Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

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There's one question that no one asks you before you start a company: Are you ready for the struggle?

Malcolm Gladwell talks about the 10,000 hours.

Jason Lemkin talks about giving a full 24 month commitment just to hit initial traction.

Seth Godin talks about long cuts.

Whatever you call it, there's one common theme: it takes time.

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- No roadmaps. No public launch dates. That’s how our product team works at Drift. It’s how David did things at HubSpot, and Performable, and all the way back. But the "product roadmap” is one of the most essential parts of any product organizations. How many times have you heard “well let’s get it on the roadmap” or “its on the roadmap for Q3.” So this week on Seeking Wisdom, we’re talking about how you can run your business without product roadmaps and public launch dates. Hint: it all comes back to being customer driven. Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom on Medium now! seekingwisdom.io Make sure you subscribe to Seeking Wisdom on your favorite podcast app so you never miss a new episode :) Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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No roadmaps. No public launch dates.

That’s how our product team works at Drift. It’s how David did things at HubSpot, and Performable, and all the way back.

But the "product roadmap” is one of the most essential parts of any product organizations.

How many times have you heard “well let’s get it on the roadmap” or “its on the roadmap for Q3.”

So this week on Seeking Wisdom, we’re talking about how you can run your business without product roadmaps and public launch dates.

Hint: it all comes back to being customer driven.

Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom on Medium now! seekingwisdom.io

Make sure you subscribe to Seeking Wisdom on your favorite podcast app so you never miss a new episode :)

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Why great products don't always win, plus David is hiring an MBA to work with him at Drift. Show Notes: Great products don't always win. Time and time again this proves to be true (by great we mean products that are technically superior, have the best design, etc.) Dave gets David to dig into his 20 years in SaaS to talk about why this happens and what engineers and designers can do about it. We also have some news: David's looking to hire an MBA to work directly for him on our team at Drift to be an "Operator in Residence." You read that right - the same guy that once wrote a blog post titled: "Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? Hell No." Here's the link to Operator in Residence role at Drift: http://bit.ly/Drift-OIR Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io or just search for "Seeking Wisdom" in your favorite podcast app. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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Why great products don't always win, plus David is hiring an MBA to work with him at Drift.

Show Notes:

Great products don't always win.

Time and time again this proves to be true (by great we mean products that are technically superior, have the best design, etc.)

Dave gets David to dig into his 20 years in SaaS to talk about why this happens and what engineers and designers can do about it.

We also have some news: David's looking to hire an MBA to work directly for him on our team at Drift to be an "Operator in Residence." You read that right - the same guy that once wrote a blog post titled: "Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA? Hell No."

Here's the link to Operator in Residence role at Drift: http://bit.ly/Drift-OIR

Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io or just search for "Seeking Wisdom" in your favorite podcast app.

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- We want your questions! We want to do a listener generated episode where we just sit down and go through YOUR questions. So - what do you want to know? Ask us anything. Send a tweet to Drift on Twitter: twitter.com/drift with a question and we'll grab the best ones and answer them on an upcoming podcast. So, from startups to product teams to workouts to culture to hiring to learning, what do you want to know? We'll do our best to answer it. Don't forget: you can catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom at seekingwisdom.io or just search for Seeking Wisdom in your favorite podcast app. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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We want your questions!

We want to do a listener generated episode where we just sit down and go through YOUR questions. So - what do you want to know?

Ask us anything.

Send a tweet to Drift on Twitter: twitter.com/drift with a question and we'll grab the best ones and answer them on an upcoming podcast.

So, from startups to product teams to workouts to culture to hiring to learning, what do you want to know? We'll do our best to answer it.

Don't forget: you can catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom at seekingwisdom.io or just search for Seeking Wisdom in your favorite podcast app.

Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Seeking Wisdom is about more than tech. It's about learning and getting better. So it's time we start talking about more than tech. Today we're talking about fitness - two things that we're both passionate about - and two things that both hold a lot of lessons that can be related to business and growing a company. We talk about why working out has become such an important part of health and happiness, our workout routines, finding the time to workout, progressions and more. Seeking Wisdom listeners! Tweet at us @Drift. We want to hear when you workout, what your workout routine is, what your goals are, etc. Tell us. Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io or just search for Seeking Wisdom in your favorite podcast app. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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Seeking Wisdom is about more than tech. It's about learning and getting better. So it's time we start talking about more than tech.

Today we're talking about fitness - two things that we're both passionate about - and two things that both hold a lot of lessons that can be related to business and growing a company.

We talk about why working out has become such an important part of health and happiness, our workout routines, finding the time to workout, progressions and more.

Seeking Wisdom listeners! Tweet at us @Drift. We want to hear when you workout, what your workout routine is, what your goals are, etc. Tell us.

Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io or just search for Seeking Wisdom in your favorite podcast app.

Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- We talk about books all the time on Seeking Wisdom and thought we’d start reviewing some of our favorites right here on the podcast. Today, we’re talking about The New One Minute Manager, a great (and short) book on management from Kenneth Blanchard. Haven’t read the book yet? No worries. We've got you covered! Since we liked the book so much, we want to buy you a copy, too. All you have to do is take a screenshot on your phone of your podcast app listening to this episode of Seeking Wisdom and then tweet at us using @Drift. If you’re one of the first five people to do it, we’ll mail you a fresh copy of The One Minute Manager. And if you’ve read the book, tune in and then tweet at us - we want to hear your take on the book. Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io/ Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.