Seeking Wisdom

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- On this episode of Seeking Wisdom we talk about the power of FOCUS and setting goals for your startup. If you like tactical episodes, this one is for you. We dive into why we set one team goal for Q2 at Drift, the results, the impact it had on the team and our growth -- including how not focusing on paying customers brought in more paying customers. Follow David (https://twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (https://twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter. Catch up on all of the previous episodes at http://www.seekingwisdom.io/ Resources and books we mention on this episode: http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/06/internet-market.html http://www.the1thing.com/ Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Work life balance is a myth. On this week's episode of Seeking Wisdom, we talk about why it's time to stop fighting work/life balance and instead, focus on prioritizing the right things. This episode was inspired by a post that David wrote titled: How-to Be Happier: Avoid Work/Life Balance https://medium.com/life-learning/your-priorities-bcbbb7e49287#.llbq5lu8v Catchup on all of the previous episodes at www.seekingwisdom.io/ Follow us on Twitter: @dcancel, @davegerhardt and @seekingwisdomio

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Last week at Drift, we made the decision to kill all of our lead forms and gated content. Here's why (and how it all went down). If you missed the article, here's the backstory: http://blog.drift.com/no-more-forms And the thread on Inbound.org: https://inbound.org/article/can-we-build-an-audience-without-gated-content Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- The key to scaling is to focus on the things that don’t scale. But how can you actually apply that to your business? How can you do the things that don’t scale? We dive into it on the latest episode of Seeking Wisdom (and why you can learn more by spending 20 minutes talking to customers than spending all day looking at dashboards and spreadsheets). Holler at us on Twitter: @dcancel, @davegerhardt, @seekingwisdomio

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Whether you're an engineer, designer or marketer, there's one thing that you need to avoid: the big reveal. When you ship something, the feedback loop starts - and that's the most important thing you can do as a creator. On this episode we talk about why you need to just ship it -- and avoid the big reveal. PS. Get exclusive updates about the show on our email list http://go.drift.com/seeking-wisdom

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- HubSpot Chief Revenue Officer Mark Roberge joined us at Drift to hang out with the team, and since we're always learning, thought it would be fun to record a conversation. Mark talks about the early days of HubSpot, building out a sales team, the changing face of sales and more. Follow Mark on Twitter: https://twitter.com/markroberge Tweet about this episode: http://ctt.ec/621ES

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- A few weeks ago, the Drift team went down to Austin, TX for some team bonding and tacos. While we were there, David and I stopped by AppSumo to catch up with Noah Kagan and thought it would be fun to record a podcast. We talked about everything from the biggest mistake startups make, to morning routines, favorite books, and the importance of surrounding yourself with better people. Tweet about this episode right now by clicking this link: http://ctt.ec/7B0RG Every now and then, we send an email exclusively for Seeking Wisdom listeners. You can get on the email list here: http://go.drift.com/seeking-wisdom David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dcancel Noah on Twitter: https://twitter.com/noahkagan Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davegerhardt stay #seekingwisdom

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- "I try to never hire someone who has been a product manager before." On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, Dave dives into David's approach for hiring product managers and why he thinks experience rarely matters when it comes to hiring PMs. Read the full blog post that goes with this episode here: http://bit.ly/hiring-product-managers Follow David on Twitter: twitter.com/dcancel Follow Dave on Twitter: twitter.com/davegerhardt Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Three for one this week. We talked about: 1. Should you send your kids to college? 2. The difference between rich friends and poor friends (7:00) 3. Why you need to surround yourself by people who are going places and escape the crabs in the pot (14:00) Here’s the post we mentioned that David wrote about whether or not his kids should go to college: https://medium.com/life-tips/should-my-kids-go-to-college-i-don-t-think-so-88a2d0b30ca Learn more at http://seekingwisdom.io/ Follow David on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dcancel Follow Dave on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davegerhardt

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- You are the average of the people you surround yourself with. But everyone is always on a mission to find a mentor. Why spend so much time and effort finding someone that you’ll only learn from once a month or once a quarter? Role models are the people that open up the possibilities in your life and your career. We talk about why you need more role models on this episode of Seeking Wisdom. Want to spend 15 minutes on the phone or Skype talking about your business with David? Leave a review for Seeking Wisdom on iTunes, take a screenshot and send an email to dcancel@dcancel.com. Have a question for David? Send it in to dcancel@dcancel.com and we’ll answer your question on a future episode of Seeking Wisdom. Catch all of the previous episodes at http://seekingwisdom.io/

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- The HubSpot product team was designed around autonomy (employees were given a lot of freedom). The result? Off the charts employee happiness, productivity and NPS. On this episode of Seeking Wisdom, David breaks down why autonomy is so important, and the five key ingredients so you can put this in place at your company.

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Want to outsmart Ivy League MBA's and accelerate your learning? David teaches you how on this episode of Seeking Wisdom. But fair warning: there are no hacks, tips or tricks mentioned. Here’s a list of some of the books David mentions on this episode: http://bit.ly/DC-Reading-List Subscribe on iTunes: bit.ly/SW-Podcast

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Agile and waterfall just don't cut it anymore. Here's how a modern product team should work, why small, autonomous teams are the future, and how you can apply this model to your business today.

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- David Cancel is a serial entrepreneur, two-time CEO, and he's currently working on his fifth startup, Driftt. Once a week, he'll be sharing one thing he's learned on this podcast -- from tips on how you can be more productive, lessons to help accelerate your learning, and advice to help you build a business that your customers and employees will love. Here's a sneak peek at the very first episode. Make sure you're subscribed on iTunes so you don't miss a new episode.