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by rudimental 4349 days ago
It's easy to get stuck, and hard to get unstuck. It's often less about your skills and more about something like fear.

Get valuable feedback and incorporate it. That means build and use your network for helping shore up your weakness. Ask PMs and founders you currently or will soon know how they do the things you are having trouble with. Have them show you how to do it a little so you get the workflow. Look for meetups related to the issues your having (eg a growth hacking meetup or lean methodology meetup where people talk about what works and can help each other get further, stay on track, see things they missed). Also check out the War of Art, an interesting book about blocks and how to overcome them.

tl;dr

Do more, think less. Get help from real live people on ideas you're kicking around or actual prototypes and products. Don't let fear get the best of you- you can do it.