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Jonathan Courtney

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

If I do a post on X, I'm worried the whole day that I've said something bad that I'll, and I'll like have to go back and re-explain myself or something. I'm just like a, I'm not really good with this sort of putting opinions out there and all of that kind of stuff. I used to do it in my early 20s. And I used to almost thrive on a bit of the controversy of the things I would post.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

If I do a post on X, I'm worried the whole day that I've said something bad that I'll, and I'll like have to go back and re-explain myself or something. I'm just like a, I'm not really good with this sort of putting opinions out there and all of that kind of stuff. I used to do it in my early 20s. And I used to almost thrive on a bit of the controversy of the things I would post.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

If I do a post on X, I'm worried the whole day that I've said something bad that I'll, and I'll like have to go back and re-explain myself or something. I'm just like a, I'm not really good with this sort of putting opinions out there and all of that kind of stuff. I used to do it in my early 20s. And I used to almost thrive on a bit of the controversy of the things I would post.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And now I'm like, I want to be not... Checking stuff on, which is why I actually like YouTube. I want to actually, that would be one of my other examples. If you don't want to build like a personal brand, if you don't want to get out there and be like, I'm also not naturally good at it the way you are.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And now I'm like, I want to be not... Checking stuff on, which is why I actually like YouTube. I want to actually, that would be one of my other examples. If you don't want to build like a personal brand, if you don't want to get out there and be like, I'm also not naturally good at it the way you are.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And now I'm like, I want to be not... Checking stuff on, which is why I actually like YouTube. I want to actually, that would be one of my other examples. If you don't want to build like a personal brand, if you don't want to get out there and be like, I'm also not naturally good at it the way you are.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I think you have a really, you've kind of almost got this brain that's optimized to the max for being really good at regular content. I look at your ex account and it's just like, you're nonstop. Yeah. And I think you'll always beat someone like me if we were competing in that sort of game.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I think you have a really, you've kind of almost got this brain that's optimized to the max for being really good at regular content. I look at your ex account and it's just like, you're nonstop. Yeah. And I think you'll always beat someone like me if we were competing in that sort of game.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I think you have a really, you've kind of almost got this brain that's optimized to the max for being really good at regular content. I look at your ex account and it's just like, you're nonstop. Yeah. And I think you'll always beat someone like me if we were competing in that sort of game.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And I think that's also why people who make a lot of content are actually usually the most successful people. It's impossible to compete with it. If it was like a video game or a board game, it's like the overpowered skill is the ability to...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And I think that's also why people who make a lot of content are actually usually the most successful people. It's impossible to compete with it. If it was like a video game or a board game, it's like the overpowered skill is the ability to...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And I think that's also why people who make a lot of content are actually usually the most successful people. It's impossible to compete with it. If it was like a video game or a board game, it's like the overpowered skill is the ability to...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

keep producing content, even when there's lots of like annoying little fucking comments that you're like, you know, I'll get one comment, negative comment on a YouTube video and it will ruin my day. You can get like probably 10 and you're like, whatever, I'll just make the next video. I just have thin skin for that sort of thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

keep producing content, even when there's lots of like annoying little fucking comments that you're like, you know, I'll get one comment, negative comment on a YouTube video and it will ruin my day. You can get like probably 10 and you're like, whatever, I'll just make the next video. I just have thin skin for that sort of thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

keep producing content, even when there's lots of like annoying little fucking comments that you're like, you know, I'll get one comment, negative comment on a YouTube video and it will ruin my day. You can get like probably 10 and you're like, whatever, I'll just make the next video. I just have thin skin for that sort of thing.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And so that's why I naturally lean towards methods which are less about me creating content, I guess.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And so that's why I naturally lean towards methods which are less about me creating content, I guess.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

And so that's why I naturally lean towards methods which are less about me creating content, I guess.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I do need to put on some weight to be fair. I want to talk about YouTube for a second. There's a channel I want to give a shout out to. One of my mentors is the... Founder, that's actually the best way to say it without giving away too much information. One of the founders of this company is a mentor to me. It's mastering.com.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to get your first customers (even with ZERO audience)

I do need to put on some weight to be fair. I want to talk about YouTube for a second. There's a channel I want to give a shout out to. One of my mentors is the... Founder, that's actually the best way to say it without giving away too much information. One of the founders of this company is a mentor to me. It's mastering.com.