Minimalist Entrepreneur

The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia

review by Derek Sivers: 8/10: A must-read for any potential founder of a small online business. Brilliant insights into starting something simply and sensibly. Best guide to the new world of starting from anywhere.

His Claude Skills based on the book: https://github.com/slavingia/skills

The skills follow the book's progression:

  • Community — Start by finding your people
  • Validate — Make sure the problem is worth solving
  • Build — Ship a manual process, then productize it
  • Processize — Turn your product idea into a manual process you can deliver today
  • Sell — Get to 100 customers one by one
  • Price — Charge something from day one
  • Market — Build an audience through content
  • Grow — Stay profitable, grow sustainably
  • Culture — Build the house you want to live in
  • Review — Apply minimalist principles to every decision

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