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“Nothing is more counterintuitive for a leader than saying no to a good idea, and nothing is a bigger destroyer of focus than always saying yes.”
– by Chris McChesney
“Nearly everyone in a major corporation has participated in a brainstorming session in which, without knowing the customer’s needs, they were encouraged to generate hundreds of ideas and were told that there is no such thing as a bad idea. You can probably still picture walls of Post-It notes.”
– by Anthony W. Ulwick
“Blue ocean strategy pursues differentiation and low cost simultaneously by reconstructing market boundaries…A thriving blue ocean strategy is built on more than differentiation and low-cost in its value proposition. It must align value, profit, and people propositions so that each reinforces the others.”
The descriptions of Product Market Fit all seemed so post hoc, so unactionable…The Product Market Fit definitions I had found were vivid and compelling, but they were lagging indicators — by the time investment bankers are staking out your house, you already have Product Market Fit.
“My best work happened when I had a big challenge and not quite enough time.”
― Jake Knapp, creator of the Google Ventures sprint process
Run your company. Don’t let it run you. Create a business that can thrive without you.
– By John Warrillow
How Tim went from $40,000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40,000 per MONTH and 4 hours per week.
How to Make Offers So Good People Will Feel Stupid Saying No.
– by Alex Hormozi, self-made billionaire
Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it.
– by Michael E. Gerber, The World’s No. 1 Small Business Guru.
“What you need to know to succeed in a startup is not expertise in startups, what you need is expertise in your own users. Mark Zuckerberg did not succeed at Facebook because he was an expert in startups, he succeeded despite being a complete noob at startups…”
– Paul Graham
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