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成功するための運は、コントロールできなくても向上させることはできますね。成功する環境に身をおくことが重要だなと思います。ゴールではなくシステムを作る。他の本にもマラソンで痩せることをゴールとすると続かず、毎朝起きてからすぐに暖かい服を着て、外に出やすい環境を作るのが続けるコツだと書いてある本もありました。ゴールのためにシステムを作った筆者の成功例なども書かれているので、洋書ですが面白い本でした。

「how to fail at almost everything and still win big」


Was my eventual success primarily a result of talent, luck, hard work, or an accidental just-right balance of each? All I know for sure is that I pursued a conscious strategy of managing my opportunities in a way that would make it easier for luck to find me.


Luck can be managed, sort of.


A smart friend can save you loads of timeand effort. Many of you have a smart friend or two already, and you are lucky to have them. But my observation is that a startling percentage of the adult population literally has no smart friends to help them in their quest for success and happiness.


My hypothesis is that passionate people are more likely to take big risks in the pursuit of unlikely goals, and so you would expect to see more failures and more huge successes among the passionate. Passionate people who fail don’t get a chance to offer their advice to the rest of us. But successful passionate people are writing books and answering interview questions about their secrets for success every day.


forget about passion when you’re planning your path to success.


If success were easy, everyone would do it. It takes effort. That fact works to your advantage
because it keeps lazy people out of the game.


If you know some extra successful people, ask some probing questions about how

they got where they did. I think you’ll find a system at the bottom of it all, and usually some

extraordinary luck.


Whatever your plan, focus is always important.


Successful people don’t wish for success; they decide to pursue it. And to pursue it

effectively, they need a system.


1. Selfish 2. Stupid 3. Burden on others That’s the entire list. Your best option is to be selfish, because being stupid or a burden on society won’t help anyone.


We humans want many things: good health, financial freedom, accomplishment, a great social life, love, sex, recreation, travel, family, career, and more. The problem with all of this wanting is that the time you spend chasing one of those desires is time you can’t spend chasing any of the others.


Every second you look at a messy room and think about fixing it is a distraction from your more important thoughts. Cleaning and organizing your space is boring work, and you might never see it as a priority. One trick I’ve learned is that I automatically generate enthusiasm about tidying up if I know someone is stopping by. That’s why it’s a good idea to invite people over on a regular basis. It will inspire you to keep your space straightened up, and that might in turn cause your mind to have a bit more energy.


Another benefit of having a big, world-changing project is that you almost always end up learning something valuable in the process of failing.Let’s say you wake up tomorrow full of energy for your exciting new project. Over the course of the day you learn a few things in the process of doing your research, and you meet some new people along the way. If you accomplish that and nothing more, you’re succeeding, no matter what happens with your project.


Consider the biographies of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. As young men, both took legal risks in the field of technology. Bill Gates famously found ways to hone his technical skills by stealing time on a mainframe.2 Jobs and Wozniak’s first product involved technology that allowed people to steal longdistance phone calls. Where there is a tolerance for risk, there is often talent.


If the first commercial version of your work excites no one to action, it’s time to move on to
something different. Don’t be fooled by the opinions of friends and family. They’re all liars.
If your work inspires some excitement and some action from customers, get ready to chew through some walls. You might have something worth fighting for.


You can manipulate your odds of success by how you choose to fill out the variables in the
formula.


That will be easier if you understand how important psychology is to everything you want to accomplish in life. On a scale of one to ten, the importance of understanding psychology is a solid ten.


There’s one more pattern I see in successful people: They treat success as a learnable skill. That means they figure out what they need and they go and get it.


People who enjoy humor are simply more attractive than people who don’t. It’s human nature to want to spend time with people who can appreciate a good laugh or, better yet, cause one.


If your gut feeling (intuition) disagrees with the experts, take that seriously. You might be

experiencing some pattern recognition that you can’t yet verbalize.


Eat right. Exercise. Get enough sleep. Imagine an incredible future (even if you don’t believe it). Work toward a flexible schedule. Do things you can steadily improve at. Help others (if you’ve already helped yourself). Reduce daily decisions to routine. If you do those eight things, the rest of what you need to stimulate the chemistry of happiness in your brain will be a lot easier to find.


