In 2009 Simon Sinek published a book called Start with Why. That same year he gave a TedX talk which at the time of this article had 36,000,000 views. Why such interest? He hit on a powerful notion that isn’t just valuable for a business owner who wants to connect...
Seth Godin has been a prolific blogger and author for many years now. He is particularly dedicated to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses and develop robust mindsets. The Dip, which has a subtitle that promises to teach you “when to quit and when to stick”...
From the title, What I Learned from Losing a Million Dollars, you immediately get that Jim Paul has learned his lesson. Not only did he lose a lot of money, but he took the time to write a book explaining to you the personal shortcomings that led to that disaster....
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of Elon Musk in our current time. He’s a combination of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Steve Jobs. He already helped create a company that was the starting gun for what would lead to cryptocurrency (PayPal) and in his spare...
Because college degrees carry (still) such an outsized weight of social proof, some business owners have been known to acquire an MBA after they’ve built, scaled, and sold a company. Josh Kaufman persuasively argues in his 400+ page book The Personal MBA that...
Derek Sivers sold his company, CD Baby, for $22M. For years he’d made tens of millions of dollars for independent musicians by giving them a platform by which they could sell to their fans. Some time after, he wrote a very short book about the experience,...