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Giant 4: Derek Siewers

1, who is he?

He is a programmer with top philosopher's thinking, a master teacher and a comedian who can bring happiness to others. At first, Derek was a professional musician and circus clown (he accepted the latter job to change his introverted personality). 1998, Derek founded an online music website, CD Baby. After that, the website developed into the largest independent music sales website, selling music products worth $10.5 million for10.5 million resident musicians. He also wrote everything you wanted. This book collects lessons from all aspects of life.

2. His experience sharing

The key is not how much you know, but what you can keep doing.

If more information can solve the problem, then we can all become millionaires and have developed abdominal muscles.

2) Advice to entrepreneurs-learn to say "yes"

At the beginning of starting a business, the best way is to say yes to everything and seize every small opportunity, because you never know which cloud will rain.

3) The standard rhythm is for fools.

Kim mo williams is a great black musician. What he taught me made me graduate in half the normal time. He said,' I think you can graduate in two years, not four. Standard rhythm is for fools. The college must organize teaching according to the average level and try to ensure that everyone does not fall behind.

4) Don't be like a donkey.

Buridan's Donkey tells the story of a donkey standing between a pile of hay and a bucket of water, looking back and forth at the hay on the left and the water on the right, trying to decide whether to eat grass or drink water, drink water or eat grass. It hesitated, and finally fell to the ground, dying of thirst. Donkeys can't think about the future. If it can think, it will understand that it can drink water first and then eat grass.

You can do whatever you want, all you need is long-term vision and patience. "

5) The business model can be very simple: you don't have to constantly "change tracks".

6) Or "It's true!" , or "no"

Most of us are used to saying "yes" to too many things. As a result, we let these trivial things occupy our whole life ... and say "Really!" However, we don't have enough time to go all out because we have promised to accomplish too many trivial things.

7) "Busy" = out of control

No time means no consideration. If I am "busy", it only means that I made my own choice and put me in this situation. So when someone asks me "How's it going", I forbid myself to answer "I'm busy". Because I have no right to complain; If I am really busy, it means that I have to re-examine my methods and principles.

8) Even if everything goes wrong, I have no reason to be confident, but I will still be confident.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. once inadvertently wrote a sentence in one of his works, which was very incisive: We are what we pretend to be.

Giant 5: Alexis O 'Henin

1, who is he?

He is probably the most famous co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk. He is a veteran of venture capital firm Y Combinator, which is probably the most visionary business incubator in the world. He is currently a partner of the company. He is an investor or consultant of more than 65,438+000 start-ups and an active advocate of digital rights, such as the Stop Online Piracy Act and Pipa. He is the author of the best-selling book Unauthorized.

2. His experience sharing

1) You must attach great importance to "characteristics"

Regarding the functional settings of products or services, the founders of the company must realize that the current standards are already too low, because most companies have given up this matter long ago ... I sincerely hope that the current founders can pay attention to this matter, which is actually very simple. Compared with building an actual website or building a website backend, it doesn't need many years of professional knowledge, just need your enough attention. But many people can't do this.

2) Do a job that can attract others' attention within 15 minutes.

Improve the company's notification email (such as subscription confirmation email, order confirmation email, etc.). ). Take some time to add some humanistic colors or humorous elements (depending on the company's product style) to the email to make it different. It is worthwhile to do so, which is also the challenge I have been facing.

Giant 6, Matt Mullenweg

1, who is he?

He was selected as one of the "25 Most Influential People on the Internet" published by Businessweek, but I don't think this evaluation is enough to describe Matt's achievements. He is famous as an early developer of the blog platform WordPress. At present, the share of network traffic of WordPress is above 25%. He is also the CEO of Automattic Software Company. The market value of the company exceeds $654.38+0 billion.

2. What is his experience?

1) Think about "What if ...?

Since WordPress was founded, we have been thinking about this question: If we do something today, what will it bring us tomorrow? What about a year later? What about ten years later? The metaphor I often think of-because it is very simple-is the picture of a dog driving a car. What will the dog do if he gets on the bus? In this regard, dogs have no plans. I find that it often happens in business management that people don't make plans for success.

2) Do it and cherish it

It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I spent 93% of my time with my parents. I now allow myself to enjoy the last 5% of the time-this time is short and fleeting, and I will cherish it.

3. His fitness method

He insists on doing a push-up before going to bed every day. Yes, only one push-up.

No matter how busy you are, no matter what happens in the world, you can't find an excuse to say that you can't finish a push-up. I found that I just need to overcome the initial obstacles, take a small thing as a goal, and then finish it, and it will gradually become my habit.

Reading comprehension: It's really not easy to form a habit, and it's easy to relax when you're distracted. Many habits are good, but only a few can persist. If we choose something that we can't find an excuse to do, will it be easier to form this habit? For example, Chen Yiming takes a deep breath once a day and Matt does push-ups before going to bed. Sometimes, maybe we want too much and the result is not satisfactory. ...