Idea to Startup
By Brian Scordato | Tacklebox
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A podcast for people working on startup ideas. We have 15-minute tactical episodes and occasional interviews with people who did the early things exceptionally well. We've helped launch hundreds of startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and these are the building blocks.
"This is, without a doubt, the best podcast for people trying to build startups out there."
"If you aren't listening to this podcast and you're considering building a business (or you're already building one), what are you doing?"
"Must listen for first-time entrepreneurs - excellent storyteller."
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A Startup Storytelling Framework for Non-Storytellers
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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When to Pivot and When to Stick (aka what to do with all your startup ideas) ITS Classic
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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How to Pick Your Startup's First Customer
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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A System to Do Hard Things (ITS Classic)
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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How to Build the First (Magical) Version Of Your Product This Weekend (ITS Classic)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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A System to Generate Ideas (aka how to let your brain be a brain)
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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20-ish Minute Skill: The Concierge MVP (ITS Classic)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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How to Create a Strategy For Your Startup
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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How to Build a "Skeptical Startup" - 8k per month in 10 hours per week
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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What if the problem you're solving isn't "painful" or "urgent"? What if it's just something you think people will want? Should you still pursue it? (feat. Linguini)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Magic of One-Sentence Marketing
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Designing a System to Actually Prioritize Your Startup This Year
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Seth Godin and Brian Go Through Startup Ideas (ITS Classic)
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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How to Think Bigger (feat. The Problems and Opportunities Method)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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How to be Different, Part 1 (feat. The Personal Venn Diagram Method)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Testing Another Startup Idea Live Part 1: Picking the Idea, Nudging the Boulder
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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The Quest for an Identity
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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How to Find a Differentiator (ITS Classic)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Customers Speak Problem, But You’re Speaking Solution
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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An SOP for Testing a Startup Idea
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Two Ways to Approach Your Startup Idea Like A Pro (ITS Classic)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Writing Persuasive Copy to Test an Idea
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How to Embrace Risk, Uncertainty, and Chaos
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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The Three Types of Problems Worth Your Time to Solve
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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How to Find Your Wedge, feat. Bleeding Neck Problems (ITS Classic)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Are you a Freelancer or an Entrepreneur?
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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A System to Relish the Uncomfortable Stuff
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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How to Identify and Kill Bad Startup Ideas Masquerading As Good Ones
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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A System to Test and Build Your Startup (Part III - Implementing Your System This Weekend)
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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An Operating System to Help You Move Faster By Focusing On Less - Part 2 (feat. a monkey reciting Hamlet)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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A Weekly System to Keep Entrepreneurs With Jobs Moving Fast (Part 1 - Strategy)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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The One Thing That Matters - How to Find a Differentiator That'll Support a Business
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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How to Stop Being Your Startup's Bottleneck
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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A Framework for Building Wildly Useful Startups
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Four Characteristics of Great Startup Ideas
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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The Organic Growth Equation - Why People Share and How to Pick Ideas that'll Grow
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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A System to Help You Become Wildly Creative
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 165 - Should You Niche?
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Why You Didn't Build a Product Last Weekend (feat. A Framework to Seek Out Discomfort)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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How to Build the First (Magical) Version of Your Product This Weekend
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Choose The Right Quest
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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INTERVIEW: Seth Godin Thinks Through Startup Ideas in Real-Time
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May 31, 2023 |
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When to Pivot and When to Stick (aka How Pros Deal w/ Distractions)
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May 24, 2023 |
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How to Use Landing Page Tests to Find Your Beachhead Customer (feat. the One Person Landing Page and the ELU Framework)
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May 17, 2023 |
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Ideation, Finding a Wedge, Seeding a Marketplace and How to Scale Yourself with an EA - with Jonathan Swanson, cofounder of Thumbtack, Athena, and Powerset
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May 10, 2023 |
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The Law of The Startup Wedge (feat. circadian rhythms and trust transactions)
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May 03, 2023 |
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How to Separate Yourself from Your Idea (feat. the five immutable laws of cold emails)
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Testing a Startup Idea Live, Part 2: An Organizing Principle and A Structure to Move Fast
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Testing a Startup Idea Live, Part 1: The Idea, The Goldfish Cleanse, J.O.A.S.
