Episode 100: Finally! A Roadmap for the 6 Stages of Small Business (FS100)

http://fizzleshow.co/100 - It's finally time to have a plan for your bare-knuckled, bootstrapped, heart and hustle based small business. In this 6 part podcast series we walk you through the small business roadmap. These aren't 6 stages your business will go through automatically. These are the 6 stages your business *should* go through, the stages we *want* you to go through so that you and your idea are best setup for success as *you* define it. We've worked with, consulted, coached and heard from a few thousand businesses, and in all the books we've read (great books like Lean Startup, 4 Steps to the Epiphany, $100 Startup and more), we haven't seen a roadmap yet that succinctly prepares indie entrepreneurs for the challenges of business building. So we put together our own. And we're working with *you* to help make it better. (See below for details.) When you know what the 6 stages are, you can identify not only where you are, but what stage is next. And that right there, that tiny sense of direction, can be the difference between a successful business and just another failed side project. In this podcast episode (and the next 5) we lay out the 6 stages as we see them, addressing the common hassles, resources and hangups for each stage. **But we need your help.** We plan on adjusting this roadmap based on your feedback, so we'll ask you a few questions on each episode because we want to hear how what we've laid out feels to you. Listen to this episode (subscribe in itunes, if you haven't), and the next several as we lay out the roadmap, with goals and resources for each stage, and as you listen, try to find exactly where you are. It's our hope that this roadmap will help you identify where you are, where you're going and how to set yourself and your idea up for a home run, because, as Corbett puts it in this episode: Without a roadmap you can spin your wheels, never make progress and settle with "entrepreneurship isn't for me."