From Start-up to Grown-up: How to Avoid Common Mistakes Founders Make with Alisa Cohn: An EOFire Classic from 2021

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.

Alisa Cohn is an executive coach and the author of From Start-up to Grown-up. She has coached founders and executives at Venmo, Etsy, and DraftKings, along with enterprises such as Dell, Hitachi, and Pfizer. She writes for HBR and Inc and has been featured in Bloomberg, the BBC and New York Times.

Top 3 Value Bombs

1. You do not need to set goals; instead, set directions.

2. When starting a business, the most important thing is building a thriving, sustaining organization with a structure and with people who have their own psychology management through successes and challenges.

3. The secret to great hiring is setting up a specific game plan about what you want to accomplish in 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days.

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0:00.0	Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JL.D. here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire.
0:07.2	Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals
0:11.2	with great shows like marketing made simple. Today we're pulling a classic episode from the
0:15.4	archives and we'll be breaking down from startup to grown up, how to avoid common mistakes
0:19.7	founders make.
0:24.0	To drop these value bombs, I bought Elisa Cohn into EofR Studios.
0:28.0	Elisa is an executive coach and author of From Startup to Grownup.
0:32.4	She has coached founders and executives at Venmo Etsy, Draft Kings, along with enterprises such as Dell, Hitachi, and Pfizer.
0:34.8	She writes for HBO and Inc. and has been featured in Bloomberg, the BBC, in New York
0:39.3	Times. In Today, Fire Nation, we'll talk about how you do not need to set goals, instead set
0:44.4	directions. And the secrets to great hiring is setting up a specific game plan about what you want
0:49.4	to accomplish in 30 days, 60 days, and 90 days in Fire Nation, so much more.
0:54.7	And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Alisa and our sponsors.
0:59.3	Success Story, hosted by Scott D. Clary, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network,
1:04.3	the audio destination for business professionals.
1:07.0	Success Story features Q&A sessions with successful business leaders,
1:10.5	keynote presentations, and conversations on sales, with successful business leaders, keynote presentations,
1:11.7	in conversations on sales, marketing, business, startups, and entrepreneurship.
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1:22.6	Listen to Success Story wherever you get your podcasts.
1:26.4	Is this your year to grow a successful business?
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