Business
The single most important question we ask in our first conversation with founders is not how their business works, or who their competition is, but what the problem is that they are solving for people.
Emily Heyward • Obsessed: Building a Brand People Love from Day One
... See more“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To hims
- Questions To Ask: What does this business do? Why do people buy this business and not the other business? How do you make money? How did this start? How did you get here?
- Lesson: “And so it’s just asking really simple questions, like why is the
Drew Waterstreet • Special Situations in Private Markets | Jeremy Giffon on Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Podcast Notes
“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”
― Anne Bogart
― Anne Bogart
Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
The most profound and the very best questions we never dare to ask are: what would your business look like if it was created today? What would it do? How would it do it? How would it make money? What would you still have done and what would you never have created?
Tom Goodwin • Digital Darwinism: Survival of the Fittest in the Age of Business Disruption (Kogan Page Inspire)
I love the question @jordancooper asks founders- “if there were one thing i needed to understand to see as much value in your business as you do, what would it be and let’s talk about that.”
The Engineering Question Can you create breakthrough technology instead of incremental improvements? 2. The Timing Question Is now the right time to start your particular business? 3. The Monopoly Question Are you starting with a big share of a small market? 4. The People Question Do you have the right team? 5. The Distribution Question Do you have
... See morePeter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
The most important question any business leader could ever ask themselves – “What business are we in?”
- If you ask yourself this question ~5 times (without repeating answers, of course) it’s like an archaeological dig to figure out the true essence of your company