A podcast for people working on startup ideas. We have 15-minute tactical episodes and occasional interviews with people who did the early things exceptionally well. We've helped launch hundreds of startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and these are the building blocks. "This is, without a doubt, the best podcast for people trying to build startups out there." "If you aren't listening to this podcast and you're considering building a business (or you're already building one), what are you doing?" "Must listen for first-time entrepreneurs - excellent storyteller."
How to Think Bigger (feat. The Problems and Opportunities Method)
Today, we’ll teach you how to avoid sabotaging your startup. Most founders think the best way to build a startup is to mitigate risks - to optimize for worst case scenarios. But the actual way to build a successful startup is to optimize for tasks with the highest ceiling - to do the things that might give you asymmetric gains, if they work. This is unnatural and hard - the Problems and Opportunities Method, the second in our Method series, will help.
- Tacklebox
- Idea to Startup Newsletter
- Day One App
- The Hail Mary Pass that Saved Hinge
- Loss Aversion is Paralyzing Your Startup
- Feast of the Seven Fishes
00:22 Problems and Opportunities
02:26 Find Your Lobster Story
08:10 Asymmetric Progress
10:00 Smooth Jazz
10:45 The To Do List Monster
14:20 The Obstacle is the Way
15:12 Ambiguity Aversion, Loss Aversion, and Magicians
15:55 Helping Parents Plan Dates
18:22 Scheduling and the Actual Downside