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Hosted by John Rake · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 11 episodes
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Most founders spend too much time working in their business instead of on it. The right systems aren't in place. The bottleneck is usually a bad assumption, a decision they keep making manually every week, or a system quietly putting a ceiling on growth. The Founder Bottleneck is a daily podcast that tackles one specific problem and shows how technology and automation can solve it, so you can get back to working on your business.
John Rake hosts The Founder Bottleneck, a business show with 11 episodes published.
If stepping away from your business for two days means five days of work waiting on Monday, the anxiety you feel isn't a personality thing. It's a structure thing. Good operations give the business somewhere else to live
You're either paying a developer $8,000 to build something Zapier could handle in an afternoon, or you're duct-taping together a Zapier workflow and wondering why it breaks every time you add a new client. The line betwe
You get to Friday tired and you can't explain why. No disasters, no six-hour meetings, but half your time is just gone. Here's where it's going — and how to plug the leaks. Chapters 0:00 — Where your Friday time goes1:45
If you have to remember it, it will eventually not happen. This episode covers the specific tasks most business owners are still running manually and why that's costing them more than they realize. There's homework at th
The most critical system in your business right now is you. That's not a compliment. This episode covers how to spot where that bottleneck actually is and what to build first to stop your business from depending on you b
Manual workflows feel free because no invoice shows up. But the time is still going out the door every week, and nobody adds it up. In this episode, I break down how to calculate what your manual processes are actually c
You've walked someone through a task, answered all their questions, and two weeks later you're back to doing it yourself. That's not a people problem. It's a handoff problem — and this episode breaks down why most handof
Your team is waiting on you right now. Every approval, every answer that only you're allowed to give — that's not leadership, that's a bottleneck with a business card. This episode breaks down how you got here and what i
You don't realize a spreadsheet is a problem until someone else has to get in and make an update. Then you come back the next morning and it's got 47 tabs, color coded beyond recognition, everyone working off a different
Most business owners who ask "should I just build my own software?" are already running duct tape on top of duct tape. The real question isn't whether you can afford it. It's what the current mess is actually costing you
Most business owners know they need to do something with technology but don't know who to call. In this first episode, John Rake introduces the show and what a fractional vCTO actually does: come into a business, find wh
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The Founder Bottleneck is hosted by John Rake. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 11 episodes.
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