Ask Jason LIVE!: Navigating startup growth with Real-Time Q&A | E1937
This Week in Startups
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This chapter invites listeners to engage in an interactive Q&A session with experienced founders and investors, who provide valuable career advice and insights. Additionally, it includes promotional messages from sponsors supporting the podcast.
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Todays show:
Jason kicks off Ask Jason live! 5 live guests ask questions on key topics, including finding job opportunities (1:43), the “likely winner” and “definitive winner” framework (26:19), how a non-AI startup with traction can stand out to potential investors (1:04:05), and more!
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Timestamps (0:00) Jason kicks off another Ask Jason with 5 live guests!
(1:43) Dustin asks about how to find job opportunities and market his generalist skills
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(10:42) Dustin asks about how to find job opportunities and market his generalist skills
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(26:19) Francis asks about defining the terms "likely winner" and "definitive winner" in a strategic framework using specific metrics
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(40:17) Mathew asks about choosing between mission-aligned sponsors and more lucrative, unrelated advertising opportunities for his podcast
(52:23) Jason asks whether to continue low-cost growth strategies or seek seed funding to boost growth through advertising, as their product is the advertising itself
(1:04:05) Douglas asks about how a non-AI startup with traction can stand out to potential investors
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Great 2023 interviews: Steve Huffman, Brian Chesky, Aaron Levie, Sophia Amoruso, Reid Hoffman, Frank Slootman, Billy McFarland
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