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Here are few thoughts I’ve written down over the years.
That Will Never Work The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea the paperback arrives in bookstores June 7
ReadMost small businesses launch without raising a penny. And they have good reasons for doing so.
ReadYou’ll never know if your idea is any good just by thinking about it.
ReadAnd here’s a hint: It helps to be hungry.
ReadJust as a startup has a limited supply of people, money, and resources, you as an individual are equally constrained. There’s only so much you can do in a day.
ReadNetflix is famous for its “freedom and responsibility” culture, in which employees are given almost unimaginable latitude to do their jobs as they see fit.
ReadThe Canada Principle serves as a constant reminder to us to make sure we didn’t run around chasing what appeared to be low hanging fruit, all the while taking our eyes off what was truly important in scaling our business.
ReadThis is one of the reasons that doing a hardware startup is particularly challenging. Once you start, and have converted your idea into something physical, it’s very hard to change direction.
ReadIt’s unoriginal and it will never work. But neither of those things matter.
ReadThanks for thinking of me, and I would be delighted to be considered to speak at your event.
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Hope we get a chance to do something together in the future.
Take a listen as I sit down (virtually) with budding entrepreneurs, as we talk through their challenges and identify their blind spots. Tune in to find out how to make your “impossible” vision a reality.