Apologize for the lack of episode last week. Caught a cold from my kid so I didn’t want to just have an episode of coughing. Just a quick update on the progress of Lesson Underground and a digression into an experience getting some insight into what someone who is new to creating an online business might approach some commonly encountered scenarios…

Really short episode today. Not much to report but I just wanted to talk a bit about how beneficial meditation can be for entrepreneurs.Bootstrap Hawaii

First off just wanted to thank my buddy Jason Rushin at Aloha Startups for writing a small piece about this podcast. I think he oversold me a little but I am grateful nonetheless! I apologize for this episode, I’m running on a few hours of sleep this week because my wife caught a cold and I’ve been on full time toddler duty. I don’t really have a w…

Hey we’re on iTunes now! This week, I’m continuing to do customer calls for Lesson Underground. I got another 4 calls with students in and also 3 calls with teachers. I talked about it in a previous episode, how the general rule of thumb for customer development / idea extraction / idea validation / whatever you want to call it is, you keep doing t…

The title of this episode should give you a good idea of what its about. Hopefully it can prevent you from making the same mistakes I made. I began doing idea (re)validation calls with existing Lesson Underground members this week. I was able to talk to 6 people so far and am hoping to continue to get more feed back and collect more data points. Wh…

In this episode, I talk about what we did wrong so far with Lesson Underground, what we did right, and most importantly what I’m going to start doing now. Cutting to the chase, we did a lot wrong, but the root cause of it all boils down to one thing. Laziness. Specifically due to having money to spend on this project. In the past, we never had much…

The start of a new company and a new journey. In late 2015 my friends and I launched a new company called Lesson Underground. We invested around $50,000 to building a bare bones beta of the app and launched it to a small pre-launch mailing list. Unfortunately, it did not take off as we hoped which brought about this podcast. I’ve wanted to do a bus…