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A great book on this subject is “Start Small Stay Small” by Rob Walling : https://sivers.org/book/StartSmallStaySmall

Rob was running ten simultaneous businesses by himself, (and he has a few kids), diligently managing and tracking his time to run each one as efficiently as possible, and tracking it to make it easy to sell the business to someone some day with a specific intruction manual and estimate of how much time it would take to run that business.

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Sivers book summaries are the best! Thanks for making them available for the public. I have avoided a few duds by using your list and gone to listen to some great audio books because the notes intrigued me. One of my favorite bookmarks in my browser

Hey! Nice to see you on HN :)

Every once in a while when I want to discover a non-fiction new book, I head to your book list. Once of the best out there IMO. Your summaries are very much on point.

That's really fascinating to me. Optimizing for an acquisition might also come with a nice bi-product of keeping the business , itself, more self-sustaining. I'll have to give this book a read, thanks for the suggestion!

I learnt a lot just listening and reading a lot of advice from Sivers. He is awesome

I have a niche business / marketplace start up. Dang that book is on point. I live it daily. Thank you. I will get that book.

Do you have any other recommendations on the subject? Your book recs are great by the way. I only wish they were tagged or categorized to really dig into a certain subject! Thank you for doing them.

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