#315: The Power of Small Experiments to Supercharge Your Success

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today on the show, Noah Kagan shares what it was like getting fired from Facebook right before it went public and losing out on a $185 million pay day, and how he bounced back from that blow. He then digs into the process he goes through in testing if a business idea is viable and how he used that process to start several successful ventures. Noah then shares the difference between founding a business and managing it, and why managers get the short shrift in today’s start-up focused world. We end our conversation by talking about how you can run personal experiments to create a better life and how to run a diagnostic test on yourself in order to make every day a great one.

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0:00.0	Paret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:17.6	We'll start in running a successful business requires you to constantly experiment with
0:21.6	ideas and adapt on the fly.
0:23.4	My guest today has become a master at testing ideas quickly in his entrepreneurial ventures
0:27.4	which has allowed him to start several million dollar businesses.
0:30.4	He's taken that test and adapt philosophy and also applied it to his life, his personal
0:33.9	life, to become physically stronger, more resilient and more productive.
0:37.3	His name is Noah Kagan, he's the CEO of AppSumo and he shares his musings on business at
0:41.5	his blog OkDork.com.
0:45.6	Today on the show, Noah shares what it was like getting fired from Facebook right before
0:49.2	went public and losing out on a $185 million payday and how he bounced back from that
0:54.3	blow.
0:55.3	He digs into the process he goes through and testing if a business idea is viable and
0:58.6	how he used that process to start several successful ventures.
1:02.0	Noah then shares the difference between founding a business and managing a business and
1:04.9	why managers get the short shrift in today's startup focused world and we end our conversation
1:08.8	by talking about how you can run a personal experiment in your life to create a better
1:13.6	and more satisfying life and how to run a diagnostic on yourself just as you would with
1:18.3	your car.
1:19.3	Lots of actual advice in this episode.
1:21.0	If you're interested, check out the show notes at aum.is slash kagan, we're going to find
1:24.4	links to resources where you can delve deeper into this topic.
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