move forward” three months ago
The business idea you’re starting to suspect may be terrible
The employee you hired because you were desperate
The employee you’re now desperately trying to replace
The $10,000 mistake you’re pretending was “a learning experience”
The sales calls you keep avoiding because rejection is technically free
The investor who “loves the vision” but has not invested a single dollar
The revenue number you round up when people ask how things are going
The fact that your biggest competitor is doing exactly what you do, but better
No fake success stories. No motivational speeches. No “just keep grinding.”
Just founders talking about the real problems they’re dealing with — the stuff that makes running a business feel less like Shark Tank and more like a group project where nobody knows what they’re doing and somehow you’re responsible for payroll.
Bring a real problem.
Leave with perspective, ideas, maybe a solution.
Or at least confirmation that you are not the only one whose business is currently held together by caffeine, optimism, and one very important customer.
Startup Standup: Founders Therapy.
Because sometimes the most productive thing a founder can say is:
“Okay, is anyone else dealing with this?”