E1014: Open Office Hours LIVE! Jason helps founders with their biggest challenges: targeting a specific segment of customers, overcoming past failures in a market, developing new nuclear energy, competing against a major incumbent & more!
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
1:09 Sebastian from Tailpath asks Jason how to generate consumer habits to drive demand
18:37 Sana from Ribitt asks Jason how to overcome past failures in a lucrative market
38:21 Elizabeth from Deep Isolation talks with Jason about solving nuclear waste and developing new nuclear energy
52:12 John from Sircles asks Jason how to take on major incumbents in a large market
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, everybody's eating pizza having a great time here in |
| 0:55.8 | San Francisco. We run open office hours a couple dozen times a year it's just a |
| 1:01.3 | way for me to get together with founders |
| 1:03.6 | try to give them some help whenever their most pressing problems are |
| 1:07.7 | and maybe meet a few to invest in eventually |
| 1:09.8 | so next up is Sebastian his his company is Tail Path. |
| 1:13.2 | Tell me what are you working on and what's your biggest problem? |
| 1:16.4 | Hi, thank you for inviting me here. |
| 1:18.9 | So we are working on securing the tracking of goods. |
| 1:23.0 | That's what we provide. |
| 1:25.0 | We are a B2B company. |
| 1:27.0 | And our biggest challenge right now is to create demand for our product. |
| 1:31.0 | So we are on the way to a product market fit that holy grail of startups. |
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