Through the Backyard: Shortcuts for Growing your Side Project

You've heard it before: you're living in an unprecedented time where you have the resources available to learn anything you want online and the inexpensive tools to build a business from the comfort of your own home. The only limit is your passion, creativity, and drive.

​ Great. Enough rah-rah. Now what?

​ I've worked for the past five years to take this concept, extract my truth, and put it to the test. In doing so, I built up a side-project that allowed me to quit my full-time job and work on the things I truly want to work on.

​ In this talk, I'll share with you what I found to be most helpful along the way so that you can start to focus on the goals and well-being of the one person that truly matters in your career: yourself.

Transcript

1. @davekiss THROUGH THE BACKYARD Shortcuts for Growing your Side Project
2. This talk is not suitable for all employees. PG-EMP
3. WHY SHOULD(N’T)
   I CARE?
5. SERENDIPITY
   CAN BE
   ENGINEERED
6. What should I build? LIKE IT MARKET FOR IT IMPORTANT GOOD AT IT
7. VALUE BEFORE PROFITS
8. INTRAPRENEUR
9. DON’T WISH IT WERE EASIER WISH YOU WERE BETTER
11. DON’T GET HUNG UP ON TECH
12. TALKING SHIP
13. x NDA
14. Build and ship in manageable pieces.
17. FOCUS
18. PROTECT YOUR INNOVATION
19. PEOPLE
20. BUILD AN AUDIENCE
21. Choose
    your
    Chimps
22. You can’t make everybody happy.
23. MEMENTO MORI
24. You will die Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked.
25. What are you doing today in order to ______________________________?
26. FOUNDER || EMPLOYEE
27. TO READ • The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz • Drive by Daniel Pink • Bold by Peter H. Diamandis • authenticity: heart mind and soul of self • 10 keys by Pat Sullivan • Lateral Thinking by Edward De Bono • Firms of Endearment by Rajendra S. Sisodia