7 Books, 7 Learnings, 7 Bullet Points 🤓
What?
I like to read and I'm trying to share what I learn so here come the last 7 books I've read and the most important thing that I have learned from each.
There are more learnings in each of them ofc but I try to at least take one major thing away from every book that I will memorize and the rest I may or may not remember 😳
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Jk it's on oku.club (a hipster Goodreads 🤔)
The 📚
1. The 7 habits of highly effective people
- Always make time for quadrant 2 activities (Not urgent, but important)
2. Company of one
- Always question if growth is necessary and the smartest solution and set upper limits for it to reduce the risk of burning out
3. The mom test
- Never mention your idea when you talk to people, instead talk about their problems and what they do today to solve them
4. The Embedded Entrepreneur
- Audience driven products > Idea driven products for small businesses
5. E-Myth Revisited
- Your company is the product
6. 1 Page Marketing Plan
- Direct response marketing is the best/only marketing for small companies
7. Start with Why
- Customers don’t care about what you do but why you do it
You?
Have you read any of the books and do you have different takeaways?
Let me know in the comments ❤️
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Mom test is amazing and I read it
Great list!
I'm currently reading "THE ALMANACK OF NAVAL RAVIKANT" and am absolutely loving it.
Highly recommend it to any future founder or indiehacker.
Free ebook is here - https://navalmanack.s3.amazonaws.com/Eric-Jorgenson_The-Almanack-of-Naval-Ravikant_Final.pdf
Good one.
I've read it a while back but can also recommend 🤙
Any good quotes/paragraphs from each one? I love being able to say I've read the book with some obscure part you can't find on goodreads etc.
But if I tell you have you read the book? 🤔😁
We all read, but do we really read? ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxXi09kRdrM
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Are you asking me to read it or just placing links? 🤔
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Thanks for your thoughts. This is just an experiment to see if I can get the point across in a limited amount of space but seems like some of the learnings lack a bit of nuance as you pointed out.
Let me elaborate and maybe I can edit the above to make more sense as standalone learnings.
I think the idea is that most people think that growth is necessary if you want to be "successful" as in growing based on Projections rather than growing based on actual revenue numbers. A second part is that it's more often than not wiser to spend time and money on retention / making existing users happy than to always chase acquisition.
The upper limit part is about that people set goals as in "I want to have 1 million MRR" but not enough people questions where they should stop when they have enough because even while you can grow, it will make you chase growth at all cost and might lead to you having a miserable life because it's also very stressful (looking at VC startups for example)
Think it makes sense but I'm looking at it from an Indie Hacker standpoint where looking at specific audiences and their problems has a higher chance of success than coming up with some idea and thinking this is what people want.
I think in this regard thinking small is probably the way to go unless you have an abundance of time or an abundance of capital.
Good to know, I use it quite a bit just thought calling it hipster, was "edgy" 😛
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Hehe, I actually do but only in my private Notion, maybe next week I'll try to post one probably also helps hold me accountable to actually do it. I like reading more 😵
Yeah, it's true I think that the term small is very misleading because there are different opinions about what that is. Is it $100, $ 1k, or $10k MRR?
@arvidkahl Has a good way of thinking about it, he calls it the "Goldilocks Zone" where niches are neither too small nor too big.
From this medium article
I think that's where you should look.
This changes a lot of things