Sunday: Reading time (3)

February 13, 2016

  Being a software programmer, Julia likes to improve her English along the way. She started to bring writing into her daily life, write a small topic making sense everyday. She enjoyed reading the blogs today:

http://randsinrepose.com/archives/weblog-writing/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596155409?ie=UTF8&tag=beigee-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0596155409
http://randsinrepose.com/archives/what-to-do-when-youre-screwed/


  Here is the video she watched:
  Robert Johnson's Top Rules For Success (African billionaire - own TV  network)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaUe-YGAK_E

1. Build relationships
People like to do business they like
2. Get the capital you need
3. Keep Revenues up, costs down
4. Make Friends Before You Need Them
5. Stop Consuming, Start saving
Debt: you consume more than you are worth.
Postpone unnecessary, impulsive spending
6. Stand for something
7. Get to scale
8. #Believe in yourself 
People follow leader, people invest on leaders
Sense of confidence, sense of leadership
9. Make hard choices
People cannot afford the bill in restaurant, keep ordering, or until he can run away avoiding the bill. 
10. Partner with suppliers
Trade equity with services.

Mark Cuban: Only Morons Start a Business on a Loan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYneLGRTgy8

Mark Cuban's Advice to High Schoolers and College Grads

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgdNTzul27k
For high school graduate, do not pay overpriced education to get into debts over 40,000.
For graduate, you may not get best job. You paid money to learn. Now it is your chance to get paid to learn.
You do not need perfect job, you can make some money, also you can learn, add to your profile of knowledge and add to your foundation. As much as we want, know exactly, what mission of our life is, chosen profession going to be in 20 years, You are get paid to learn, and learn more about yourself, and business, and see what it takes.

Mark Cuban: The best advice I never got

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuCCBiYLoDw

Mark Cuban's 12 Rules for Startups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=camXWnD4QcI
1. Don't start a company unless it's an obsession or something you love
2. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
3. Hire people who  you think will love working there.
4. Sales will cure all.
Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.
5. Know your core competencies and focus on being great at them. Pay up for people in your core competencies. Get the best.
6. An espresso machine? Are you kidding me? Coffee is for closers. There are 24 hours in a day, and if people like their jobs, they'll find ways to use as much of it as possible to do their jobs. 
7. No private offices
Open office spaces keep everyone in tune with what's going on and keep the energy up. 
8. About technology
9. Keep the organization
If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. 
10. Never buy swag. 
A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends out logo-embroidered polo shirts. 
11. Never hire a PR firm 
Whenever you see any information related to your field, get the email of the person publishing it and send them a message introducing yourself and the company. They'll welcome hearing from the founder instead of some PR flack. 
12. Make the job fun for employees. 
Keep a pulse on the stress levels and accomplishments of your people and reward them. 

The 7 Sleep habits of Successful Enterpreneurs
Sleep affects moods, increases risk of psychiatric disorders and depression, cardiovascular disease and lowers immune system health. 
1. Avoid alcohol before bedtime
2. Turn off electronics before bedtime. 
3. Write your worries away. 
4. Create the perfect ambience. 
5. Exercise (release serotonin, dopamine to brain)
6. Avoid sugar before bedtime, but select protein and fat
7. Wake up to the light. 

Larry Page Q&A Zeitgeist Americas 2012 (38 minutes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mzlp6mIaC4&feature=youtu.be
Google map, no-one driving car, Android device, tradition education, youtube, etc.

Mark Cuban at USC | Full Interview | 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs9Gr8Gj6Cg

Give out advice: Remember 3 things, key to success:

1. Find something you love to do, good at it.
2. Put yourself in other people's shoes. Think about for other people.
3. The way to succeed is to remove the stress around you. Those people start to work with you, and then you just do the work.

Favorites of top 10 rules for success

Dec. 31, 2015

 Stayed up to last minute of 2015, 12:00am, watching a few of videos about top 10 rules for success, and then, think about putting together a blog to share, for a successful year 2016.

  Top 10 rules for success

1. Jessica Alba
2. Oprah Winfrey
    No. 5, Run the race as hard as you can
    Julia's favorite, do not look at others, things you cannot control; focus on yourself
    25 years talk show, hundreds of talk show failed.
 
    9. Stay grounded

3. Bill Gates
    No. 7  Ask for advice 
    Blind spot concern
    No. 8 Pick good people
    No. 9 Don't procrastinate
    School, last 2 days study for exam
    But in business world, it is not good.
    No. 10 Have a sense of humor

Warren Buffett
    No. 5 Have a margin of safety
    No. 7 Schedule for  your personality

Jack Ma
     No 1. Get used to rejection
     No. 9 Don't complain, look for opportunities
     No. 2 Keep your dream alive
     No. 3 Focus on culture
     Not just money, to help others
     No. 5 Get inspired
     No. 7 Have a good name
     No. 8 customers are #1
     Share holders will leave quickly if there is bad thing happens

Jeff Beco
     No. 1 Have no regrets
     80 years old, think about things you try in young age. Internet, if I fail, no regret.
     No.2  Follow your heart not your head
     No. 3 Invest more in the product then marketing
     No. 4 Pick a good name
     No. 5 Stand for something
     No. 6 Focus on the customer
     No. 7 Focus on your passion
     No. 8 Build a culture
     No. 9 premium products at non-premium prices
     Kindle, product - no profit, but user uses it, make money
     No. 10 take a risk

