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Startup podcast guide

The Long Shortcut

The Long Shortcut is a no-BS podcast for founders building in real time. Owen and James share the wins, failures, tools, and chaos of startup life — from messy ops to early sales and finding product-market fit. It’s raw, honest, and occasionally useful. If you’re building…

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Overview

The Long Shortcut podcast overview

About The Long Shortcut

The Long Shortcut is a no-BS podcast for founders building in real time. Owen and James share the wins, failures, tools, and chaos of startup life — from messy ops to early sales and finding product-market fit. It’s raw, honest, and occasionally useful. If you’re building something and need a dose of reality (with a few laughs), you’re in the right place. There’s no straight path to success — just a long shortcut.

Why Upseed includes it

The podcast focuses on real-time experiences and challenges faced by founders, making it highly relevant to the startup ecosystem.

Who may find it useful

Founders, Operators may find this series useful. Its recurring topics include Startup Building, Product Market Fit, Early Sales, Operations.

Operational profile

Series profile

These publication facts describe the series record. Recent publishing activity appears under Track record.

Series type
Episodic
Content type
Audio
Published by
Owen Loughrey / James Woodall
Language
English
Geographic focus
Global
Last reviewed
March 11, 2026
Published episodes
4
publisher-supplied series count
Recent episodes linked
4
admitted official episode destinations
Series first published
August 5, 2025
publisher-supplied publication metadata
Latest episode
August 27, 2025
latest official destination found

Publication metadata and latest official episode destinations · Independent Upseed startup-relevance assessment · March 11, 2026

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Source basis

Public podcast distribution metadata, publisher-supplied destinations, and structured Upseed relevance research.

Last reviewed

March 11, 2026

Known limits

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