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The tragedy of modern man is that he spends more time optimising what’s on his CV than his eulogy.
the science of business is scaling, and the art of business is things that don’t scale
Scott Belsky • The Wild Future of Commerce & The Rise of Conformative Software
I learned this formula for success from Charlie Munger:
1. Don’t sell stuff you don’t want to buy.
2. Don’t work for people you don’t want to become.
3. Create win-win relationships for all.
1. Don’t sell stuff you don’t want to buy.
2. Don’t work for people you don’t want to become.
3. Create win-win relationships for all.
If the opposite of your strategy is a bad strategy, then your strategy is not a good strategy. Arguably, you’re just avoiding stupidity.
The "80/20 principle" for founders
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
Traction: 80% distribution, 20% product
Growth: 80% retention, 20% acquisition
Revenue: 80% existing customers, 20% new leads
Pricing experiments: 80% positioning tweaks, 20% actual price changes
Brand building: 80% customer experience, 20% logo design
Sales: 80% listening, 20% pitching
Community building: 80% empowering... See more
GREG ISENBERG • Tweet
The test of a business man is not whether he can make money in one or two boom years, or can make money through the luck of getting into the field first, but whether in a highly competitive field, without having any initial advantage over his competitors, he can outdistance them in a perfect honourable way and keep the respect of himself and of his
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