Entrepreneur @noahkagan wants everyone to feel empowered to start a business. That’s the core message of his new book, Million Dollar Weekend. He’s founded multiple companies worth at least a million dollars, including AppSumo. That’s his software marketplace worth more than $80 million. In conversation with Masters of Scale host Jeff Berman, Noah shares lessons from his scale journey, and from the early flameouts at high-profile start-ups (like being employee number 30 at Facebook and an early staffer at Mint) that fueled a desire to prove himself.
Chapters:
00:00 Introducing Noah Kagan & AppSumo
02:33 What’s your freedom number?
04:45 “I think everyone should be an entrepreneur”
07:09 The origins of AppSumo
12:32 How Noah tested his big idea with Imgur
15:23 Scaling AppSumo
19:08 Product market fit: 3 customers in 48 hours
21:06 How long do you stick with it?
27:00 When not to blitzscale
30:26 Lessons from Noah’s dad
33:49 The value of feedback
37:46 Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg
39:24 Lessons from Mint
41:13 Noah Kagan on his book, Million Dollar Weekend
47:50 Spotting business opportunities
52:59 Going all in
53:58 If you only had $500 and an iPhone, what would you do?
55:57 Scale lessons from AppSumo
01:00:00 Lessons from fatherhood