Empire Building
March 29, 2019 · View on GitHub
- Wikipedia: Empire Building
- Investopedia: Empire Building
- Entrepreneur.com: Is Your Managerial Ego Too Big
- Deep Thought: Empire
- Entrepreneur.com: 4 Steps To Build Your New Business Empire
- Define your product
- Develop your company's DNA
- Keep it level
- Be a leader in your industry and to your staff
- Business Insider: 7 steps I followed to build my business empire
- Find your gift
- Tell your story
- Make a product
- Expand
- Build systems
- Hire
- Mass produce
- Inc.com: 7 Essential Qualitifes for Building a Business Empire
- They Did Something Different
- They Kept What Worked
- They Stayed Frugal
- They Persisted
- They Learned From Their Mistakes
- They Set Goals
- http://www.toomas.net/2017/07/18/reverse-engineering-a-successful-lifestyle-business-heres-everything-ive-learned-from-reading-indiehackers-com/
- 19x: Raising Prices
- 9x: Real Artists Ship
- 9x: KISS
- 8x: Automation
- 8x: Start Charging Straight Away
- 8x: Customer Validation
- 7x: Product Hunt, Hackernews, Reddit
- 7x: Customer Service + Getting Feedback from Users
- 7x: Customers Will Come To You – Scratch Your Own Itch
- 7x: Happy People And Honesty
- 6x: Solve A Pain, Satisfy A Need
- 5x: Content Marketing
- 4x: Subscription Model
- 4x: Growth Hacking
- 4x: Product vs Service
- 4x: Word of Mouth
- 4x: Clever Ways of Finding Customers
- 3x: User Experience
- 3x: Tell a Story
- 3x: Low Expenses
- 3x: Email Lists
- 3x: B2B vs B2C
- 3x: Low Churn
- 3x: Eat Your Own Dogfood
- 3x: Not Taking VC Money
- 3x: Good Product
- 3x: Good Idea
- 3x: Luck and Timing
- 2x: Go For The Craziest Or Hardest Idea, Don’t Waste Time On Some Incremental Idea
- 2x: High Margins
- 2x: Remote Work
- 2x: Time Management
- 2x: Scientific Approach – Measure Everything
- 2x: Ads Don’t Always Work
- https://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/backstage-experts/4-steps-build-your-empire/
- Determine your brand
- Show vs tell
- Build a website
- Attract an audience on social media
Books
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Build to Last by Jim Collins
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Notes)