Maximizing Productivity: Prioritizing Tasks for Success with Adora Cheung

Key insights

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  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.
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  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.