This week, Jim is joined again by Yonathan to give an update on the $3m challenge as it approaches the one year mark. The pair discuss hiring a new operator and trying out an approach called unreasonable management as well as looking at the prospect of acquiring new businesses in the future.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Update on The $3M Challenge
• Unreasonable Management
• Out Investment Thesis 
• 5 startups that caught our attention

 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 former MLB pitcher and Entrepreneur Jacob Turner, who shares his Journey from no. 1 draft pick to financial advisor to the athletes and entrepreneurs.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Welcome to the big leagues
• Setting a budget from a huge payday
• Similarities between entrepreneurship and professional sports
• What’s wrong with wealth management 
• Financial advice for entrepreneurs
• How much should you put back into the business
• Shortening the trust curve 

Resources:

• Jacob Turner Twitter 
• JL Strategic Wealth
• 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 Will Hughes as he shares his unique framework for encouraging creative thinking and solutions for entrepreneurs.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Creating liquid mind
• Harnessing frameworks
• Breaking thought patterns
• Using another perspective
• Exposure to different ways of thinking
• Copy culture
• Oxford framework
• Specific applications 

Resources:

• Liquid Mind Website
• Will Hughes
• 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 the newsletter guy Matt McGarry, who's helped grow newsletters like Milk Road, The Hustle, and Ben's Bytes. Matt shares amazing tactical info on how to grow subscriber numbers and make money from a newsletter.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE 

• Charging for a meeting
• Making money from a newsletter
• Pricing Frameworks
• Content market fit
• Newsletter frameworks
• Getting your first 1k
• Monetizing 
• Working with The Hustle, Milk Road, and Ben’s Bytes

Resources:

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

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 Josh Ledgard of Kickoff Labs as they chat about validating startup ideas, being your own angel investor, and scrappy growth tactics to get you to your first 1000 customers.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Learning while being paid
• Identifying the inflection point
• Validating startup ideas
• Getting the first 100 customers
• Scrappy growth after the first 100 customers
• Angel funding yourself
• Managing a lean team
• Fighting feature bloat
• Tactics working right now
• Pricing strategies
• Navigating the vision

Resources:

• KickoffLabs
• Josh Ledgard Blog
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

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

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 hear the the second part of Jim's conversation with Tommy Griffith co-founder of ClickMinded. Tommy shares his insights into the importance of simplicity, and explains why simple is not the same as easy.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Best new growth levers
• Simplicity: Don’t be a midwit
• Simple is not easy
• Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Being aggressively intentional with your technology/attention
• Fishing parable

Resources:

• Tommy's Blog post: Incredibly Difficult and Pointlessly Complicated
• Clickminded
• Jim Huffman website
• Jim's Twitter
• GrowthHit
• The Growth Marketer's Playbook

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

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 Tommy Griffith CEO of Clickminded for the first of a two part conversation. In part 1 Jim and Tommy chat about building in public, inflection points, and how and when to get out of the way as a founder.

TOPICS DISCUSSED IN TODAY’S EPISODE

• Tech course creation
• Building in Public
• Inflection points
• Founders getting out of the way
• Mistakes 

Resources:

• Tommy's Blog post: Incredibly Difficult and Pointlessly Complicated
• Clickminded
• 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, 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)