Learning Lessons from 3x Entrepreneur & Chief Entreprenista (Season 1 Ep. 6)
On this episode we chat with Stephanie Cartin, CEO of Entreprenista, and co-founder of Socialfly and Markid. Stephanie is also the co-host of The Entreprenista Podcast where you can find her and her co-founder, Courtney Spritzer, featuring stories of successful female founders.
Stephanie shares her beginnings of entrepreneurship as she and her co-founder bootstrapped their first business venture, Socialfly. She dives in with us about what it has been like to run a full service agency and pivot to run a high growth tech company that has acquired 50,000 users onto the platform. Tune in to hear Stephanie bring such great inspiration with her story dedicated to building community and supporting women founders and leaders.
What can you expect from this episode:
Stephanie shares her story on how she went from the hospitality industry to the start of her entrepreneurial career of 3 businesses. [3:50]
Stephanie talks about her connection of entrepreneurship growing up and what she believes are the key qualities for a successful entrepreneur. [10:14]
We chat with Stephanie about when she and Courtney took their leap of faith when leaving their corporate jobs to launch Socialfly. She also let us know how they utilized their marketing efforts and relationships early on when creating their agency. [15:30]
Stephanie shares failing forward moments she experienced while building community. She talks about how the creation of their first business, Socialfly, brought a lot of lessons learned to help set up the Entreprenista League for her and her co-founder. [26:25]
She chats with us on how it has been with using her own skills to partner with building a tech solution. Stephanie tells how it has been to grow and acquire their customer base with her third business, Markid. [32:20]
Stephanie shares how she is integrating her 3 businesses as well as what she has learned to manage her personal life as an entrepreneur. [36:24]
Recommended resources in this episode:
Favorite productivity hack – Work robe
Favorite podcast – Entreprenista
Biggest influence – Carrie Kerpen
Where can you find Stephanie:
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