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

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  Prioritize tasks that will have the most impact on your startup's progress to maximize success.

  • Founders need to prioritize tasks that will have the most impact on their startup's progress to maximize their chance for success.
  • Start with a task list of ideas to work on for your startup and allocate 2-12 hours a day to work on them in the best possible way.
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  Set weekly goals to grow your primary KPI and prioritize tasks that will help increase it, while avoiding fake startup progress.

  • Focus on growing your primary KPI (revenue or active users) by setting weekly goals to move the needle.
  • Talking to users and iterating your product is the highest leverage thing you can do, while fake startup progress such as attending conferences and optimizing the wrong metrics is almost always a bad idea.
  • Prioritize tasks that will help increase your KPIs and challenge yourself to determine if you're working on the right things.
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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.

  • It takes discipline and effort to prevent low value work from unnoticeably creeping into your schedule, so try journaling in detail of each day to identify and prevent it.
  • Talking to users and building product helps convert them to customers and revenue, 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 against each other to grade them as high, medium, or low based on how impactful they are on achieving the weekly goal.
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  07:54

  Go to 10 potential customers and do video demos to get 5 new paying customers.

  • To reach the goal of getting five new paying customers, the most impactful thing to do is to go to the offices of 10 potential customers and do video demos.
  • Founders should prioritize talking to users over building things to achieve their weekly goals.
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  09:40

  Prioritize high-impact, easy tasks to hit your weekly goals.

  • Tasks can be graded by complexity (easy, medium, hard) and impact, allowing them to be easily stack ranked.
  • Prioritize tasks that are high impact and easy to do, and avoid tasks that are low probability and hard to do, to ensure you hit your weekly goals.
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  Review progress & break tasks into smaller chunks to prioritize & avoid getting stuck.

  • Reviewing your weekly updates and evaluating your progress will help you select and prioritize tasks and avoid getting stuck in a bad loop.
  • Break complex tasks into medium and easy tasks, and use the modified version of the Makers Manager Schedule to rejigger your schedule.
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  Dedicate chunks of time to each task and make decisions quickly to maximize productivity.

  • It is costly to switch between tasks, so it is important to dedicate chunks of time to each task to maximize productivity.
  • Make decisions thoughtfully and quickly to maximize impact and minimize wasted time.