Idea to Startup

How to Get Two Months of Work Done in One Weekend

Episode Summary

Today, we'll help you get two months of work done in a weekend. We break down a four-part sprint framework that is actually realistic and manageable for founders with full-time jobs and families or dogs or other responsibilities / dense, unpredictable lives. We also show how a sprint helped launch Habit Kangaroo, one of Brian's side projects, a few years back. The framework covers goal-setting, preparation, creating urgency through "hooks," and how to rely on people to stay happy. Share it with a potential cofounder and get to work.

Episode Notes

Today, we'll help you get two months of work done in a weekend. We break down a four-part sprint framework that is actually realistic and manageable for founders with full-time jobs and families or dogs or other responsibilities / dense, unpredictable lives. We also show how a sprint helped launch Habit Kangaroo, one of Brian's side projects, a few years back. The framework covers goal-setting, preparation, creating urgency through "hooks," and how to rely on people to stay happy. 

Share it with a potential cofounder and get to work. 


00:26 - Three Things: Thing One: A Weekend Sprint
01:30 - Habit Kangaroo
04:37 - Feedback Loops
09:45 Smooth Jazz
10:10 - Sprint Structure: Goal, Prep, Hook, Reliance
10:15 - Goal
12:36 - Prep
14:56 - Hook
16:53 - Reliance
19:38 - The End - Happiness