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Technique
Building a consumer subscription business from zero without diluting ownership or accepting investor pressure to follow a predetermined strategy
"I try to tell them that there is a path of bootstrapping. We figured out how to build a positive cash conversion cycle, so we didn't need a lot of cash. I actually don't think I'd be around right now if I had raised money. The constraint of not having money..."
Software
Managing company cards and spend across multiple companies; tracking who spends what with limits
"I use Brex bank accounts and we have multiple companies and multiple credit cards that we set up on Brex. I'm able to see basically who's spending what, how they're spending it, limits, stuff like that."
Software
Learning both tactical product development skills and getting inspiration to build
"For folks that haven't read your book, I just want to uh communicate how great it is. There's very few books that are both tactically useful that give you like here's how to do a thing and also just inspire you to build and make great things and Build does ..."
Media
"Dan Martell. I don't know if you've read his book called Buy Back Your Time. Very highly recommend to anyone who's building multi-team member business. I feel like he took a lot of good ideas from other business books and put it into one."
Technique
"So, you're going to take more phone sales. You're going to try and close them on the phone. When you're going through the sales process, you go CLOSER. Clarify whether they need this or your kid's going to go away."
"I love his second book confess confessions of an adman I think is uh equally as good."
Place
Example of mission-controlled company that maintains customer trust
"If you're like, 'Are there any companies you trust?' You're like, 'Man, I love Costco.' Costco's a $400 billion public company. Costco is I think built on a very different philosophy which is that margins can be a source of weakness."
Media
"There is like a 20-page afterward that I highly recommend you read. It's in Ed Catmull's autobiography called Creativity Inc. It's called The Steve Jobs We Knew."
Software
Documenting client discussions about concentrated positions, recording meeting minutes and ongoing reassessments
"CRM, meeting minutes, when you have your annual meeting with clients, make sure that this position is not glossed over. The CRM notes are definitely helpful as well."
Person
Product development framework: DIY, done with you, done for you progression
"So that was my first experience with Daniel Priestley's sort of like product frameworks like do it yourself, do it done with you, done for you or something along those lines, right?"
Media
Learning from successful people and entrepreneurs
"Watch all the episodes of Diary of a CEO, learn from people, and you know, and jump on"
Learning about Henry Singleton's management philosophy, capital allocation strategy, and how he built Teledyne
"The other book is called Distant Force, a memoir of the Teledyne Corporation and the man who created it, written by George Roberts. If you can get your hands on the book — it's out of print, it's really hard to buy — I highly recommend it."
Product
"So we use an Epson ET8500. They're a little bit more expensive on you can find them on sale frequently for like $550, but really any inkjet printer will do."
Learning entrepreneurship principles, sampling strategies, and word-of-mouth marketing
"One of my favorite entrepreneurs of all time is Estée Lauder. I think I've read her autobiography three or four times. I've done probably two or three episodes on that book. Her strategy of giving free samples — shifting money from her advertising budget in..."
Other
Keeping up to date with Kieran's articles on compound engineering, the polish step, and the learning/explain concept.
"Go subscribe to Every so you can keep up to date with everything."
Media
Learning about leadership accountability and the concept of extreme ownership
"Obviously, you know, I only read biographies and history, but I don't read business books, but I always tell people that's one of the few business books I'd actually recommend reading. You can read it on a weekend and it's very direct. It's just like Jocko ..."
Media
"As a boy, I subscribed to the print edition of Fast Company and always looked forward to getting it in the physical mailbox at home."
Technique
"Then I also use the flat hand method. Let the scorpion walk on my hand rather than grabbing it, which mimics a predator from above."
Media
Learning about SaaS business models early in his career
"There's a great blog written by David Skok, who is a partner at Matrix, called For Entrepreneurs, that was basically all about the SaaS business model. And no one of this generation would know it anymore, but it was amazing, and it was a gift that he put so..."
Media
Understanding biotech industry history and business development
"I'd say chief among which was the the Janentech origin story which is one of the best I would say business books I've ever read just unbelievably good because it it also and I can't believe it made it past all the Genentech sensors but like actual contracts..."
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