The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
To survive and thrive you need to have the conviction to create things your are proud of with people you love and in a way that allows you to have a meaningful life however you determine that. Anything more than that is not just “bonus,” it can actually lead to your undoing. I don’t mean financial ruin, I mean that you may loose that independence a
... See morehighlights from Danny Meyer’s autobiography via David Senra:
1. I had an uncontainable drive to win.
2. The inception of Shake Shack actually began with a humble hot dog cart. Small as the project was, I took this cart quite seriously. I was asking myself, "Who ever wrote that rule that you can't push the envelopes of excellence and hospitality for
... See moreProblems are best solved with a personal project and self-experimentation. You become an entrepreneur when you take your projects public. And remember, you are the ultimate project. The exchange of goods is the foundation of human connection regardless of generation, gender, race, or type of good being exchanged.
Dan Koe • The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future
I discovered it the hard way, and it took me ten years of “failed” entrepreneurship and over-work to finally understand that you can’t really be happy unless you’re doing something that benefits other people. To put it in business terms, you can’t be successful until your work is valued by someone else, which is why starting with the person is so i
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