StartupPHTraining

To be clear, no. But it will give you a very good chance that it will. The focus of this course is to help you learn how to begin from a place of understanding and empathy, rapidly test your ideas, and design your solution based on what people are willing to pay for. There are other factors such as the idea itself, your drive or other things that compete for your attention as you are completing this course, and running your startup. Startups are hard and takes a lot of your time. Taking this course doesn't exempt you from the effort, passion, or time required. It does give you a road map and guide towards achieving success though.

That's totally fine though initially we won't be focusing on that, and I highly recommend you put a hold on it. Know that it's very difficult to be a solution looking for a problem.

We will be focusing on getting to know the people that could potentially be using it, understand their problems, and then see if what you've built is the best solution for it.

If not, then the good news is you've saved yourself from spending more money and time building something people don't need.

That's great! That's really critical at the very early stages of a startup. The focus will be on sustaining and growing your customer base. The fundamentals are actually the same regardless of stage (Begin by understanding, then prototype and test)

If you already have customers then we know who you need to talk to. Instead of finding out what problem we could potentially solve for them, we'll find out what problem you've been solving for them then get to know them even more. We'll understand how they feel about doing business with you and the areas that you can improve. By doing so, we'll keep them happy, keep and make sure they keep buying from us and also find more people like them to grow our startup.

If you have a startup idea and are willing to invest time into it to make this succeed. If there is a problem so big that it affects you so much and are passionate about solving it. If you are hoping to make this idea your full time career soon as you to afford it, if you are working with a team and have committed to each other to make it succeed, then this is for you. Even if you have a full time job but are committed to your idea, then this is for you.

A chapter will take about an hour to complete per week. In each chapter will need to complete activities you need (interviews, prototyping, creating pages, testing, reviewing, etc) which will probably take between a day or two. You will also need to set aside about a couple of hours worth of 1on1 coaching and meetings if you are working with a team. So overall perhaps about 2 to 3 days per week.

But the time you spend on the course shouldn't be separate from the time you spend on your startup. Remember that this coaching program is meant to guide you in your startup journey so that the time you spend completing the activities will be time spent on your startup.

In a nutshell, no. The beauty about 1on1 coaching is that we can arrange our schedule that we're both available. While a consistent schedule makes things convenient for me. I understand that this isn't always possible. Do note that starting August 26, I won't be available Wednesday mornings and anytime before 5pm on Fridays.

That might be a problem because business and startups are all about selling. Not just to your customers but also by selling your vision when recruiting your co-founders, your employees, and later on to investors and other customers.

The good news is that we don't sell to people that don't need our product or service. You won't need to do any convincing. If you do, then you're doing it wrong. People often associate selling with being that suave smooth talker that's trying to deceitfully convince us to buy something. That's now what you're going to learn.

What you're going to learn is how to empathize with people, really understand them and match their problems with a solution to their problems and price it reasonably. Selling is problem solving. And if you like problem solving but don't like the old-school definition of selling, then this is your course.

This is a learn-by-doing type of course so if you do the activities that this course makes you do, then you will 100% learn a lot of things.

You risk not learning anything if you simply watch the videos and don't complete the prescribed activities and attend the 1on1 sessions. If at anytime you don't feel that you are learning anything, let me know and I'm more than happy to give you your money back. All I ask is that you tell us what I could have done better.