Noah Kagan
21 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 24, 2024 by Noah Kagan · across every show →
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Kagan: Book was partly motivated by insecurity from Facebook and Mint firings
“I think I wanted to prove that I'm smart or prove that I'm successful or prove that Facebook when they fired me and then when mint fired me, like I can do it. And I think this book was probably, probably some of that, like, hey, I want some level of attention …”
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Kagan: Asking is a trainable skill that desensitizes entrepreneurs to rejection
“And then the second thing is the skill of asking. And so, how do you get better? It's a skill like anything. Like, I knock on doors on my YouTube videos. I go to strangers. I did in LA. I've done Newport Beach. I've done it all over the world. Yeah. And it suc…”
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Kagan: Entrepreneurs should secure base income before launching new ventures
“What I've noticed is that if you're like, oh, my God, I've got to sell 10,000 dollars and I've got to be the best salesperson in three months and all this shit. That is very hard if you're not worried about how you're going to get food tonight. That is very to…”
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Kagan: How I secured free launch ads from Reddit's founders
“And then I got, I asked the founders to give me ads for free. Jeff Berman: The founders of Reddit to give you ads for free. Yeah. Why would they? Noah Kagan: Well, I think because they were launching their ad platform and they wanted some data on it. And so, y…”
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Kagan: Success comes from persistence, which founders can delegate to others
“I think what's changed in my perspective as I've gotten older is that a lot of success is just sticking with things. It's just sticking with it and either, and guess what? You don't have to do it yourself. Find someone else that likes sticking with it.”
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Kagan: Practice management by hiring a home cleaner first
“Now, for me, I think hiring is a great practice, and the easiest way to practice it at home. Hire a cleaner. Just practice it. Do they come on time? Do they, do you have a checklist for them? How do you make sure they're doing well? How do you pay them where t…”
Jun 24, 2024
Kagan: AppSumo launched with only $48 in total startup costs
“No, it cost me 48 dollars. I got, a guy named Muhammad who I still talk to this day, 15 years later he helped me put the PayPal button on the website. And it was 12 dollars for the domain, that's part of the 48 dollars. And then I used Gmail as my back-end.”
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Kagan: Subconscious Fear of Repeating Father's Mistakes Haunted AppSumo's Early Years
“And I was like, well, I guess in subconsciously, I'm sure that's how I felt many years running up soon. Like I'm going to do the same. Just like be reckless, be a liability, make some bad decisions, make bad hires, you know, go, you know, just self-sabotage.”