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slaughter), or are you really an entrepreneur contrarian who is going to beat their own path to success and riches regardless of what is “cool” right now?
grinding it out. These overnight successes that you read about are, at best, a lucky break, but more often than not, they are total b.s. The numbers have been messed with to make the person and business seem more successful than they really are. 2: Chasing the easy path is not a path to riches. My buddy, who is going to do more old-school marketing (by the way, he’s is in his 30s, so he isn’t some out-of-touch-with- technology guy), knows that quality typically trumps quantity, but he also knows that a complex business is nearly impossible for a competitor to rip off. This gives him a huge virtual moat around his business. Don’t be scared of complexity; it is a huge asset that is nearly impossible to steal once you have a system and process that works.
–Shaun
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I want to leave you with two thoughts to ponder.
1: Business is not won on shiny objects or the next Facebook hack. Business is won by being really good at the boring stuff and
I’ll leave you with this final question: Are you going to follow the herd (possibly to the
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