Nuggets:

• Balancing 2-sided marketplaces is tricky - better to stick with roughly even instead of trying to match podcasters with dramatically different audience numbers
• The criterion that determines when you should build a business around a 2-sided market

Action Steps:

1. Contact up-and-coming podcasters and offer this matching service
2. Contact podcast hosting companies and sell them on building this service for their customers

Follow through on these action steps and email us your results at [email protected]. You'll get exclusive access to a private Facebook group of action takers and one listener will earn a free mentorship call with our guest, and potentially, a business partnership.

Links:

Sales for Founders

Gymhopper

PostPerk

FiveMinuteFounder.com

RedCircle

Piano World

Pod Hunt

Kickstarter for Podcasts with Mubashar Iqbal

Louis Nicholls is a self-taught developer, recently escaped from the crazy world of VC-backed startups. Through his Sales for Founders course and podcast he helps (technical) founders learn how to do sales, find their first customers and build a product people want to pay them for. He previously co-founded a B2B SaaS company, Gymhopper, which was acquired in 2018 and PostPerk, another B2B consumer company. He maintains a weekly actionable advice email for founders which you can subscribe to at FiveMinuteFounder.com

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