Bootstrap Hawaii Podcast Ep. 1 – Intro

Bootstrap Hawaii

The start of a new company and a new journey. In late 2015 my friends and I launched a new company called Lesson Underground. We invested around $50,000 to building a bare bones beta of the app and launched it to a small pre-launch mailing list. Unfortunately, it did not take off as we hoped which brought about this podcast. I’ve wanted to do a business / startup focused podcast for a while now but I never felt I knew enough to be one of those gurus doling out advice to the masses. I also feel like I don’t have as much success as needed to be one of those types of people.

When Lesson Underground did not work like how I expected, it provided an opportunity to create a concept where people who are interested in building an online business or startup can come along with me for the ride. My plan is to share and document as much as I work to build Lesson Underground from an idea, into a profitable business.

Even though we’ve been in business with Ukulele Underground for 8 years now, there is still so much I don’t know about running a startup and I’m learning all the time. I hope that by showing that, it may take away some of the fear and trepidation many first time entrepreneurs may have when they are starting. You don’t need to know everything, and almost no mistakes are fatal. You’ll see me fail and make mistakes over and over again as this series goes on. That’s just part of the deal with becoming an entrepreneur.

If you’re interested in building a self-funded startup here in Hawaii but haven’t gotten started yet, my hope is that this show will give you a good glimpse of what its like to be behind the scenes trying to get a company off the ground.

If you have any questions, or comments please feel free to leave a comment below or email me. Also if you have suggestions for the show, I’m all ears too. I’m relatively new to this podcasting thing and the first 2 episodes sound like I’m recording in a cave (sorry about that, will change rooms and settings in ep 3!)