How to Build a Product - The Ultimate Feedback Loop

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When i went to college in the late eighties, none of these secrets were out there. There's a thousand blog posts on how to do it. So really your job is to so it through this deluge of advice and find the best advice and then apply it. The people who talk learn nothing every day. Customers are the ultimate feedback loop. And learning how to build a product isn't as hard as you think....

0:01 Jason intros today's questions!
2:18 Kate asks what founders & investors often overlook while pitching/being pitched, and what they should focus more closely on
6:58 Daniel asks about Jason's next book
8:59 Avery asks for advice on performing customer research
14:27 Dan asks what common traits Jason sees in the best founders and tangible steps to gain these traits
19:55 Shahpar asks what kind of cold emails catch Jason's eyes
22:10 Amy asks for the top 5 books Jason would recommend to an aspiring founder
27:18 Andrew asks Jason how his deal flow has been impacted by COVID-19
30:27 Dharma asks about the importance of a startups name/domain name and any hacks getting a better domain name
34:54 Pedro asks how to improve customer retention when acquisition goes down
39:57 Ivan asks how Jason is "sizing up" founders without meeting them in person
42:10 Gerry asks whether to offer a freemium version of a product OR to offer the full product free for a limited window before looking to convert
46:51 Naiem asks whether to push new products searching for product-market fit OR focus on improving existing products