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"I remember when Blackberry died and iPhone. I was one of the last people. I kept that Blackberry... I kept the Blackberry deep into the game. I needed that keyboard."

Bradley Cooper

Understanding how to create uncontested market spaces; business strategy for founders

"You want to read Blue Ocean Strategy. It's good — kind of mostly academic plus some infotainment."

Aaron Levie

"maybe last but not least, the blue ocean strategy probably worth checking out because if you choose to compete in a crowded category, you just have a harder road ahead of you."

Tim Ferriss

"Built to Sell is a good one. That's a real I really like that one a lot."

Jake Falcon

"protein shakes, Chipotle, I split a bedroom. I made my living expenses as small as humanly possible."

The Game w/ Alex Hormozi

"We are leaning very heavily on ClickUp these days. We use it for project management, time tracking, company chat."

Katie Keith

Daily news and business information

"And then I jump right into the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the LA Times, and the Washington Post. And I go right through those like a hot knife through butter digitally."

Michael Ovitz

Payroll and HR management recommended by bookkeeper

"And it reminds me of two softwares that I paid for as a business, which is Gusto and QuickBooks. I didn't actually just go buy these on the website. My bookkeeper recommended them to me."

Pat Walls

"read a book called the high growth handbook by Elad Gil. arguably one of the best certainly angel investors of the last few decades. his hit rate is absolutely insane."

Tim Ferriss

Finding business/startup ideas to build around

"Just for the sake of this demo, we're going to talk about an idea that I found on ideabrowser.com, which is basically a missed-lead responder for med spas."

Greg Isenberg

Generating startup ideas with taste via agent MCP; guiding post-ideation steps; creating outreach systems and competitive analysis; assessing founder fit for ideas

"I love it. It's honestly like my main way of how I interface with Idea Browser. It has access to be able to do all that — not only does it tell you ideas but you could use it to help you build beyond that. It even created a project URL inside of Idea Browse..."

Nick Vasilescu

Running a one-person business; client deployments and internal company use

"Kylon's been ahead of a lot of this stuff. I'm filming a really cool video on how to do a one-person business with it. Victor AI and Kylon are the two main ones I've got my eye on right now, and we're trying both extensively for clients and within our own c..."

Liam Ottley

Transferring business context to a voice agent to build VAT reconciliation and other accounting automation workflows

"We just had a conversation with a voice agent and the voice agent has full context on everything that we're trying to build in Kylon, which is essentially a workspace of all of our agents that specialize in completing our different work streams. I just had ..."

Josh Thomas

"And then on top of that, we have Microsoft 365 licensing for each of the staff members."

Thomas Mahony

"We use Monday.com. We use that for tracking development progress and managing tickets."

Thomas Mahony

"So who do I text? Well, I went to outscraper.com. I typed in tree trimming businesses in Dallas, Texas. It gave me this info."

Chris Koerner

"I just went straight to Outscraper. Outscraper is still the cheapest option for me. I've used Apify and other kind of alternatives, but just keep it simple."

Frey

Team feedback and communication documentation

"At Impact Theory, we have something called Principles. This is an idea that we got from Ray Dalio. They turned it into software and it allows us to tell each other whatever we need to tell each other in documented form."

Tom Bilyeu

Framework for building a feedback culture within her production team; conducting post-mortems after every shoot

"Kim Scott, for example, emphasizes so well with radical candor — giving feedback and receiving feedback is a skill and an art that is teachable and learnable and vital and critical. Having the bravery to ask for that critical feedback is mission critical."

Michelle Khare

"I have recommended Radical Candor to pretty much everybody I know who's a content creator trying to figure out their business."

Michelle Khare

"I want you to buy three copies, give it to two young people and a parent. You know, this book is incredible."

Jason Calacanis

Registering business for government contracting and finding contract opportunities

"You would register with SAM, which is a website that is free, it's public, it's called sam.gov. You would register your business as if it was like a business, like a job application almost."

Natalie Rosario

Acquiring real estate assets with no money down and no credit check by taking over seller's existing mortgage or having seller finance the purchase

"100% of my $500 million in real estate has been creatively financed. I tell your parents to never sell anything for cash. You're going to give 25% of it to the government. When a seller truly understands creative finance — how it saves them money, they get ..."

Pace Morby

Securing early-stage investment and media exposure for a CPG beverage brand

"Shark Tank, we love Shark Tank. They absolutely want people to get deals. They want people to be successful and they have such good intention. If you have a good idea and you actually have some kind of proof of concept, you will probably have quite a bit of..."

Allison Ellsworth

Getting investment, resources, knowledge, network, and credibility for their business

"And Shark Tank absolutely changed our lives. You know, we had resources, we had knowledge, we had network, we had access to more capital. The recognition of the American dream of as seen on Shark Tank, right? That stamp of approval, like it does so many thi..."

Allison Ellsworth