I just finished the book ‘My Start Up Life – What a (very) young CEO learned on his journey through Sillicon Valley’ by Ben Casnocha.  Casnocha tells his life story about how he, as a 14 year old boy, started his own company. He takes you on a journey and tells about the things he encountered being a CEO of a ‘Start-up’. The story is inspiring and interesting. In between the story he advises aspiring CEO’s with lessons he has learned.

It’s a nice read with about 200 pages. The advise is obvious, but very important. These are the lessons that stuck most for me:

• Dare to take a risk.
• Don’t try to be a perfectionist. ‘Good’ is good enough.
• Profile yourself. (Work on your physical appearance, network and online identity.)
• Really listen to your clients and try to solve their problem and address their problems in presentations and communication.

All in all a good book with some inspiring advise.

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