Empire Building

• Wikipedia: Empire Building

• Investopedia: Empire Building

• Entrepreneur.com: Is Your Managerial Ego Too Big

• Deep Thought: Empire

• Entrepreneur.com: 4 Steps To Build Your New Business Empire

  • Define your product

  • Develop your company's DNA

  • Keep it level

  • Be a leader in your industry and to your staff

• Business Insider: 7 steps I followed to build my business empire

  • Find your gift

  • Tell your story

  • Make a product

  • Expand

  • Build systems

  • Hire

  • Mass produce

• Inc.com: 7 Essential Qualitifes for Building a Business Empire

  • They Did Something Different

  • They Kept What Worked

  • They Stayed Frugal

  • They Persisted

  • They Learned From Their Mistakes

  • They Set Goals

• http://www.toomas.net/2017/07/18/reverse-engineering-a-successful-lifestyle-business-heres-everything-ive-learned-from-reading-indiehackers-com/

  • 19x: Raising Prices

  • 9x: Real Artists Ship

  • 9x: KISS

  • 8x: Automation

  • 8x: Start Charging Straight Away

  • 8x: Customer Validation

  • 7x: Product Hunt, Hackernews, Reddit

  • 7x: Customer Service + Getting Feedback from Users

  • 7x: Customers Will Come To You – Scratch Your Own Itch

  • 7x: Happy People And Honesty

  • 6x: Solve A Pain, Satisfy A Need

  • 5x: Content Marketing

  • 4x: Subscription Model

  • 4x: Growth Hacking

  • 4x: Product vs Service

  • 4x: Word of Mouth

  • 4x: Clever Ways of Finding Customers

  • 3x: User Experience

  • 3x: Tell a Story

  • 3x: Low Expenses

  • 3x: Email Lists

  • 3x: B2B vs B2C

  • 3x: Low Churn

  • 3x: Eat Your Own Dogfood

  • 3x: Not Taking VC Money

  • 3x: Good Product

  • 3x: Good Idea

  • 3x: Luck and Timing

  • 2x: Go For The Craziest Or Hardest Idea, Don’t Waste Time On Some Incremental Idea

  • 2x: High Margins

  • 2x: Remote Work

  • 2x: Time Management

  • 2x: Scientific Approach – Measure Everything

  • 2x: Ads Don’t Always Work

• https://www.backstage.com/advice-for-actors/backstage-experts/4-steps-build-your-empire/

  • Determine your brand

  • Show vs tell

  • Build a website

  • Attract an audience on social media

Books

• Good to Great by Jim Collins

• Build to Last by Jim Collins

• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Notes)

Spreadsheets

• Business/Work Lessons

Sketch/Dubious

• Empire Building Kit