Any doctor or nutrition expert will tell you that eating a balanced diet will get you all the vitamins and minerals you need. That opinion is nearly 100 percent accepted by all smart people. The problem is that it’s mathematically impossible. You can prove that to yourself by Googling the nutritional information for everything you eat on any given day in which you’re sure you did a good job with both your food variety and healthy choices. I’ve done this experiment and found that you can’t get anywhere near the U.S. government’s daily recommended intake levels of vitamins and minerals. You would have to eat a wheelbarrow full of food to come close.


Further complicating nutrition science is the inconvenient fact that no two humans are alike. Does a 120-pound vegetarian woman who is trying to get pregnant need the same vitamins and minerals as an obese coal miner with gout? No two people have exactly the same lifestyle, health, and genetics. I find that most people who have poor diets believe healthy food has bland or unpleasant flavor.


You wouldn’t buy a book if it didn’t have the potential to change you in some way, even if that

change is just entertainment or an increase in your knowledge. Books change us automatically, just as any experience does. And if a book helps you see the world in a more useful way or amps up your energy level, it becomes part of the fabric of your personal luck.


Most important, understand that goals are for losers and systems are for winners. People who seem to have good luck are often the people who have a system that allows luck to find them.



How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

洋書ですが、Tony Robbinsの本ですね。Youtubeでも熱くプレゼンテーションしている姿がたくさん見つけられるかと思います。なぜ個別銘柄ではなく、インデックスファンドを買い続けた方がいい理由などが書いてあります。「Knowledge is not power, execution is.」ファイナンスでもビジネスでも知識だけあっても実行しないと意味ないですからね。

「Money Master The Game」

Money is certnaily one of the ways we can trun the treams we hvae into the reality we live.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner. and you do it by becoming an investor.

There’s 50% chance that, among married couples, at least one spouse will live to the age of 92 and a 25% chance that one will live to 97. You can’t expect to put 10% of your income aside and then finance a retirement that’s just as long. We know we need to save more and invest. So why don’t we do it? What’s holding us back?

When you look at the results on an after-fee, after-tax basis, over resoonalby long perios of thime, there’s almost no chance that you end up beating the index fund.

An incredible 96% of actively managed mutual funds fail to beat the market over any sustained period of time.

You want to make absolutely sure that your 401k has the lowest possible fees and low-cost index funds.

If you want to change your life you have to change your strategy, you have to chagne your story, and you have to change your state.

But why wait until retirement? Why not change your zip code today? Why not find a place to raise your family that allows you to reduce your cost of living and elevate your quaity of life at the same time, while you’re young enough for both you and your children ot reap the rewards?

Asset allocation is the most important investment decision of your lifetime.

Dollar cost averaging is how you make the volatility of the market work for you

To be a succesful investor, you need to rebalance your portfolio at regular intervals.

we should never underestimate the resilience of the US economy. It’s very powerful.

You don’t need to go to business school; you’ve only got to remember two things. The first is, you always want to be with whatever the predominant trend is.

Every day spending choices unleash a cascade of biological and emotional effects tat are detectable right down to saliva.

Knowledge is not power, execution is.



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こちらも英語の本ですが、投資をされている方のお勧めで読んで見ました。ベンチャーキャピタルや投資に興味がある方は良い本かと思います。ベンチャーキャピタル業界で使われる用語の説明もしっかりと書かれていますし、実際に投資された場合のタームシート(契約書)の注意点やサンプルなども載っています。細かいストックの割り振りやファイナンスに関しても詳細に載っています。シリコンバレーでの起業に興味がある方は読まれてみるのが良いと思います。

「Venture Deals second edition」

Don’t let a VC talk you out of using your lawyer of choice just because the lawyer ins’t from a nationally known firm or the lawyer rubs the VC the wrong way. This is your lawyer, not your VC’s lawyer.

Mentors are great. There’s no reason not to give someone a small success fee if they truly help you raise money.

We always recommend starting that you are raising a specific number, and then, when you have more investor demand than you can handle, you can always raise more.

The problem you are solving, the size of the opportunity, the strength of the tam, the level of competition or competitive advantage that you have, your plan of attack, and current status. Summary financials, use of proceeds and milestones are also important. Most good investor presentations can be done in 10 slides or fewer. 

If a VC passes on a deal with you, whether graciously or by not returning your emails and your calls, do your best to politely insist on feedback as to why. This is one of the most important lessons an entrepreneur can learn and is especially useful during the fund-raising cycle. Don’t worry that someone is telling you that your baby is ugly. Ask for the feedback, demand it, get it, absorb it, and learn from it.

