I prattle on about my experiences building, running, and then selling my first agency, Portent. OK, to be fair, it’s the only agency I’ve built, run, and sold. Saying “my first agency” future-proofs this post and sounds cool.
Here’s the deck:
(Sorry it looks like crap – I’m trying to find a prettier embedding solution than Slideshare. If you want to see it on Slideshare, though, it looks better: Click here)
Books & Links
If you’re building an agency, these are all worth a look:
- Lost & Founder is Rand Fishkin’s very-honest look at starting and running a startup. Read it to bust some serious myths about startup culture
- One-Trick Ponies Get Shot: How To Succeed In The Business Of Consulting: Some random guy wrote this. Cough
- Radical Candor is all about being a great-but-direct boss
- I stole the Why/How/What concept from Start With Why
- You MUST read EVERYTHING by this guy but start with “The Four Obsessions Of An Extraordinary Executive”
- Wil Reynolds – The Consultant’s Rut & How To Escape It: Best talk I’ve ever seen about being a good consultant