10,000 business lessons I have yet to learn

Lesson 1. Use what you have. Maybe what you think of as a weak­ness can be turned into a strength.

Lesson 2. Try every­thing that comes to mind, comes to hand, or people suggest. The main thing is to count the results.

Lesson 3. Don’t get distracted. Check the results every day. Picture the process as a line seg­ment con­nect­ing two points: from the entry point (the web­site, the ad) to the end point (get­ting the money from the cus­tomer). Control the whole process.

Lesson 4. Don’t be afraid: noth­ing is worse than doing nothing.

Lesson 5. When it goes badly, don’t give up: it’s part of the process (imag­ine it’s one of the levels of a game that you simply have to get through). The main thing is to keep improving.

Lesson 6. When it goes badly, fix it. Try doing the exact opposite. Or just imag­ine: what if… Try it another way.

Lesson 7. Don’t give your­self time to get scared. Often, the longer you think, the fog­gier every­thing gets. Don’t get stuck on it: try.

Lesson 8. Forget “What an idiot I am, why didn’t I think of this before!” Back then you had dif­fer­ent con­di­tions; now you have new ones. Forget the missed oppor­tu­ni­ties, so you don’t miss the new ones.

Lesson 9. Write down all the duties and areas of respon­si­bil­ity: let every­one know what’s expected of them.

Lesson 10. Make a list of the com­pa­nies you envy and look through their web­sites (port­fo­lios) regularly. Look, envy them even more, reach for it.