Entrepreneurship
Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company
Entrepreneurship
What would you do if you weren’t afraid of failing?
Adapted from Timeleft newsletter
When facing a tricky problem or ambitious goal, try inverting. Ask how you’d guarantee failure. The answers may surprise you—and unlock new solutions.
Peter Bevelin • Attention Required! | Cloudflare
Just because you have doubters—and they will always appear—does not mean you should doubt yourself
Adapted from Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Bob Iger
We’re always talking about doing the thing…
…or thinking about doing the thing…
…but hardly ever doing the thing.
Do the thing.
Adapted from The Knowledge Project podcast, episode #220 regarding James Dyson
There are four general categories of things businesses can market/sell:
Stationary structures
Portable goods
Porting goods
Proprietary knowledge
Adapted from The Knowledge Project podcast, episode #222 regarding Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sometimes a single pro can outweigh multiple cons, and vice versa
Adapted from Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Bob Iger
Identify common frustration
Rethink current assumptions
Engineer better solution
Adapted from Shane Parrish podcast episode on James Dyson
Three Innovation Lessons from James Dyson
Adapted from James Dyson
Be an agent of change.
Adapted from Tim Ferriss podcast episode with Sir Richard Branson