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Jonathan Courtney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
4547 total appearances

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

So what I do is I like have my dream 100 and I like focus on one person per year or one thing every two years or one thing every three years. And even that, you know, if you're not trying to build a hundred million dollar company, if you're just trying to do what I'm doing, which is

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

bootstrapped under 10 million that you can do this and be lazy and still it's like not true you can't be lazy you can do this be good at what you do keep it consistent and still be pretty successful with it without even what do you think about the angle?

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

bootstrapped under 10 million that you can do this and be lazy and still it's like not true you can't be lazy you can do this be good at what you do keep it consistent and still be pretty successful with it without even what do you think about the angle?

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

bootstrapped under 10 million that you can do this and be lazy and still it's like not true you can't be lazy you can do this be good at what you do keep it consistent and still be pretty successful with it without even what do you think about the angle?

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

Actually, Greg, I'm saying here without building any sort of content, without doing any sort of, you know, being an influencer, but obviously I think it goes without saying having content out there. So my, our YouTube channel for AJ and smart, having content out there being like somewhat visible, that makes everything 10 times easier.

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

Actually, Greg, I'm saying here without building any sort of content, without doing any sort of, you know, being an influencer, but obviously I think it goes without saying having content out there. So my, our YouTube channel for AJ and smart, having content out there being like somewhat visible, that makes everything 10 times easier.

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

Actually, Greg, I'm saying here without building any sort of content, without doing any sort of, you know, being an influencer, but obviously I think it goes without saying having content out there. So my, our YouTube channel for AJ and smart, having content out there being like somewhat visible, that makes everything 10 times easier.

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

Then that's almost like a, you know, moving it from hard mode to easy mode, right?

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

Then that's almost like a, you know, moving it from hard mode to easy mode, right?

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

Then that's almost like a, you know, moving it from hard mode to easy mode, right?

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

I'm lazy and I'm not trying to build a company that makes... I mean, look, I am... I think that a big part of it is that I don't really like to be a public figure. Yeah. And I, I kind of like, you know, okay. If I do a tweet, right. No one is, no one is following me on Twitter or X, right.

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

I'm lazy and I'm not trying to build a company that makes... I mean, look, I am... I think that a big part of it is that I don't really like to be a public figure. Yeah. And I, I kind of like, you know, okay. If I do a tweet, right. No one is, no one is following me on Twitter or X, right.

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

I'm lazy and I'm not trying to build a company that makes... I mean, look, I am... I think that a big part of it is that I don't really like to be a public figure. Yeah. And I, I kind of like, you know, okay. If I do a tweet, right. No one is, no one is following me on Twitter or X, right.

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.