17: Why The Early Days Of A Startup Are Like Wandering Through The Desert

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- You ever feel like the early days of a startup are like wandering through a desert? You're alone. You don't have anything to reference. That's what we're talking about today on Seeking Wisdom: why startups are like wandering through the desert, what to look for, how to know when you're making progress, and who to bring with you. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast Catch up on every episode at www.seekingwisdom.io/

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0:00.0	Today on Seeking Wisdom, we're going to talk about why startups are like wandering through the desert.
0:16.0	Hell yeah.
0:17.1	Alone.
0:18.0	Boom.
0:27.0	Yeah. alone. Boom. All right.
0:28.0	All right.
0:28.0	So I heard you say this the other day.
0:29.5	It was a good analogy, a story, which you've been full of lately.
0:34.0	Full of what?
0:34.9	Stories.
0:35.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:36.0	You're really on your storytelling game.
0:37.8	It's good.
0:38.2	It's good.
0:38.6	It's really good.
0:39.0	So it happens when you age. No, like all your analogies are on point. And you said like the early days of a startup or any new project, maybe you don't even have a startup, are like wandering through the desert. Yeah. And that really resonated. is I want you to tell that story today.
0:35.0	Sure.
0:35.6	So I think,
0:36.3	it's a story I think about a lot.
0:38.8	And I think, wandering through the desert. Yeah. And that really resonated. So I want you to tell that story today. Sure.
0:54.6	So I think, it's a story I think about a lot.
0:57.8	And I think like early days of a project or starting a company, the best kind of
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