Up at 5 AM, plowed through all the emails from friends and family that were wishing me luck. As I’m writing this I’m heading for north Florida to work on fleshing out some additional opportunities. It’s 2PM. Left at 10. I think I’ve hit every Five Guys Burgers on the way as well as The Hard Rock Casino. Not the best use of time to be sure. To make up for it, I paid off my car. I started updating the business plan, the Executive Summary, Market Opportunity, Financial, and Bio’s were mostly completed last week. The three partners, including myself, had also worked out the initial number of shares, their value, and when we would file an 83(b). If you’re not familiar with the 83(b) then grab a copy of Do More Faster and take a look at the “To 83(b) or Not to 83(b), There is no Question” by Matt Galligan. There’s a great explanation of what your exposure may be and how to deal with it early on.
Now Reading
Planned books:
- The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle
- The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Brant Cooper, Patrick Vlaskovits
Current books:
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Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Gregory Bernarda, Alan Smith
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Beyond the Obvious: Killer Questions That Spark Game-Changing Innovation by Phil McKinney
Recent books:
- Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
- Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, Chris Fussell
- Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than your by Salim Ismail, Michael S. Malone, Yuri van Geest
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
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