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The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

106: Giving People The Power to Fund Anything with James Beshara of Tilt

The Foundr Podcast with Nathan Chan

Nathan Chan

Marketing, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8662 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In 2012 James Beshara and his co-founder officially launched Tilt, a platform that aimed to make crowdfunding not only more personal but to make the process as easy as possible. But if you ask the Y-Combinator alum himself, he'll say that Tilt was created years before it even launched. Originally starting off as an offshoot of an earlier startup that he was working on, he soon found himself working on Tilt more and more. It was then he realised he was onto something. "For every young entrepreneur out there, starting, or building, or founding something. It always sounds like it just starts one day in February or starts one afternoon when you get hit with inspiration. When in truth I think it is the amalgamation of just always starting things, doing things, trying out ideas and one of them just starts to get pulled from you, and you start to spend more time on it." Ever since it's inception Tilt has been on a tear. In just four short years Tilt is now valued at $500 million and has crowdfunded some of the world's most memorable campaigns in recent memory. Like sending the Jamaican bobsled team to the Sochi Olympics to raising over $180 thousand for several campaigns providing relief to the victims of Hurricane Sandy. Along the way though James has learnt some very valuable lessons on what it means to be the CEO and co-founder of a fast-growing startup. We chat with James today and he reveals his personal methods and strategies on how to build a startup that not only scales, but scales quick.   In this episode you will learn: The importance of waiting for the right co-founder How to get out of your own head and move fast, all while developing the best product possible Why the smartest people in the room might not necessarily give you the best advice How to design and build a product to grow as fast as possible The two key things every entrepreneurs needs to focus on if they want to succeed & much more!

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This is episode number 106 with James Bershera of the Founder Podcast.

0:06.4

What you need is thirst.

0:08.1

You need to be a thirsty human.

0:10.2

Who is intent on learning.

0:12.1

It's a really fascinating exploration of human potential.

0:17.9

The Founder Podcast.

0:21.1

Even the greatest entrepreneurs had help.

0:23.9

If you want to learn from the most successful founders on the planet, you are in the right place.

0:29.6

Branson, Mark Cuban, Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Arianna Huffington, Steve Case, Gary V, Sophia Amorosa, Barbara Corcoran, Damon, John.

0:36.7

Learn from the greatest minds in business today with interviews hosted by Nathan Chan.

0:41.2

This is not your average entrepreneur podcast.

0:45.0

The Founder Podcast.

0:52.0

Hey guys.

0:53.1

Thank you so much for tuning in. Before we start today's episode, I just want to let

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you know that our goal at founder is to help entrepreneurs succeed however we can by giving

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you name it. We put out so much content to help you.

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And another interesting project that we're working on right now

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is partnering with world-class founders like Damon John, Alexa von Tobel, Greta Van Riel,

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and so many more to teach crucial skills like negotiation, finance, e-commerce, and so much more.

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So if you'd like to get access to these free trainings with founders like this, which is 100% free,

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