All the little things they don’t talk about when running a business [Ep17]

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Allison Mahmood
1 min readJul 17, 2021

Welcome to Quan2m! the Podcast every STEM student should be listening to. Covering everything from what’s going on in the world of science, interviewing people with STEM majors and what they have gone on to do. To talking about finance, careers and business.

In the last episode we talked about the right mindset to approach running a business with.

Today we will talk about all the little things people look over when thinking about running a business.

You know all the normal things that come into running a business

Meetings

  • Investors
  • Team
  • Networking
  • Advisors

Recruitment

Strategy

  • Team
  • Macro
  • Raising cap

Building your product

Marketing

etc.

But then there is a bunch of stuff you often forget about. You will have a million little things to do.

  • You will check in on your teams' progress
  • Reply to their questions
  • Organize meetings between different teams
  • Onboard people
  • Daily check-in meetings
  • Things run over, people reschedule,
  • Emails in the middle of a meeting
  • Keeping meeting minutes for every meeting

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Allison Mahmood

Founder in Residence at Entrepreneur First, host of Quan2m podcast