Courtland Allen
17 statements across 1 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Sep 25, 2017 by Courtland Allen · said 5 times in 3 episodes since 2017 · across every show →
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Sep 25, 2017 bearish
Sep 25, 2017
Sep 25, 2017 neutral
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Allen: Participating in peer communities makes solo founders much less likely to quit
“Being able to rely on some sort of online community, whether it's on any hackers or another site, like if you can go somewhere, and people are also doing what you're doing, and you can tell them what you're up to, and they can give you feedback, and, you know,…”
Sep 25, 2017
Allen: Ideation is a practiced creative skill, not innate talent
“A lot of people, when they come to the idea phase, they think that it's something that you naturally have to be good at. You know, you just get a good idea, or you don't, right? Whereas, like, the reality is, it's like any other creative endeavor. If you pract…”
Sep 25, 2017
Allen: People overweight novel advice and ignore repeated foundational principles
“Generally speaking, like, all of us tend to overweight, like, novel advice. Like, things that are new, or flashy, or we haven't heard before. And we tend, it's like so easy to ignore the things that we hear all the time. You know, like, oh, make something peop…”
Sep 25, 2017
Allen: Indie Hackers Podcast Launched to Interview Founders Guarding Revenue Data
“Part of the text interviews was that you have to share your revenue. So everyone is completely transparent. And the number of people that I reached out to who I thought would have really good stories for the site that people can learn from, who were willing to…”
Sep 25, 2017 neutral
Sep 25, 2017 negative
Sep 25, 2017
Allen: Copycats Copying Transparent Business Details Are Rarely a Threat
“If you think about the kind of person out there who's gonna, like, just listen to your podcast and read your interview, and he's just waiting for someone to reveal all the details, and then they clone everything that you've done and, like, make some, like, cra…”
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Sep 25, 2017
Allen: Indie Hackers launched with 10 interviews and grew to 200
“I think, when we launched IndieHackers last, last, when I launched it last August, it was like 10 interviews. And it took me three weeks. I sent hundreds of emails. To get 10 people to agree to do an interview. And one of them was me, so it was really only nin…”
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Courtland Allen: Founders should be honest about being motivated by money
“I think that and the value of kind of this culture of always talking about, like, you know, what mission drives you, and we kind of are not honest about the fact that a lot of us are motivated by money and financial things. I think it's probably better for the…”
Sep 25, 2017 positive
Allen: The primary goal of building a startup is simply not quitting
“The way that I look at it, like my mental model for building a startup, is that essentially your whole goal is not to quit. I saw a really good tweet the other day that was, here's the secret to success. Pick any idea, work on it for 10 years. You know, you wi…”
Sep 25, 2017
Allen: Founders should read more because building startups is counterintuitive
“I think people don't read enough, and I get the opposite of this often. I hear people say, oh, stop reading and just start doing. That's true, but I think if you're the kind of person who is going to have the determination and the grit to, like, actually start…”