Entrepreneurship
Resources, thoughts, and ideas for when starting a company
Entrepreneurship
Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny.
The courage isn’t in taking on more, it’s in cutting off everything that doesn’t feed your goal.
Focus requires subtraction.
-Shane Parrish
my bold; from Brain Food #632
Hire people who light up when talking about one of their interests
Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing
ted.comThink with a young mind—see the invisible, pesky little problems
The greatest business failures often come not from playing the game poorly, but from continuing to excel at things that no longer matter.
-Shane Parrish
from Brain Food #634
Rejection isn’t a verdict; it’s data. Use it.
-Shane Parrish
Improving vs proving youself
If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
-Maya Angelou
Questions to ask when hiring:
“Would I want this person to be my boss?
Would I learn a significant amount from him or her?
What if this person went to work for our competition?”
from Valve’s employee handbook, cir 2012