May 13, 2021

Psychological Questions to Ask Your Future Co-Founder

By Get To Traction • Issue #25 • View online

Gosh, if only I had a Co-Founder to share the load… Finding someone who can help with tasks is easy; finding someone who shares your same passion is hard. I’ve seen too many times where partnerships go sour and while it’s a business headache it’s also an emotional toll when it happens. It’s OK to turn someone down - you’ll find the right person when the time is right.

~Diane

Weekly Sprint - Negative Feedback: Which feedback are you ignoring? Are you falling into the trap of confirmation bias? What do you do with negative feedback? View your startup as objectively as possible; use the good and bad feedback to shape your direction.

How To Find a Cofounder: Ask These 20 Revealing Questions

These psychological questions will help you better understand each other and better determine goodness of fit. If you’re not aligned on these questions or if the person’s style of responding doesn’t mesh with your personality, use all of that as data to say “no” now.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen put together an 80 slide deck on how to use growth ideas to evaluate startups from an investor’s perspective. Lots of nuggets here.

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Beta Testing Products and Survey Questions: Exact Questions to Ask Your Users (and Why)

The tactical differences in doing customer research that separate success from failure: what questions to ask, what methods get the most value, and what to do when an MVP doesn’t resonate with customers.

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Why is empathy important in product discovery?

Empathy is an essential practice to shift into a customer-centric mindset, tackling cognitive and assumption bias. A Q&A with product folks.

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Consumer Subscriptions

It’s still early days for the increasingly dominant business model of the Internet. The first in a series of three essays on consumer subscriptions, an overview of the category - looking at both digital and physical subscriptions.

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