CXL - The hard truth about entrepreneurship

I have 6 updates for you this week.

1. On my mind

“Recently on Clubhouse Elon Musk was asked: “What words of encouragement would you give to an entrepreneur?”

Elon responded: “If you need words of encouragement, don't become an entrepreneur.”

First of all, what a ballsy thing to say. Imagine this question asked in a political debate or a startup conference, you'd get your typical cheesy ‘you can do it’ crap.

Second, I 100% agree with this.

If you need words of encouragement or praise or another form of verbal support from other people, you're in for a tough ride.

I know because I've seen it up close. A founder I worked with was starving for words of encouragement. Yearning for it. Lack of praise was making his soul wither away. He ran out of steam constantly and would regularly burn out. He criticized others for not giving him enough encouragement.

I have a lot of empathy for that, everyone's different, and that's fine. But as Elon suggested, if you need encouragement from other people, entrepreneurship may not be for you.

Entrepreneurship can be very lonely.

You need intrinsic drive. It's as if you just have to get something out to the world. Like an artist, you have something to say to the world, and you can't be stopped. Willing to hang in there for years.”

-  Peep

2. New on the blog

Product Innovation: How To Build Products Your Customers Love

What does it take to build innovative products at scale? Here’s everything you need to know to get it right.

3. Introducing R for marketers

For the modern marketer, unlocking insights from large amounts of data is critical, but daunting. However, turning raw data into actionable insights quickly can give you an edge. 

Which is why we’re excited to announce our new course, R for marketers, will be launching March 9. 

This course provides an in-depth introduction to R and the powerful tools it provides to easily complete data analysis and visualization.

View the full curriculum here

4. CRO is dead. 💀 Long live CRO! 🚀

Few industries struggle with their identity as much as CRO. Watch me and Speero MD, Ben Labay, debate where CRO is heading and what CXO means for us all, in this live session.

Grab your seat

5. Trying to improve your experimentation program

Speero can help you launch, refine and scale your experimentation program. We do this by implementing the right processes, data, skills, and strategy. We’ve recently helped MongoDB, Cisco, Miro, and Codecademy do this.

Check out Speero's Customer Experience Optimization service.

6. The cosmic power of curiosity

Speero MD Ben Labay, recently sat down with Dan Moyle on the Agency Rockstars podcast to discuss the cosmic power of curiosity—and how it's the engine of revolutionary ideas and growth in both life and in business.

Listen to the podcast

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