We are going to cover a subject today that really gets both of us mad. Brainwashing. What we mean are the startups who mindless follow a model because “that’s the way it is done.” Too many entrepreneurs take a success story and try to “re-live” it. Today we want to tell you there is no one-way to success.

There is nothing wrong with listening to advice, podcasts, reading success stories,and getting general inspiration. It is when you don’t think about your own situation and try to run your business like someone else. Bias is the variable in all advice. What worked for one startup may not or most likely not work for yours.

Here are the topics we discussed:

How brainwashing starts

Why it is a problem

The 2 mainstream camps

One size does not fit all

Hiten’s advice for startup novices

Being flexible and adjusting with your business needs is a far more favorable strategy. Rather than taking a “road map” model and trying to shoehorn your business into it.

We also want to invite you to a live The Startup Chat Q&A session if you happen to be in the Bay Area on March 31st. It will be in Palo Alto, CA 6-9pm. If you are interested in attending you need to RSVP on our facebook page. Just join our Facebook group.

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Steli Efti:  Hey, everybody. This is Steli Efti.

 

Hiten Shah:  And this is Hiten Shah.

 

Steli Efti:  And in today’s episode of The Startup Chat, we’re going to talk about common ways entrepreneurs are being brainwashed and why it makes us angry and how to change that. But before we go into the episode, we have a public service announcement. We are going to have the very first live and in person The Startup Chat event. It’s going to be this month, so listen up. It’s going to be on March 31st from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in Palo Alto. That’s in the bay area. If you’re in the bay area or if you’re willing to buy a ticket from wherever you are in the world and fly here, we’re not promising it’s worth it—

 

Hiten Shah:  Yeah, we’re not saying it’s worth it.

 

Steli Efti:  We’re not saying it’s worth it, but we won’t stop you if you can make it physically to Palo Alto on March 31st.

 

Hiten Shah:  At 6:00 PM Pacific.

 

Steli Efti:  6:00 PM Pacific. You’re going to be able to join an exclusive group of The Startup Chat listeners and we’re going to do a Q&A episodes where you can ask us questions, criticize, bullshit with us. We’re going to have some beer and pizza. It’s going to be a fun night. What you have to do to RSVP is you have to go to thestartupchat.com/fb for Facebook. Make sure to join the Facebook group if you’re not already part of it. I think you need to do a little bit of— the first post that is pinned is giving you the link to RSVP for the event. Is that correct?

 

Hiten Shah:  That’s correct.

 

Steli Efti:  All right. We want to see you there so make sure to go to thestartupchat.com/fb. RSVP for the event. March 31st 6:00 PM, Palo Alto, The Startup Chat live recording. Now that we got that out of the way, brainwashing.

 

Hiten Shah:  Yeah.

 

Steli Efti:  All right. So, what is that?

So we’ve covered what to do when you reach 10 customers, and what to do when you reach 100 customers. Today we tell you what to do when you reach 1000 customers. If you haven’t heard our last two podcasts about getting customers, check out the links in the resources section below.

When you reach the 1000 mark it means your business is forming an inner and outer customer base. When you reach this point you have to start looking for opportunities to expand. Today’s episode is about how to  use your customer base to expand and diversify your company.

The topics we discuss today are:

How to break your income numbers down into segments.

How to use those segments to find new customers.

The experiment process to find new opportunities.

Why research is so important when you expand.

Resources:

TSC Episode 30: How to Get Your First 10 Customers

TSC Episode 48: How to Get from 10 to 100 Customers for your Startup

A live recording of The Startup Chat will take place on March 31 in Palo Alto, CA.  if you are in the area and would like to join us in-person and be part of the podcast check out the details in our Facebook group.

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 Steli Efti:  Hey, everyone. This is Steli Efti.

Hiten Shah:  And this is Hiten Shah.

Steli Efti:  And in today’s episode of The Startup Chat, we’re going to talk about a topic that’s probably going to be relevant once you’re past the 1000 customer mark, which is how to, you know, launch a new verticals, new industries, new markets; how to diversity the markets especially if you were hyperfocused at the beginning. And, we’re going to talk about this even very specifically with my business in mind, Close.io, and how we think about these things.

