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The Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin

June 6, 2010 Bootstrapping

A fan­tas­tic guide to Boot­strap­ping your busi­ness and even get­ting started with it. From Page 21 of the man­i­festo — Hereʼs how Id used the seven boot­strap­per tools:: Noth­ing to lose: The method used by Id threat­ened to destroy soft­ware dis­tri­b­u­tion as we know it. Which was fine with id, but not so fine with the guys […]

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6 rules for Superior Energy — Robin Sharma

June 5, 2010 Gyaan

Energy is always cru­cial fac­tor in your per­sonal as well as pro­fes­sional suc­cess and very few peo­ple actu­ally real­ize this fact. Robin Sharma shares six rules to supe­rior energy. Eat less — Eat until you are enough, but not until you are full (bor­rowed from Mahatma Gandhi) Eat noth­ing post 8pm Cut back on white food — […]

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How to Get up Early — Robin Sharma

June 1, 2010 Gyaan

Is get­ting up early rel­e­vant? The best of the best, are those who have trained to get up early. It is a com­pet­i­tive advan­tage ( ), because most of the other com­peti­tors are asleep. ( ) Give your­self a 60 minute lead­er­ship hour, just as the best prac­tice their art. So how do you get up early? Get […]

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Three Necessities for Startup Success — Marc Andreessen

May 31, 2010 Basics

Sea­soned ser­ial entre­pre­neur Marc Andreessen shares his three cri­te­ria for a suc­cess­ful start-up: There must be a sub­stan­tial mar­ket oppor­tu­nity A prod­uct that’s a 10x bet­ter solu­tion, and An out­stand­ing team. He goes on to state that there can be some com­pro­mise in the prod­uct area, but that the other two legs of a burgeoning […]

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A guide to Business Model Innovation — Alexander Osterwalder

May 30, 2010 Gyaan

This pre­sen­ta­tion delv­ing into the alchemy of Busi­ness Model Inno­va­tion by Alexan­der Oster­walder focuses on Your Busi­ness Model: How to Iden­tify and Improve it. Don’t miss the pre­sen­ta­tion along side!

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Ten rules for Web Startups — Evan Williams

May 29, 2010 Basics

Be Nar­row Focus on the small­est pos­si­ble prob­lem you could solve that would poten­tially be use­ful. Be Dif­fer­ent First of all, real­ize that no suf­fi­ciently inter­est­ing space will be lim­ited to one player. In a sense, com­pe­ti­tion actu­ally is good—especially to legit­imize new mar­kets. Sec­ond, see #1—the spe­cial­ist will almost always kick the generalist’s ass. […]

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