PreMint: Solve real problems and don't give up

PreMint founder, Brendan Mulligan shares his lessons from building several businesses.

He sold LaunchKit to Google and led dev tool products for three years there.

He's built a tonne of other projects and currently runs PodPage and PreMint.

We learn:

• The biggest mistakes founders make
• His framework to solve real problems
• The number 1 flaw that kills NFT projects
• What it's like to sell a business to Google
• The benefits and negatives of startup vs. corporate
• How to prioritise work in your 20's for later success

Connect with Brenden Mulligan: 

• Launch a podcast website - PodPage
• Create an NFT access List - PreMint
• Follow Brenden on Twitter - @Mulligan

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Host Sam Webster Harris explores the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Watch the pod - YouTube (Growth Mindset)

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Title: PreMint: Solve real problems and don't give up

0:00 Solve real problems and don't give up

01:42 Why do you build so many things?

02:49 Why did you go and work for google? How did career shape happen?

04:30 How did you sell business to google?

07:06 Running own buiz to working at google then leaving

09:17 Big lessons from Google

10:58 What you should learn from google

14:37 Google fail to solve a problem

15:10 Framework to know you're solving a problem

17:13 Not putting a price on the pain 

18:04 Pre-purchase decision + Patreon / Kickstarter

18:30 Issues with Kickstarter

19:24 Where do ideas come from + Podpage genesis

21:53 Any other NFT projects? Why Premint is great

23:04 Expected Pre-Mint to fail - Don't give up!

23:45 Doubling down on your focus area

24:25 NFT trends + Utility tokens

24:54 NFT collections vs utility tokens

26:30 Cycling movements of NFTS

28:09 Metaverse thoughts?

29:20 Advice to younger self - Music industry 20s

30:21 Be a small fish in a big pond

30:55 Derek sivers

31:14 Derek call after leaving google

32:53 BYEEEE

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