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Great read! 37 signals are really a class of their own in startups!
How about:
38) Take control of your destiny while you can - which you will figure out by completing #8, #11 and #21
Big fan of your work and thank you for answers.onstartups. "Rework" on on my reading list too!
I love 37 signals book "getting real"
We build our app, marketmetweet, using their principles :)
I have that book on the shelf behind me. I will take a quick peep at it and the Getting Real ebook when I am stuck sometimes. It's the only book I've read since getting out of college. lol.
everything from 37 signals is a good read. love their stuff. great post
Signal 38: Don't be in such a rush that you ignore your goal. Case in point: These quotes are incomplete, you stopped at the first comment, so many are unreadable.
Interesting:
FYI type on point 19 whould
I still like "Hope is not a business strategy."
there seems to be a bug, any insight that has a comma in it gets everything after the comma truncated. I noticed when I tried to retweet and the tweet had more about the insight than I previously read.
Very good post. Thanks for sharing.
37 Signals is awesome. I love their business philosophies.
Nice list. But...
You rarely regret saying no but you often regret saying yes. Really?
I thought it's exact opposite. I think most regretful statement is "I had a chance but I didn't do it".
I like #14, it resonates more now a days with the startups in cleantech than ever before.
Are the VC's and enterprenuers ever going to be thrive in an ecosystem that prioritizes exits much more than the commitments? In the US, this is going to take longer than in other countries.
@MOT: The "no" referred to in the insight is saying no to features/projects/complexity.
I've read Rework once and my big takeaway was that it's a big advantage to be small! You can be flexible and you can adapt quickly, so take advantage of that. Don't try to emulate the big companies -- make them sorry they can't emulate you.
I guess I should look at it like this. I guess I said "yes" to projects to which I should have said "No". I ended up saying "No" to the projects which I should have said yes.
so in essence saying "yes" was the problem, that left me no bandwidth to say "yes" any more.
Thanks a lot for your response.
Time was invented to prevent everything from happening all at once.
Often we become overwhelmed with so many things (tasks) in trying to achieve our goals. Prioritization is a key element in getting things done.
The great list.
The number #29 is for AT&T.
I would add one more:
The company which is not fighting in their youth, it is difficult to them in age.
3) You have the most information when you’re doing something, not before you've done it..
My market is shifting and I wanted to learn active with the combination: White label shops, social media and guerilla marketing. During world chaimpoinship 2010 I made a startpage in Dutch colors for soccerteam Holland. With this white label from Google I learned that functionality, confidence and added value are really important.
In this case: people won't just change their habbit for a bit of color. I learn a lot by really taking action.
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Just shared this with the marketing and sales group at my office. Its a really great reminder for all businesses- not just start-ups.
Thanks for sharing it- great re-energizer for a Monday.
Had the opportunity to interview Jason for the Startup Success Podcast on how ReWORK applies to startups (
http://bit.ly/d8xy5e).
Rework is definitely a great read for entrepreneurs. Great post!
Every signal has a great depth to itone needs to stop at each one of them ponder over and move onto next actually tracking the way to successful business.
Did you find more insights but post only 37 (in reference to 37signals) ?
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Very good post. Thanks for sharing.37 Signals is awesome.
Very inspiring post! Really helps you to spring into action!
Solving your own problems... excellent insight... and where all of the best solutions come from.
Great concept for a post by the way.
It is quite easy for Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson to make such big statements but very tough to explain what each of them actually means according to them. Coz readers will decode them according to their own understanding :-(
great insight. comes in handy. thanks Dharmesh
great insight. comes in handy. thanks Dharmesh
great insight. comes in handy. thanks Dharmesh
great insight. comes in handy. thanks Dharmesh
great insight. comes in handy. thanks Dharmesh
Spot on.
37 signals know what they're talking about.
I love how there is a typo on #19 in this post and no one has fixed it. The message is there, the content is great, so just leave it be. It doesn't matter and fixing it is a waste of time.
People will figure it out! : )
I love this list, and I loved reading the Rework book a couple of months ago.
Time to tweet this post out to my followers now!
Great article! My favourite quotes/Insigts were:
7) Don’t sit around and wait for someone else to make the change you want to see.
10) What you do matters, not what you think or say or plan.
13) Start a business, not a startup
20) Decide. You’re as likely to make a great call today as you are tomorrow
21) The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch
23) Focus on substance, not fashion. Focus on what won't change
24) When good enough gets the job done, go for it.
26) Pour yourself into your product.
27) You rarely regret saying no but you often regret saying yes.
34) Marketing is not a department, it's the sum total of everything you do.
37) A business without a path to profit is a hobby.
Big shout out to all the other entrepreneuers out there! It's a relieve to know I'm not alone!
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My favorite is #1. I've been working for MassChallenge, a global startup competition, since January. The product is a competition full of resources to help entrepreneurs win. But the enterprise is larger than that. The founders hope to catalyze innovation and create jobs during this recession period. The MassChallenge point of view is that now is the perfect time to create substantive, high impact businesses because of the positive effects on the ecosystem. That perspective is what has made the competition successful so far.
I have a few rules up on my board where I can see them every day:
Less talking, more listening
Try it anyway; you never know what might happen
Remember why you are doing it
Keep your focus and concentration, avoid distractions
When in doubt, ask someone who knows
Don’t delay, hesitate or procrastinate. Do it now
Be honest at all times
Integrity is critical
Provide value for money
Say NO if necessary
Develop network
Trust yourself
Be realistic but live your dream
Read these rules every day
The information is true for small business owners. planning for the funds is the only way that can help in attaining the maximum from the minimum.
What a great bit on useful information. I will put some of this into my arsenal of things to do.
I love the way you keep coming up with great content. Really need some of your inspiration.
Love this article!
What are your favorite insights from Rework?
4) Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is simple today.
The longer it takes to develop, the less likely it is to launch.
You have the most information when you’re doing something, not before you've done it.
Leave the poetry in what you make, there is beauty in imperfection
Excellent post. As a habitual entrepreneur and recent return to freelancing there are some real jewels on this list.
Love the book, the ideas and it's a great way to approach work. A must read for business owners.
I love how you intelligently added the [tweet] links to encourage sharing.
Thanks for the tips :)
tweet option was a smart idea. i retweeted number 3. great concepts hear
While I think these are great nuggets of wisdom, I get worried about people reading them as absolute, instead of guidelines that may or may not be relevant for specific situations.
It took me a while, but I wrote up
a devil's advocate post on several of the sayings. Hopefully it will add depth to the conversation around these insights and when not to apply them.
"Pour yourself into your product" ....love that! And I do!
Very good post. Excellent. Was such a good read!