Petri Kajander
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Not all opportunities are worth pursuing.

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0:03 Welcome to business purpose and clarity with petri I'm your host we talk about startup life insights practical tips mistakes failures and everything between no no oh no what's happening here I'm just practicing different ways of saying no and you should too because your time is limited you need to not all opportunities are worth pursuing and if you're just knocking on a lot of doors or you're pushing all the buttons some doors might open but most likely not the doors you want to or they are not leading to the direction you want to go this is what this episode is about it's about practicing to say no in a startup it's really good to be opportunistic it's really good to have you earn the crown so to speak and be open for new possibilities and opportunities because that's the whole.

1:08 A startup is a learning process to find a sustainable business model so after all you should be really sensitive on new opportunities but it also needs means that you need to be focusing on those most crucial things because after all you should have your own mission you should have your direction you want to go if those things along the way those good offers or chances sound like good stuff but they're not exactly on your path they may distract you they may be like going to facebook or instagram to check something and then you get lost on the feed after 15 minutes you leave the and then you realize that oh damn I was supposed to check that thing and then.

2:10 You go back again that's what happens with often a lot of these opportunities emotion is no progress so just doing stuff having a good feeling going to meetings talking with people enjoying partnering business development fancy words good stuff happening what is it progress so practicing no no no no you can do it nicely you can do it you should explain why you why you are not pursuing something people understand it if you say that yeah this is a really good thing but it's not for us right now maybe we want to do it a bit later we are now really focused on putting the product out so at the moment we don't have time for that but thanks for it I keep it in mind or maybe you should talk to this founder because I think that's mine there's a lot of ways to say no but not.

3:17 All the things should be keep on practicing those two and oh.

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