Navigating The Emotional Journey Of Entrepreneurship With Lucas Carlson

In this episode of the podcast, Lucas Carlson talks all about navigating the emotional journey of entrepreneurship and building a business as a tool for personal growth. 

• Lessons in creativity learned from the world of computer programming
• The ins and outs of raising venture capital for a startup 
• Living on the fringe of bankruptcy 
• Overcoming fear ad learning to take the leap to do something 
• Learning to deal with the voices of criticism, self doubt and fear
• How to keep going when you’re not seeing external results 
• Balancing the tension of knowing when to persist and when to give up
• Putting enough of yourself into an idea to give it a chance
• Learning to put stop losses on your entrepreneurial ideas
• Separating your identity from the performance of your business
• Learning to set expectations for yourself that don’t create stress
• Why external wealth can serve as a metphor for internal wealth
• The importance being open and honest in relationships 



Resources: 

Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham 

The Narrow Road by Felix Dennis

Luscas Calrlson is an entrepneneur who started AppFog, in 2010, raised almost $10M in venture capital, and was acquired in 2013. Before that, he was the first employee and head of engineering for 5 years at MOG (now Beats Music acquired by Apple).. He’s also the author of Finding Success in Failure: True Confessions from 10 Years of Startup Mistakes

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