How to Put on Blinders Without Feeling Like You're Giving Up the Cause

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You can move the cause forward by building the smallest viable audience and serving them well. The number of people who want this today is very low. If you're going to 1,000 people avoid needless surgery and you can help five doctors feel like they are doing something that they are proud of, that's a good year's work. And you'll get paid well if you do that. But it's because you said, I'm looking for people who get the joke. And if they don't get the joke, good luck to you.

Today, Seth Godin (!!) virtually dropped by to talk through a bunch of startup ideas. He gives his opinion on how he’d start everything from a pasta truck to an updated CSA program. We dive into risk, emotion, tension and doing things that matter. Seth talks about the distinction between entrepreneurs and freelancers and the danger of thinking you’re one when you’re really the other. We talk about marketplaces and domain expertise and knowing what it is you’re actually selling.

This is my favorite episode we’ve ever recorded, and I’m excited for you to listen to it.

01:45 How Brian and Seth Met 05:10 Idea #1 - Helping Doctors and Patients get 2nd (and 10th) opinions 10:48 Idea #2 - How to Start a Pasta Truck 13:01 Landlords and Renters 14:45 Bootstrapping the food truck - emotional vs. financial risk 17:13 Can you start a business if you’re not a domain expert? 18:42 Idea #3 - The Scalable Coach 22:50 Entrepreneur Pacs 26:15 - Idea #4 - Update to CSAs 31:20 - How to Pitch Something Uncomfortable - who takes the risk 34:15 - Idea #5 - Cost Transparency 40:37 - Confusing Freelancing and Entrepreneurship 45:08 - The Billboard Question - (outstanding, make sure you get here)