Weekly 40 Hour Kit by Fabiano Abreu Ott

The journey of growing your business without grinding 24/7.

40 Hour Kit: Your Question for a 7-Figure Bootstrapped Founder

Hey Reader, your weekly 40 Hour Kit is ready for you.

Hope you're having a nice & productive start to your week!

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💡 Entrepreneurial Insight

Undoubtedly, when growing a business, you'll make strategic mistakes: not choosing the most promising marketing channel, building on a technical architecture that doesn't scale as expected, or confirming the wrong partnerships.
But it's not about avoiding all strategic mistakes; it's about how you react to them and how you choose to continue. Will you follow up with an investment mistake, a time mistake, or an effort mistake? Or will you emotionally detach from your strategic mistake, own it, learn from it, and move on.

Based on marketing & business best-selling author Seth Godin's Blog.

⚖️ Balance Hack

I regularly face the challenge of playing catch-up with my to-dos, for example if a task takes longer than expected. This can be draining as the whole day feels like a race - me against productivity. Maybe you feel the same.
​As a counterbalance to strict time boxing and to-do lists, you can implement a 'Done-List': an overview of all the things you've achieved so far during the day or week. Looking at such a list, can make the productivity race feel more intentional. As it shifts the mindset from working things off to feel productive to feeling productive and getting additional things done.

Based on the best-selling book 'Meditations for Mortals'.

🚀 Challenge

This week, conduct one 'Mom Test' conversation with a potential customer. Don't pitch your product. Ask instead:

• Problems they've had
• Actions they've taken
• Solutions they've tried
• Time/Money they've spent to solve the problems

Based on the Startup Bible on how to talk to customers: The Mom Test.

✨ Recommendation

Today it's about saving costs for software you plan to use in your business.
Can recommend checking out secret to search for discounts. A lot of the deals are free to use and might save you some euros/dollars for your project.

❓ Question for you to ask another Entrepreneur

If you had to reduce your workday by two hours, what is the first task or activity you would eliminate?

⭐️ Community Update

What is the one question you'd ask a founder who has successfully bootstrapped a 7-figure business?

We're giving you a special glimpse into one of the exclusive benefits of the 40HE Club membership: our expert Q&A sessions. Our first guest is Daniele. He started his D2C (Direct to Customer) sports gear business from the ground up and bootstrapped it to a brand trusted by professional athletes and with several thousand followers on social media.

We will select a few questions from our newsletter audience to be answered in the Q&A session. After the session takes place (end of next week), we will share the answers with you.

Ready to stop building in isolation and start growing genuine connections?

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Apply to the 40HE Club here to learn from founders who are in a similar stage as you.

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Read the 40HE Blog for more insights & stories here.