A brief advice segment from James Sinclair encouraging first-time founders to use Reddit immediately to build a feedback loop and community. He emphasizes Reddit's conversational audience, diversity of expertise, and recommends being vulnerable — sharing problem area, solution ideas, visuals or MVP — and soliciting feedback on focus, pricing, go-to-market, features, and unknowns.
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You're a first time founder and you don't have a great network to go to to kind of flex your critical thinking, to ideate, talk through your business, your strategy, your model. And you want to kind of start that feedback loop early. Jump on Reddit immediately. Number one, it is filled specifically with people that want to engage in conversation and talk about topics. Number two, there are people across every level, across every competency, across every industry who are willing to give you their two cents. So why wouldn't you start building a community and feedback loop now? Why wouldn't you jump on there and be a little bit vulnerable? Hey guys, I'm a first time founder. This is the problem area I'm focusing on. Here's how I think I'm solving it. Here's some screens, some visuals and mvp. Whatever. Would love to hear your feedback. Would love to know what you think I should be focusing on. Would love to know how you think I should be pricing and go to market. How should I be thinking about features and functions and values? What are the unknown unknowns? What advice can you give me to help me be more successful? You'll be shocked at the feedback. Good luck.