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A podcast about how successful innovators and startup founders think.Launching a startup and finding traction is hard. Like, really freaking hard. Join startup advisor and traction thinker Josh David Miller as he dives deep into how successful entrepreneurs and innovators think. If you want to learn how to take your startup to market and find traction faster, don’t miss an episode!
Everyone knows 95% of all startups fail, and most people that I talk to think that startups are killed by the marketplace. But startups are rarely murdered. Instead, they commit suicide by building or scaling a product too soon.
But there’s another option: rapid prototyping.
In part 4 of JDM's series on business models, we look at how you create and deliver your value proposition, and the one key strategy most founders miss.
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The customer is at the center of any business model.
All this and more in this week's episode of Inside the Box, a podcast about how to find product-market fit faster by changing the way you think about entrepreneurship.
This is part 2 in our 6-part deep dive on business models, and it's entirely about customers!
Why? No one invests in weak business models, and no successful business is built on one. Duh!
Yet most early stage startups and other innovative efforts have generally terrible foundation that go on to plague them in their later stages. Without a crystal clear understanding exactly how your company meets the four basic components of any business model, you are doomed to fail.
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No one invests in weak business models, and no successful business is built on one. Duh!
Yet most early stage startups and other innovative efforts have generally terrible foundation that go on to plague them in their later stages. Without a crystal clear understanding exactly how your company meets the four basic components of any business model, you are doomed to fail.
This is the first in 6-part deep dive on business models.
https://jdm.bio
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Inside the Box with JDM is sponsored by The Right Box, a bespoke team of entrepreneurs and innovators who help startup founders find the quickest past to traction — or fail fast trying.
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Too often, early in an entrepreneurial or other innovative effort, we resist doing inefficient things. It often goes against our nature. So we create tools & processes to save ourselves effort, and then we spend time & energy refining those tools & processes.
The problem is that the nature of doing innovative things is that we don't actually know what we're doing yet! We have an hypothesis, but that's all it is.
So we're literally spending time getting efficient at something that we don't know is the right thing to get efficient at.
This is the efficiency trap. And design thinking can get us out.
Inside the Box with JDM is sponsored by The Right Box, a bespoke team of entrepreneurs and innovators who help startup founders find the quickest past to traction, or fail fast trying.
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For this episode of the pod, we're going to do something a little different. Our own JDM co-hosts the Startup Shop Talk live show on YouTube every Friday at 11am Pacific. On January 21st, they had a fantastic discussion on everything you need to know about pitching your startup to investors, to co-founders, and even to potential customers.
We thought our podcast audience might find the discussion interesting, so here's an edited version of the conversation between JDM of The Right Box and his co-host, Dan Casas-Murray of the Lean Innovator.
Let's do something a little different.
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Product-market fit isn't one thing. It's best to think of it as a spectrum that matches the lifecycle of the startup, and guides founders on what to do next.
In this episode, JDM talks about the four steps of product-market fit:
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The business model canvas is a fantastic tool for innovators and entrepreneurs, but books, online courses, incubators, and even accelerators all commit a fundamental mistake when it comes to making proper use of it. They all treat the business model canvas as a documentation tool, but that completely misses the point.
In this episode, JDM talks about why the business model canvas is a fantastic tool, but only if you use it correctly: not as a task, but as a process.
Inside the Box with JDM is sponsored by The Right Box, a bespoke team of entrepreneurs and innovators who help startup founders find the quickest past to traction, or fail fast trying.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
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Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