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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When to Quit on your Startup Idea, and When to Stick It Out (feat. the systemic vs. solvable checklist and the idea growth curve)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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How to Find and Solve Hard Problems (feat. a used car startup and The Problem Hunters)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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How to Build Trust in Six Seconds (Thrust + Drag Part 2, feat. an elephant and the bus stop exercise)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Thrust and Drag Part 1: A System to Keep Momentum
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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What if the problem you're solving isn't "painful" or "urgent"? What if it's just something you think people will want? Should you still pursue it? (feat. Linguini)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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How to Create Useful Content (feat. the "creating content by not creating any content" method)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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How to stack risk early, tackle the cold start problem, and compete by understanding incentives with Jareau Wadé
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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15 Min(ish) Skill: Script the Start and End aka How to Consistently Do Uncomfortable Things
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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Three More Ways to Approach Your Business Like a Pro (feat. anti-marketing, Frank Sinatra, and an Uber comedian)
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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The Trust to Risk Ratio (feat. Soona + a four-step risk framework)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Two Ways to Approach Your Startup Idea Like A Pro (feat. an interior designer + Zapier)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Testing an AI Coaching Tool in a Month (feat. The 5 Startup Idea Non-Negotiables)
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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How to Build a Product People Will Share
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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A Regret Minimization Framework (feat. Alone + The Big Reveal)
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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HOLIDAY CLASSIC: The Three Characteristics of a Startup Idea That's Worth Your Time
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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Holiday Classic: Four Questions to Help You Start Your Idea (Feat. Penne Vodka Pete 🐐)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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How to Take Yourself Seriously feat. Your Entrepreneurship Handbook
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Build a System to be Different in 2023 (feat. pessimistic squirrels and majestic lions)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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How to Test the Startup Idea You Had Over Thanksgiving in 7 Minutes
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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How to Productize Your Customer's First Step (feat. The Family Operating System and a 3am Pitch)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Two Frameworks to Help Find Your Differentiator (feat. Inversion and the Before and After Method)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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How to Think Bigger (feat. Mattress Mack and Asymmetric Upside)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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20(ish) Min Skills: How to Find Your Wedge (feat. Bleeding Neck Problems)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Start a Startup in an Hour a Day (Part 3 of 3): Taking the System for a Spin (feat. You've Got Mail and Curious Ruby)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Start a Startup in an Hour a Day (Part 2) - Founder Archetypes and a Two-Week Sprint Rhythm
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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Start a Startup in an Hour a Day (Part 1 of 3) - Reflection + A Lifestyle Debt Audit + Finding a Free Hour
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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20(ish) Min Skills: How to Write Direct, Persuasive Copy (feat. The Four Keys to Writing)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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How to Start a Community-Based Startup - or Tack a Community Onto Your Existing Business (feat. Monks and Lonely Dads)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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20(ish)-Minute Skills: The Concierge MVP
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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How to Spot Promising Startup Ideas (feat. The Hard Startup Myth and The Hassle Premium)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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How to Raise Money from Angel Investors with Angela Lee (37 Angels, Columbia Business School) ((And we start a $100mm taco company the last 15 minutes))
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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How to Get the World to Work For You (feat. pickleball and the greatest marketing campaign of all time)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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Three Ways to Build Trust (feat. parking valets and a cure for baldness)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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A 20(ish) Minute Startup: Airbnb Referrals
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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What Kind of Company Do You Want to Build? (feat a 3-part framework to help you figure it out and Shaggy)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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A Podcast Figuring Out Your Value (featuring an aperol spritz startup and a magician)
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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A Mental Model to Reduce Complexity: The River (featuring a papaya)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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How to Start a Startup Accountability Group
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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The Three Pillars of a Startup That's Worth Your Time (feat. Markets, The 4x Rule, and Level Jumping)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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A 20(ish) Minute Startup: An App That Cures Chronic Pain
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Jul 06, 2022 |
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A Framework to Get You Unstuck (featuring an Airstream startup)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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20(ish)-Min Skills: Sales 101 For Entrepreneurs That Hate Sales
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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A Weekly Prioritization and Audit Framework to Help Entrepreneurs Make Great Things
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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How to Test If Your Idea Can Grow Before You Build It (featuring a meeting agenda startup)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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What Makes a Great Product?
