Alex Hillman is the co-founder of Stacking the Bricks and Indy Hall, one of the world's first coworking spaces, founded in Philadelphia in 2006. Together with Amy Hoy, he created the 30x500 course, teaching bootstrapped founders how to find customers before writing a single line of code. Their students have collectively earned over half a billion dollars applying the Sales Safari research methodology.

In this episode, we dig into what actually works for audience-first product development: the ebombs content strategy, why observation beats validation, and the counterintuitive truth that curiosity,,, not hustle... is the skill that gets you out of your own head. Plus: why the fear of success derails more founders than the fear of failure.

What you'll learn:

• The Sales Safari methodology: why watching commu ...