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By Jakob Greenfeld
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.
Amaan reached out to me on Twitter since he wanted to learn more about my Bootstrap MBA experiment and we ended up talking about a wide range of topics.
Helen's Twitter profile
Her insane side project review which contains links and comments to all projects we talked about.
Rob Hope is a maker from South Africa and the project he's most famous for is a site called One Page Love. But he also recently published a great book titled Landing Page Hot Tips, he has a podcast and curates beautiful emails.
I got the chance to talk one of the people I admire the most in the maker world. Mubashar Iqbal ("but you can call me Mubs") is an incredibly prolific maker with decades of experience building things.
We talk about his process for coming up with product ideas, his experience collaborating with other makers, and the learnings from his past and current projects.
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I talk about my launch of Maker News and the things I learned by studying Nathan Latka.
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I talk about what I learned about product ideation and my "Grand Unified Theory of Product Ideation" that summarizes the ideas of people like Paul Graham, Pieter Levels, Nathan Barry, and Amy Hoy.
Further, I discuss my second project launch: a Product Idea Prompt Generator that I build to make my daily "ideation workout" more effective.
I talk about the launch of my first project Maker Reads. Also I didn't really plan the launch, it went surprisingly well and the project was able to gather more than 200 votes on ProductHunt and made it into their Newsletter.
I also discuss my struggles to stick to my plan and how I'm going to adjust it.
A few resources mentioned in the episode:
This is the first episode of the Bootstrap MBA, a podcast by Jakob Greenfeld. In this introductory episode, I summarize what my plan for the next 12 month is, what the bootstrap MBA is all about, how I came up with the idea, my motivation, and how I decided what exactly I want to learn
My focus will be:
The three steps I will focus on for each area are:
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“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” ― Farrah Gray
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ― Haruki Murakami
The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.