Lots of lessons for entrepreneurs here, especially with its emphasis on building resilience.
Raz has also recently published How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs .
Keep moving, side hustlers!
A free auditable course named Creativity and Entrepreneurship.
Here is the blurb: “Learn skills and listen to examples from world-renown entrepreneurs and innovators as they discuss the parallels between the creative and entrepreneurial journeys — and why entrepreneurship, much like music or creativity, is something we all possess.”
“The course approaches entrepreneurship as a creative process, a fundamental human instinct that we all possess and can unlock. Creativity & Entrepreneurship applies concepts from the creative and musical creation process, such as observing, prototyping, iterating and embracing failure, as a means of guiding you through the concept of thinking like a startup. You will develop the basic mindset, knowledge, and insights required to pursue an entrepreneurial career, whether as the steward of your own career or as the founder of a new business in any field.”
Signing up is free at edx.org.
Note: I’m not sure their parallels between entrepreneurs and musicians will connect with all those who sign up, but it’s worth a shot.
Who has time to take a course?
Let’s think…how can you get some value from an online course when you’re so busy with other list items?
A few ideas:
Here is the syllabus:
Lesson 1: INSPIRATION: The Entrepreneurial Mindset
Lesson 2: CREATION: Team Building and Product Development
Lesson 3: COLLABORATION/PRESENTATION
Lesson 4: REJUVINATION: The Inner Game of Entrepreneurship
Yes, we’re in this to generate products or offer services.
But every once in awhile, this is a good question to mull over.
It might steer your next project in a different direction.
Just received this list from Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation…
In today’s email, Nick leads with a Warren Buffett quote…
Something just a little unnerving about that quote. There is such a finality to it, right? Death being fairly ‘final’ and all…
Anyway, follow that link, where he shares four main types of passive income, as well as his own streams.
Find something easy and low-risk and test the market.
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Thanks for visiting.
Some ideas that caught my eye…
Nick Loper of Side Hustle Nation sends his quarterly reports to his subscribers. Very instructive. Always new content and ideas to consider.
A few items of note from his most recent:
1. “The bigger story is that the site got whacked by the May 4th Google algorithm update, which trimmed off 20-30% of the search traffic overnight. Ouch!”
2. “The tallest spikes on the [traffic growth] chart this time all coincide with my weekly newsletters…”
3. “Best performing [email] subject line this quarter: “Retired at 37” – 28.5% open rate.
4. “In 2020, I feel like the value of a freebie “ebook” is greatly diminished. “Oooh a PDF!” –said no one ever…
Plus, 65% of my traffic is mobile. It doesn’t make sense to have people pinching and zooming a PDF in order to consume the content.
So what I’m testing instead is creating a private, mobile-friendly page here on the site. I don’t have the best metrics, but it seems to be getting more engagement so far.”
5. “In an effort to start creating more / better video content, I actually moved my workstation out of the closet and into a corner of master bedroom. The light is much better!
That said, I believe there’s an 80/20 —definition— to video production. I don’t plan to compete with the super well-produced cinematic videos…”
Again, here is the link to Nick’s report. I think you’ll find it informative.
In the meantime, stay…
Circle Back Tuesday…I like the sound of that. Not quite as catchy as Taco Tuesday, so I guess it’s still a work-in-progress.
Whatever the case, I did in fact circle back to Nick Loper’s Side Hustle Nation and dug up this helpful list of the tools and resources he has used over the years. I’ll also add it to my Lists page.
Love this resource. Nick Loper should make a poster out of this collection of wisdom and experience. No, wait, maybe I should…
What I’ve Learned and Applied from 49 Awesome Entrepreneurs [Side Hustle Nation]
What advice would you pass along?
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