Should You Continue Working On Your Startup? - Episode 01 of The Brian and Hsu Ken Show

"Should I continue working on my startup?" It's a persistent question founders ask themselves - and the most difficult to answer. In the first episode of the Brian and Hsu Ken show, the Managing Partners of Iterative break down how founders can tackle this question.

Chapters
0.00 - Introduction
0.27 - Why Is This A Hard Question?
3:57 - Should More Companies Be Sticking It Out?
6:38 - Design Experiments Around Your Runway
9:15 - It Takes A Longer Time to Figure Out Economics
10:00 - Are You Solving the Most Important Problem?
10:50 - Hsu Ken's Thread
11:12 - Are You Growing?
14:08 - You're Growing Fast When You Think Your Metrics Are Wrong
15:29 - Retention is Important
16:12 - Are You Learning?
16:28 - Founders Need Insights Per Minute
18:15 - Best Startups Tend to Be Built Around Secrets
19:00 - Do You Have Ideas for What to Do Next?
21:28 - Startups Need to Engineer Growth
23:04 - Are You Having Fun?
25:00 - Signs You Should Quit Your Startup
28:29 - Learnings → Bets → Growth
28:57 - Swipe to the table in the LinkedIn post
31:15 - How Much Time Founders Should Spend on Learnings, Bets and Growth
36:00 - Wrapping Up