178: Scrappy Launch with Russ Perry
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Scrappy creativity to successfully launch & grow a small business with Russ Perry. Russ is an entrepreneur and author. He shares his life journey, the early business failures, and using a scrappy approach to launching and growing his latest successful business. Russ is the Founder of Design Pickle and author of "The Sober Entrepreneur". He spent eight years building businesses that yielded zero in profit, and now in less than three years he has grown Design Pickle to $500,000 in monthly recurring revenue and 135 team members. Russ's recent success almost never happened though because he had been hiding something: he was an alcoholic, and it almost ruined his marriage, business, and life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.0 | And now here are your hosts. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. |
| 0:17.1 | This is Henry Lopez, and my guest today is Russ Perry. |
| 0:20.3 | Russ, welcome to the show. Thanks so much, Henry my guest today is Russ Perry. Russ, welcome to the show. |
| 0:21.9 | Thanks so much, Henry. So Russ is an entrepreneur and he's the founder of Design Pickle and the author of |
| 0:29.4 | The Sober Entrepreneur. He spent eight years building businesses that yielded zero in profit. We'll |
| 0:35.9 | chat about that experience. And now in less than three |
| 0:39.5 | years, he has grown design pickle to over half a million and monthly recurring revenue and a team |
| 0:47.4 | of over 135 people. Russ's recent success almost never happened, though, because he had been |
| 0:53.7 | hiding something. |
| 0:55.0 | He was an alcoholic, and it almost drew in his marriage, his business, and his life. |
| 1:00.9 | On October 22nd, 2013, Russ stopped drinking. |
| 1:05.8 | Quitting alcohol is the catalyst, Russ says, that he needed to come back from the edge of disaster, both personally |
| 1:12.5 | and professionally. Since quitting alcohol, Russ has grown design pickle from zero to six million |
| 1:18.9 | in annual revenues, all while traveling the world, and has cultivated a rock salad marriage and |
| 1:24.8 | partnership with his wife and completed a tough mutter which we'll chat |
| 1:29.3 | about briefly and a competition tough mother competition that is of 50 plus miles so a lot that he |
| 1:35.2 | has accomplished since he got sober which is fantastic Russ lives in the Scottsdale |
| 1:41.6 | Arizona area with his family and And so in today's episode, |
| 1:45.2 | we're going to chat with Russ about his interesting journey to where he is today. And we're |
| 1:49.9 | going to dive into specifically, he has a lot of insights and experiences to share and what he calls |
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