Competition

You can’t out-execute everyone. But you can build advantages that are hard to copy. On moats, differentiation and leverage.

Chapters

  1. How-I Beats How-To
  2. The $1,000 Rule Behind My Trends.vc Reports
  3. Buy the Red Ocean
  4. I Read 1,000s of Founder Stories. Most Won by Copying…
  5. The Math of Inevitable Success
  6. Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Niche
  7. Is Getting Rich Luck or Hard Work? | The Market vs. You
  8. Stop Raising Your Standards. Start Proving Them.
  9. The 100x Comparison: Big City vs Small Town
  10. Proximity Is Power. Here’s the Math.
  11. You’re in a Status Game Whether You Entered or Not
  12. The NBA Deleted a Shot. Your Habit Needs the Same.
  13. The Four Games
  14. Easy Choices, Hard Life
  15. Make Yourself the Moat
  16. I Chose to Be Worst at Replying
  17. From Clay to Code: What 24 Technologies Made Scarce
  18. Software Engineers Were Modern Scribes
  19. I Use Evolution to Predict Which Markets Survive AI
  20. Why Rich People and Dying Spacecraft Follow the Same Rule
  21. The 150-Year Art of Delayed Gratification
  22. The 10,000 Hour Rule Counts the Wrong Thing
  23. One Small Promise, Kept 108 Mornings in a Row
  24. I Run Every Business Idea Through These 11 Filters
  25. Centralize or Decentralize: How to Actually Decide
  26. Founder-Nature Fit
  27. Which Business Model Suits Your Personality?
  28. Warren Buffett vs Y Combinator: Two Strategies, One Rule
  29. Why Poker Pros Fold What Investors Buy
  30. How I Play Aggressive But Safe
  31. Y Combinator’s 1,000-to-1 Bet
  32. You’re Not Undisciplined. Your Habit Is Too Big.
  33. Be Your First Customer
  34. Madam C.J. Walker: $1.25 to 20,000 Agents
  35. Eat Your Own Cooking
  36. How to Attract the Right Clients With Your Price
  37. From Decent to Dominant
  38. Force Yourself to Go Faster – Then Pay for It
  39. Somebody Has to Absorb It
  40. Chase Risk Before It Chases You
  41. If You Ain’t Got Nothing, You Ain’t Got Nothing To Lose
  42. From $32 Billion to 25 Years: The Math He Skipped
  43. His Joke Was So Bad It Cost £500 Million
  44. The Same Loop That Killed Sears Runs Your Nights
  45. What Everyone Gets Wrong About Continuous Improvement
  46. 190,000 Taste Tests Said Yes. Customers Said No.
  47. Background Businesses
  48. More Examples Make It Easier