The founder and CEO of LaunchPear joins us to share why he believes your startup idea is terrible

until you validate it and actually sell something. He also explains how he went from being

homeless to hitting business home runs. The common traits of successful startup founders,

why coachability is the key to success as an entrepreneur. Why it's important to track your

company's numbers early on and why focusing on the legal aspects of your business,

pre-product or pre-business or pre-sales really doesn't matter at all.

All right, Thrive Nation. Welcome back to another exciting edition of The Thrive Time Show

on your radio and podcast downloaded on today's show. We're interviewing the founder and CEO of

a company called LaunchPear, LaunchPear, which is a company designed to help founders out there

to turn their ideas into reality. Mr. Jake, welcome on to the show. How are you, sir?

Great. Thanks, guys. I really appreciate you having me on. Jake, your last name.

Some people are asking, is it hair? Is it hairy? How do you pronounce that last name, Mr. Jake?

You know, I always say hair like a rabbit because that's the easiest way to say it. Some people,

I always get people to spell my name H-A-I-R on coffee cups and stuff. It's H-A-R-E. That's the

easiest way to remember it like a rabbit. Okay, hair like a rabbit. I want to clear that up. I

know some listeners like, how do I say this name? I don't know how to do it. So, Jake, with your

company LaunchPear, I want to spend some time talking about that. But before we get into that,

I'd like to talk about your background growing up. What was life like for you growing up as a kid?

Yeah, so I come from a really low-income household. My mom and dad split up when I was really,

really young. So, I was about four or five years old. Don't you remember when it happened? But,

you know, growing up, we were pretty low-income. We were actually homeless for a while when I was

a really early on in high school. I remember having to, my dad had a warehouse. He was a truck driver.

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