movie industry teaches a lot about distribution

if you have made a decent enough product.....but your distribution is amazing ...one can amass a lot of wealth in a fairly short period of time.


Need to do more analysis.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better.

My job is to not be easy on people. My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.

steve jobs

And how are monopolies lost?

And how are monopolies lost? Think about it. Some very good product people invent some very good products, and the company achieves a monopoly. But after that, the product people aren't the ones that drive the company forward anymore. It's the marketing guys or the ones who expand the business into Latin America or whatever. Because what's the point of focusing on making the product even better when the only company you can take business from is yourself? So a different group of people start to move up. And who usually ends up running the show? The sales guy. John Akers at IBM is the consummate example. Then one day, the monopoly expires for whatever reason. But by then the best product people have left, or they're no longer listened to. And so the company goes through this tumultuous time, and it either survives or it doesn't. Look at Microsoft — who's running Microsoft? (interviewer: Steve Ballmer.) Right, the sales guy. Case closed. And that's what happened at Apple, as well.

steve jobs

move mountains :)

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.


steve jobs

belief, model, mapping, action

meta - model for making things into reality

negative pyramid of small victories - thanks Charles duhigg

small victories are really important for building habits.


Although it is very hard to make one to one corelation with such victories and habit formation, but the science is pointing in support of the same.

The power of habit by charles duhigg ... is teaching this to me.


I need to test this , if this thing is correct then I know how to build and run an organization of mammoth size.


whether it works or not....we will get to know in a year time.



negative pyramid :)

yearly victory
monthly victory
weekly victory
daily victory
hourly victory

reorder because your partners love you - monopoly

Thank you john paul dejoria


I was introduced to this concept of business of reorder.

The whole point of existence of a startup is to become a monopoly as soon as  possible in the market that it created, before the incumbents realize what hit them.

The best war to become a monopoly is to get reorder from the customer. Everything that problem comes to their mind, your company should be the one that becomes the default solution.


customers become more of a partner in this conspiracy against incumbents. More often than not, people have had experience with the big guys and they were looking for a better solution.
You are the better solution.


"reorder will only happen if the customer/partner loves you and your service"


So , it becomes imperative on any startup to give unexpected amount of attention to your early customers ( b-2-b till 100 customers, b-2-c till  1 lack customers). By the time you will hit, these customers numbers, most of the problem would have been solved and you will have better understanding of what all this remain to be solved.