“The things that you decide not to do are sometimes
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:30 am
Felix: Were there opportunities that you ever passed up? If so, how did you determine to let that particular opportunity pass?
Bryan: A hundred percent. It’s really important. The things that you decide not to do are sometimes as important, if not more important, than things you decide to do. That restaurant that I opened in Miami was a very bad decision. In hindsight I shouldn’t have done it. It was underfunded. There were lots of different reasons why I shouldn’t have done it. So, yes, I do say no to things. Frankly, my bandwidth is not very big. If I’m taking up something that’s not useful, it prevents me from moving the better things forward.
as important, if not more important, than things you decide to do.”
Felix: Entrepreneurs have big goals and dreams, and sometimes that means they japan phone number list take on more than they can handle. How did you make sure you weren’t spreading yourself too thin?
Bryan: I don’t know if you’re familiar–you probably are–with the concept of feature creep, which is when you’re designing a product and you keep adding new things to it. With the shirt, like, oh, now what if we put a pocket over here or we put something over here and we put a place for you to keep your iPhone or whatever. All of a sudden, you have this thing that you keep adding things onto, and then it becomes something different from what it originally was supposed to be. It’s confusing. I had been through a number of projects where we let feature creep take over our project and then we had to dial it back. I learned to only take things that were going to make the most impact and put them into your life, your product, or your business. Now that you’ve asked, it was definitely something that took time to develop because yeah, I have ADD and shiny objects distract me especially if they have money attached to them. It’s definitely something that I honed over the years.
Felix: Throughout product iteration, when did you really start to think you were getting close to being on the right track?
Bryan: It’s interesting. Because of Kickstarter, we sold almost a hundred thousand dollars worth of shirts. We had 800 or so customers at the end of the Kickstarter. Over the next few years, we leaned on those customers for revenue, but it didn’t take off right away. Partially because I had other things going on and it was still even after the Kickstarter, a bit of a side project. Mainly because we couldn’t crack the marketing. Kickstarter is this incredible platform where there’s this massive audience of people. If you launch a product and it gains a little bit of traction, you get a lot of eyes on it. We couldn’t figure out how to do that outside of Kickstarter. Again, because I was doing other things I needed to have an agency help me with it–I couldn’t do it myself.
Bryan: A hundred percent. It’s really important. The things that you decide not to do are sometimes as important, if not more important, than things you decide to do. That restaurant that I opened in Miami was a very bad decision. In hindsight I shouldn’t have done it. It was underfunded. There were lots of different reasons why I shouldn’t have done it. So, yes, I do say no to things. Frankly, my bandwidth is not very big. If I’m taking up something that’s not useful, it prevents me from moving the better things forward.
as important, if not more important, than things you decide to do.”
Felix: Entrepreneurs have big goals and dreams, and sometimes that means they japan phone number list take on more than they can handle. How did you make sure you weren’t spreading yourself too thin?
Bryan: I don’t know if you’re familiar–you probably are–with the concept of feature creep, which is when you’re designing a product and you keep adding new things to it. With the shirt, like, oh, now what if we put a pocket over here or we put something over here and we put a place for you to keep your iPhone or whatever. All of a sudden, you have this thing that you keep adding things onto, and then it becomes something different from what it originally was supposed to be. It’s confusing. I had been through a number of projects where we let feature creep take over our project and then we had to dial it back. I learned to only take things that were going to make the most impact and put them into your life, your product, or your business. Now that you’ve asked, it was definitely something that took time to develop because yeah, I have ADD and shiny objects distract me especially if they have money attached to them. It’s definitely something that I honed over the years.
Felix: Throughout product iteration, when did you really start to think you were getting close to being on the right track?
Bryan: It’s interesting. Because of Kickstarter, we sold almost a hundred thousand dollars worth of shirts. We had 800 or so customers at the end of the Kickstarter. Over the next few years, we leaned on those customers for revenue, but it didn’t take off right away. Partially because I had other things going on and it was still even after the Kickstarter, a bit of a side project. Mainly because we couldn’t crack the marketing. Kickstarter is this incredible platform where there’s this massive audience of people. If you launch a product and it gains a little bit of traction, you get a lot of eyes on it. We couldn’t figure out how to do that outside of Kickstarter. Again, because I was doing other things I needed to have an agency help me with it–I couldn’t do it myself.