Buy Back Your Time: Get Unstuck, Reclaim Your Freedom, and Build Your Empire

Rung 1: Administration Rung 2: Delivery Rung 3: Marketing Rung 4: Sales

Steve Blank—a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Stanford professor—has a theory he calls “dysfunctional family theory.”[4] He says that good entrepreneurs “have similar personality

Once you’ve considered all four of those elements, you want to put it all together. As I said, I put all mine together to create my 10X Vision in a PDF document in 2007. (You can check it out at BuyBackYourTime.com/Resources/ to get an idea.) Kyle, the founder of a proposal-creation software company, built his 10X Vision with InDesign and stock pho

Stuart did everything he could.

Within two months, Stuart freed up more than thirty hours a week, going from working eleven hours a day to working six,

IMPORTANTLY, A PLAYBOOK isn’t going to capture everything, but it will save you time. Just like my rule with everything else—80% done is 100% awesome—a Playbook will ensure that 80 percent or more of a repeated process happens exactly like you want it to, giving you predictable results. As a bonus, by keeping it in an editable document, you (or bet

Why are you interested in this position? What do you know about our company? What is your ideal work environment? What are your strengths? Where do you see yourself in five years? The video upload is important—this ensures that candidates can use basic technology. It’s a hidden test embedded in the project itself. Second, I don’t care how they answ

1 Define the one problem that needs to be solved. 3 Offer three viable solutions.

His high standards and insane work ethic were undeniable, even admirable. But he was working seventy-hour weeks during an average month