Lavingia-The Minimalist Entrepreneur

The Minimalist Entrepreneur

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it took me years to decouple my self-worth from my net worth — location: 85

A business is a tool to make or do stuff, a legal structure; that’s it. — location: 110

Start as soon as you can. Start before you feel ready. Start today. — location: 121

You don’t learn, then start. You start, then learn. — location: 122

“the domain name always comes first, the business idea comes second.” — location: 145

This is what being a minimalist entrepreneur is all about: making a difference while making a living. — location: 187

Minimalist entrepreneurs don’t spend time convincing people—they spend time educating people. — location: 216

The best marketing shows the world who you—and your product— really are. — location: 222

they don’t sacrifice profitability for scale. — location: 227

they build their companies from first principles, — location: 230

a community isn’t a group of people who all think, act, look, or behave the same. That’s a cult. — location: 415

you don’t have to bring your whole self to every community you join, but you do have to bring a slice of yourself. — location: 424

And that part needs to be authentic to its core. — location: 425

getting out of your bubble matters when it comes to community. — location: 428

On the internet, they say, 1 percent create, 9 percent contribute, and 90 percent consume. — location: 485

If you’re always learning, you’ll always have something to teach — location: 511

if you’re regularly learning, then you’ll always have regular content to contribute to the community. — location: 526

teaching often becomes the best way to drive your own curiosity and inspiration to learn more yourself. — location: 527

when you learn publicly, your students will have questions that force you to learn even more stuff to teach them. — location: 528

If you’re learning every day, which you probably are, you’ll have something to share every day. — location: 535

Becoming a person who helps people precedes building a business that helps people. — location: 545

if the problem you are solving for other people is also one you are solving for yourself, you will be able to kill a lot of birds with one stone. — location: 677