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Aug 2023
21m 28s

How to Stop Being Your Startup's Bottlen...

Brian Scordato | Tacklebox
About this episode
Today, we'll help you get out of your own way. We subscribe to the Charlie Munger school of "instead of trying to be smarter, try to be less dumb," and this episode digs into three ways to simplify your startup so that you can move faster. We talk through how to actually implement jobs to be done, how to build systems to amplify your willpower 100x, and how ... Show More
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