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Read “The Anatomy of Peace” and “Crucial Conversations” they might help you out of your problems.

Leaders and Self Deception

Crucial Conversation

These two books will teach you and your colleagues how to communicate and maintain an open and centered dialouge while removing bad intentions and bad mindsets from your being.

I strongly believe that we all need to crawl out of out boxes [1] and get a heart at peace [2] so that we have the strength to be vulnerable and innovative [3].

1 https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-Out...

2 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1626564310/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_i...

3 https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IIBAE5E/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=...

The best book I have ever read I read in 2017, it’s the book “The Anatomy of Peace” (and it’s twin Leaders and Self Deception) from the Arbinger Institute.

All these : http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html

I am working on validating a customer succes management tool for enterprise customers.

What I did was (not intended) becoming friends with a extremely proficient meeting booker, and through a lot of talks and some coaching he learned me his brilliant techniques.

That is half of it, the rest is understanding (yourself and) people, psychology and being a balanced person.

Feel free to mail me for tips and tricks :)

Turning my consultancy (with 3 employees) from being on a slow ramp to bankruptcy to making a nice profit in the last months of the year.

I the process I embraced the fact that I am much better at sales than at programming, I even learned to love to do cold canvas calling!

Still my 5 year old watermarking tool making around 3-5k$ a month.

My only new product this year was a 6 weeks video course [1] in productivity, it makes around $5000 every time I fill a class.

1. http://timeblock.com TimeBlock course

Read this book https://www.amazon.com/How-Fail-Almost-Everything-Still-eboo... it's all about how to build a succesful future version of yourself.

I am from Denmark and currently I use cleverbridge to handle my downloadable software (http://www.watermark-image.com) and my SaaS app (http://timeblock.com)

The reason is that a) they handle VAT and b) I get a single invoice a month not 200+

Previously i used ShareIT and Avangate - they all have different pros and cons.

email me if you want to know more about experiences using those.

It's scary and understandable at the same time especially when you multiple the number of drivers with their salary, then you get a yearly cost of 72.000.000.000$

That's more than Uber's latest valuation.

Downloadable watermarking tool (now with a mac beta :)

Been at it for 5+ years, makes a few $K a month

http://www.watermark-image.com

1. Start with why, Simon Sinek - to get my younger self to figure out why I am doing what I am doing

2. Drive, the surprising truth..., Daniel Pink - to understand happiness and motivation

3. Crucial Conversations, to learn how to talk and listen and talk to people without ruining the conversation and the possibilities from it

This is an article about the team writing code for the space shuttle, it is not so much about how they tested but more about the (insane) amount of time and energy spent on making sure everything worked.

http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

I and a few entrepreneurs I know have build $4000+ a month software business, most from downloadable software, some from SaaS.

On average it has taken 5+ years to build it to that level from first try, you might need to find a little patience ;)

13/40 I'm an ENF(J/P) single founder, I used to mostly do programming but lean more to the sales/leadership side of things these days.

I never remember images but I do remember feelings/sensations pretty well, so I might not rememeber the sunset, but I do remember the hot feeling on my skin, the sounds and my state of mind.

I know my mom 'remembers' the same way I do.

I almost never dream in visuals.

Nice to finally 'meet' others who are like me.

You might get a lot talking and stalling that makes you spend a lot of energy on something going nowhere.

Or you might get an offer.

Do it on your terms, not theirs.

What do you get in return for the 50% discount?

- reference statement?

- mention on their blog?

- referals to other billion dollars startup?

- case story?

Feel free to email me if you think I can help you in any way!

anders(a)timeblock.com

Scope the entire project into half days worth of work, aim at being in flow for 2-3 hours in each block. (Unless you are not used/trained in being in flow, then the pomodore technique might be better for you)

Lay out the entire 20ish blocks and post them here/email to your friends and family or to some other entrepreneurs that you do not want to dissapoint by not getting stuff done.

Every day, update the post/email with a status, did you get the blocks done and if not why not, what did you learn and what will you do differently tomorrow?

Good luck!

Originally I had 200+ images I needed to watermark where I could not find a tool, this made me create a command line tool to watermark my images.

Then a friend suggested I made a product out of it and the rest is history :)

Thanks!

I would absolutely LOVE your feedback - let me know how to contact you or reach out to me at anders(at)timeblock.com

Thank you so much for offering your help!

The product is a methodology that helps makers and managers align their expectations and plans giving makers more time in flow and managers better overview.

When you use the app/methodology you get less stress, less chaos, more creativity and better planning leading to more revenue and better quality of your products.

One user said "it's like scrum, just more humane"

You would pay for it if you wanted more transparency and improved communication between you, your co-founders, your employees and your customers.

It is also an app that supports the methodology, it currently integrates with Jira, and we are working on Asana and TeamWork.

I apologize for the missing info on the website, we are shooting explainer videos today!

I started blogging because I believed that content was a way to get traffic, but I could never find the energy to write with that mindset.

Now I blog because I want to spread my ideas and educate people, that get me to the keyboard easily and words seems to flow from my fingers :)

Pricing is more or less the same across all the watermarkers out there - any lower and it is just not worth the time!

Marketing wise I primarily offer great and fast support also in building additional features, this drives a lot of user reviews and reccomendations on forums.

Email me if you want more insights, I will be happy to help you building something different!

As in the previous thread I made http://www.watermark-image.com that makes 3000+ each month.

I am using the money to build http://timeblock.com that currently makes around $350 a month.

I myself has been doing Taoist Tai Chi for 10+ Years and I remembered this video http://youtu.be/7PSjQAscVL8 that a Chrohn's sufferer made about how the tai chi had helped him.

The startup chat is very good http://thestartupchat.com

Megamaker by justin jackson is a new one that is interesting http://megamaker.co

Zen founder is a third one i love listening to http://zenfounder.com