{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bootstrapper's Paradise","title":"Growing Your Business Without Any Additional Funding with GrowthMentor’s Foti Panagio","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1570,"description":"In this episode, Founder of GrowthMentor Foti Panagio talks about the importance of having a mentor, the difference between a mentor and a consultant, and how to grow a business without any additional funding.\nFoti Panagio is a full-stack growth marketer with over a decade of experience in growth with a unique overlap into the world of InfraOps.\n\nFoti is the Founder of GrowthMentor where he provides Founders and Marketers one on one advice from vetted startup mentors. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of Product Launch:\n\nHow GrowthMentor helps Founders and Marketers.\nWhy having a mentor is so important.\nThe difference between a mentor and a consultant.\nHow the amount of content you consume affects your productivity.\nThe value of verbalizing your thought process.\nThe difference between passively consuming media and personalized coaching.\nHow to tackle imposter syndrome.\nThe dangers of following vanity metrics.\nHow to grow a business without raising funds.\n\nResources:\nGrowthMentor\nThe Lean Startup\nDigitalOcean\nAcquire\nNxtStep\nPodcast Chef\n\nConnecting with Foti Panagio:\nLinkedIn\n\nConnecting with the host:\nSean Boyce on LinkedIn\nSean Boyce by Email\n\nQuotables:\n04:05 - “There’s certain mistakes and failures you need to make to grow my favorite analogy here is you go to the gym and how do you grow muscle you break it first and it rebuilds but go with the wrong form into the squat rack you put way too much weight and you’re going to be out of action indefinitely and it’s these sort of mistakes that are really unnecessary and that’s where mentorship can come into play just learning from other peoples fuckups.”\n09:01 - “As awesome as it is to ingest content via podcast at the end of the day everybody's situation is completely unique, so I have my industry I have my specific situation going on it’s so nuanced so the advice I’m going to give to you is completely different to somebody else based on the context and that’s lost when you’re just...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/B0rBF_s0upJdRqXoy4_4rHlfSlZONOaHnrUmmpOi708/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kYmIx/MTMxNTExY2VjZjIz/NjEzNWFhNmI4OGZl/ZDliMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}