Business Principles

What is most important to know and be capable of applying with rigourous focus on standards.

What is most important to least relevant for your business model?

CONCEPT	MiQ	SYSTEMS AUDIT
Virtuous Feedback Loop	Have you engineered positive feedback loops?	?/5
Snowball Effect	How much free cashflow required to focus on growth strategy?	?/5
Antifragile	Do you create systems that get stronger when attacked?	?/5
Critical Path	Have you charted the best coarse towards success?	?/5
Innovator's Dilemma	How would you beat you?	?/5
Market Forces	What forces influence changes in market behaviour?	?/5
Moat	How defensible is your operating model and deep your culture?	?/5
Opportunity Cost	What is inaction costing you? How bad could it get?	?/5
Profitability	Are you maximizing your potential?	?/5
Zero to One	How quickly and effectively can you convert ideas into valuable outcomes?	?/5

Leverage Force Multipliers

The ability to amplify your output without corresponding increases in effort.

The most successful people of any era are not those that work the hardest but those who use leverage most effectively.

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With great leverage comes great responsibility

Distribution

Distribution is the hardest and most important problem to solve.

• the printing press
• the plough

Agency: What are the most important forces to be capable of leveraging?

1. Proprietary Data expertly combined with Compute Power
2. Standards: Standards are a magical thing, cutting across both atoms and bits.
3. Thought Energy (Expertise) / AI Agents: All that we are is a state of mind.
4. Stories (Narratives): Form beliefs and influence behaviour.
5. Financial Capital: The ability to ride through the storm, whilst seizing opportunities as the arise.
6. Technology: The organisation that is not using a tool that it needs is already paying for it.
7. Physical (Skilled) Labour / Robotics: The ability to enact physical changes of state.
8. Products (Digital, Physical, Phygital): Produce products at optimum cost, fair value and maximum distribution.
9. Trusted Connections: Life is a social game.
10. Systems that sell.

Memes and Narratives

The most powerful form of leverage. Strong storytelling is foundational to the capability to generate leverage.

Everyone feels the call to adventure, sell stories that others want to take part in and retell and you are on the path to infinite leverage.

Drawings, Memes, and Journeys of Discovery.

Physical Labour

Engineer systems to guide other people's/agent's time and energy to create a greater a surface area for achieving more.

AI and automation are replacing human labour. We need greater fluidity to capital formation to run experiments that discover innovative business models to unlock the full potential of humanity's time and attention.

Financial Capital

Borrow capital for projects where sure profits are greater than the interest payable.

• Capital formation is the process of building up the capital stock of a country through investing in productive plants and equipments.
• Learn to use financial instruments to gain a financial advantage.
• Managing leverage in Crypto

Technology

The surest way to gain a competitive advantage is to understand how gain maximum benefit from emerging technology before the masses catch on.

• Using tools to amplify your output. In the AI and Blockchain age, the opportunity for borderless leverage is unprecedented.
• Constantly invest in tools that provide maximum advantage.