4.6 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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My guests today are Amos Schwartzfarb and Trevor Boehm.
Amos has been growing businesses for twenty-five years and investing in startups for the past ten. Since 1997, he’s helped build companies that sold to Yahoo!, R.H. Donnelly, The Home Depot, plus over sixty more as Managing Director of Techstars Austin. He’s also the bestselling author of Sell More Faster.
Trevor was a writer before finding his way into building companies. A serial founder, he has also invested in more than forty startups, many of those through Techstars’ first Impact accelerator and as Managing Director of Alexa Next Stage, a program run with the Amazon Alexa Fund. He is currently at the venture fund Saturn Five.
The topic is their book Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability into Your Business.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Coval, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.5 | Taking a little ride down to Austin, Texas today, at least a ride on the podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | To get into a little venture capital with my two guests today, two guys that have been around |
| 0:45.3 | for a long time, Amos Schwartzfarp and Trevor Bohm, we get into their book today, Levers, |
| 0:52.1 | the Framework for Building Repe building repeatability into your business. |
| 0:56.1 | I got to tell you, this is one of those subjects that I wish that I thought about more when I was |
| 1:03.0 | younger. Don't get me wrong. I can't complain about a damn thing. I've done quite well. |
| 1:09.0 | But the idea of looking at your business model in terms of repeatability, delivering something, |
| 1:15.9 | a service, a product that your customers need ongoing, and you can be that valuable lever to them |
| 1:24.9 | to give them an advantage, to give them something they need, the repeatability aspect |
| 1:30.1 | is mission critical. I mean, it's the best way to judge if your business is going to really |
| 1:37.1 | have staying power. What I like about where Amos and Trevor go today, they're thinking their |
| 1:43.6 | mentality is not just for a billion |
| 1:47.5 | dollar company. It's for the solo startup guy. It's for anyone, a great perspective, the right way |
| 1:55.8 | to think with your startup. And let's face it, if you are a business owner, if you want to start a business, |
| 2:03.0 | everyone is a startup at some point in time. |
| 2:06.7 | Without any further delay today, let's jump right into my conversation with Amos Schwartz-Farb |
| 2:11.3 | and Trevor Bome and dive into a little bit of the lever, the lever. However you want to say it, it's damn important. |
| 2:32.4 | This podcast has become my main thing in many ways. |
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