Mastering Product Idea Validation and Building A Fanbase with Sam Dickie

Welcome back to The Sausage Factory!

In this week's episode we have a great chat with Sam Dickie, a Senior Product Manager at Skyscanner. We discuss how to validate your ideas, why you should build quickly and why Sam could have black pudding with anything…

Sam also takes us through his favourite and least favourite pieces of content.

--- What we discuss ---

- (00:50) An introduction to Sam

- (14:44) The blend - we talk about the best way to validate an idea

- (18:26) Insight on why it’s important to build quickly and use feedback loops

- (30:59) Why a thousand true fans is achievable

- (31:19) Why you shouldn’t let barriers stop you

- (43:15) Matt’s bangers - Sam shares all time favourite piece of content

- (44:44) Sausage of death - Sam talks about the worst piece of content he’s ever come across

- (46:12) Next on The Sausage Factory

--- Connections —

- Sam’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samdickie/

- Kevin Kelly’s A Thousand True Fans: https://www.amazon.com/1000-True-Fans-Kellys-Simple-ebook/dp/B01N9P9O4G

- Not Boring by Packy McCormick: https://www.notboring.co/
- First Round Capital - https://review.firstround.com/articles

- The Rockee site: https://rockee.io/https://rockee.io/

- Rockee Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rockee_io

- Rockee Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rockee/