If you’re building an organisation and haven’t read The E-Myth yet [amazon], here’s a start: The Entrepreneurial Seizure To understand the E-Myth and the misunderstanding… Read More »Michael Gerber and the E-Myth: Entrepreneurial Seizures, The Fatal Assumption, and the Technician’s Nightmare
My experience is this: number one, a CFO is different than a COO. A CFO is not a glorified bookkeeper. A CFO is in charge… Read More »Seth Godin on the entrepreneur, the CFO and the COO, and how to let go of your organisation (2 of 2)
This video from UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurship class is an entertaining take on building successful companies (read: organisations) that work. Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel is nice… Read More »Michael Seibel (2): On Digital Technology and Physical Products
This video from UC Berkeley’s entrepreneurship class is an entertaining take on building successful companies (i.e. organisations) that work. Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel is nice… Read More »Michael Seibel (1): How to Know if You’re Winning
The use of the word Capitalism to describe what goes on in free market economies – usually in opposition to Socialism or Communism – has… Read More »On Getting-Rid-of-Capital-ism
Netscape’s secret is that we’re in the middle of an exploding market. Marc Andreessen It’s as simple and as difficult as that.* *In one sense,… Read More »Marc Andreessen on the secret of Netscape’s success (c.1995)
This is a great introduction to the Business Model Canvas. I still prefer the long one from 2012, but this much shorter one clearly outlines… Read More »Alex Osterwalder: a blueprint for innovation (Business Model Canvas)
You need to put the time in. If you don’t work the hours you’ve committed to your project, it will stall or die. But if… Read More »Working your hours
… is to bring people to the project: to work on it, to fund it, and in one way or another to “buy” it. This… Read More »Your job as the project entrepreneur…
This is a very instructive, highly-evolved form of a classic Seth Godin riff from a great interview on the Creative Rebels Podcast. Hosts David and… Read More »Seth Godin: “Are you a freelancer or an entrepreneur?”