Shackleton announcement
At starting business, the first target is not your entire market
braintree app
API - application programming interface
Derek Sivers letter to customers
Growth hacks
Pebble in shoe
Own the problem in your company
Learn how to fly it costs few thousand usd
Social technologies
Challenge all assumptions - experiment with monkeys & cold shower
Daniel Kaneman book
Ask friends to challenge your mental models
Morning journaling helps to see flaws in your thinking
Victor Frankle man's search for meaning
Carve your own path in life
Be thrifty & resourceful
When starting a business ask yourself how deadly you want it? Is it an itch or burning itch for you?
Burn bridges behind yourself
What would my family say about me after my death?
Do activities with your children, be relevant in their lives...understand their contexts
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination - Oscar Wilde
https://castbox.fm/episode/80%3A-Thomas-Edison's-Formula-for-Greatness-id1059468-id51930489
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026 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Alexis Ohanian
cofounder of reddit
ycombinator partner
You gain muscle in gym & lose fat in kitchen
The less time you have for meditation, the more you need it
Test your hypothesis as soon as possible in biz
Have right questions instead of right answers
Afraid of death, be grateful for being alive & do as much as you can
How do you say no & to what you say no?
Investing questions
Can I use this product?
Is the market large?
Good content is the best SEO
Human experience is essential for business
FOMO fear of missing out
Extenuating circumstances???
IPO initial public offering
024 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Ramit Sethi
I will teach you to be rich book
Psychology & business
Human behavior & social influence, persuasion
He did not make a cent for 3 years
Staying in game longer than others, persistence can give results
Learn to handle criticism
Writing guest posts
Guest post is very important
Single blog post may change your life
If you chunk out post into really specific topic then you will drive traffic into your blog
1st set up your email list
2nd send them email on regular basis
99 % of revenue come from email
Checklist manifesto book
Survey monkey
github
google calendar
basecamp
asana
screenflow
dropbox
Make reproducible system like in McDonalds
Learn circus tricks
Brian brushwood hacking the system
man on wire movie
catch me if you can movie
Jason born movie
https://castbox.fm/episode/Ep-33%3A-Ramit-Sethi-on-Persuasion%2C-Negotiation%2C-and-Turning-a-Blog-Into-a-Multi-Million-Dollar-Business-id1059468-id51930441
023 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Tracy Dinunzio part 3
Your hardship is your greatest gift
Spinal ebifitda was her hardship
She did not complain at all
Complaining does not solve problems
When you complain nobody wants to help you - steven hawkin
Refuse to have negative thoughts, brain is very plastic
022 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Tracy Dinunzio part 2
pitching investors
Ability to tell your stories is an essential skill
Make your 1st pitch to investors from whom you do not want to get your finances
Mistake to measure size of target market
Be confident at your pitch
Click bait in internet
Start your story vision/problem description instead of chronological story
Pitching is persuading...learn to persuade
Use seth godin works, ted talks with more than 1-2 million views and yahoo news headlines to learn persuading
Chief Technological Officer, tech guy responsible for company
1st hired people make up DNA & culture of your company
Business incubators and accelerators have access to investors
021 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, Tracy Dinunzio
autodidact what is it?
Backend deep elements of system that make it work, function
Front end user interface html css, form
Organic search
social media
blogging
Excess capacity of cars - uber
Excess capacity of space - air b&b
Bootstrapping
Students paying tuition by working in uber
Paper clip turning into house
Low barriers to entry
High level of competition
Unfair advantage over rivals
SEO
Goals strategies tactics tools
Goals should remain
Tactics & tools should change for optimal results
012 cliff notes from Tim Ferriss show podcast, James Altucher
Gratitude and abundance are the same things
You are average 5 people around you
Key to entrepreneurship & success is to reduce risks
Improve yourself 1% a week
Sleep at least 8 hours for good health, it is essential for rejuvenating brain & body
Be vaguely correct instead of being precisely wrong
Nasim Taleb
News is the worst form of junk food you inject yourself
Fiction writers are the best writers
While reading, new ideas come to his mind & he starts writing
Learn to say no, time is more valuable than money, saying no gives you time
Time is non-renewable resource
Money magnifies all your qualities
Every tomorrow is defined by what you do today
Middle class is slowly diminishing
Industry gatekeepers are going away: you can publish your book
Big corporations will not hire you anymore, you have to build your own business
Your writing should be entertaining and educational
In your writing show your vulnerability, your pain points and write how you resolved this problem, never give advice on what to do
4hww book's objective is to give people tools for maximizing their per hour output/productivity power of no book summary
In valley of failure we saw our seeds of success
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