The SaaS Playbook: Build a Multimillion-Dollar Startup Without Venture Capital

Does this person have a reasonable personal life? Do they treat people well? Do they have a happy family? If someone has a catastrophic personal life, odds are decent that if you’re not willing to do the same, you’ll be unlikely to achieve success in the same way they did. Do you want to be like them, and are you willing to do what they’ve done to

Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Customers by Michele Hansen.

Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things.”

But if you’re stuck doing things the company needs that you’re good at (but don’t like), that leads to burnout. That’s exactly what I was doing. I hired an executive assistant who lightened that load for a bit. She helped streamline a few things and made appointments, but what I really needed was someone to whom I could delegate at another level. A

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together: How to Run Your Business Without Letting it Run You.

your profitability is based on finding a problem that’s worth paying to resolve and solving it in a way that makes your users desperately want your solution.

I tell this as a cautionary tale: if you find yourself listless, unmotivated, or constantly frustrated as you endure the stress of building your company, it’s unlikely to fix itself. The best remedy for burnout is significantly changing your habits and patterns related to work, including stepping away for weeks, which feels like the last thing you

Have they accomplished what I want to accomplish? Does it seem like they got lucky, or could they do it again?

Integrations (Network Effect) Network effect is when the value of a product or service increases because of the number of users in the network. A network of one telephone isn’t useful. Add a second telephone, and you can call each other. But add a hundred telephones, and the network is suddenly quite valuable.