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023: No, don't mimic successful founders.

Instead, meet the guy solving startups' biggest challenge.

Apr 30 • Mike Vladimer

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022: Yes, search for People in Pain. But they're invisible.

Your startup is a knowledge-creation project and the most important knowledge is hidden.

Apr 22 • Mike Vladimer

021: No, getting customers is the wrong goal

Instead search for People in Pain

Apr 13 • Mike Vladimer

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020: The biggest problem in startups remains unsolved

"I know a good startup idea when I see it" works for a lucky few; the rest of us need a toolkit

Apr 7 • Mike Vladimer

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March 2026

019: The next 100 episodes on Nascent methodology

What Paul Graham doesn't know: A scalable way to identify a problem worth solving

Mar 30 • Mike Vladimer

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Nascent is back: 100 episodes in 50 weeks

Here's the plan

Mar 27 • Mike Vladimer

July 2025

How to evaluate a startup idea in seconds (Ep. 18)

Here's an update on the results from running 10 workshops for 100 founders over the last 6 months.

Jul 29, 2025 • Mike Vladimer

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20:34

January 2025

Simplifying entrepreneurship (17)

Many founders face a challenge: "Should I keep investing in my startup?" To answer that question, your first step is to avoid conventional startup…

Jan 27, 2025 • Mike Vladimer

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26:14

October 2024

Customer Discovery 2.0: From a count of interviews to the quantified pain histogram (16)

Founders lack a methodology to rigorously analyze data from "customer interviews". This tool lets founders quantify and visualize interview data to…

Oct 13, 2024 • Mike Vladimer

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39:31

July 2024

A live interview with Robbie Kellman Baxter, an expert on subscription startups (15)

Robbie shares stories of helping founders launch startups to foster communities of athletes, support classic car enthusiasts and reduce childhood…

Jul 4, 2024 • Mike Vladimer

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12:48

May 2024

Good news! The era of "fake it til you make it" has ended (14)

This simplification yields tremendous benefits to founders of nascent-stage startups

May 28, 2024 • Mike Vladimer

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6:52

At the nascent stage, who should you build for? Just yourself, the founder (13)

A Business Model Canvas is a product for investors and a Minimum Viable Product is a product for customers. You need to build a product to determine if…

May 10, 2024 • Mike Vladimer

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