430: [Part 1] The 5 Biggest Assumptions I’ve Made About Business by James Altucher on Taking Entrepreneurial Risks
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Focused on Your Business
If business was about focus, then almost every business we know about would have failed in its first or second year. Amazon started as the world's biggest bookseller now they are also the largest retail chain that sells organic foods. Google is specifically trying to get unfocused so they can continue to grow and dominate. What about small antrepenors? When i was running my first small business, a web services agency, every day we'd figure out what additional services we could offer. And when it was too hard to diversify our services any more, we knew we had only one choice, sell the company before our competitors caught up to us.
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