How to Flip a Startup Approach

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A decade ago, people realized the right way to build startups was to flip this approach around. This works great if you're making version 14 of an iPhone with iterative tweaks or adding another layer of a service to a consulting practice. But it doesn't work horribly if you're trying to build something new. Everything is downstream of step one, finding people and getting their attention. So do that first. Building something that's flexible and easy toIterate on is step two. Make sure the thing works before you heavily invest in it.

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