The Foundation: How Entrepreneurs Come Up With Profitable Ideas (Out Of Thin Air) – with Dane Maxwell — How do you come up with an abundant, endless supply of profitable ideas — more than you could ever pursue?
Dane Maxwell is back on Mixergy and he has the answer.
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Listen to Dane Maxwell call a prospect, and hear how he extracts a profitable business idea. — Where do profitable business & product ideas come from?
You’ve heard me interview founders who said they got their ideas by calling up customers and uncovering their pain. Then they build businesses that solve that pain.
Do you want to hear how that’s done?
This is an actual call that Dane Maxwell made to show his students at The Foundation how to find ideas that will help them launch software companies.
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How A Goal-Oriented Bootstrapper Who Mortgaged His House Ended Up Fathering Flash – with Charlie Jackson — How did a bootstrapper who mortgaged his house to launch a software company end up becoming the father of Flash, the platform that changed online video?
Charlie Jackson is the owner, CEO of Silicon Beach Software, which develops storybooks on mobile devices for kids. In 1993 he co-founded FutureWave Software and unleashed on the world a product that we know today as Adobe Flash Player, the cross-platform browser plug-in that delivers web experiences like video and games.
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Mike Maples — Big waves are driven by discontinuous technology changes. The key is to find a discontinuous technology change and time it just right. For example, in social networking, Tribe and Friendster were a little too early. Facebook and LinkedIn were just right. Twitter happened a little later. After that, it became very very difficult
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Brian Wong — Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed. Just remember: the minute you feel like you’re building a tool and a feature rather than a game changer – it’s probably an indicator to stop and to reconsider.
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SnapInspect: How To Find A Software Idea And Pre-Sell It Before It’s Built (Without Any Coding Skills Or Capital) – with Sam Ovens — Sam Ovens started his software company with no idea, no market knowledge, no coding skills or capital and he claims that having none of these is an advantage in business, not a disadvantage. He did it with guidance from TheFoundation.io, so I invited him to talk about his process.
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TechStars Series: Sendgrid’s CEO On The Joy And Panic Of Being Eyeballed By A Giant (like Amazon) – with Jim Franklin — What happens to a startup after an outside executive becomes its CEO?
Jim Franklin is the CEO of Sendgrid, which helps companies get their email delivered easily and provides them with analytics so they could improve their messages’ effectiveness.
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Jeff Lawson — Designing intuitive APIs is hard, but my recommendation is to make sure your API makes sense as a user of your system, not the designer of the system. Design the API first. Many API developers release an API that’s based on their internal models. But you may suffer from the curse of knowledge
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Luke Wroblewski — Designing web applications for mobile platforms before the desktop enables you to take advantage of explosive growth, useful constraints and innovative capabilities. Mobile growth provides opportunities to increase engagement and create a better overall experience for your users. Mobile constraints force you to design web products that are focused, fast and frequently used.
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Chris Wanstrath — Make sure you don’t prioritize growth over your core competencies. Don’t hire the best people who apply for jobs, hire the best people you can find. Don’t add people just because you can, add people because they’re going to strengthen your business and make your company more awesome.
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