Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel episodes

June 06, 2016 16: Stopping The BS: How To Move Fast Even As You Scale
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It's easy to be customer-driven when your team is small.
But after a while (as teams start to get big) two things tend to happen:
1. Your team stops talking to customers every day.
2. Your team deals with more internal BS every day (meetings, politics, spreadsheets, moving slow, red tape, whatever.)
On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about how to keep shipping, keep moving fast -- and most importantly -- keep your team focused on customers even as you scale.
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20 min
June 03, 2016 15: Do You Really Want Success?
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 snuck out another episode before heading into the weekend. Are you sure you really want success? Are you ready for what it takes? Most people aren't. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast Here's a link to the book we mentioned on this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-Nike-ebook/dp/B0176M1A44?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect
12 min
June 03, 2016 15: Do You Really Want Success?
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We snuck out another episode before heading into the weekend.
Are you sure you really want success? Are you ready for what it takes? Most people aren't.
Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast
Here's a link to the book we mentioned on this episode: https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-Nike-ebook/dp/B0176M1A44?ie=UTF8&btkr=1&ref_=dp-kindle-redirect
12 min
June 01, 2016 14: Innovation, Not Invention
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. --- There's one thing we always want to do when we build new things: invent them scratch. It's human nature. But it's actually a huge mistake to always try to invent new things. On this week's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about innovation vs. invention, muscle memory, and how some of today's most successful products leverage patterns that we're all already familiar with. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast
13 min
June 01, 2016 14: Innovation, Not Invention
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There's one thing we always want to do when we build new things: invent them scratch.
It's human nature. But it's actually a huge mistake to always try to invent new things.
On this week's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about innovation vs. invention, muscle memory, and how some of today's most successful products leverage patterns that we're all already familiar with.
Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast
13 min
May 25, 2016 13: How To Set Goals For Your Startup (And The Power Of Focus)
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. --- On this episode of Seeking Wisdom we talk about the power of FOCUS and setting goals for your startup. If you like tactical episodes, this one is for you. We dive into why we set one team goal for Q2 at Drift, the results, the impact it had on the team and our growth -- including how not focusing on paying customers brought in more paying customers. Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Catch up on all of the previous episodes at http://www.seekingwisdom.io/ Resources and books we mention on this episode: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/06/internet-market.html http://www.the1thing.com/ Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast
28 min
May 25, 2016 13: How To Set Goals For Your Startup (And The Power Of Focus)
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On this episode of Seeking Wisdom we talk about the power of FOCUS and setting goals for your startup.
If you like tactical episodes, this one is for you.
We dive into why we set one team goal for Q2 at Drift, the results, the impact it had on the team and our growth -- including how not focusing on paying customers brought in more paying customers.
Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.
Catch up on all of the previous episodes at http://www.seekingwisdom.io/
Resources and books we mention on this episode:
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/06/internet-market.html
http://www.the1thing.com/
Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast
28 min
May 16, 2016 12: The Myth Of Work Life Balance
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. --- Work life balance is a myth. On this week's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about why it's time to stop fighting work/life balance and instead, focus on prioritizing the right things. This episode was inspired by a post that David wrote titled: How-to Be Happier: Avoid Work/Life Balance https://medium.com/life-learning/your-priorities-bcbbb7e49287#.llbq5lu8v Catchup on all of the previous episodes at www.seekingwisdom.io/ Follow us on Twitter: @dcancel, @davegerhardt and @seekingwisdomio
17 min
May 16, 2016 12: The Myth Of Work Life Balance
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Work life balance is a myth.
On this week's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about why it's time to stop fighting work/life balance and instead, focus on prioritizing the right things.
This episode was inspired by a post that David wrote titled:
How-to Be Happier: Avoid Work/Life Balance
https://medium.com/life-learning/your-priorities-bcbbb7e49287#.llbq5lu8v
Catchup on all of the previous episodes at www.seekingwisdom.io/
Follow us on Twitter: @dcancel, @davegerhardt and @seekingwisdomio
17 min
May 09, 2016 11: Why We Killed Our Lead Forms And Gated Content
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. --- Last week at Drift, we made the decision to kill all of our lead forms and gated content. Here's why (and how it all went down). If you missed the article, here's the backstory: http://blog.drift.com/no-more-forms And the thread on Inbound.org: https://inbound.org/article/can-we-build-an-audience-without-gated-content Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast
22 min

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