BFE

Diane Prince is a business coach, serial entrepreneur, and strategic sales leader. She has been successfully building businesses since the 1990s and she now helps founders, startups, and entrepreneurs build success in their own businesses. Diane shares her experience in building a multimillion dollar business in just six years, and the concepts she thinks are important in building a successful business. With seven exits under her belt, Diane has had many successes, but says her failures taught her valuable lessons. She shares her feelings towards bootstrapping and revenue, and why she believes in the old fashioned approach to building a business. Listen to hear why Diane thinks that entrepreneurship is deeply personal and a way of life.

Show Notes

🔷 Beautiful blue background. 01:15
👩‍💼 Diane is a serial entrepreneur. 01:49
💲 She built her first $50 million business in six years and it was a staffing agency. 02:51
🤓 Story about Diane’s failure and what she learned from it. 04:10
👣 Doing one thing at a time. 06:32
💥 “Every business decision that you make affects how your life looks.” 07:24
⏰ Timing is important for both starting and ending a business. 08:31
🚪 Different reasons why people exit and also purchase companies. 09:12
🧱 Entrepreneurship is very personal: it depends on an individual’s entrepreneurial style.11:46
👀 Why she chose not to listen to a Silicone Valley advisor? 14:10
💰 Diane loves bootstrapping and she believes in revenue. 16:05
🤷‍♀️ The concept of being all about revenue and not about profit worries Diane. 17:07
📈 Women entrepreneurship needs to progress. 19:53
🙃 Diane’s favorite F words.  21:35
🦸‍♀️ Diane Prince and Wonderwoman. 23:24
🧠 All the things that business people forget to do. 24:57


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What is BFE?

BFE, where unicorns run free. Well, no, it's not a fairy tale podcast; we actually talk about the things that matter most to startups and VCs. We ask the tough questions of VCs and Founders, getting to the bottom of the real issues that surround money, financing, startups, and much more. Jessica King Bernstein joins her partners Randy "Took-a-Company-to-Wall-Street" Baker and Dr. Kent "Pull-Out-Your-Beating-Heart" Gustavson to roast and worship real ballers on every episode.