Founder Chats
Cutting Time Wasters and Using Resources Efficiently with Bryan Clayton
About Bryan Clayton:Bryan is CEO and co-founder of G...
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Apr 19 2022 47m
Chapter 1 4 mins
Growing a high school job into a highly successful medium-size businessChapter 2 44 sec
Hiring the right number of employeesChapter 3 3 mins
Developing methods to minimize wasting time and other resourcesChapter 4 39 sec
Calculating how much profit every employee adds, and what the diminishing margin of return for manpower isChapter 5 2 mins
Working in the business vs. working on the business making time for strategizingChapter 6 1 min
Applying blue-collar business learnings to tech entrepreneurshipChapter 7 1 min
Triaging problems and focusing 100% of resources on the current major issues, one at a timeChapter 8 2 mins
Doubling down on what’s already working, rather than fixing what’s not working, especially when it comes to customer acquisitionChapter 9 59 sec
Inviting frictionless feedback and doing customer support yourself as a founder: closing the gap between customer logic and founder logicChapter 10 4 mins
Thinking about what you can be the best in the world at, and focusing all business resources on that one thingChapter 11 2 mins
Understanding your value to your customers: sometimes it’s less about the actual service itself, and more about selling people back their timeChapter 12 1 min
As a business that connects customers to contractors, catering to both sets of needs: customers want easy access to services, vendors want a sticky platform that enables fast payments, repeat business, marketing automation etcChapter 13 7 mins
Creating incentives for vendors to perform well starts with accountability: providing performance metrics such as number of repeat bookings, reliability and quality ratings etcChapter 14 8 mins
Identifying business problems and development goals, and implementing weekly strategies for successChapter 15 3 mins
Creating one or two highly specific goals and getting your whole team to commit to them