👉🏼 About the Guest:

Dani Grant is the CEO of Jam, a dev tools startup helping 30K+ improve their bug reporting process, backed by executives from Apple, GitHub, and Pager Duty, and VCs such as Village Global (LPs include Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos). Before Jam, Dani was an early product manager at Cloudflare, where she worked on core developer products such as 1.1.1.1 (now used by 10 million+ people). She also worked as a VC at Union Square Ventures.

👉🏼 About the Host:

Sharath is a founder, creator, and community builder. He is also a serial maker who built and shipped 15+ projects using no-code tools. His SaaS product Shoutout generated $30k ARR, which was sold to a UK-based product studio. Prev, Sharath worked for world-changing startups like Product Hunt and On Deck, where he helped build and nurture communities. He also grew his audience on Twitter from 200 to 24,000 using give-first principles and creating high-value content. He recently sold his second SaaS product, GuestLab, and he is working on a startup idea while hosting this show.

👉🏼 Sponsor Corner:

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👉🏼 Description:

Listen in as Sharath and Dani discuss taking product-led startups, relaunching your product, building distribution, and more!

👉🏼 Timestamps:

00:00: Episode Highlight
00:56: Shoutout to Acquire.com
03:21: Introduction to Dani Grant - founder at Jam.dev
06:46: How non-technical teams complete demos at Jam.dev
08:36: Dani's journey from product manager to venture capital to founder
12:08: Dani's innate purpose behind Jam.dev
14:23: What was Dani's push to start Jam.dev?
17:13: What Dani would build if not Jam.dev
18:34: How founders should choose a business idea
22:07: Discussing problems vs solutions with customers
25:35: How to retain unsatisfied customers
27:28: How to test out a messy product without alienating customers
30:55: 5 biggest lessons of launching a product
37:34: Ship fast vs ship perfect
40:57: How product-led thinking made Jam.dev
45:55: How to build distribution for your startup
48:14: How Jam.dev grew through podcasting
50:00: Playing long-term games in the startup world
52:53: The lowest point for Jam.dev in 4 years
56:00: Hiring strategies that worked for Jam.dev
59:00: How Dani raised $12M in venture funding
1:02:20: Outro and closing thoughts

👉🏼 Resources:

Link to Acquire.com: https://try.acquire.com/sharath/
Irtefa, Jam.dev - https://jam.dev/blog/author/irtefa/
140+ Business Ideas You Can Launch Tomorrow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn5HcjucwY0
The Mom Test: https://www.momtestbook.com/
Paul Graham, "How Not to Die": https://paulgraham.com/die.html
Seth Godin: https://seths.blog/

👉🏼 Where to find Dani:

Website: https://jam.dev/
Jam.dev's pitch deck: https://deck.jam.dev/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedanigrant
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danigrant
Blog: https://jam.dev/blog/author/dani/

👉🏼 Where to find Sharath:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/5harath
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@5harath
Website: https://5harath.com/
Newsletter: https://5harath.substack.com/
Founder Gigs: https://foundergigs.com/

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