Becoming a User Research expert and VALIDATING BEFORE YOU BUILD with Nikki Andersen-Stanier, Founder @ User Research Academy - 1x06

Matt Neary is a Bubble Educator and Consultant.

Nikki Andersen-Stanier is founder of the User Research Academy (https://www.userresearchacademy.com/) and an all-around expert on learning from customers. On this episode, we talk about how you can learn from potential customers before you have a product built, what questions to ask—and which to avoid—and how you can build user research into your ongoing product development processes as you grow.

Lea Marolt Sonneschein is founder at JRNY (jrny.space) an AI-powered career coach that lives inside Slack. Lea and I spoke about her journey (sorry Lea, I had to) getting her product built and out to real customers. We talked about the No Code tools she built JRNY's MVP with and the step-by-step process she used to validate and fine tune her concept along the way.

Brett Calhoun is a director at Scale, a Venture Studio and Accelerator Fund based in Columbia, MO. In this episode, we discuss the challenges of raising capital as a non-technical founder—especially for those that find themselves outside of markets like Silicon Valley or NYC. It's a must-listen for *anyone* looking to fundraise this coming year.

Jared Robin (revgenius.com) is a champion for those in Sales & Marketing. Over the last 2 years, Jared's hard work and boundless generosity have built RevGenius into a 24K+ member community. We talk about how "just being helpful" is all you need to attract like-minded people, about the collection of No Code and Low Code tools that power RevGenius, and how Jared was able to use the community as a personal testing ground and launchpad for a product that was profitable from Day 1. 

Sahil Khosla (https://sahilkhosla.com/) is the master of all things No Code. In this episode, we explore the ever-growing world of tools, platforms, and service providers helping non-technical founders build and grow their products without writing a single line of code. We touch on everything from App Builders, to workflow automation, to data processing and analysis—all tools you can use to hit market faster and spend less of your runway getting there.

For our first episode, I sat down with Eric Menna, co-founder at Loper (getloper.com) to talk about his experience using a "concierge prototype" to get initial customer feedback before going into fullscale development on their mobile app.

Building a startup as a non-technical founder is like playing on hard mode. You've got no shortage of Vision. But you can't build that Vision yourself. Getting it built means entering into the world of Nerds. As someone who doesn't speak the language of Tech, interfacing with that world can be exhausting. You can spend hours digesting the jargon, the buzzwords, the endless list of frameworks, platforms, and providers. That's time you could spend doing what matters most to any founder: Growing your business. No Nerds No Problem helps you close that gap and get back to doing what you do best. Each week, I'll be speaking with experts from all over the startup ecosystem, diving deep on the topics most relevant to you, the non-technical founder. I'll chat with investors, consultants, and other founders just like you, bringing you the advice you need to be able to confidently say: "No Nerds? No Problem."