Pencil Problems
Conversations on getting started, and finishing.
Displaying 7 items of Pencil Problems with the tag "startups".
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Response: Consumer Centric Car Buying App
May 31st, 2021 | 4 mins 15 secs
agile, feedback, idea, mvp, pitching ideas, prototyping, startups
Nick responds to Kent's idea
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Episode 48: Pitch: Consumer Centric Car Buying App
May 30th, 2021 | 3 mins 11 secs
agile, feedback, idea, mvp, pitching ideas, prototyping, startups
Kent pitches an idea for an app that puts the consumer in the driver seat when buying or leasing a car (pun is absolutely intended).
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Episode 25: Q&A - Productivity Tools, outsourcing tech, letting someone go.
April 13th, 2018 | 1 hr 5 mins
dads, outsourcing, startups, tech, technology
We open with some project updates (ablecells.com, medium.com/fatherhood) followed by some Q&A from fans (I can't believe people still listen to this!).
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Episode 9: Pivot
November 15th, 2017 | 1 hr 49 mins
apple, ar, google, hubba, microsoft, pivot, sago mini, second life, startups, vr
Kent and Nick talk about pivoting a company or business, microsoft and their failure to pivot, Google and their dozens of pivots, Apple's big pivot, Facebook's huge pivot gamble, VR, AR, and when you know it's time to leave
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Episode 7: Rationing your Wonderbread
November 3rd, 2017 | 1 hr 22 mins
black hat, company culture, feedback, hubba, millennials, sago mini, snowflakes, startups, westworld, white hat
Nick and Kent talk about company culture, the good and bad of backchanneling, the right way to give feedback, and finding a balance between the light and the dark.
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Episode 5: Waiting for that Casper money
October 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 46 mins
ambition, casper, dan benjamin, finishing, ios, monatization, podcasts, sponsors, starting, startups
Kent and Nick talk about ambition curves, what they would do if they got paid to do the podcast, what they really want to do with their lives, and talked more about potential productive pencil problems.
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Episode 1: Everyone has a price...
September 20th, 2017 | 1 hr 20 mins
gumball radio, kent fenwick, nick shim, parenting, resistance, startups, war of art
Nick and Kent talk about picking projects, deciding which ones to stick with, and how parenting can be at odds with these goals.