Business/Entrepreneurship
We released something we realized wasn’t our best. But because we expect success, we went back and fixed it.
Ramit Sethi • Your Move: The Underdog’s Guide to Building Your Business
The unheralded force behind important non-profits and creators of all kinds : Not mattering a little to the masses, but mattering a lot to a focused group, one that supports the work and spreads the word.
Choose your fans, choose your future.
The good thing about being relatively early in a new technology is that it takes a really long time to be too late.
One of my favorite interview questions has become: “How do you cultivate your taste?”
David Perell • Annual Review 2022
“Sometimes I say that the key to Special Offer’s viability as a business is that it exists to serve the community of people it is already in,” he explains. “It’s a semi-corny, kinda-catchy, three-second sound bite. But what I mean by that is that we don’t attempt (anymore) to execute on projects that don’t come naturally to us.” Special Offer’s suc... See more
“I’m a big proponent of gatekeeping”: Special Offer on business, brands and brat
Many think that driving change is about persuasion, so they focus on how to sell the idea, wordsmithing slogans and creating fancy presentation materials. The truth is that feeling the urge to persuade is a warning sign. It means you’re either starting with the wrong people or you have the wrong idea.
Harvard Business Review • To Implement Change, You Don’t Need to Convince Everyone at Once
Focusing on a keystone change allows you to get out of the business of selling an idea and into the business of selling a success.
Harvard Business Review • To Implement Change, You Don’t Need to Convince Everyone at Once
Foundered - to stumble or fall.
Interesting connection to founder.
If you build it AND translate it, they will come.