Nascent Startups 🪺 Podcast

Mike Vladimer
Nascent Startups 🪺 Podcast

You have an idea for a tech business. Now what? Nascent Startup is a set of strategies for how to spend your first 100 days and $100 when you have an idea for a tech business. www.nascentstartups.com

  1. Simplifying entrepreneurship (17)

    JAN 27

    Simplifying entrepreneurship (17)

    Shout out to Paul Orlando at USC for all the support 🙌 https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/paul-orlando This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    26 min
  2. Customer Discovery 2.0: From a count of interviews to the quantified pain histogram (16)

    10/13/2024

    Customer Discovery 2.0: From a count of interviews to the quantified pain histogram (16)

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    40 min

  3. 07/04/2024

    A live interview with Robbie Kellman Baxter, an expert on subscription startups (15)

    I attended SubSummit in June 2024 in Dallas, Texas to record an episode of the Nascent Startups podcast. Amazingly, Robbie Kellman Baxter filled in at the last moment when my originally scheduled interviewee was unexpectedly absent. Thanks so much and kudos to Robbie for sharing her insights on no notice! Links we referenced in the show: * https://robbiekellmanbaxter.com/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/robbiekellmanbaxter/ * https://subsummit.com/ * https://www.strava.com/ * https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/ * https://pmfsurvey.com/ * https://boldcommerce.com/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-pienta-15a8298/ * https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcchambers/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    13 min
  4. Good news! The era of "fake it til you make it" has ended (14)

    05/28/2024

    Good news! The era of "fake it til you make it" has ended (14)

    Shout out to Pilot44 and Jon Corshen This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    7 min
  5. At the nascent stage, who should you build for? Just yourself, the founder (13)

    05/10/2024

    At the nascent stage, who should you build for? Just yourself, the founder (13)

    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    4 min

  6. 04/18/2024

    A founder’s journey: No regrets about being “delusional,” just wishes it would’ve been quicker and cheaper (12)

    In the summer of 2019, Adara Blake (https://www.adaranicole.com/) founded a startup, Believe in Breast Milk. Adara is a speech therapist and lactation consultant who wanted to solve the problem that 60% of mothers do not breastfeed for as long as they intend to. Typically, Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is used for pain relief in muscles; Adara’s innovation was to use TENS to stimulate breast tissue and drive milk production. Adara’s vision was to create an internet-of-things (IoT) TENS device so that Believe in Breast Milk could track user data and yield better results, similar to how Omada Health uses an IoT scale to track weight data. There was initial data showing this could work! Adara’s friend Susie used Adara’s TENS technique to increase milk production 5x in just a few days : In this podcast, Adara walks us through her journey: * Feeling inspired by other “delusional” founders in Silicon Valley / San Francisco Bay Area * Deciding to create Believe in Breast Milk in summer 2019 * Struggling to determine her first steps * Incorporating the startup into a business * Taking out a personal loan of $5,000 to pay engineers to create a CAD drawing of a prototype of the smart TENS unit * Avoiding paying another $5,000 to build the prototype. * Adara used the Nascent Startups methodology to focus on “creating initial value”. Instead of the expensive and tedious IoT TENS, Adara quickly and cheaply created similar value for her first users by paying less than $100 for a conventional TENS and using a free Google Form. * Recruiting 6 people to use the TENS and measure milk production * Shutting down the startup informally when it “fizzled out” in summer 2020 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    34 min
  7. Going deeper on Dis-Ideation (10)

    03/31/2024

    Going deeper on Dis-Ideation (10)

    When you have an idea for a tech startup, your first step is to deeply understand the people you want help in an Exploration exercise. Shout out to Lex Fridman and Jeff Bezos: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-bezos This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    6 min
  8. How a founder decided whether to pursue their startup idea in just 10 days and $0. Case study #2. (9)

    03/24/2024

    How a founder decided whether to pursue their startup idea in just 10 days and $0. Case study #2. (9)

    A founder's journey: Carley had an idea for "BundleShop" but wasn't sure whether it was an opportunity worth pursuing so she used the Nascent Startups methodology to decide quickly and cheaply. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.nascentstartups.com

    15 min
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