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Is the '4-Hour Work Week' by Tim Ferriss still relevant?
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Trajectory: Startup is a book by Dave Parker , a serial entrepreneur and tech investor. Dave previously headed Startup America (now part of UP Global) and Founder Institute Seattle (where I originally met him). He is also a Techstars mentor and board member of several companies with successful exits.
It is perhaps the most practical guide I’ve come across for someone who has an idea and would like to foun Read more
A little background on the author, Chet Holmes. He worked for Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's billionaire business partner. Berkshire Hathaway's portfolio companies were the test lab for many of the techniques. Chet doubled revenues for one of their businesses three years in a row, eliciting the following response from Charlie: "Chet, are you sure we are not lying, cheating or stealing? In all my years in business, Read more
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The Pulitzer-award winning reporter Charles Duhigg presents to us an interesting read about a subject that often defines our daily routine- habit. In his 2012 New York bestseller, The Power of Habit, we see a ubiquitous read that has been recommended by readers across the divide. Duhigg presents to us truths and techniques on how habits form and even goes out of his way to give us insight on how to ch Read more
Image courtesy of beta2boss.com “Advertising, once a gamble, has become, under able direction, one of the safest business ventures. Certainly, no other enterprise with comparable possibilities need involve so little risk.” [1] The above quote is from Claude Hopkins who, in 1923, wrote the seminal advertising treatise, “Scientific Advertising”. He famously made toothpaste mainstream in America Read more
