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Nov 2023
24m 41s

An SOP for Testing a Startup Idea

Brian Scordato | Tacklebox
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Today, we'll help you build an SOP for testing startup ideas. We'll use an example from a listener - a startup in the homeschooling space - as a guinea pig. The best way to have a great startup idea this time next year is to test out a bunch of ideas in the interim. This SOP will help you do it, and scale the process.

00:00 Tacklebox
00:30 Pros and Amateurs
02:08 Homeschool Idea
05:47 The Story of Future You
06:16 Entrepreneur Pro Tactic Number One - Working Backwards from Dreams
07:42 BYLDD
08:50 SOPs
14:19 An SOP for a Problem Worth Solving
14:46 Customer Language
15:55 SOP Problem Doc
19:40 The Stakes
23:00 The Startup Journal

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