40: Tim Ryan (Interlock Capital)

Revenue: Real Startup Stories

English - July 14, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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Tim Ryan is a 4x startup founder and Venture Partner at Interlock Capital, a community-driven VC firm. Today, he spends his time consulting, advising startups, incubating new ideas, and investing.

In this episode, we talk about the challenge that startup founders have building their product and getting their first users. Tim shares his advice on how to focus on the right signals from the market and how to not spend too much time building without getting feedback.

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Interlock Capital Website

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TERMS

B2B = business to business
SaaS = software as a service
Pre-product = the company stage before their product is live
Pre-revenue = when the product is live, but before it's generating revenue

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 - Episode intro
0:56 - Validating your idea
19:06 - Building your startup's credibility
33:50 - Traits of startup founders
58:51 - Wrap up and final thoughts