My First Million
The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.
Deep-dive biographical storytelling to build expertise authority
Why It Works
Provides massive value to audience while demonstrating depth of knowledge and building trust over time through consistency.
Prerequisites
How to Execute
Choose specific niche you're genuinely obsessed with
Read primary sources rather than summaries
Create consistent publishing schedule
Focus on insight synthesis rather than just information sharing
Build personal brand around expertise area
When It Fails
When you're not genuinely interested in the content or try to cover too many topics without depth.
Real Example
“Reading 400+ entrepreneur biographies and creating weekly podcast episodes sharing insights and patterns, building audience of founders and investors over 6+ years.”
Related Knowledge
Personalized AI Life Coach
People make important decisions without having a trusted advisor who knows their full context, goals, and circumstances.
Anti-Business Billionaire Framework
A framework identifying five core traits of entrepreneurs who build massive companies by being contrarian to typical business advice: high disagreeableness, extreme self-confidence, product obsession, total control retention, and refusal to sell at any price.
Edisonian Principle of Design
A product development approach focused on rapid experimentation, immediate feedback, and constant iteration rather than master planning.
Maintain freedom to work on what you love while building a successful business
Ability to work exclusively on projects you're passionate about, declining lucrative distractions, and having money follow from doing what you love rather than chasing money directly.
Family Heirloom Business Model
Viewing your business as a family heirloom to be passed down through generations rather than an asset to be optimized for sale.
Go Slow Now to Go Fast Later
Deliberately limiting initial growth to deeply learn fundamentals, enabling exponentially faster growth later when you apply accumulated knowledge.