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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
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