EP201: How Successful Founders Handle Fear and Uncertainty

Facing Your Startup Fears in 2026
Fear shows up at every level of entrepreneurship, from launching your first idea to leading through cashflow crises, public visibility, and rapid change. Colin C. Campbell and Michael Gilmour share practical ways to keep fear from becoming debilitating—decision-making, risk mitigation, transparency, community support, and “doing it scared” until confidence catches up.

Hosts: Michael Gilmour, Colin C. Campbell

The Exit Window Is Open. Most Founders Aren’t Ready.

Buyers are back. In July 2026 alone, venture-backed M&A cleared $9 billion and twelve companies went public above a billion-dollar valuation. Most founders will miss...

Second-Time Founders: Repeat Is the Hardest Word

Six weeks after the wire hits, most founders feel nothing at all. Not relief. Not triumph. Nothing. That's the part of the exit nobody warns...

How to Scale a Startup: What Actually Breaks

Most companies don't die from lack of demand. They die from getting it. How to scale a startup is really one question: what happens when...

Focus on Something You and Others Love: A Founder’s Framework for the AI Era

Adapted for an AI world from Chapter 4 of Colin C. Campbell’s Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. In 1993, I made a decision that looked questionable...

Global Startup Funding Has a Passport Now

Founders built 43.6% of the world's new billion-dollar companies outside the United States this year. You don't have to move anymore. Global startup funding...

Record Startup Funding Is Not a Strategy

Venture capital just set a record, and almost none of it is coming to you. July 2026 delivered $65 billion in record startup funding. Double...