How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are
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How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are
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#2"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.
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#3thinking is one, execution is another. Reading is important, but action is crucial. I have no problems saying that I can think like entrepreneurs, and I believe you can as well, what separates winners from the rest of us is relentless execution. I used to force myself to think of 5 new startup ideas a day, at the end of the week I have to pick one idea to execute because we don't have enough time and money, what I want to say is idea is easy to come up with when it becomes your habit and once your team found a process to brainstorm, but execution really matters, we're still building our 1st startup around 1 single idea among bunch of our ideas from the portfolio. (and the idea has changed dramatically) .
Readwirteweb once wrote a post about this "the case against reading for entrepreneurs", good read, http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/08/the-case-against-b...
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#4I guess you just do. For example, entrepreneurs always seem to be looking for ideas, for change, even if they involve risk. Non-entrepreneurs in the other side are the ones that look for a "safe" job, do not appreciate change and they just want to do their job and go home after that.
It is not about thinking like an entrepreneur... it is more like living like one, you are goal/dream oriented, work a lot to get there, work from home and from anywhere, your mind never stops thinking about how to get something better, or how to create something new.
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#5"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.
Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).
Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are
#6thinking is one, execution is another. Reading is important, but action is crucial. I have no problems saying that I can think like entrepreneurs, and I believe you can as well, what separates winners from the rest of us is relentless execution. I used to force myself to think of 5 new startup ideas a day, at the end of the week I have to pick one idea to execute because we don't have enough time and money, what I wa…
The "business" books RWR advised against are fluffy, not-business-at-all books like Gladwell -- and Seth Godin's, which are partially fluff, and partially excellent sources of case studies.
The guy quoted in RWR slammed case study books because they are soft-touch "how to build great companies" - but that's only SOME of them. The - you guessed it - fluffy ones.
"Don't read books that are nothing but fluff" is just not a battle cry people click on, so instead they say "don't read business books!"
Read Positioning, Spin Marketing, Pricing with Confidence, Getting to Yes, Rules for Revolutionaries, Purple Cow, etc., etc.
If you read, say, Purple Cow, or Positioning, or Pricing with Confidence, and don't come away with actionable ideas, you either have an empty head or were just running your eyes over the words and not thinking.
And read lots of biographies. They're practical storytelling - learn from me, kid - pinned down on paper.
Re: How to think like an entrepreneur, wherever you are
#7"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.
Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).
One of my favorite business books is 'Growing a Business' by Paul Hawken. It's from the 80ies, but much of his advice would look quite at home in a blog post by 37signals or some such.
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#8"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.
Hacker News is cherrypicking. :) Nobody here seems to read 20- to 30-year-old business books (except possibly me).
I would be careful to underestimate HN. The odds are better that there are people here who wrote 20- to 30-year-old business books.
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#9Read it all is sort of bullshit, it's good to read but "read it all" even about only one subject is impossible, blogs, tweets, books, slides, presentations, gathering there is just too much to observe. If you don't cheerypick and try to read all you are being unrealistic not an entrepreneur, entrepreneurs should use time wisely.
It might be that author was trying to say "read different opinions", which makes sense. Which is way different than "read it all, don't cheerypick" advice
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#10"Read. A lot. Don’t cherrypick things that seem to apply to you — read it all." <- That is why I read Hacker News.
I agree with reading a lot, however, do not spend too much time on it. At some point "thinking like an entrepreneur" means to act on ideas, not only reading about how to act on them ;)