Buffet on Decision Making

You’d get very rich if you thought of yourself as having a card 

with only twenty punches in a lifetime, 

and every financial decision used up one punch. 

You’d resist the temptation to dabble. 

You’d make more good decisions and you’d make more big decisions.

Warren Buffett

Startup CEO reading list 8.29.2014

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Quora: 
   How VCs assess the people who will run what they fund
   Startup Advice and Strategy

TrueVentures: 
   An Entrepreneur's Guide to Self Management

Results.com:
   How to beat the planning fallacy

Why?

I keep coming back to this TED talk as one of the most important elements of success in business.  I suggest watching it several times, and share it with your people and come up with a strong answer to this most powerful of all questions:


And for bonus points, learn more about the Law of Diffusion of Innovations, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations

Not Invented Here

This is not a joke. It's real life, and I've seen it happen more times than I care to recall. This ego-driven "Not Invented Here" syndrome causes wasted time and money, resulting in early startup failures.

http://dilbert.com/2014-08-11/

http://dilbert.com/2014-08-12/

Michael McCafferty

Advisor to Entrepreneurs

Del Mar, CA

 858.342.6949      BeginItNow.com

In Your Dreams

From XKCD: The Universal Converter Box

Your thoughts...

"You are today 

where your thoughts have brought you;

you will be tomorrow 

where your thoughts take you."

James Allen