How I Operate

How I Operate

By Jakob GreenfeldBusinessEntrepreneurship
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How I Operate episodes

  • Brainstorming opportunities in the WordPress ecosystem with Iain Poulson

    This podcast is brought to you by Opportunities.so.

    Resources mentioned in the episode:

    • Iain's website
    • Iain's Twitter account
    • Plugin Rank (Iain's SaaS tool for plugin creators)
    • Integrate (Iain's WordPress-Instagram plugin)
    • WP Trends (Iain's Newsletter)
    • WP User Manager (the plugin Iain acquired)
    • WPContent.io (Iain's WordPress community)
    • WP Rocket (the premium caching plugin that succeeded despite strong competition)
    • Freemius (service that makes it simple to sell WordPress plugin subscriptions)
      • 1 hr 2 min
    • Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim (Part II)

      Andrew's Twitter profile. 

      Andrew's idea list

      • 3. Design Assessment Platform (enterprise Coderbyte but for UX/UI Designers)
      • 4. Speed Runs of Non-Games (GamesDoneQuick but for other digital activities)
      • 1. Homeschooling Extracurricular activities (have homeschooled kids socialize more)
      • 5.  Piggyback Distribution. Micro influencer marketing. (get  slack/discord/subreddit active community members to 'hunt' your product)
      • 2. Be my guest. Play at exclusive member only places (primarily golf clubs to begin)


        • Summary

        • Jakob and Andrew discuss the idea for design assessment platform, like CoderByte, but for UX/UI designers (1:28)
        • Jakob and Andrew moves on to the next idea – speed runs of non-games (12:04)
        • Jakob and Andrew discuss plans on how to monetize the project / idea (20:09)
        • Jakob and Andrew move on to homeschooling extra-curricular activities (22:28)
        • Jakob and Andrew discusses the next idea – micro influencer marketing (32:17)
        • Jakob asks what the missing link is in the current ecosystem (34:50)
        • Jakob and Andrew discusses their experiences in private / public communities (36:17)
        • Jakob mentions that there's room for improvement for communities in general (44:41)
        • Jakob and Andrew talk about their experience using Circle (46:46)
        • Jakob and Andrew then move to the last idea: find a way to play at exclusive member only places like golf clubs (49:53)
        • Andrew tells what originally prompted this idea (52:57)
        • Jakob mentions how the two last ideas are connected (55:25)
        • Andrew decides what idea he want to execute  (57:13)
          • 59 min
        • Unearthing Opportunities with Max Mirho
          • Jakob explains how and why he reached out to Max (01:20)
          • Max describes and enumerates what they do on a live show and in business (02:13)
          • Jakob and Max discusses more about the latter’s business model and its sustainability (04:51)
          • Max talks about the tools he uses as his primary sponsorship source and eventually scaling it up (05:04)
          • Max tells Jakob the story behind his unnamed agency (07:12)
          • Max mentions how he discovered that speaking at universities, especially private schools, are profitable (11:50)
          • Max talks about how and why he got into the LinkedIn platform (17:27)
          • Max discuss about the project’s focus being on the tech side (20:26)
          • Jakob talks about product ideation (22:12)
          • Max says that a lot of stuff they build is more product focused and that he plans to build these into real scalable things (23:38)
          • Max mentions Superstack and explains how he wants to build it (29:48)
          • Jakob talks about his project that collects Substack data and Max expresses his interested (32:40)
          • Max tells more about his plan to launch an online course about LinkedIn automations, SEO, building websites, etc. (34:56)
          • Jakob and Max talk about the benefits of using Twitter (40:35)
            • 37 min
          • Unearthing Opportunities with Andrew Kim

            Andrew's Twitter profile. 

            Andrew's ideas:

            1. Productize my ProductHunt profile as a "Good Luck Charm" because I have the lucky of being user #777777

            2. Negotiation Practice or interviewing.io for negotiations (not just salary)

            3. Start with a "Why So Expensive" product, and build something around that

            4. Collabs GAN (Generative Adversarial Network)

            5. Dynamic Price Widget


            1 hr 13 min

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