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“The one thing that I feel is important, and it's probably not a good objective business decision, but I think as an entrepreneur I find it much more satisfying if I know certain users pay for my product. I feel like I've really created something of value. If all I create [is] something lots of people look at, and then advertise—let's say I have a
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When I was pushing for business growth and hitting new monthly highs in revenue, I would work longer hours, try new tactics, create new products, and move as many levers as I could. I put my business in an environment conducive to growth through my season of intensity. I knew there would come a time when I had to cut back to 4-hour workdays and my
... See moreDan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
The problem was simple, but the solution was anything but. After several fits and starts, lessons learned the hard way, and five years of bootstrapping (building a business that relied on revenue rather than venture capital), we built a multifaceted business. The Behance Network grew to enable more than twelve million creative professionals to show
... See moreScott Belsky • The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
adopted this attitude and embraced a version of a career which philosopher Andrew Taggart, who writes about our modern relationship to work, describes as “a first-person work‑centric story of progress about an individual’s life course.”9 From this perspective, my career was not a series of jobs, but a high‑stakes proposition, one where falling beh
... See morePaul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
