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#071 - Pat Flynn helped me co-invent and create SwitchPod over the past 15 months before we launched it on Kickstarter.

At the time of recording this episode, a couple days into the campaign, we had already doubled our goal and raised over $227,000 to make thousands of SwitchPods for our backers.

In this episode we talked about:

• 1:06 — 15 Months of Development
• 7:25 — Building Pre-Launch Buzz
• 13:02 — Solving Problems with Products
• 19:31 — Negative Marketing
• 23:52 — Finding Your Own Niche
• 27:52 — Launch Day Response
• 32:09 — Pat's Amazing Wedding Video
• 34:13 — SwitchPods in the Wild
• 36:03 — Documenting & Connecting
• 39:00 — Superpowers & Collaborating

🛒 Order a SwitchPod.

🎧 Listen to our episode on Pat's podcast.

📦 Check out Prouduct, who helped us create SwitchPod.

For the past couple of years, I have been following a podcast called ‘Smart Passive Income’ - a podcast hosted by an extraordinary entrepreneur called Pat Flynn.

While this is one of the best podcasts I’ve ever heard and valued from, there is something even more interesting:
Pat has managed to build his business around his Family lifestyle!

He makes 7 figures, shares his income reports on his site, while still being able to work from his home environment and make time for his wife and kids.

I’m honored and humbled to have had the opportunity to interview him here.

In this interview, we talk about some topics you probably haven’t heard Pat talk about anywhere else, like karma in the market, his morning routines, and his values and guiding principles that make him so successful.

We also talked about starting out a business, and about starting a podcast.

Later we got into about something that is not talked about enough in the entrepreneurial communities, and that's mastermind groups.

Finally, Pat shared some of his favorite resources and tools.

Enjoy! And don’t forget to subscribe to the show if you haven’t yet (on iTunes, Youtube, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app).

Find all shownotes and links from this talk on https://sagishrieber.com/podcast.

Entrepreneurs are full of ideas. Some are great, some are terrible. But how do you know which is which until you put ideas into action? How do you avoid the time and money suck of half baked ideas?

In other words, will your business idea fly?

I invited Pat Flynn, host of AskPat and Smart Passive Income and author of a new bestselling book, "Will It Fly? How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money", about how to validate your ideas before bringing them to life to discuss why and how validation works.

When he was laid off from his dream job a few years ago, architect Pat Flynn discovered online business — and it was one of the best things that ever happened to him.

On this episode of Bacon Wrapped Business, Pat tells us how he’s since helped other people go into business for themselves while avoiding half-baked ideas, misguided theories, and other forms of self-delusion.

So if you have an idea (or 100) and wondering if you should start it or scrap it, this episode is for you.