Chapter
Teespring and Building the Foundation for Entrepreneurship
50:58 - 1:00:29 (09:31)
The speaker discusses the benefits of Teespring and how he used it as an early entrepreneur to launch a product. He also touches upon the importance of building the foundation for entrepreneurship and preparing for big things by tightening conversion for a better end output.
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The Teespring founder talks about his own experience of struggling to sell t-shirt designs before coming up with the idea for Teespring, which allows people to crowdfund t-shirts before printing and selling them.
50:58 - 54:48 (03:49)
Summary
The Teespring founder talks about his own experience of struggling to sell t-shirt designs before coming up with the idea for Teespring, which allows people to crowdfund t-shirts before printing and selling them.
ChapterTeespring and Building the Foundation for Entrepreneurship
EpisodeEp 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
The speaker has been working on sharpening his own blog, mailing lists and redesigning the mobile and responsive versions of his site in order to prepare for future projects and improve his conversion rates.
54:48 - 58:06 (03:18)
Summary
The speaker has been working on sharpening his own blog, mailing lists and redesigning the mobile and responsive versions of his site in order to prepare for future projects and improve his conversion rates. He uses comments as a way to develop his thinking around various subjects for his writing.
ChapterTeespring and Building the Foundation for Entrepreneurship
EpisodeEp 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Serial entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis was asked what questions he would ask entrepreneurs to decide whether or not to invest in their startups given a limit of only 10 questions each.
58:06 - 59:07 (01:00)
Summary
Serial entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis was asked what questions he would ask entrepreneurs to decide whether or not to invest in their startups given a limit of only 10 questions each. The number of accepted projects by Y Combinator in a batch is around 70, and he would invest in no more than 10%.
ChapterTeespring and Building the Foundation for Entrepreneurship
EpisodeEp 36: Alexis Ohanian on Y Combinator, Getting Punched, and Picking Winners
PodcastThe Tim Ferriss Show
Y Combinator offers a simulator with common interview questions for their application process, and applicants are encouraged to ask questions on the application form.
59:07 - 1:00:29 (01:22)
Summary
Y Combinator offers a simulator with common interview questions for their application process, and applicants are encouraged to ask questions on the application form. One favorite question that is no longer included asks founders to describe themselves as animals.