How to Think Bigger (feat. The Problems and Opportunities Method)
Idea to Startup
English - December 20, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 134 ratingsBusiness Education customer startup accelerators accelerator business startups entrepreneur entrepreneurship new york entrepreneurs acquisition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: How to be Different, Part 1 (feat. The Personal Venn Diagram 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.
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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