Blog Feed8 – The Entrepreneurial Crisis Matrix
By Curtis on Jan 22, 2009 in Talkshow
Got an exciting show for you! Today we’re continuing from last week doing things a little different. We’re talking about the Business aspects of building your startup on the side.
This time were talking about The Entreprenurial Crisis Matrix.
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The Entreprenurial Crisis Matrix
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Harnessing Entrepreneurial Manic-Depression – Here’s a post by Tim Ferriss that has a similar idea. Essentially he is saying (by way of a guest writer) that it is completely normal for an entrepreneur to suffer manic and depressive states. That would explain to me wife what the problem is! I’ll also recommend Tim’s book, The Four Hour Workweek for its great ideas on trimming away time wasters and getting your productivity up. The premise of the book is that if your productivity is high enough you can work less. It’s true!
Book: The Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance – by Dudley and Goodson. This is a book I highly recommend for jumpstarting out of the grip of fear. It happens to the best of us. We start off with tons of enthusiasm, rush into a thing with all the greatest enthusiasm and then… we start to realize… this is going to take some work… or, this may not be the greatest idea in the world after all. This book, on the surface, deals with the difficulties that sales people have with making sales calls, but let me tell you, it is a real eye opener for any startup entrepreneur. See, I have found nothing quite as illuminating as doing cold calling in sales. For me it was terrifying. I called friends for support, bugged my wife about it, lay awake at night, all kinds of stuff, all because of some issues dealt with in this book. It is not a self-help book. Self-help rigmarole is the last thing you need when your company is on the line and you need to bring in revenue—and there are no customers or prospects in sight. I’ve been there. I’ve lived on credit cards. Check this book out if you get to the Conscious Incompetent stage and need to get rolling again.
Book: The World is Flat – This is the seminal book by Thomas Friedman that, though it’s simplistically wrong on some things, nails the fact that we are in a global economy and explains just what that means to Joe the Plumber and the rest of us.
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Thanks again for sharing. For me, all new stuff – but comes across as logical.
And yes – I was following your description of the matrix and comparing in my mind to other works using matrices I’ve come across.
“There are things we know. There are things we don’t know. There are things we don’t know that we don’t know.” (paraphrase of Donald Rumsfeld)
Looking forward to next edition
John Burns | Feb 8, 2009 | Reply