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Jonathan Stark

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

How many hours do I have before we have to go to karate tonight? Before, okay, we'll go to my to-do list. What kind of my to-do list, what can I fit into that four hour block? And I just start cranking them off. The ruthless piece is that I don't do stuff that's nice to have. I do the, I'm a big believer in the 80-20 rule. So I don't get fancy with my website. I don't get fancy with my emails.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

How many hours do I have before we have to go to karate tonight? Before, okay, we'll go to my to-do list. What kind of my to-do list, what can I fit into that four hour block? And I just start cranking them off. The ruthless piece is that I don't do stuff that's nice to have. I do the, I'm a big believer in the 80-20 rule. So I don't get fancy with my website. I don't get fancy with my emails.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

How many hours do I have before we have to go to karate tonight? Before, okay, we'll go to my to-do list. What kind of my to-do list, what can I fit into that four hour block? And I just start cranking them off. The ruthless piece is that I don't do stuff that's nice to have. I do the, I'm a big believer in the 80-20 rule. So I don't get fancy with my website. I don't get fancy with my emails.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I don't get fancy on social media. I host a podcast called Ditching Hourly. I don't get fancy on that. There's no intro music. There are no ads. There's no edits. If there's something egregious, a fire truck goes by or something, I'll cut that out. But it's pretty much live to tape and then that's it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I don't get fancy on social media. I host a podcast called Ditching Hourly. I don't get fancy on that. There's no intro music. There are no ads. There's no edits. If there's something egregious, a fire truck goes by or something, I'll cut that out. But it's pretty much live to tape and then that's it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I don't get fancy on social media. I host a podcast called Ditching Hourly. I don't get fancy on that. There's no intro music. There are no ads. There's no edits. If there's something egregious, a fire truck goes by or something, I'll cut that out. But it's pretty much live to tape and then that's it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

Everything that I need to do, let's say I've got an SOP to record a podcast episode, every single thing on that list needs to make a case for itself. Do I really need to put ID3 tags in every MP3? No. Do I really need to put chapters and everything? No. Do I really need music? Do I need episode artwork? No, no, no, no, no. What do I need to do?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

Everything that I need to do, let's say I've got an SOP to record a podcast episode, every single thing on that list needs to make a case for itself. Do I really need to put ID3 tags in every MP3? No. Do I really need to put chapters and everything? No. Do I really need music? Do I need episode artwork? No, no, no, no, no. What do I need to do?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

Everything that I need to do, let's say I've got an SOP to record a podcast episode, every single thing on that list needs to make a case for itself. Do I really need to put ID3 tags in every MP3? No. Do I really need to put chapters and everything? No. Do I really need music? Do I need episode artwork? No, no, no, no, no. What do I need to do?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I need to give the listener a massive insight, at least one, every time they listen to me so they keep listening. I'm ruthless about that stuff. It's the kind of thing that I would hire a VA for, but I'd rather just not do it, to be honest.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I need to give the listener a massive insight, at least one, every time they listen to me so they keep listening. I'm ruthless about that stuff. It's the kind of thing that I would hire a VA for, but I'd rather just not do it, to be honest.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I need to give the listener a massive insight, at least one, every time they listen to me so they keep listening. I'm ruthless about that stuff. It's the kind of thing that I would hire a VA for, but I'd rather just not do it, to be honest.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I'm pretty old, so when I encounter this kind of enthusiasm, I need to take a step back and celebrate that someone is so excited about something. That's great. I love that enthusiasm. You need it. At the same time, I would be super skeptical because I've seen so many things launched to crickets. I've seen so many people just in their own head about what a great idea this is, including myself.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I'm pretty old, so when I encounter this kind of enthusiasm, I need to take a step back and celebrate that someone is so excited about something. That's great. I love that enthusiasm. You need it. At the same time, I would be super skeptical because I've seen so many things launched to crickets. I've seen so many people just in their own head about what a great idea this is, including myself.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I'm pretty old, so when I encounter this kind of enthusiasm, I need to take a step back and celebrate that someone is so excited about something. That's great. I love that enthusiasm. You need it. At the same time, I would be super skeptical because I've seen so many things launched to crickets. I've seen so many people just in their own head about what a great idea this is, including myself.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I've launched to crickets a bunch of times. I wouldn't give them any advice. I would ask basically in a polite way, be like, who cares? Who cares about this? Who's going to buy this? If I don't immediately see what the value proposition is of this thing, you know, it's Uber, but for dogs, it's like, it's okay. What's the market size? Where are you going to find these people?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I've launched to crickets a bunch of times. I wouldn't give them any advice. I would ask basically in a polite way, be like, who cares? Who cares about this? Who's going to buy this? If I don't immediately see what the value proposition is of this thing, you know, it's Uber, but for dogs, it's like, it's okay. What's the market size? Where are you going to find these people?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

I've launched to crickets a bunch of times. I wouldn't give them any advice. I would ask basically in a polite way, be like, who cares? Who cares about this? Who's going to buy this? If I don't immediately see what the value proposition is of this thing, you know, it's Uber, but for dogs, it's like, it's okay. What's the market size? Where are you going to find these people?

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

Why aren't they going to do something cheaper? Why are they going to use your thing? I would be, it's tough for me to not switch into coach mode in a situation like this, but I would be very polite and I probably wouldn't, I probably wouldn't say anything about it to be honest.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S10 Bonus: Jonathan Stark, Consultant - Teacher - Author

Why aren't they going to do something cheaper? Why are they going to use your thing? I would be, it's tough for me to not switch into coach mode in a situation like this, but I would be very polite and I probably wouldn't, I probably wouldn't say anything about it to be honest.