Beast & Buckle - The Right Co-Founder is like Winning the Lottery

The Story of a Brand

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 145 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of this powerful and inspiring story, Stewart Anderson, Founder of Beast & Buckle, continues sharing the inside and personal story of building his premium dog harness and product brand.

In part 2 of this feature, Stewart discusses What to look for in a Co-Founder, Why finding the right Co-Founder is like winning the lottery, When Entrepreneurship and Depression meet, Why you must watch for the signs of depression, Why Entrepreneurs need someone to share the ups and downs with, Why Entrepreneurs need to find ways to deal with stress, How to reach your community, Why Beast & Buckle are turning the DTC Email Playbook on its head, Why it's better to be less transaction to make sales, Why you can't get the Beast & Buckle experience with Amazon, How to reward customers, and so much more.

Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Stewart while he shares the inside story of a brand.

For more on Beast & Buckle visit: https://beastandbuckle.com/

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0:00.0	Recorded at Retention Science Studios, this is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce
0:10.9	podcast, and he's not your average host.
0:14.4	This is The Story of a Brand with your host, Ramon Vela.
0:21.6	What my advice would be to people out there seeking a business partner,
0:26.5	either a friend, a colleague, or somebody that they know,
0:28.7	the most important thing that you can have is trust.
0:31.8	Trust that that person is going to do right by you.
0:34.0	Trust, just general trust, trust that they have good ethics and good morals.
0:39.8	You know, the thing that really separates Hunter from everyone else that I've, you know,
0:44.1	ever really considered for a business partner is like, he's just the most ethical person I would
0:48.9	trust him with my life. And that makes some of the more difficult decisions that we have to
0:52.7	discuss with each other. It makes it a little bit easier because I know, hey, you know, this person, he's not going to try to screw me over.
1:00.0	He's not going to try and, you know, weasel his way out of something.
1:03.0	I know that he's going to do the best thing for us because he's earned that trust for me. He's displayed his honesty and his integrity.
1:14.7	I consider myself to be like the equivalent of a lottery winner.
1:22.5	Hey, my friend that Phoenix Commerce can provide up to a 50% reduction in abandoned cards.
1:28.4	How do they do this?
1:29.7	They give your customers an Amazon-like experience by providing real-time, accurate delivery
1:35.2	options on your product pages, card, and checkout.
1:39.2	In other words, they give you the power to enable discounted two-day, three-day, and
1:43.7	four-day delivery promises
1:45.0	to your customers using data.
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