S2 E3: Wil Schroter, Startups.com

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Startup veteran Wil Schroter is a family man, and now amateur carpenter. He spends a lot of his spare time, covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog activities, away from digital life. He has spend 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that team, he learned that what he was best at was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his 9th startup, he built startups.com - a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process - and this solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We watch every step that you take from the moment you have the idea until just after you launch.
0:09.0	And we say, let's be there whenever Noah has a problem.
0:12.9	Now, we've built a lot of companies.
0:14.6	We're all entrepreneurs here.
0:16.0	So we understand this journey incredibly well.
0:19.2	We've got over a million customers on our platform.
0:22.1	They tell us because they're all founders. You know, they're very vocal. While all their
0:26.3	journeys seem different, they all follow kind of a pattern. And that becomes the roadmap for the
0:32.1	places that they get stuck. Hi, I'm Will Schroeder, the founder and CEO of Startups.com.
0:45.1	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:00.0	I'm your host, Noah Labpart, and today how Will Schroeder created the first one-stop shop for founders to get help building their startups.
1:09.8	All this and more on Code Story.
1:15.4	Startup veteran Will Schroeder is a family man and now amateur carpenter.
1:20.9	He spends a lot of his spare time covered in sawdust and enjoying a balance of analog
1:26.3	activities away from digital life.
1:29.4	He's spent 25 years as a startup CEO, and during that time, he learned that what he was best at
1:36.8	was teaching people how to go through the startup process. For his ninth startup, yes, that's right,
1:43.5	ninth startup, he built startups.com, a place to provide education and tools to help founders through the entire startup process.
1:54.2	And the solution was catalyzed with the creation of a funding platform.
2:00.7	When I started Startups.com, it was about seven years ago. the creation of a funding platform.
2:04.7	When I started Startups.com, it was about seven years ago.
2:06.1	It was my ninth startup.
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