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    I'm back - ready for the next phase: pivoting my 25-year lifestyle business into a holdco

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    Also, you would be wise to avoid VC (IMHO) - we live in an era where you can bootstrap a micro-saas, get a MVP running, earn some revenues and either keep it, or sell it to fund your next iteration. Unless you have some "boil the ocean" idea and your end-game is unicorn status, bootstrap it -...
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    I'm back - ready for the next phase: pivoting my 25-year lifestyle business into a holdco

    INTRO 
    Off the top of my head: Create a SaaS people want - solves a problem they need solving and know it needs solving. This is from the "learn from my mistakes" file. I've more than once taken the "build it and they will come" model, because it was Such a Great Idea[TM] Nobody cares - until they...
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    I'm back - ready for the next phase: pivoting my 25-year lifestyle business into a holdco

    INTRO 
    Hey folks, I haven't been here in years and for some reason when I saw the email about closing the gates I remembered this place and decided to upgrade. My deal is I have this 25 year-old lifestyle business (SaaS and web services), and it's been great, but I'm also in my late 50's now (well...
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    Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich

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    I've since come across this extensive unauthorized bio of Napoleon Hill: http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-untold-story-of-napoleon-hill-the-greatest-self-he-1789385645 It is tempting to dismiss something like this as a "haters gotta hate" hatchet job except it's very thorough, and long. I...
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    Ignoring this Brian Tracy rule cost me over $400,000

    If you listen to his live speeches (not audiobooks) you'll hear references to his career before public speaking and consulting. It was a lot of sales (by his own admission, the only work you could get when you're largely uneducated and unemployable). Eventually he brought Suzuki cars to Canada...
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    Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich

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    I can understand your take on that. I actually thought it pretty extreme that he rejected signing or sending his son to a special school (the college I went to had a school for the deaf next door, they do great work, highly regarded.) And in the end it may have been more luck that it ended as...
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    Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich

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    You mean the entire story about his son?
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    Why does everyone love Think and Grow Rich

    HOT! 
    I've since verified this anecdote about the title of TAGR (I was actually wondering about it) - on the audio series Your Right To Be Rich, which are recordings of a series of Napoleon Hill lectures, he relates this story. (Originally I only knew about it from Maxwell Maltz's telling it in...
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    Sales #FAILS: Too many salespeople give up right at the point of breakthrough...

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    Like most of us, I am relentlessly hounded by salespeople. So I make the best of it and keep my eye out for any good ones so that I can offer them a position at my main business where they stand to make a lot more money. What I find is nearly all salespeople give up right at the moment of...
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    Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?

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    Cool, I have this book but I am not that far in yet. Although I avoid setting foot in any Wal-Mart I appreciate what he built. What intrigued me about Walton is (as I've heard the story) that something like 15 or 20 years elapsed from the time opened the first Wal-Mart to the time he opened the...
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    Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?

    BOOKS 
    Not too interested in Musk. Raising capital for money losing unicorns in the manic post-GFC tech bubble isn't really what I'm after here.
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    Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?

    BOOKS 
    Thanks, I have The Success System That Never Fails. Interesting that nobody seems to have written a biography of the guy. He lived to be 100!
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    Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?

    BOOKS 
    Cool, which bio is that? Rockefeller: A Titan of Industry (James Hoffman) or Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Ron Chernow)
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    Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?

    BOOKS 
    Thanks guys, the summary so far: Yes, true - he mentions this a lot in his letters to shareholders and both his biographies (Lowenstein's and Snowball) - in fact Buffet tends to scale back when everybody else is optimistic (like now, for example). This is his contrarianism at work which is a...
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    Biographies or companies that ascended during depressions or recessions?

    BOOKS 
    Looking for books about companies that experienced high growth during hard times, or biographies of entrepreneurs, investors and businessmen who prospered during hard times. Not looking for generic "feel good / motivation" titles or "profit from the coming collapse" type books - I mean...
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