Of all the things a founder must do, public speaking is at the top of of my list of the most frightening things to do. Yet, this is one of the nineteen traction channels I have read about in my most favorite book of the moment. TRACTION by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares.
Traction is even a bigger problem than running out of money for your startup. One of the reasons I believe this to be true, is that many of the things founders must do to get traction, are extremly horrifying experiences, like public speaking. Most of us treps are introverts, or at least, we like the comfy little shell of just creating. We have no skills to tell the world about what we think is the greatest thing ever and that they need it.
During tonight's rehearsal for the upcoming presentation, yeah, I went totally BLANK on lines I knew. I would be going along explaining Passdown, and then complete and utter darkness came over my mind and what I knew was an empty space of nothingness. Not good. You see this public speaking is like being an actor and you have to know your lines. Yet, I did know my lines, but where did they go? They alluded me to a room of emptiness. They left me standing there all alone.
I hope that when I present Passdown at Insight Night, that I will be able to not freeze and have blank spots in my speech. I want so deeply for people to learn about Passdown. I suppose if I totally screw the presentation up, one can always go to the webside passdownapp.com and check it out. I still have yet to launch it,( launched! now live) as I have been working on this 'surprise' traction channel that fell into my lap.
Pray for me, to not screw it up, and to NAIL IT. Because Passdown is for every connected person. It's free and it's super smoking awesome. When you understand it, I bet, you will get all magical and sparkly. That's what it seems to do, to people who get it. May you be magical and sparkly!
You are going to do great!
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