Typically be five board members: 1. Founder 2. CEO 3. VC 4 A second VC 5. An outside board member.

The single biggest mistake people make during negotiation is a lack of preparation.

Spend some time beforehand getting to know whom you are dealing with. Some people are so easy to find that you can Google us and know just about everything we think. If you get to know the other side ahead of time, you might also be able to play to their strengths, weaknesses, biases, curiosities, and insecurities. The saying “knowledge is power” applies here.

if you find that your potential investor is a jerk to you in negotiating your deal, you may want to think twice about this person becoming a board member and member of your inner circle.

having solid plan B (and a Plan C, and a Plan D…) is one of your most effective weapons during the negotiation process.

There’s one exception to it not being suitable to ask for a referral. IF you have a relationship with the VC, ask why the answer is no. If the response to that question is something about the VC firm rather than your company, then you may ask for a referral to another firm that might be a better fit. However, be respectful here - if the VC doesn’t want to make a referral, don’t push it.
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実際に投資をされている方からお勧めされた英語の本を読んで見ました。シリコンバレーなどで起業されたい方や投資側に回る方には良い本です。

起業するなら学生の時もいいタイミングだよっていうのも納得です。あとは、起業していきなりVCに投資されることを考えるよりは、まずはエンジェルを探してみることやアクセラレーターなどの大企業とベンチャー企業が共同で新規事業を始める所からやってみるのが良さそうだとのことです。

エンジェルの投資もほとんどローカルで行われるので、やはりシリコンバレーで起業するのがエンジェルからの投資を受けやすいと。なので他の場所でシリコンバレーと同じような場所を作ろうと思っても作れないのですね。

「The Entrepreneurial Bible To Venture Capital」
I would advise that if you really want to just make money, stay away from entrepreneurship, or at least the very early stage deals.  VC funding, 60 percent fail to return the money raised. Of those that do return the money raised, 30 percent just return the cash one time. Only 10 percent of their portfolios make all the profit for the VC funds. Entrepreneurship is indeed a risky business.

Become an entrepreneur if you must, but admit that this is a lifestyle decision. Some entrepreneurs are risk addicts and can’t be helped. My advice is to do it when you are young or in early retirement when you have nothing to lose. If you can’t afford to take the risk, don’t do it. If you do take the risk, may you at least be good and lucky!

One of the best times to start a business is when you are student.

Most angel investors are likely to invest locally. This is part of why it is so hard to replicate the Silicon Valley in other parts of the world.

A quick tip to first-time entrepreneurs: stop thinking about VCs and focus on angles: that’s where your startup starts up.

Rather than look for a job, I would advise young entrepreneurs to join an accelerator, fail perhaps, and get recruited into the deal that works. You might get into the next bit thing before the angel round, and just as with an MBA.

StartUp Bus is a low-cost way of getting to SXSW.

if your startup wants to raise $500,000 to produce a great new widget, you put a profile and video on Crowdfunder and, if enough people pledge to buy your widget and the target amount has been raised, then the cash is transferred to the startup.

“borrow money if you have to from your parents to start a business”

Pitch lawyers before pitching angels

If you are an entrepreneur, angle, or VC you must get out there and network. Do not expect rapid-fire good things to come from a networking event. It is the one or two people out of the 30 that you meet that make the event worth the investment. For many entrepreneurs, angles, and VCs involved with The Funders Club. They read this book, this book can be a source of deal flow and investors for all of us.

The best index for how VC investments will perform is the NASDAQ stock index because it lets us know what price we can sell out companies for.


Every entrepreneur should have some basic documentation when fundraising
A one or two page executive summary
A 10 slide PPT investor slide deck
A longer version of the same slide deck designed for a 20 minutes pitch
As many backup slides as you want for answering questions and taking a deeper dive on any topic asked by the investor 
The financial model
An investor control schedule
Ad demo or video reel

Answer questions quickly without getting defensive. Be a good storyteller. Most successful entrepreneurs are great storytellers. They have to be able to get investors to believe in their crazy idea. “Stay in touch” means “no”.

Relationships and references. Work with someone that your peers have worked with. Work with someone your board knows and work with someone that your partners have worked with. Then do your own due diligence. When push comes to shove, you want someone who believes in you, the company, and what you are trying to build.

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