Larry Page
     No. 2 Don't be afraid of failure
     work on 10 years
     leadership training - fail fast
     Take some risk, encourage to take more risk
     No. 3 Stay organized
     No. 4 Concentrate on the long term
     tooth brush test ( twice a day)
     gmail/ youtube
     double the revenue on youtube, since a lot of people use it. But at the begining, spend a lot
    No. 5 Have a good idea
    No. 6 Solve bigger problems
    No. 7 Take on challenges
    No. 8 Don't settle
    other people do not tell
    Be an expert in all areas
    Search algorithm, spent 3-4 years on it, before Google has over 100 people work on
    No. 9 Adapt to changes
    No. 10 Follow your dreams
    anxiety -> dream
    about school, computer error about admission etc. /irational worry, then anxiety, had a dream:
    download entire web to a small computer lying around ->
    after dream, stay up a few of hours, work on algorithms ->
    set up a few weeks, thought at the beginning vs 1-2 years work ->
    keep links -> not all web pages -> rank of pages -> google
    Share the story of his personal dream -> developed a top of world company and technology - Google

   Michale Jordan
       No. 1 Keep working hard
       No. 2 Ignite the fire
       nothing can stop me
       No. 3 Be different
       No. 4 Fail your way to success
       Fail over and over and over again.
       No. 5 Have high expectations
       No. 6 Be positive
       bad thing/good thing mixes, no such thing called bad thing
       No. 7 Be who you were born to be
       Encourage to fail
       Take everything you are given,
       Not about shoes, it is about where you choose to go
       No. 8 Have a vision
       Mentally strong
       No. 9 Stop make excuses
       No. 10 Practice (no need to think when in the game, situation met before)
       At that moment, you do not have to think

Kobe Bryant
        No. 1 Make sacrifices
        No. 2 One move at a time
        How do I prepare? One piece a time, start from a small step
        No. 3 Trust your skills
        how to face criticism? Pressure?
        No. 4 Use your scars as a weapon
        open up to them
        No. 5, Focus on each day
        Do not think about the final result, focus on each day -> training, conditioning, ...
        No. 6 Don't be afraid confrontation
        Cannot please everyone
        Even hurt your feelings, tell something: small thing, like food in your teeth
        No. 7 Be competitive when it's hard
        No. 8  Just keep going
        career -> not chase championships
        good/bad moments, things will work out
       No. 9 Thrive on being an outsider
       No. 10 Compete with yourself
       a story about practice, 800 times, young but mature, weight training, conditioning

     January 2, 2015

Vinod Khosla's Top 10 Rules For Success (22 minutes, co-founded Sun Microsystems from 1982 to 1984)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsGgZp_PAzM
No. 1. Be pesistent
No. 2. Keep innovating
No. 3. Add value
No. 4. Have the guts to follow your beliefs
No. 5 Try and fail, but don't fail to try
No. 6 Transcend what's traditional
No. 7. Shake things up
No. 8. Build a great team
No. 9. Dare to be great
No. 10. Be brutally honest

Facebook Documentary - Sheryl Sandberg's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRB8n6PULQ
No. 1 Have impact
No. 2 Think big
No. 3 Go for growth
she joined google when there were only 200 people.
She worked for a person 23 years old.
Care less about level, but about growth.
No. 4 Communicate authentically
There is no truth. Your truth, my truth. It is objective.
Walk in room, say what you believe. Give people room to authenticate, give out their thoughts.

No. 5 Hire big
Hire for then, not just now. Then happens quickly. 
Hire overqualified, hire new graduate. 

No. 6 Don't just talk, really listen!
No. 7 Take responsibility
No one has complete control.
Learn to take responsibility. Late for work, it is not for traffic. But you do not consider the traffic issue.
No. 8 Measure results, not face time
Focus on result, not face time. But if you focus on face time, you reward face time. 
People work hard, but may not focus on result.
No. 9 Find something you really believe in
No. 10 Careers are not ladders, but jungle gyms

Jeff Weiner's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do9jIFIFj08&list=PLiZj-Ik9MmM0VWRGYCfuUCdyhKfU733WX&index=102

Reference videos:

Michael Jordan's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidqtkXq9Yg

Kobe Bryant's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nd_nUhUj2M

More watching:  ( January 2, 2015 )
Vinod Khosla: Failure does not matter. Success matters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZcXup7p5-8

Note to laugh: Strategy to get greencard: Convince them, otherwise, confuse them.
Notes: come out your priority, and then measure
in 1990s, 25 dinners with kids /month, try to achieve them; means, no sports out with friends in dinner time.

January 21, 2016 (20 minutes talk - after 10 rules, there are 8 minutes talk about her projects at Google, nice sharing)

Marissa Mayer's Top 10 Rules For Success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02zYZ-JB2zQ

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cfo-ruth-porat-success-secrets-2015-12

January 31, 2016
Tony Hsieh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kJE4HJb_w
1. Chase the vision, not the money (
    things like to do, and does not make a dime in 10 years / and let the money follows;
    do not chase paper, chase dream
    Entrepreneurs:
    What would you be passionate about doing for 10 years even if you never made a dime?
    )
2. Hire the right people (
   technical: meet the bar, but, hang out with? if the answer is no, then ...
   work life balance/ so much time at work, better enjoy it  
   - good one/ medium one: strong culture - 10 core values - does not matter what value you are
   - no judgement of values - but you have some values - figure out what values you are  
   )
3. Let your customers do marketing for you. (buy exposure /ads etc., make customer happy - word of mouth)
4. Think long term
5. Do thought experiments
6. Form close bond with your coworkers
7. Have self-confidence
8. Celebrate each person's individuality
9. Maximize customer experience (360 day return policy, contact information - opposite information, low technology, unsexy - phone calls)
10. Just be happy (lose everything, still be happy)