How childhood homelessness and the military made Jake Hare a better founder

Jake Hare, LaunchPeer, B2B, Bootstrapping, Consulting, Hiring, Mental Game, Scaling, System

There are a few things that make today’s guest unique. He’s an entrepreneur building a consulting agency catering to unfunded startups.

He was also homeless at one point and I want to find out how that influenced how he thinks about money and business.

Lastly, I want to know how he systemizes his business.

Jake Hare is the founder of Launchpeer, which helps entrepreneurs around the world build, launch and scale tech startups.

Jake Hare

LaunchPeer

Jake Hare is the founder of Launchpeer, which helps entrepreneurs around the world build, launch and scale tech startups.

Andrew: Hey everyone. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I usually have just one topic that I want to focus on and, you know, basically we tell the story of how an entrepreneur built his business and spend some time on the one thing that makes the person unique. Today’s guest, I’ve got a few things that I want to talk about that make him unique.

Number one, he’s an entrepreneur who’s building a consulting agency. You know, they do development of web apps and mobile apps and more, but catering to startups. Not startups who just raise funding, whose VCs are going to introduce them to him, startups who have no fricking funding. How’s he building a business like that and staying profitable?

Number two, he was homeless at one point in his life, and I like to pry into people’s personal lives with their permission, so I’m going to ask...

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