Entrepreneurship
Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company
Entrepreneurship
Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company
Critics arrive before customers.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #636
Conscious capitalism, a management philosophy
Rejection isn’t a verdict; it’s data. Use it.
-Shane Parrish
... See moreOnce I thought that [writing this book] would be impossible. It was a skyscraper, massive and complete and unbearably far off. It taunted me from the horizon. But do we ever look at such buildings and assume they sprung up overnight? No. We’ve seen the traffic congestion that attends them. The skeleton of beams and girders. The swarm of builders an
Replace brackets with your own project
from acknowledgements in Morning Star
Bounce, don’t break: resilience isn’t about avoiding knockdowns; it’s about how you use them as launching pads.
-Shane Parrish
Hook, story, offer
Hook: gets your customer to listen to your story
Story: supercommunicates the offer
Offer: lists all values you/your product are bringing to the table
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
-Steve Jobs
The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.
-Ayn Rand
Who’s going to stop me? Me
from Brain Food #629