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Strategies for a Crowded Market: Breaking Down Three Coffee Startups
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May 25, 2022 |
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How to Build The Right Thing (Introducing the Product Pyramid Framework)
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May 18, 2022 |
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A Thing To Do This Weekend If You're Working on a Startup
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May 11, 2022 |
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How to Become a Startup Idea Machine
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May 04, 2022 |
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How to Evaluate and Choose an Idea Worth Pursuing with Alex White
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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How to Write Great Copy for your Startup
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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INTERVIEW: Jonathan Hunt-Glassman, founder @ Oar Health
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Apr 15, 2022 |
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Start a Startup in 7(ish) Minutes: Solving Parking in NYC 🚕
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Episode 100 🔥: How to Design Your Life to Support Building a Startup on the Side
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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How to Stand Out: Differentiate your Startup with Categories
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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How to Guarantee Word of Mouth Growth for Your Startup
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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The Three Pillars of an Idea That Can Grow Huge
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Start a Startup in Ten Days using Four Questions: Kitchen Organizer Edition
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Perfect is the Enemy of the Good: Startup Product Edition
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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How to Conquer Irrational Fear as a Startup Founder
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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The Most Interesting Startups are Boring (and how to make sure yours is, too)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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How to Build a Startup in a Crowded Market
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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A Formula for Creating Moments Your Customers Will Share
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Don't Bail On Your Startup Idea Right When It's Getting Interesting
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Startup Practice
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Storytelling 101 for Entrepreneurs
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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BONUS STORY: The Monster and The Girl
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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The Secret Pod
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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Sell the Position (Brian's favorite episode of the year)
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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How to Not Waste Your Life (most listened to episode of the year)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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How to Find Problems Worth Solving (and a request for a startup)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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You need a bouncer
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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How to get counterintuitive startup ideas
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Three Things Entrepreneurs Should Do Over Thanksgiving Break
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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How to create your own MBA in entrepreneurship
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Story 3: How to sell wood for $10 when everyone else sells it for $5
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Story 2: How to motivate people
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Three Stories To Get You Unstuck - Story 1: Sell The Position
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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How to Quit Your Job and Pursue Your Startup Idea
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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How to Motivate Customers (and People) feat. Airstreams
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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MAILBAG PART 2: Testing a pasta startup, how niche is too niche, and a structure for dealing with founder stress
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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MAILBAG: Listener questions on a startup ethos, great marketing, a travel company for couples, and nootropics (sorta)
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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A Treading Water Startup (feat. Scorpions and Frogs)
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Hidden Lottery Tickets
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Vertical Farms, Robert Frost, and Growth
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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INTERVIEW: Jeff Sheldon, Founder @ Ugmonk
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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How to Not Waste Your Life
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Inertia - The Only Thing That Matters
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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INTERVIEW: Tom Eisenmann (HBS) on Why Startups Fail
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May 12, 2021 |
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How to Choose the Right Customer (ITS Classic)
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May 05, 2021 |
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Is Your Startup Idea Good? (ITS Classic)
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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How To Be A Great Storyteller (ITS Classic)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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How to Prioritize and Build a Personal Operating System (ITS classic)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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How to lose 1.8 billion dollars in 10 days
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Curiosity and Space
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Survivorship Bias, Base Rates, and Librarians
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Let It Go
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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This Too Shall Pasta (Vision + Part II of Problems vs. Opportunities)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Problems and Opportunities
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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The Case For Now
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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What To Do About Competition (The Gift of "Which")
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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How to Sell A Protein Bar in Seven(ish) Minutes
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Mini Series Ep 3: A Bunch of Tests and an Epiphany
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Mini Series Ep 2 - We're Starting a Startup - Making Customer Interviews Doable
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Mini Series Kickoff - Picking The Startup Idea We'll Start
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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How To Get Your First 1,000 Customers (feat. Pizza)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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The Sasquatch Problem (Are You Passionate Enough About Your Startup Idea?)
