This Indie Life

James McKinven and Dagobert Renouf

Dagobert spent 5 years and $100K+ to bootstrap a startup and failed with a massive burn out. Every week he invites a new founder to talk about the dark side of entrepreneurship.

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3: Burnout, course launch and AI tools

This episode Dago is in full-prep mode for his Twitter course launch and talks about how the early access has helped them. Both of us are no stranger to burnout, so we discuss both our approaches to avoiding it, including revealing how many hours we both work each week. I think you’ll be surprised by our answers here. 👉 Follow the pod on Twitter 💸 Sponsor the show What we covered in this episode: What we think about AI tools James updates Cars dying, frustrated with life problems James' though...

Oct 25, 2022•25 min•Ep. 3

2: Disagreeing on sponsors, clients and false validation

This episode is a little meta, because Dago and I discuss the launch of the show and if we should accept sponsors. So I said we’d be open and honest and sometimes we may even disagree, but I thought it might take longer than the second episode. We both have kinda different approaches to monetizing the show so we hash out our thoughts in this episode We do then go into our updates, where I talk about some exciting new client developments and Dago has a rollercoaster of a beta-launch for his cours...

Oct 14, 2022•25 min•Ep. 2

1: Intros, dollars and insomnia

In this episode, both Dago and I introduce ourselves, from there we head into our usual updates as Dago’s talks about his new Twitter course, why his most viral meme of all time is to keep him in check and we both had some deep realisations about our physical health might be more closely related to our startups than we think. Follow the pod on Twitter Talking points: Intro to the founders James construction podcasting mishap Dagobert updates progress on twitter course and impostor syndrome feeli...

Oct 07, 2022•26 min•Ep. 1

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