How to become successful

• Assemble a team of moderately-successful people
• Bootstrap / Start simple / create a minimum-viable-product (MVP)
• Get known / have connections / build a following
• Get powerful allies to fund / protect you if necessary
• Get skilled
• Hold onto equity
• Minimize the cost of joining / using your solution
• Protect your intellectual property / Get a patent
• Protect your work / be secretive if necessary
• Solve a ubiquitous problem
• Spend your time / money differently than average people
• Try to get close to / work for successful people you admire
• Watch out for new technology

Related pages

• Experiential / environmental patterns of successful / rich people

• R.W. Hamming - A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do
  • This is a guy who knew Feynman.
• 2016.10.15 - YouTube - h3h3Productions - We Owe you Guys an Explanation...
  • They started the channel because there were videos on YouTube that were getting a lot of praise and views that they thought were really stupid.
  • Their first reaction video was to some random 'first kiss' video, where Ethan just said to Hila, "grab the camera, we're going to make a video", and people really liked it.

Books

• Tactics: The Art and Science of Success
  • I saw this on the shelf at the Stanford GSB.
• Mentored by a Millionaire: Master Strategies of Super Achievers
  • I saw this on the shelf at the Stanford GSB.
• 12 Choices That Lead to Your Success
  • I saw this at Stanford GSB.

WIRED 24 Hour Play Competition

• I'm reminded of the success we had with "Let's Make a Baby!"
• We definitely had by-far the best script. I think that's analogous to what Ben Horowitz calls "product-market fit", aka "a good idea".
• ...but we also had a good team, with good people in especially key roles