Maximizing Productivity: Prioritizing Tasks for Success with Adora Cheung

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TLDR Prioritize tasks based on their impact on weekly goals to maximize success and productivity.

Key insights

  • Adora Cheung emphasizes the importance of prioritizing time in startups, as time burns money and there's always a high opportunity cost to doing your startup.
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    Setting weekly goals for the primary KPI, whether it's revenue or active users, is crucial for achieving real startup progress.
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    The highest leverage thing a startup founder can do is talk to users and iterate their product, rather than focusing on fake startup progress like attending conferences or winning awards.
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    Talking to users helps you understand if you're on the right track or not and it helps you figure out your product's roadmap.
  • Prioritizing tasks based on their impact on achieving weekly goals is crucial for avoiding whiplash and making progress as a founder.
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    Prioritizing tasks based on impact and complexity can help founders achieve their weekly goals and ultimately lead to more success.
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    Prioritizing tasks with high impact and low complexity is key to achieving weekly goals efficiently.
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    Writing weekly updates and consistently evaluating them can help improve task prioritization and prevent low value work or fake progress from creeping into your schedule.

Q&A

  • How can founders maximize their chance for success?

    Founders can maximize their chance for success by prioritizing tasks that will have the most impact on their startup's progress.

  • What is the highest leverage thing founders can do for their startup?

    Talking to users and iterating their product is the highest leverage thing founders can do for their startup.

  • How can founders determine if they are working on the right things?

    Founders can determine if they are working on the right things by prioritizing tasks that will help increase their key performance indicators (KPIs) and challenging themselves to evaluate their work.

  • How can founders prevent low value work from creeping into their schedule?

    Founders can prevent low value work from creeping into their schedule by journaling in detail each day to identify and prevent it.

  • Should founders prioritize talking to users or building things?

    Founders should prioritize talking to users over building things to achieve their weekly goals.

Timestamped Summary

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    Prioritize tasks that will have the most impact on your startup's progress to maximize success.
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    01:59
    Set weekly goals to grow your primary KPI and prioritize tasks that will help increase it, while avoiding fake startup progress.
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    04:41
    Journaling and talking to users can help you identify and prevent low value work, understand if you're on the right track, and figure out your product roadmap.
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    06:52
    Compare tasks on your list to prioritize them based on their impact on the weekly goal.
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    07:54
    Go to 10 potential customers and do video demos to get 5 new paying customers.
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    09:40
    Prioritize high-impact, easy tasks to hit your weekly goals.
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    11:31
    Review progress & break tasks into smaller chunks to prioritize & avoid getting stuck.
  • 💡
    13:46
    Dedicate chunks of time to each task and make decisions quickly to maximize productivity.
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