Entrepreneurship
Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company
Entrepreneurship
When you try to do too much, you never get anywhere. Focus.
[Outliers] Hetty Green: The Witch of Wall Street
YES!
from Hetty Green
People act not upon what they want, but what they expect
from Harry Campbell’s Get Real Mindset
Your first customers aren’t average users. They’re evangelists. Design for them.
Vicky • [Outliers] Steve Wozniak: The Engineer Who Built Apple
Three Innovation Lessons from James Dyson
Adapted from James Dyson
People Care. Planet Care.
haeckels.co.uk
“Pay what you feel” pilot pricing structure
Think in terms of opportunity cost
Farnam Street • Outliers: Henry Singleton—Distant Force [The Knowledge Project Ep. #225]
There are always options, and costs to not choosing those options
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
I may not be what I thought I was. This world itself may just be a maze without a center. But I will not wait to die. I will not wait to be bridled by another. I will go forward as I see fit.
-thoughts of Lysander au Lune
my bold; from Pierce Brown’s Dark Age, pg. 335