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Three Stories for People Starting Startups in 2021
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Make A Billion Dollars
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Make $1,000 Today
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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The Holiday Mailbag
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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The Counterintuitive Way To Get Your First Customers
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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How Will I Know?
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Do The Thing (Motion vs. Action)
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Are You Good Enough?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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How to be Resilient (feat. IOUs)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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How to Differentiate Your Startup (feat. Crabs + Running Shoes)
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Start a Wine Company in 17 Minutes
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Whisper Ideas
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Oct 15, 2020 |
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How to test a startup idea in 7 minutes
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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How to get a customer to choose you (and bagels)”
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Daina Trout on building Health-Ade from a kombucha-making operation in her kitchen to one of the fastest growing beverage brands in the U.S.
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May 20, 2020 |
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How to lose $1.8 billion dollars in 10 days
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May 13, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Jennifer Goggin on building Startle, a tech studio that bridges the gap between research and impactful companies.
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Marc and Ashley Merrill on building Riot Games and Lunya, the role of a leader during times of uncertainty, and their perspectives on how to build a business.
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Christoph Bertsch on building Vejo (and multiple other startups) and how to manage the long-game of entrepreneurship.
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Ladders and Lobsters
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Agatha Kulaga on building Ovenly, turning your creative outlet into a scalable business, and baking the best cookies I've ever tasted.
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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How to Evaluate a Startup Idea
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Brian Linton on building United By Blue, removing millions of pounds of trash from the ocean, and scaling a purpose-driven brand.
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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The Selfish Score: How to build a great customer acquisition funnel
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Rob Petrozzo on building Rally Rd, how to test startup ideas before you quit your job, storytelling, leveraging personas for brand and marketing, raising money, and differentiation.
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Two mental models that'll make or break your startup + a mystery company that can't stop growing because of them
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Ashley Merrill on building Lunya, the beauty of capital-constrained businesses, true differentiation, and self-doubt
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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The Secret Formula to Hot Ones' Success
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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INTERVIEW: Marc Merrill on building Riot Games (League of Legends), prioritization frameworks, and focused growth
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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You Should Start a Startup in 2020
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Idea to Startup Season 2: Build Your Startup in 2020
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Dec 16, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Dave Idell on building Croissant, a flexible coworking company competing with giants.
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Rich Fulop on Building Brooklinen, the Internet’s Favorite Sheets
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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How to Leverage Storytelling Archetypes for Your Startup
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Kim Kaupe on Building Superfan with No Funding
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Leo and Oliver Kremer on Building a Burrito Empire at Dos Toros
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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How Do You Find Founder/Startup Fit?
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Elizabeth Yin, founder & GP @ Hustle Fund, where they invest in “hilariously early founders”
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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How to Prioritize as an Early-Stage Startup
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May 31, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Ben Conniff on Building Luke’s Lobster
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May 22, 2019 |
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How to Choose the Right Customer
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May 16, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Katherine Krug on Building BetterCo
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May 08, 2019 |
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Is Your Startup Idea Good?
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May 02, 2019 |
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INTERVIEW: Joey Cofone on Building Baron Fig
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Start Here
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Apr 23, 2019 |
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Idea to Startup Teaser
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Apr 05, 2019 |