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EP16 - How do you design products people love?
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 05, 2016 05:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsScott Hurff - who you met back in Episode 2 of this show - just released a new hit book through O'Reilly called "Designing Products People Love." But Amy and Alex aren't interviewing Scott about his book or his launch in this episode. In fact, the opposite. In this episode we turned the tables...
EP15 - Why "Lambo Goals" never keep you motivated
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - January 29, 2016 17:48 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsHey brick stackers, Amy here. Last time we talked about resolutions (which are easy). Now let's talk about motivation (which is hard). Realtalk: How many times have you started a project with a burst of motivation and dream and then it just… fizzled out? Not with a bang, but with a whimper? (...
EP14 - What are your New Years Pants?
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - January 26, 2016 17:46 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWhy are we talking about Amy's pants on a business show? There's a connection, we promise. You know this is gonna be good. Stacking the Bricks is back for 2016! Special thank you to everyone who reached out and told us that you missed the show in the time since our last episode. We missed maki...
EP13 - Justin Weiss's shift from side projects to successful product launches
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 09, 2015 14:46 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings"The idea that, oh well, I shouldn't charge money for this because… some reason. Justin spent years noodling on side projects. He made every excuse in the book for not charging for them, including some we haven't often heard: At the time, it seemed like, 'Why should I charge money for this? T...
EP13 - Justin Weiss's shift from side projects to successful product launches
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 09, 2015 14:46 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings"The idea that, oh well, I shouldn't charge money for this because… some reason. Justin spent years noodling on side projects. He made every excuse in the book for not charging for them, including some we haven't often heard: At the time, it seemed like, 'Why should I charge money for this? Thi...
EP12 - "I'm shipping ebombs, now what?" - From Pain to Product with Nick Piegari
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 05, 2015 15:48 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsClick here to watch the video of the ebomb that you hear in the intro of this episode -> https://unicornfree.com/2015/so-youve-got-some-safari-and-ebombs-now-what-pain-to-product-coaching-part-2 ebomb, n - our special 30x500 term for "actionable educational content marketing". Yeah, cuz that's ...
EP11 - "I just need someone to hold me accountable."
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 04, 2015 18:24 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings"I just need someone to hold me accountable." "If only there was a community where I could get advice…" "Let me tell you my plan…" Have these phrases ever passed your lips? And then you failed to 1. execute your plan, 2. take action on the advice you received, or 3. be accountable? I'm going t...
EP10 - Why do people worship the struggle of entrepreneurship? And how to avoid it.
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 03, 2015 18:08 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsNewsflash: Lean Startup and Customer Development are inherently broken. If you ask me, the whole process is functionally bankrupt. Why? Let me answer your question with a pair of questions: Why do you create good things… but nobody buys? Worse: Why do you feel the thrill of a great idea, then ...
EP10 - Why do people worship the struggle of entrepreneurship? And how to avoid it.
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - March 03, 2015 18:08 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsNewsflash: Lean Startup and Customer Development are inherently broken. If you ask me, the whole process is functionally bankrupt. Why? Let me answer your question with a pair of questions: Why do you create good things… but nobody buys? Worse: Why do you feel the thrill of a great idea, then...
EP9 - How to clear a path for product success
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 26, 2015 20:38 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsJim Gay is a busy dad. A REALLY busy dad, with 4 kids. He really wanted a product business so he could spend more time with his family instead of working endless stressful hours to pay the bills. But this episode isn't actually about making time at all...it's about clearing a path for success....
EP9 - How to clear a path for product success
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 26, 2015 20:38 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsJim Gay is a busy dad. A REALLY busy dad, with 4 kids. He really wanted a product business so he could spend more time with his family instead of working endless stressful hours to pay the bills. But this episode isn't actually about making time at all...it's about clearing a path for success. ...
EP8 - From pain to product Masterclass with Amanda Thomas
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 23, 2015 05:01 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAmanda has learned the hard way that publishing beautiful books on the Kindle and other e-readers is a pain in the ass. In this hour long masterclass, Amy and I help Amanda through her first steps in turning this deep vein of pain into her first product. We talk about: Choosing and narrowing ...
EP7 - Part two of "The Life-changing Magic of Shipping"
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 18, 2015 04:38 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWant a different result than you've been getting? Then you need a different approach. Enjoy part two of our 2-part conversation to learn the revolutionary approach that Japanese organizing expert Marie Kondo teaches for tidying, and how those lessons apply to your startup, too. Bonus: life (and...
EP6 - "The Life-changing Magic of Shipping"
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 17, 2015 04:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsRight now I'm reading a book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Japanese organizing expert Marie Kondo. It's amazing. I can't recommend it enough. Already, I'm feeling an increase in lightness, beauty, and joy in my home. But that wasn't the reason I started reading it to Alex dur...
EP5 - The evil voicemail effect
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 15, 2015 17:50 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsEarlier this week, Alex and I were stuck. Hard. I was crazy unhappy with the lessons I'd been trying to design. What I was doing… wasn't working. Why was I stuck? What did we do to get unstuck? What on earth is the "voicemail effect" and why is it the source of so much writer's block? If you f...
EP5 - The evil voicemail effect
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 15, 2015 17:50 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsEarlier this week, Alex and I were stuck. Hard. I was crazy unhappy with the lessons I'd been trying to design. What I was doing… wasn't working. Why was I stuck? What did we do to get unstuck? What on earth is the "voicemail effect" and why is it the source of so much writer's block? If you fi...
EP4 - Shipping is a skill
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - February 05, 2015 17:31 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsAre you a procrastinator? Don't feel bad about it - DO something about it. On this show, you’re going to be hearing a short story from my business partner and co-host Amy Hoy admit something....there was a time when she wasn’t so great at shipping. That's right, the author of Just Fucking Ship...
EP3 - We didn't hit our annual goals. But...
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - January 13, 2015 03:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWe didn't hit our goals (which was mostly our fault). We let deadlines slip, and probably let some people down. Amy got really sick. :( So of course, looking back on 2014 feels like we didn't get all that much done. But when Amy and I sat down and spent an hour going over the stuff we did do...
EP3 - We didn't hit our 2014 goals. But...
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - January 13, 2015 03:13 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratingsWe didn't hit our goals (which was mostly our fault). We let deadlines slip, and probably let some people down. Amy got really sick. :( So of course, looking back on 2014 feels like we didn't get all that much done. But when Amy and I sat down and spent an hour going over the stuff ...
EP2 - Scott Hurff's first product launch was "wrong", but $50k later he knows it didn't matter.
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - January 09, 2015 03:10 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings30x500 Alumni Scott Hurff joins Alex Hillman. They talk about how Scott's approach to building products has changed, and what he's learned from both of his launches. By his own measures, Scott's first product - a technical course for designers wanting to use Quartz Composer - was far from "perf...
EP1 - How Pat Maddox went from 0 subscribers to over $3k MRR in 10 days
Stacking the Bricks: Creators and Entrepreneurs You Can Relate To - January 09, 2015 03:06 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 42 ratings30x500 Alumni Pat Maddox joins Alex Hillman. They talk about how Pat used the 30x500 process of Sales Safari and dropping ebombs. Then Pat shares how he ruthlessly followed just three steps every day for 10 days to get from from barely making rent to having over $3000 in MRR from paying custome...
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