The 7 Laws of Scaling with Jim Huffman

This week, the script gets flipped as longtime fan and fellow growth tactician Maja Voje joins the pod to grill Jim about projects past and future.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Getting into growth
• Early projects and successes
• Product positioning
• Favorite frameworks
• Hypothetical growth games

Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Remotely Talents. Hire ridiculously talented offshore staff that cost 40%-80% less than EU or US-based equivalents

Resources:

• Maja Voje
• Growth Lab
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

Yonathan joins again to dissect lessons from some amazing startups before Jim shares a handful of business opportunities that could be successful today.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Jim gets big timed
• 3 Good reads
• 15 startup ideas
• Cross-pollinating news letters
• The benefit of owning a category – death
• The advantages of being nimble
• Mirrors are forever
• Growing to 9 figures without raising money
• SMS growth
• Niche marketplaces
• Novel betting app for speculators
• Mobile EV charging as a service
• No fee financial advising

 
Sponsor: This episode is sponsored by Remotely Talents. Hire ridiculously talented offshore staff that cost 40%-80% less than EU or US-based equivalents

Resources:

• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook 

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

This week, Jim is joined by Cory McKane, founder of WeStrive, a fitness app that is exploding in popularity right now. Cory talks about how his most valuable experience came from an epic failure along with tips and tricks about SAAS growth and pricing.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Strategic beer pong
• Hacks for local events
• Starting with failure
• Turning down a great offer
• Balancing development and launch
• Cold outreach tips
• The upside of enterprise
•  Pricing tips

Resources:

• We Strive
• Cory McKane
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

This week we get to be a fly on the wall for one of Jim's recent zoom presentations with Techstars. Jim talks nitty gritty tactics about customer personas, best in class case studies, and funnel strategies before answering some specific questions from new startup owners.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• TechStars growth tactics
• Customer personas
• Best in class case studies for funnels
• Strategies and tactics
• Being a market of one
• Success stories
• Undervalued vs over valued tactics for small startups
• Offers advice

Resources:

• Join My Newsletter here
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Goals for 2023
• Liquid Mind thoughts
• Macro goals
• Micro Goals
• The AI wave disruption
• Baby boomer asset wave
• AI and the solopreneur
• Companies to watch
• 2023 Growth Tactics

Resources

• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

This week Jim is joined by Rob Sobers the amazing growth expert who helped grow a company from under 30M in sales to 500M in just a few years. They get very tactical and dig into the nitty gritty about how to achieve rapid and sustainable growth.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• The value of hard technical skills in growth
• Growth at 30M ARR
• Utilizing Channel Partners
• Figuring it out vs Scaling it up
• Demand capture vs demand creation
• Growth at 100M ARR
• Content Marketing

Resources:

• Rob Sobers Twitter
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

We revisit a classic episode where Jim and Yonathan bring back the popular segment, Iconic Reads, and break down Sam Altman's seminal 2019 blog post "How to be Successful."

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

·      Compounding yourself

·      The importance of original thinking

·      Don’t be afraid to fail: You only need to score once to win

·      Getting rich by owning things

·      Why you might not always need to be a “force of nature”

Resources:

· Sam Altman Blog Post

· Jim Huffman website

· Jim's Twitter

· GrowthHit

· The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

This week, Jim is joined by the best selling Author and entrepreneur Tucker Max for a short but insightful conversation about crafting your identity and starting a business.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Getting started through failure
• The golden days of email
• Keeping your identity separate from your profession
• The origins of Scribd
• Knowing your role

Resources:

• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)

Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)

How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)

Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)

How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

It's time to talk 2023 goals!  Yonathan Ayenew (GrowthHit COO) joins to review their 2022 goals and discuss how to set and achieve goals for 2023.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Review Our 2022 Goals
• Our 2023 Goals
• Tips, Tactics & Hacks to Help Hit Our 2023
• Tips and books for setting and achieving habits
• Themes for 2023 

Resources:

• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook 
• The 1 Thing

Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)

Jim is joined by Yonathan and the two go over what has been and incredibly interesting yet positive year both in terms of business and personal goals.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Doubling sales & employees
• Launching EOS
• Layoffs
• Investing in brand and anew website
• Our TikTok experiment hit 1M views
• Creating culture
• Personal changes
• Eating one meal a day
• Dopamine detox
• The 6am club
• Being a girl dad

Resources:

• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

 Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• Startup Ideas by Paul Graham (#45)
• Nathan Barry: How to Bootstrap a Company to $30M in a Crowded Market (#41)
• How I Met My Biz Partner and Less Learned Hitting $2M ARR (#44)
• Ryan Hamilton on his Netflix special, touring with Jerry Seinfeld, & how to write a joke (#10)
• How We're Validating Startup Ideas (#51)