Before we do so though, let us tell you about something super-special. There is going to be a life event in person about—it’s going to be a Q&A. It’s not going to be an episode like always. So we’re going to mete physically at the same building that we record The Startup Chat. We’re going to have a big room. We’re going to have pizza and drinks and you’re going to be able to come and ask questions, get to meet us, interact and be part of the live recording of The Startup Chat.

The dates are going to be the March 31st so it’s this month. It’s from 6:00 to 9:00 PM in Palo Alto, that’s in the bay area so if you’re in the area or if you’re willing to fly here, you can show up, but there’s limited seats. So what we want you to do is to go to thestartupchat.com/fb for Facebook. Join the Facebook group if you’re not already on it and the top for there is a link to RSVP. You want to pause everything you do right now and do that immediately. If you’re in the bay area, if you have time on March 31st at 6:00 to 9:00 PM and you want to come down to Palo Alto, be in Palo Alto to meet us, join us and be part of the recording, you want to RSVP ASAP because we have limited seats.

It’s free and it’s exclusive for The Startup Chat community. So people,

We define what momentum is today. Many people have their own definitions of momentum in business. Momentum is that moment when your business has struggled and then doors begin to open and the business takes on a life of its own. It is a great thing when it happens and it is devastating when it dies. But, there are always ways to get momentum if you are willing to hustle for them.

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Getting momentum is work and it requires time, dedication, and patience. It doesn’t happen overnight and just because you build up momentum doesn’t mean you should rest back on your laurels. If you are trying to get momentum started in your business or the momentum you had is dead today’s episode could be pretty useful to you.

Here’s what we talked about in today’s episode:

What is momentum?

How to create it.

What to do when momentum dies.

The importance of focus.

The difference between noise and momentum.

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Steli Efti:  Hey, this is Steli Efti.

 

Hiten Shah:  And this is Hiten Shah.

 

Steli Efti:  And in today’s episode of The Startup Chat, we’re going to talk about momentum, how to get it and what to do when you lose it. So, momentum is one of my favorite topics when it comes to entrepreneurship and business because I do think that that’s the religion and the Gods you should be praying to when you start something new. To me it’s all about how can we build momentum, that’s the number one question I have when I wake up and when I go to sleep is not how can we accomplish this massive thing, but how can we start small and build on that and build on that and build on that so that eventually, you know, as you’re like pushing things up the mountain, eventually you get to that point where now the thing that you were pushing up is rolling down and you accomplish even more than you would because there’s wind behind your back. And we can talk about what is that, what is that if we want to physically grasp it.

 

To me, momentum means that there are so many good things happening in your direction. You have so many conversations with prospects. You have so much content out there that people are discovering. You have, you know—your recruiting is rockin’ and rollin’ so you’re getting more and more kind of incoming amazing talent that you can hire and join your team. There’s good things happening to you that are a result of all of the good things you did in the past. And so if you show up today at work and don’t do anything, a lot of good things will still happen to you. That kind of is a weird way of me describing what momentum is. I’m sure you have a more eloquent way of describing it, but what is momentum to you and why is it important?

 

Hiten Shah:  I think the momentum—momentum especially—yeah, I really like your description, by the way. I think it is weird, for sure. But it has a lot of logic to it when you think about it that way.

Nothing puts an business on edge like an economic downturn. Today we’re going to give you some advice on how to keep your business going through a rough time. Every business has to find it’s own way to survive, whether that be returning money, cutting budgets, or cutting your staff.

Now making cuts suck, but they have to be done. The key to surviving is diversify your client list and keep an eye on your revenue numbers. Downturns don’t have to be a time of stunted growth. As a matter of fact many successful companies have used downturns to pull in great talent that had been let go from other companies.

Other topics we talk about are:

How the economy has seasons

Why you can’t time “the best time for business”

The importance of making drastic changes in drastic times

How to go back to basics

The important thing to remember is no matter what the economy is doing you need to make your business work.

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Steli Efti:  Hey, everyone. This is Steli Efti.

 

Hiten Shah:  And Hiten Shah.

