Episode · This Week in Startups · 2021-09-03

Jason Calacanis & Adrian Grenier: books mentioned on This Week in Startups

Adrian Grenier: launching a new fund + FounderU: balancing product vision & customer feedback | E1277

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First, Jason discusses how to balance product vision with customer feedback in a FounderU segment (0:57). Then, actor and investor Adrian Grenier joins to discuss the launch of his new fund DuContra Ventures (20:52), the importance of saying "No" (33:24), acting (41:23) and more!

Jason Calacanis discussed The Lean Startup by Eric Ries.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Lean Startup

   Eric Ries · at 2:48

   The Lean Startup by Eric Ries is a foundational business guide that advocates for validated learning, rapid experimentation, and minimum viable products to help entrepreneurs build successful companies without wasting time or resources.

   Discussed

   “and then you have obsessive people uh like eric reese and the lean startup who are just looking at customer feedback to define what the product is”

   Jason Calacanis Adrian Grenier: launching a new fund + FounderU: balancing product vis… 2021-09-03 Listen at 2:48

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