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The Physics of Startups — 42 episodes

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1

Investor PULL (what VCs actually want)

2

Buying is weird and rare (a reality check)

3

How Rocksalt.ai went from Push to Pull

4

DECK DROP - Rob's latest

5

Cause vs. Benefit | The Quickbooks lesson

6

The fusion engine for progress (PULL applied to capitalism)

7

Translating customer language 101

8

Rob's B2B Sales Call Script (finally)

9

Behind a $300M exit: Interview w/ Palash Soni from Goldcast

10

The "PULL Theory" of business

11

Exponential PULL (aka: stop slogging it out)

12

Learning from Infomercials: How to describe your product

13

Is your customer BLOCKED or COPING?

14

Cyberstarts: Inverting the idea stage

15

How companies become generational

16

The aerodynamics of sales

17

How to understand customers

18

Do I have a "PMF problem" or "Sales Execution problem"?

19

How to start a sales call ("Discovery" that doesn't suck)

20

Nobody "wants" AI (and other lessons from Henry Ford)

21

PULL is everywhere (AKA: Your business is not the exception)

22

The PULL framework (finding PMF)

23

The 3 sales pathologies (Helpful, Noble, Smart)

24

Strict Productivity (aka: Understanding superhuman founders)

25

Customer Success (the "bullet train to retention")

26

The Divine Lever (What pulls you? A new concept)

27

The Demand Audit

28

Demand: Force against the status quo

29

Bend the world to fit demand

30

What's your founder operating philosophy?

31

Pipeline: Getting to 5-10 calls / week

32

Startups that Find Demand vs. 'Conjure' Demand

33

How to build the 'right' product

34

The step-by-step sales process for founders

35

The physics of startup sales

36

'Weird if it didn't work'

37

How to figure out 0-1 sales

38

The art of finding startup ideas that work

39

The Hard Thing about Simple Things

40

Fix your GTM with Toll Booths (and Samurai Swords)

41

The path to PMF demystified (finally)

42

The Startup Landscape: Waves, Dams, and Rivers