My friend Thomas Frey has written a new piece that it titled “2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030” and goes into what is changing in the coming years.
Here’s the take away:
I recently saw a millionaire marketer’s post that said:
My friend has this great saying:
“The time you want the map … is before you enter the woods.”
The lesson is basic:
Before you embark on any journey, know in advance how to get where you want to go.
I don’t think so.
A few years ago I found a comment by a millionaire that at first I thought was a great idea, how do you define what a CEO is and does?
Not a bad question, right? Especially when it comes to being a startup.
Normally the CEO moniker, Chief Executive Officer, used in big Fortune 500 companies and even some startups that want the same prestige might work, but as a startup, it just doesn’t quite fit, do you see the same thing?
I have a friend that has a startup and she uses the CEO title on her business card and her web site. She’s a startup. But seeing it on her card it just sounds so old fashion and stuffy, as if “bestowed” by oneself for others to see how you want to project your image. But is that the true focus of a business? To make yourself look good?
Not quite.
So, here’s my attempt in our current business climate to get to the heart of what a business CEO title is about.
I can’t make this up, but it’s gold to entrepreneurs. A quick way to test out an idea from an objective source over coffee.
Snooty Monkey’s The $20 Starbucks Test.
I loved the idea.
What do you think?
This needs nothing else, from Steve Jobs, Macworld Boston 1997.
“We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft has to lose. We have to embrace the notion that for Apple to win, Apple has to do a really good job. And if others are going to help us, then that is great, because we need all the help we can get. And if we screw up and we don’t do a good job, it’s not somebody else’s fault. It’s our fault.”
Do you agree or disagree?
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Startup entrepreneurs solve problems and get paid for their solutions. But when analyzing a problem, ensure you have the right solution based on the data you collect.
During WWII, Allied bomber losses were high, so high that the British Air Ministry undertook a rigorous analysis in hopes of finding a solution. Their engineers set out to examine every bomber they could, gathering data on each bullet hole. After analyzing the results, engineers decided to reinforce the areas that had the highest concentrations of holes with armor plating.
It didn’t work.
Perplexed, the engineers assumed that the extra plating had made the planes too heavy, and that the difficulty in handling the planes was offsetting the protection of the armor plating.
Enter Abraham Wald.
Here’s my nineth story for about startups, here’s Sachin Rekhi’s answers to my interview questions.
1. What was/is your background toward business before you started your own (family of entrepreneurs, paper route, raising bunnies, school, classes, etc.)? I’ve always been passionate about solving problems through software. When I was a kid growing up in upstate New York, I started a little company called Gumball Software and made a lethal pong video game. In college, I created my own task management software called Sach Do and a store cash register and accounting software for my house dorm’s student store called Oasis Financials. It’s the fundamental desire to solve my own problems that motivates me to build software.