 

Steli Efti:  And in today’s episode of The Startup Chat, we’re going to talk about how to deal with economic downturns as a startup as an entrepreneur. So, here’s the deal, Hiten. I hear more and more this kind of a growing eco-chamber of people worrying and thinking about this year in specific being a year that’s going to be economically really, really challenging. We see all these “unicorn stumbling” and having real issues and difficulties and firing people and, you know, selling for a lot less than they raised and having all these issues. We hear all the ramblings on like fundraising is probably going to dry up and funding is going to dry up.

 

We hear about the all economy going down and this year being a shitty year. And it makes a lot of entrepreneurs and founders, you know, stress out. It makes them nervous, makes them wonder what to do and how to react. And I knew that you would probably have a pretty cool common collected attitude towards this, so I’d love to hear your thoughts. If a founder comes to you stressed out about this kind of—the market and the economic downturn and you’re seeing a bunch of this, you’ve seen a bunch of ups and downs over the years, what’s your advice? What’s your approach today when you see someone with these— I mean, how do you think about that?

 

Hiten Shah:  Yeah. I think it’s a very fundamental skill and many folks don’t have it but, you know, if you just hear it, it’s pretty logical which is like just figure out how to survive if you were going to survive. And if you’re not going to survive, figure out how to gracefully get out of it whether it’s an exit or an acqui-hire or even shutting it down gracefully and returning some money if you’re a funded company. And that’s just more on the funded side.

 

And if you’re a self-funded and all, I just realized that like some things are going to be harder for you. It might actually be harder for you to get customers at some point. Right now, I don’t see that affect you yet, but if you’re self-funded and you’re generally just tryin...

We talk about one of the topics that just irritates us on today’s episode. How to get past the hard things in start-ups. What is irritating about the “but it’s hard” mentality is people often let the challenge beat them down. We are going to give those of you in the midst of a challenge a little pep talk.

This is what we talk about today:

Why EVERYTHING is hard.

Why you need to be more flexible.

When to quit a start-up (we actually have a past episode about this right here.)

What is a Zombie Start-up?

The best coping techniques for a hard business situation.

The next time you find yourself in a hard place in your business maybe taking a step back and looking at it on the basic level will help. If you want to weigh on this topic you can find it on our facebook group below..

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Hiten: Hi, I’m Hiten Shah.Steli: And I’m Steli Efti .

Hiten: And today on The Startup Chat, we’re going to talk about how startups are hard and they aren’t for everyone.

Steli: Yes.  So this is going to be a really uplifting, cheerful episode.

Hiten: Oh of course, yeah.  Yeah, of course.

Steli: It’s like I’ve been struggling with the flu or whatever, zombie bite attack or something.  I’ve been feeling horrible physically for the last two weeks, and as a result also mentally.  And Hiten was telling me how he had a shitty week and we’re like, “Ah, we feel so horrible.” Then when we walked through the list of all the topics we wanted to talk about, we’re like, “Let’s start with the startups are really hard and not for everyone, since we’re already in that mood.”  So if you’re looking for inspiration, maybe this is going to turn into a really inspiring episode, but maybe this is also going to be a more gloomy one.  We’ll see how this is going to turn out.  But let’s talk about, what about startups is hard?  Why are startups so hard?

Hiten: Yeah, I mean, I think you’re starting, you’re generally starting from scratch, and you’re saying, “Hey, I’m going to build a business.  And first I have to probably get a team, or build something myself,” so, you’ve got to find a way to build something, and then after you, there’s all kinds of nuances to that, like why we have tactics like customer development and do things like user research and, you know, sales calls to sort of figure out what people want to buy and all this kind of stuff.  It’s because all we’re trying to do and make sure that we can make money on them.  And that’s like creating new economic value.  It’s pretty hard, because people don’t like to give up their money, basically.

And that’s your path, right?  In any business.  Even if it’s consumer business, in the long run somebody’s got to give you money for something for you to be a business.  So I think just fundamentally starting a business is hard, and if you’ve never done it before, it’s like you don’t know how it feels, you don’t know how hard it actually is.  And one of the reasons this topic is really really really interesting to me is that this thing I hear from people,

We talk about the analogy of fire fighting in business today.  Fire fighting refers to the unseen or devastating problems that come up during a project or even in your company’s public relations. The analogy we are discussing is the idea that your business is a forest. We have talked about businesses as forests before with in the context of seeing the whole picture. But today the forest represents your business as a place you are trying to protect.

