For People Giving Feedback on Projects

USEFUL feedback includes things like:

  1. 1. This is really going to hurt you if you put it out.
  2. I love it and don’t change a thing. Just put it out.
  3. I think you could make it better by …
  4. You should really talk to …

UNUSEFUL feedback includes:

  1. You are an idiot.
  2. Why did you want to do something like this?
Number 2 could be a valid clarification question, but you need to follow up with a specific insight that adds real value.
 
Specifics are useful. General is less useful.

The bottom-line is …

  • If you can make something better, tat’s useful.
  • If you can’t, it’s not useful to just say it sucks.
  • If the project is already as good as it can be, you can help in getting the person off their butt and into action.
  • If it isn’t maybe you can refer them to someone who can help make it better.

MOST IMPORTANT:

Remember, YOU have no clue whether their idea will work or not. You may have experience and you certainly have your own perspective, but the world’s response is NOT predictable.
 
99% of the time EVERYONE is wrong. The world goes to the people who get it right 1% of the time.

All the best,

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Ken McArthur

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About Ken McArthur

Ken McArthur is the founder of ConnectLab.live, an AI relationship-intelligence and warm-intro platform that helps founders who are raising find the funds that fit and the people who can introduce them, and helps fund managers connect with the founders they back. He was recently accepted into Harvard Business School Foundry. He also writes Raise Smarter, a daily newsletter on what's really moving in early-stage fundraising. Ken challenges us to realize we ALL have an impact, whether we want to or not, on thousands of people we touch in our day-to-day lives, and he shows that simple things make a HUGE difference. ConnectLab.live grew out of that belief. Connection is the currency of the 21st Century, and the right introduction can change a company's future. Long before ConnectLab, Ken was the popular host of live events that brought together top-level marketers, entrepreneurs, business owners, corporations and non-profit organizations to build multi-million dollar joint venture relationships. He has managed product launches ranked in the top 400 sites on the Internet and is regularly asked to speak at leading marketing events. He created AffiliateShowcase.com, a pioneering affiliate program search engine and directory. He also founded the MBS Internet Research Center, which conducted the world's largest survey ever attempted on creating and launching successful information products. Ken was the official mentor for Sterling Valentine as he took his launch from zero to over $100,000 in less than 8 days, a proof of concept documented in Info Product Blueprint. Today he puts that same skill for connecting people and launching ideas to work for founders and the investors who back them.

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