Idea to Start Up is a weekly 20-ish minute podcast that helps people with startup ideas turn them into businesses. This week we'll talk about why absolutely no one took any of Brian Scordato's advice last week and how you can get going on a product over the weekend for real this time. The magic is the outcome you create, not the product itself.
Today, we'll talk through why you didn't get a product live last weekend despite an episode that walked you through a step-by-step process to do it. Last week, we ignored the emotional stuff. The inertia and discomfort that keep people from doing something new. Today, we tackle it. We give you a framework to lean into discomfort and answer the questions that nag at you and hold you back from putting stuff live.
0:35 Magical Products
1:51 Story of company that helps restaurants source ingredients
6:27 11 Emails, 0 Products
7:04 Inertia + Discomfort
8:00 BYLDD
9:04 Plan vs. Freestyle (How to Wiggle)
12:35 The Things That Matter and The Things That Don't
13:00 What if your product needs to be professionally designed?
15:00 The Mirror Problem (and the three things to help with it)
16:16 Discomfort = Growth and No One Cares About You
17:12 College Philanthropic Story
18:35 You're going to lose X if you don't > You're going to get Y if you do
20:00 A new lane for the restaurant startup
20:55 How the restaurant startup got their first product out