Fire fighting at its core is just finding solutions to sudden problems that come up in a project. Being a firefighter in your team is proof you care what happens to the business, to the team, to the industry in which you work.  Too often businesses ignore fires or quickly settle the issue, but never plan for flare ups. We discuss why this is a bad strategy and what is a good strategy.

We also cover:

How to find the root causes of a fire.

Why dealing with a fire will better prepare your team for other fires.

Hiten’s fire fighting story.

Steli’s approach to fire fighting.

Tips on how to deal with a fire the right way.

Resources Mentioned During Today’s Episode:

KissMetrics

Data Nice

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

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Steli : Hey, this is Steli Efti.

 

Hiten: And this is Hiten Shah. And today, we’re talking about fire fighting.

 

Steli : Yes. So in the context of business and life, this is not like real physical putting out fires.

 

Hiten: Well, if anybody here has any – is a fire fighter, has anyone that’s ever been fire fighting, or knows somebody who is a fire fighter, I’d like to get their take on this episode because I don’t know anything about fire fighting. I just know what I see. And we’re going to use the analogy and probably butcher it, but it was the best one I had for something that I’m just always thinking about now.

 

Steli : Which is?

 

Hiten: Fire fighting.

 

Steli : Which means?

 

Hiten: There’s a bigger analogy here. But the simple framework here is like the weeds of a business, the trees of a business. Those are just tactical things that you’re doing.  That’s why they say you’re in the weeds.  You’re really deep in.  Or you’re looking at the trees, but you’re not looking at the forest.  So the forest is the higher level. So to me, fire fighting is like there are some trees on fire. And you’re coming in fire fighting, right?

 

Steli : Yeah.

 

Hiten: And if you’re constantly in that mode as a founder, CEO, leader of a team, manager, even a team member often times, and you can’t go up and see the bigger picture of the whole forest, then you’re constantly only able to attack what’s in front of you.

Friendship is an important part of life. We make friends throughout our lives in all sorts of places, but as we get older friendships change and what we need in a friend changes. Today we are going to discuss how to have friends in a business environment.  

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Steli begins the  conversation with the idea that you stop making friends once you have passed a certain age.  He doesn’t think it’s impossible to do, but the rigors and demands of running a business, having a family, and just life in general make new  friendships hard to maintain.

Hiten disagrees with this concept, he thinks you continue to make  friends your whole life. Even in a business setting. Today’s topic is where should you draw the line in business and personal life?

During this conversation, we hit these main points:

Sometimes a friend can be a rival and how to deal with that.

The subjective definition of friendship.

Why you have to respect a friend.

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Hiten Shah: This is Hiten Shah.

 

Steli Efti: And this is Steli Efti, and in today’s episode of The Startup Chat, we will talk about friendship and business or friendship in general, friends.  So I just suggested this topic to Hiten, and he was just like friendship, friendship.  I love it.  I love it.  I don’t know what we’re gonna talk about, but let’s do it.  I love it.  So here’s why I want to talk about this or why this is something that’s on my mind right now.

 

There’s many reasons.  So two things.  1.) I think over the last few years I’ve realized – and I think I’m not alone.  This is, kind of, an age thing as I’ve built up a family and have children now and all that.  But I’ve maintained friendships that I had with people that I grew up with, although they don’t live very close by. But I try to, like, meet them a few times a year.

 

We go on a vacation together.  I just recently went on a vacation with two friends of mine for over 15 years.  I increasingly realize the value of friendship.  I increasingly realize something that I think a lot of people do in later stages in their lives which is that it’s hard to build friendship later in life like true deep friendship.  It’s easy when you’re young.

 

Hiten Shah: Hang on.

 

Steli Efti: Yes.

 

Hiten Shah: I don’t want to believe what you just said.

 

Steli Efti: All right.  We’ll talk about this in a second, but my framework here is that I think when you’re very young and you just grow up, there’s an amazing amount of time that you can devote to spending time with other people and experiencing things and figuring out who you are and building these bonds.  Later with work and family and children and things like that, the time just decreases.

 

So you meet people, but usually, the relationships and experiences and the time together is much more superficial.  It doesn’t go as deep typically.  And then talking to my mom – and we did an episod...

