What do you do if your competitor announces big news? Your team may feel shaken, but this is your cue to lead with clarity. Remind your team: we’re playing our game. Be transparent about your game plan, and continue delivering on it.

Your competition just raised a big round? Fundraising ≠ Winning. Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 explains, teams rally behind leaders who bring context, calm, and conviction. Contextualize the news. Be transparent about your strategy, and explain how you’re building durable advantages.

You have to consistently market to your team. Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 explains: your team needs regular context, reminders, and transparency about the strategy. Without it, it is easy for the "here and now" to distract from the big picture goal. EP49 has more to fuel your startup journey.

In each 20-minute episode we pack in 3 founder-submitted questions about startups. We have discussed: 😎 Staying Positive when Facing Bad News 🧠 How AI is Changing the World 🚀 How to Get Started + plenty more Tag us or submit online to share your questions!

Things constantly go wrong at every startup company. In EP49, Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones discuss how to stay positive while staying laser-focused when: 🪂 Your Big Launch Flops 💰 Your Competition Raises Big Money 💔 You Lose a Major Customer Episode is out now 🚀

✓ Be proactive. ✓ Build trust with your team. ✓ Market to your team repeatedly. ✓ Clearly define what success looks like for your company. That's a winning list to help you stay positive when facing startup adversity. Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones share more in EP49.

"Always be launching." The best way to have a successful product launch? Iterate quickly. Turn product launches into calibrated product releases with clear metrics. Celebrate the work that went into it. Then gear up for the next one.

In each 20-minute episode we pack in 3 founder-submitted questions about startups. We have discussed: 😎 Staying Positive 🚀 How AI Changes Startup Building 🌱 How to Get Started + more Tag us or submit online to share your questions!

🔥Answers to your startup questions🔥 In each 20-minute episode, Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones debate YOUR questions: Spotify open.spotify.com/show/2JErOn6lQ… YouTube Music music.youtube.com/playlist?list=… Amazon Music music.amazon.com/podcasts/02890… Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

👉[YOUR QUESTION ANSWERED HERE] 👈 In each 20-minute episode, we answer questions from founders about starting and building companies. We have discussed: 🚀 How to Get Started 🧞 Competitive Advantages 🤝 How VCs Can Help + more! Submit questions via The Startup Helpdesk or online.

Hard to believe but we’ve hit 50 episodes of The Startup Help Desk! Hundreds of founder questions and lots of lessons learned. For this milestone episode, Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸, Nic Meliones, and I are doing something a little different. We’re sharing our own stories, from the wins to the

We reached a big one for The Startup Helpdesk: Episode 50! 👉Tales from the Trenches👈 Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸, Ash Rust, and discuss startup crises, breakthrough wins, surprises, and the advice we would give ourselves on day 1. Episode is out now and available wherever you listen to podcasts.

🚨 Tales from the Trenches 🚨 We reached a big one today: EP50 is live! To commemorate 50, Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones share their startup stories about: 🚣‍♂️ The worst crises 🏅 Breakthrough wins 😂 Good laughs 🔮 Advice for the day 1 founder Episode is out now 🚀

A strategic investor pivots and acquires...your competitor. A startup faces insolvency. A bad launch → a worse pivot → a startup crisis. Hear how Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones navigated from crisis to triumph in EP50 Tales from the Trenches.

In Tales from the Trenches, we go from tragedy → triumph → comedy → enduring startup wisdom. Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones share their stories in episode 50 🚀

Founder highlights aren't always flashy. Sometimes it’s a teammate saying it was “the best job of their life.” Or a user keeping your first email pinned forever. Or raising $2M in 2 weeks (Ok – sometimes they are flashy). EP50 shares these moments. The glory is real—if rare.

Startup crises. Triumphs. Phone calls from Steve Jobs (and not the happy kind of phone calls). Con artists faking their way onto the team. In EP50 – Tales from the Startup Trenches – Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸 Ash Rust and Nic Meliones share their stories starting and building companies.

🚨 Season 2 is here! 🚨 We kick it off with one of the hardest founder topics: Co-founder relationships. Sean Byrnes 🇺🇸, Ash Rust, and Nic Meliones tackle: 🔥 Constant disagreements 😶 A checked-out co-founder ⚖️ Uneven effort & intensity Episode is live now.

What happens when you never agree with your co-founder? Ash Rust says: Avoiding decisions isn’t neutral. It’s a slow collapse. 👉 Someone needs clear ownership. Sales. Engineering. Final call. If your relationship is broken, so is the startup. New episode is out now 🔥

Co-founder friction? The first question Ash Rust asks: “When’s the last time you had a real 1-on-1?” “We talk every day” ≠ a real check-in. ✅ Every 2 weeks 🗣 What’s going well ⚠️ What’s not 🔥 What needs debate EP51 breaks it down further.