- Startup founders often waste time on things that feel like work but are not actually productive.
- The most common waste of time is spending too much time consuming advice through blogs, videos, books, etc.
- Instead, founders should focus on the core work of building a product, writing code, and talking to users.

What are some things that are a total waste of time for startup founders?

There's an endless supply of things you could be spending time on as a startup founder that feel like work, but aren't actually work.

The most common 1 is spending way too much time consuming advice.

But spending way too much time consuming advice, whether blog posts or videos or funding announcements or reading books and not actually doing the thing.

And I'm defining doing the thing as writing code, building a product and selling it, right?

And so you can spend all of your time doing these superficial things that feel like things a startup founder would do without doing the actual core work, which again, at its core is building the product and talking to users.


Speaker 0: Here's a question. What are some things that are a total waste of time for startup founders? I think that's a fair question. There's an endless supply of things you could be spending time on as a startup founder that feel like work, but aren't actually work. The most common 1 is spending way too much time consuming advice.

This is ironic, isn't it? But spending way too much time consuming advice, whether blog posts or videos or funding announcements or reading books and not actually doing the thing. And I'm defining doing the thing as writing code, building a product and selling it, right? And so you can spend all of your time doing these superficial things that feel like things a startup founder would do without doing the actual core work, which again, at its core is building the product and talking to users.

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