Mattie Valentin: I love to write, and for the first time in my life, since I was an undergrad, I had the time and space to do it seriously. But number two, I did have a topic and a thesis that I was interested in thinking through and researching that I thought was both relevant and possibly time sensitive. So yeah, opportunity and motive, I guess. And one of the things that really struck me was this idea that we jumped too quickly to hypotheses.
Do you ever feel like the experiments and analyses you're working on feel a little bit like a trip on a hamster wheel — properly grounded in hypotheses, perhaps, but not necessarily moving the business forward like you'd hoped? On this episode, Matty Wishnow, the author of Listening for Growth: What Startups Need the Most but Hear the Least, joined Moe, Tim, and Val for a discussion about why that may be, and how reframing the work to focus first and foremost on identifying problems (and unmet opportunities) can be useful! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.