Idea to Startup

Today, we'll talk about my favorite item from the Always Work List from a few weeks back - the Daniel Tiger SOP. Entrepreneurship requires you to do uncomfortable stuff constantly. This gets overwhelming and leads to founders sticking with the well-worn, safe path. That leads to startups with no differentiator and no reason to exist.

The Daniel Tiger SOP helps you turn intimidating tasks into manageable ones. It lets you travel a unique road, which leads to a unique product. It's as good a technique as I've found. 

Tacklebox

Always Work and Never Work Lists Pod

Email team@gettacklebox.com with sub “always work never work” to get the lists

An SOP for Testing a Startup Idea

Daniel Tiger Song

Nate Bargatze Dumb Brain

Timestamps

00:35 Intro - Always Work and Never Work Lists

02:55 The Most Useful Item from the Always Work List

03:55 What Makes People Happy
06:15 Smooth Jazz

06:45 You’ll Never Sprint Again

08:12 Repetitive SOPs and Uncomfortable SOPs

09:30 The Daniel Tiger SOP

11:13 Email Scam Detector Startup

16:30 The End: Our Brains Are Dumb

Today, we start a wine business in 17 minutes. It's a classic episode and it's a good time. 

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Today is part 2 of our series helping you build an internal operating system. We identify the four things you'll need to have happen for your startup to gain momentum, then we organize those into a system that'll help you move fast based on inertia.

Tacklebox

Monkeys and Shakespeare

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Delta 4 Status Level Jump

 

00:25 - Internal Operating System Part II

03:15 - Monkeys and Shakespeare

07:40 - Smooth Jazz

08: 05 - Reverse Engineering a System

10:45 - Where is the Monkey?

11:33 - The Four Things That Matter for an Early Stage Business

11:40 - Problem

12:01 - Delta 4 Status Level Jump

13:34 - Secret

16:35 - Optimize for Inertia

18:37 - 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

20:00 - The Thousand Daily Votes

21:43 - The Last 15%

23:30 - Script the Beginning and End

24:30 - Feedback Loop Optimization

Today, we'll talk about one of the most effective methods to do hard things we've found at Tacklebox: Scripting the start and end. 

Tacklebox

Alternate Nostril Breathing

Jr Jr - The Speed of Things

Today we'll talk about thrust and drag, the components of momentum. Momentum is the lifeblood for startups, but most people leave it to chance. By focusing on the inputs of momentum - thrust and drag - you can build systems to ensure you keep moving forward. Gaps kill startups. This system removes them.  

Byldd

Tacklebox

Song where Taylor Swift burns Jake Gyllenhall