Podcast Ep. 5: Building The Entrepreneur with Andrew Hutton of Day One

My guest today is Andrew Hutton. Andrew was a former adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design in New York, he was a principal design strategist Accenture and the Head of Business Design at Human Ventures. He is currently the founder and CEO of Day One which is a cohort based program for entrepreneurs and idea stage startups. What I really resonate with about Day One is that it's not just focused on helping entrepreneurs that have their sites set on vc funding, it's really about starting businesses and creating livelihoods and about getting into the right mindsets that are really tantamount to success and longevity as a business owner or running a business and those are some of the things we dive into in our conversation on building the entrepreneur.

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Timestamps:
00:09 - Welcome to the DesignerUp podcast
00:24 - Guest intro
01:13 - Andrew introduces himself
01:35 - What does the word entrepreneur mean to you?
05:18 - How Andrew got into the design world and teaching at Parsons school of Design
06:23- Brief stint at a pig farm in Uganda and introduction into social entrepreneurship
08:10 - Andrew's time at Accenture
09:11 - Teaching at Parsons School of Design
15:46 - Controlling inputs and outcomes
21:44 - Who is Day One for?
26:56 - Bootstrap vs VC path for entrepreneurs
30:00 - Learning by doing
34:50 - The importance of mindset and community
39:47 - Niching down and focusing
44:48 - The power of story as an entrepreneur
54:18 - What does balance look like to you?

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