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What Would a Customer Pay You $10k For?
A provocative prompt to clarify your real value—and pressure-test whether your offer is strong enough.
Using AI for Cold Email Feedback
A walkthrough of how to use AI tools to improve cold email structure, tone, and clarity — without losing your voice.
How to be Recommendable
People only recommend what makes them look good. Craft your product and pitch to help them help you.
Inertia and Your First Product
Early products fail when they ask users to change too much — build around your customer’s default behavior, not against it.
A Killer Marketing Technique to Build Trust
Trust comes from clarity and empathy; this approach helps you communicate both in a way that customers feel instantly.
The Fastest Way to Grow
The real unlock for early growth isn’t ads or hacks — it’s solving one specific pain better than anyone else.
Knowing Incentives
Customers don’t act out of logic — they act out of incentive. Here’s how to uncover and align with what really drives them.
An Extra Circle
A metaphor for going deeper than surface-level startup thinking — especially when your first solution stalls.
How to Stay Irresistible
The secret to staying top-of-mind with customers? Relentlessly solving one clear, emotional pain point.
The Stuff Your Customer Hates
Identifying the little things your customers loathe can unlock surprisingly high-leverage product wins.
Some Customer Interview Inspo
Raw, practical insights from real interviews that helped unlock product clarity and traction.
A Question to Ask: What’s Changed?
See if your startup idea is viable now when it wasn’t before by assessing what’s changed — culturally, economically, or legislatively.
The Idea Equation
A simple equation to help you stress-test startup ideas before you waste time building something no one wants.
Weight Weight, Don't Tell Me
How an unknown founder raised $5mm on Kickstarter with heavy blankets.