Today we are going to talk about SaaS pricing. This is a popular topic, and we get a lot of requests to talk about pricing. Hiten was adding up his pricing related emails, and he gets about 12 a day in one form or another. One pricing related thing we do is read the Price Intelligently blog. Their free resources alone should be enough to get you started. The Bare Metrics blog and other pricing metric sites also have great content.

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The one fundamental pricing topic people forget is that the main purpose of having pricing is to make it easy for customers to buy your service. Even with a complex pricing model, you want to reduce the amount of friction for a purchase. If people are paying per page view on your product, it’s not a good idea to switch to per seat pricing.

Topics include:

Creating a pricing framework that makes it easy to buy, cheapest is not always best

How to quantify if a new SaaS product is too expensive

Product and pricing questions to ask during customer development

Creating more value with a new product can be better than price adjustments

A pricing framework is about marketing a positioning and the target customer

Focus on what will help your business grow and segmentation

Getting the facts and data can help find the right business direction

Finding your authentic competitive advantage

Links and Resources:

Price Intelligently

Bare Metrics

Kissmetrics

Personapp

Freemium in SaaS Podcast Episode 003

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Steli: Hello, everyone.  This is Steli Efti.

Hiten: And Hiten Shah.

Steli: And in today’s episode of The Startup Chat, we’re going to talk about SaaS pricing.  So this has been a very – a requested episode.  This is something a lot of people want us to talk about.  There’s a lot of great resources out there that already talk about pricing, but I know that we have a lot of thoughts on this and people want to hear us talk about this topic.  So let’s chat about that.  What’s your overall framework when it comes to figuring out pricing?  Let’s start from a new SaaS app perspective.

We can talk later about changing pricing if you feel like you haven’t gotten it right, because that’s a challenge in itself and in interesting one.  But you build the SaaS product and you’re trying to figure out what should be the price that I set for this?  What’s the framework that you use, what are mistakes that people make; what’s the way that you think about this?

Hiten: I just looked through my email, and I get about two or three emails a day from people, whether it’s internal team, external about – with the word pricing in it.  And this is not sales; this is literally questions on pricing...

Today on The Startup Chat we are talking about impostor syndrome. The idea came from a gif on our Facebook group page that show a baby beginning life with the thought that he doesn’t know what he’s doing and that continues through all stages of life with him still not knowing what he is doing as he progresses through life. At the root of imposter syndrome is realizing nobody, not even founders, really knows what they’re doing.

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Today we talk about some of the fears and uncertainties we face as founders and how looking at things a bit differently can help us through them and imposter syndrome.  

Topics include:

The importance of being comfortable making choices, fully committing and changing your mind if necessary

The problems in comparing your success to others

The role ego plays and problems relating to thinking too much about how you are perceived

The power of writing or speaking your fears

What it means to break through cloudy barriers of assumptions

How you can find ways to help you realize that nobody really knows what they’re doing all the time

Tips:

Hiten:  Start to look at ways to move toward getting knowledge and determining the right problem to work on.  Go YouTube it, Google it, access the knowledge that’s right at your fingertips.

Steli:  Take action and do something in an area where you can fail without serious consequences.  Find something small to do that you don’t know how to do and get used to the feeling that you may fail.

Links and Resources:

The Startup Chat - Motion vs Progress

The Startup Chat - How to Become More Self-Aware

George Soros Google Author Series

Ray Dalio on evolving

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Starting a business is not a one size fits all course. There are many of ways to get your foot in the door of an industry or service. Today we give you some tips on how to raise or conserve money in your business without investors. The most important thing is to a have a skill set or access to people with a skill set you need that will make money.

Your skill set should always be growing and adapting. One of the most useful tips is barter your services in exchange for a service or goods. Our main tips can be summed up below:

Self-Fund -- Don’t quit your day job so fast, make small goals and keep your business as a side project until it starts making money for you.

Work for Free -- Working for free will establish a business contact for you.  You will also be exposed to the day to day inner workings of the business.

Freelance -- Freelance work also builds client rosters and business contacts.

Build a community around your product or service.

Be a “matchmaker” for companies who need a particular service.

There is more than one way to find success in a business. We would love to hear some of your stories on how you started with nothing and built your business.

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