The Excitement Backlog
How do you keep going when you're not excited about what you're working on anymore?
Angelo Stavrow
Do The Thing
Actually doing the thing is the most important part of shipping the thing.
The Leftovers
Business owners have to think about three money buckets: what's coming in, what's going out, and —most importantly— the leftovers.
Finding Focus
Success comes from focusing on your niche and your tribe, rather than getting distracted by shiny new projects.
How It’s Going
The hardest part about building something is having patience. The second hardest is changing course.
Building an Atelier
I like newsletters so much that I'm making an app to manage your newsletters, if I can find the time between writing newsletters.
Making Time For Making
The hardest part of making a go of a side business is making time.
Focus On Customers Before They're Customers
In which Angelo realizes it's better to start by building the thing his customers want to pay for.
Cash Flow Forecasting
Forecasting the cash flow needed for a new business or project gives you signal on when you need to course correct — and even when you need to quit.
Constraints
Choosing enough over growth is hard. It means making harder decisions and doing the hard work of questioning your values. It means choosing first to build constraints, and then building value within them.
Book Review: Company of One by Paul Jarvis
Slow growth, and a relentless focus on helping your customers succeed, is a sustainable way to build and run company of one.
Better late than worse
Not screwing up may the obvious solution, but hindsight is 20/20, and foresight is tinted by rose-coloured glasses—so it's not a useful solution.
Book Review: The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
The E-Myth Revisited is a call to rethink your business, a treasure trove of insights that can help you move from just working in your business to truly developing it. But there are also criticisms of the book that microbusiness owners should be aware of.
The Experiment: Can I Build a Million-Dollar Microbusiness?
It's January first, and I'm aiming to make 2024 the year that I built my side hustle into a thriving microbusiness.