Intro

The Hustle House podcast features student founders building startups, dealing with the emotional weight of being 20-something, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. The hosts, Iman, Valie, Hamza, and Omar, share their journeys of accidentally creating innovative solutions while facing limitations and setbacks. They discuss the importance of pivots in the startup world and emphasize the Lean Startup methodology of testing, learning, and pivoting to improve everyday life. Their shared mission is to make life easier for people like them through their different MVPs. Welcome back to the Hustle House podcast, the chaotic little corner where student founders build a team on building startups, solving real problems, and trying not to combust on the deadline. Rent, an emotional weight of being 20-something, was a dream. I'm Iman, your resident finance girlie, the reason you're not broke. Somewhere between being broke and reading Eric Ries' Lean Startup, I accidentally became someone who built financial well-being tech. I'm Valie, your nail tech and critical queen. She's crafty. She's creative. She turns crap into sparkle. Somewhere between busted tools, tiny budgets, and channeling Baker and Nelson's make-do energy, I accidentally became the girl who turns limitations into global innovations. I'm Hamza, also known by the home whisperer, turning hidden evidence into quiet ease. I'm Omar, the entrepreneur who has a passion for cooking and food in general, here to provide a new culinary experience to those who seek it. Today we're talking about pivots, the pivotal, slightly painful, sometimes goo-goo moments when your ideas meet the real world, and the world says, um, cute concept, but absolutely not. It's straight out of the Lean Startup Playbook, test, learn, pivot, and trust. We all learned. We're four student founders with four different MVPs, but one shared mission, make life easier and improve everyday quality of life for people like us. So, how did we get here?