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How do you trust your own instincts when you're constantly second-guessing yourself based on advisor and VC feedback?

Josh's frame is hours on task: "that new person that you meet for 15 minutes has spent 15 minutes and you've spent 50,000 hours... in front of clients and customers and investors." It doesn't mean you're always right, but your intuition about how your business operates is something no brief meeting can override.
— Josh Foreman, InDebted (Ep 32)

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Josh Foreman
InDebted · EP 32

Josh's frame is hours on task: "that new person that you meet for 15 minutes has spent 15 minutes and you've spent 50,000 hours... in front of clients and customers and investors."…

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The mistake is treating someone's confident opinion as equivalent to your accumulated reps. Investors and advisors have pattern recognition across many companies. Founders have depth on one. Both are useful, but the weighting should reflect the context. On questions about your specific business — your pricing, your customers, your unit economics — you have information they don't, and that should count.

JF
Josh Foreman
InDebted · EP 32

Josh's frame is hours on task: "that new person that you meet for 15 minutes has spent 15 minutes and you've spent 50,000 hours... in front of clients and customers and investors."…

Listen ↗
See Josh Foreman's full take

The mistake is treating someone's confident opinion as equivalent to your accumulated reps. Investors and advisors have pattern recognition across many companies. Founders have depth on one. Both are useful, but the weighting should reflect the context. On questions about your specific business — your pricing, your customers, your unit economics — you have information they don't, and that should count.

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