Startups For the Rest of Us

Episode 512 | The Power of Options (A Rob Solo Adventure)


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Join us for a Rob Solo Adventure version of Startups for The Rest of Us as Rob Walling talks about the power of optionality.  He explores the importance of having different paths and avoiding backing yourself into a corner and being constrained when making important life decisions.

The topics we cover
  • 1:27 The story of Gary Gygax and Tactical Studies Rules (TSR)
  • 6:56 The Entrepreneurmobile
  • 13:00 How to keep your options open
  • 17:33 DotNetInvoice and fake reduction of options
  • Links from the show
    • Tactical Studies Rules
    • Gary Gygax
    • Factoring
    • The Entrepreneurmobile
    • Episode 510 | The Story of Startups.com
    • Episode 496 | The Press Covers Exceptions, Don’t Compare Yourself to Slack or Zoom
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