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Episodes

June 14, 2022

How to Build a Board of Advisors | Darryl Hicks, Founder of Flexpay

Most startup founders recognize they need advisors. The question is who do you get, how do you get them, and how do you structure it all? In this episode, Darryl shares his framework for how to set up the perfect board of adv...
May 31, 2022

How to Find your Co-Founders | Lindsey Goodchild, Founder of Nudge

Running a startup is hard. Doing it alone, especially when it's your first time, can be downright tortuous. Lindsey started off on her own, without much of a network in the startup scene in Toronto. Not only that, as a business type she didn't have the skills needed to build a prototype, let alone …
May 14, 2022

How to Find Product Market Fit | Allan Wille, Founder of Klipfolio

For even the most successful startups, finding product-market fit is often a long journey and Klipfolio was no exception. Founders often feel that one more feature, one more UI change will get them to product-market fit. The ...
April 30, 2022

How to Pivot | Rob Boukine, Founder of Noibu

It’s one thing to work hard. It’s another to work hard with a well-researched destination in sight. In this episode of The Product Market Fit Show, Rob Boukine gets real about the mistakes he made in his early days as cofound...
April 21, 2022

How to Launch a Marketplace | Ray Reddy, Founder of Ritual

Launching is often thought of as a huge event. Lots of noise, lots of PR. One big bang. For Ray, it's just a series of many small experiments. Ray realized that the number one value prop for a consumer was coverage: when a user opened the app, the majority of merchants that were walking distance ne…
April 14, 2022

How to Come up with an Idea | Ray Reddy, Founder of Ritual

"Ideas are a dime a dozen". Maybe. But executing on a mediocre idea won't get you very far. In this episode, Ray, a multi-time founder who sold his first company to Google, discusses how he came up with the idea for Ritual. I...
March 31, 2022

How to Validate an Idea | Moe Abbas, Founder of Acadium

If you want to validate an idea, the conventional wisdom is to build an MVP. But even an MVP takes time to build. What if you could validate not only your idea but your entire funnel, without writing a single line of code? Th...
March 14, 2022

How to Build the Right Solution | Carol Leaman, Founder of Axonify

After you've had an idea and validated the problem, it's probably time to build. But how exactly do you decide what to build, how to build it, and how to get end users to actually adopt the solution? Carol is a multi-time founder and she has this process down to a science. On this episode, she shar…
Feb. 28, 2022

How to Start a Company on the Side | Mike Potter, Founder of Rewind

To launch a startup you have to leave your job and spend considerable capital, with no guarantee of success. It involves considerable risk, right? Not for Mike. Mike started Rewind- a company now approaching unicorn status- f...
Feb. 15, 2022

Why you Need a Performance Coach | Dan Eberhard, Founder of Koho

Why do professional athletes have coaches, but professional entrepreneurs don't? Dan thought this was odd. So many years ago, a long time before starting Koho - a company now worth over $250M- Dan started working with performance coaches. In this episode, he walks us through how to pick a coach, wh…
Jan. 31, 2022

How to Raise Your First Round | Marc Boscher, Founder of Unito

Ask most early-stage founders what they need most and you'll likely get the same answer: money. Especially early on, before you have much traction, raising money can be daunting. If you don't have much of a network, it's hard to even know where to start. Who are these angel investors and how do you…
Jan. 3, 2022

How to Launch a Marketplace | Allen Lau, Founder of Wattpad

Launching a marketplace is hard. The chicken-and-egg problem often seems insurmountable. In 2021, Wattpad was acquired for over $600M. But it wasn't easy. Early on, Wattpad cofounder and CEO Allen Lau almost gave up. He discu...
Jan. 3, 2022

How to Build Hype | Solon Angel, Founder of MindBridge

Many people say that hype leads nowhere, that instead you should keep your head down and focus on building. But hype- or raising the profile of your company, as Solon calls it- brings many benefits. It means more potential hi...
Jan. 1, 2022

How to Come up with an Idea | Mallorie Brodie, Founder of Bridgit

Building a successful startup starts well before the first prototype is created or the first investor goes all in. It starts with customer discovery, and Mallorie Brodie has some unique insight into what that looks like. Now ...