Mike Maples on Navigating the Idea Maze and Building Breakthrough Companies
b'Mike Maples (@m2jr), co-founder and partner at Floodgate, joins Erik to talk about:
- Insight hacking as a scientific way to generate insights, including specific steps to take and how to \\u201cbackcast.\\u201d
- The types of inflections that create potentially huge companies.
- How to systematically find those inflections.
- Lessons from founders who have successfully created companies built on inflections.
- Frameworks for thinking through whether a worthwhile company can emerge from a chosen inflection.
- How to lead effectively in the earliest stages through the growth phase.
- Why he says \\u201cyou don\\u2019t want to be the best, you want to be the only.\\u201d
- His advice on pitching.
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