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04/17/2026

When you start out in business, it’s hard to feel like a legit business. You don’t have processes, you’re not accomplishing your goals, you’re not progressing week after or week.

Sometimes you have weeks with massive growth, and sometimes you have go months staying at the same level.

It’s more common than you think and the reason is so simple: it’s because you don’t have a system.

Businesses that win have an operating system. Today we had teaching us about the Entrepreneur Operating System.

It’s a system that too few founders know about that helps your company create weekly accountability and make progress, every single quarter towards your company’s goals.

If you like this kind of thing, come get a tour of iHub and see how we help founders grow reliably and repeatably!

Have you heard of Entrepreneur Operating System? will be joining us at iHub tomorrow morning to teach us all about it!Ho...
04/16/2026

Have you heard of Entrepreneur Operating System?

will be joining us at iHub tomorrow morning to teach us all about it!

Hope to see you there!

04/07/2026

Your elevator pitch is the first impression of your business.

It might sound cliche, or silly, but the 15-30 seconds you spend explaining what you do is how everyone will view your business.

Investors, potential employees, a potential cofounder, will all see your business through that frame.

The money you want to raise, the people you want to hire are all dependent on you being able to hook someone’s attention.

Here are the four things you have to include:

1. The Target Customer
2. The Monetizable Pain
3. The Great Solution
4. The Primary Differentiation

If you can convey these in 30 seconds or less, you’ll be on a much better path to get dream customers, dream team members, and the investment you need.

Special thanks to Spencer Rogers for the training!

03/27/2026

car wash is an institution in Utah, and if you’ve driven around recently you’ve seen that they’re growing like crazy!

Travis Kimball is the founder behind the brand, an iHub mentor and a donor to iHub’s mission.

Today he’s telling us the story of how he built a 300 location car wash business, how he validated it, how he overcame hurdles and how he put his background in marketing to work.

He tells the story of how he made a decision early in that he didn’t want to use his marketing skills to promote things that would harm people, or go against his values.

A true masterclass in marketing!

Tomorrow at iHub.Travis Kimball.Co-founder of Quick Quack Car Wash.330+ locations. 8 states. $1.37B raised. 1M+ members....
03/27/2026

Tomorrow at iHub.
Travis Kimball.
Co-founder of Quick Quack Car Wash.
330+ locations. 8 states. $1.37B raised. 1M+ members.
He helped build a single Utah car wash into a multi-billion dollar empire — and he’s coming to the Founder’s Floor to tell you how.
Foreman Series. March 27th. 10:30 AM. Don’t be late.

03/25/2026

Todd Westra reviews dozens of founder pitches every month through the Build Fund.

These three things show up constantly. And they’ll tank your valuation before you ever get to the table.

1. You’re not paying yourself in your pro forma.

Founders think it makes them look scrappy. Investors think it means you don’t understand what your business actually costs to run. Your numbers aren’t real if the founder isn’t in them.

2. Your sales budget is basically zero.

Right now, YOU are the sales team. Cool. But your projections need to show what happens when you stop being the sales team. If there’s no line item for sales and marketing, investors know exactly what happens next: growth flatlines the second you step back.

3. You’re hiding your real cost of product.

You’re doing fulfillment, customer support, ops work — and none of it shows up in your COGS. Which means your margins are fiction. Investors will find it. And when they do, the number they put on your company gets a lot smaller.

These aren’t edge cases. These are the most common mistakes Todd sees in early-stage pitches.

Fix them before you walk into the room.

03/23/2026

A good investors bets on the jockey as much as they bet on the horse. The business plan is important, but if you want potential investors to get excited about YOU.

The single biggest thing you can do to instill confidence in an investor is show a past track record of success.

That might be a past business, a high level job, the university you went to, deep expertise with your ICP.

You don’t have much time to impress investors, and that’s exactly what we were teaching last week.

If you’re an investor, or you’ve raised money, what would you tell young founders trying to raise their next round?

03/16/2026

We’re building the largest startup incubator in the state of Utah, let’s get Utah to #1!

03/16/2026

David Neeleman sat in meetings at Southwest Airlines writing “don’t say a word” over and over again. A hundred times. Just to stop himself from speaking up.

He had ADD. He thought faster than the room. He wanted to skip the three-hour debates and get to the answer. And everyone around him made him feel like he didn’t belong.

But underneath all of that silence, he knew something:
“I knew that I could do better. That we could create something really spectacular.”

So he did. He went and built JetBlue.

Then Azul. Then Breeze. Six airlines. Billions in value. Hundreds of thousands of people moved every single day — because one guy refused to believe the room he was sitting in was the ceiling.

If you’re in your quiet season right now — if you’re biting your tongue, doubting yourself, wondering if your way of thinking is the problem — it’s not.

Keep going.

David shared this story live at iHub. This is the kind of room where founders don’t have to stay quiet.

03/13/2026

Entrepreneurs rated their loneliness a 7.6 out of 10.
Here’s why that matters more than you think.

Nobody talks about this part of building a business.
You’re up at 1am working on something your friends don’t understand.

Your spouse asks how work is going. You say “good” because the real answer would take 45 minutes and scare them.

73% of founders spend less time with friends.
60% less time with their spouse.
58% less time with their kids.

And it’s not just a feeling. It’s a business problem.
Lonely founders make worse decisions. They burn out faster. They’re more likely to walk away from the thing they sacrificed everything to build.

You don’t need more hustle. You need more humans.
Not networking events. Not LinkedIn connections.
Real conversations with people who actually get it.
That’s why we built iHub. A community of founders, 300+ mentors, and weekly trainings designed to make sure you don’t build alone.

The businesses that beat the odds don’t do it in isolation.

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