Free Agent Nation

Belief Changes!

1. Why risk with one company when you can work with many (like investment, lots of research, solid fundamentals, and Diversification)
2. Work is Personal
3. Work is Fun
4. Board of Directors, "The Strategy Group Therapy", a small self-organized cluster to help the hard-headed and soft-hearted entrepreneur with the same frequency consult professionally and motivate emotionally, "Working solo is not working alone"(an emerging free-agent infrastructure)(instead of office colleges and its benefit)
5. Consumer Union instead of Labor Union (Health Insurance, Office Supply, with economy of scale, and deep discount price, buyers monopoly!) Freelancers Union
6. Talent-Driven Model
7. The New Economic Infrastructure

Free Agent: Evangelist? Ambassador? Anyone?

Hope you find your! Please read Free Agent Nation, by Daniel H. Pink!

Outsource what you can

Eliminate
and
Delegate

Focus on What you do best, Deal

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The Art of the Start: Guy Kawasaki

The Art of the Start



(for entrepreneurship)

1. Make Meaning, to change the world (the best reason to start) – Quality of life – Right a wrong – Prevent the end of something good

2. Make Mantra (not mission statement, slogan?) – Short, Unique, Memorable – Mantra is for employee, why do we exist – 3-4 words what we stand for
eg
Wendy’s – Healthy Fast Food
FedEx – Peace of mind
Nike – Authentic athletic performance
Target – Democratize design (great design at economical price)

Joke – Dilbert Mission Statement Generator

3. Get Going – Think different (not 10-15%, but 10 times better) – Polarize people (not for everybody, if a perfect product it is mediocre) – Find a few Soul Mates (to balance yourselves off)

4. Define a Business Model – Be specific (the Q: Who is my customer? and How can I get money from them? – Keep it simple! (Cost, Price, Gross Margin) – Ask Women (men just want to kill)

5. Weave a MAT (Milestones, Assumptions, Tasks)
(A pure beautiful ice or snow track, very difficult to Prioritize)
Milestones – agreement, finish design, shipping software
Assumptions – sales call per day, customer ROI, installation cost – write them down and test them
Tasks – rent an office – help accomplish milestones and test assumptions

6. Niche thyself
Marketing in one slide
Vertical Axis – Ability to provide unique product or service (so not to complete on price)
Horizontal Axis – value to customer

7. Follow 10/20/30 rule – 10 slides on Powerpoint (Title, Problem, Solution, Business Model, Underlying Magic, Marketing and Sales, Competition, Team, Projections, Status and Timeline) – shorter than 20 minutes – smallest font size is 30 points (only important point, you must know, do not read it)

8. Hire infected people – Ignore the irrelevant (work experience, education)
someone who love the product – Hire better than yourself (if you are A, hire A+) – Apply shopping center test (only hire people who you would jump at them!)

9. Lower barrier to adoption – Flatten the learning curve – Do not ask people to do something that you would not do yourself (wait – Embrace your Evangelists (someone who want to change the world with your product and bring good word forward, embrace them)

10. Seed the clouds (to make sale) – Let a hundred flowers blossom – Enable test drives – Find the true influencers (those who do the work)

11. Don’t let the bozos grind you down

Phase One

Good Taste and the Starting Phase vs. Ambition vs. Achievement



It will take a while!

By Ira Glass.

Respect and Thank you. It is such an important to hear.