This week I realised yet more important things on a new chapter of my ambitious journey to becoming a successful entrepreneur, so I’d like to share.
As some of you will know, I’m eager to learn and I therefore read quite a number of autobiographies and books related to Internet entrepreneurship, as well as technical material to keep me up to date in order to fulfil my role as Chief Technical Officer at OnePage.
I’m reading The One Minute Millionaire at the moment, and there are some fantastic quotes to take away from the book about teamwork:
“Together, you all achieve more, faster, easier. You can spot one another’s blind spots. You can encourage discouraged team members. They can encourage you when you’re down. They fill in the gaps in your skill sets. They can be strong when you’re weak. As a team, you all run faster. A 4-by-4 relay team runs the mile about two seconds faster than the individual runner. If you want speed, you need a team.”
I’d recommend the book to anyone.
No one ever achieved anything by themselves. Start making the steps to getting your team together to do something amazing. Use all means you can to accelerate the process. I found my lead developer for OnePage on Twitter, and we work effectively remotely using collaboration tools. So don’t underestimate the tools at your disposal. But that’s a story for another post.
This week, we’ve had our first kind of “tipping point” with OnePage and it seems our hard work is starting to pay off, even if we haven’t quite launched yet! My fantastic Co-Founder and friend Oo was interviewed by Robert Scoble about OnePage and this has generated a lot of interest. Check out the interview:
The OnePage team consists of myself, Oo and Dan. I’m so happy to have such a good, committed team and now realise how important this is. Dan is a fantastically pragmatic and talented developer and Oo is a great people person. I have taken steps to show my appreciation and this includes my stepping down from the “Founder” title of OnePage and giving Dan “Co-Founder” status. So we are all Co-Founders now and I’m glad to make this step forward since we all do as much work as each other in various different areas. I just want us to succeed and truly believe in the idea. It takes more than just me to make it happen. We’re now all stepping up our commitment in the venture so you’ll be hearing a lot more from us from now on :)
Of course I am still learning, always learning. Until next time, thanks for reading and please add your comments!
