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School for Startups Minutes

jim@schoolforstartups.com (Jim Beach)

The short vignettes are taken from School for Startups Radio. We release a quick thought to motivate or educate you about a different facet of entrepreneurship every day.

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SFS Minute 940: Focus

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2026/03/07

One of my favorite words in the entire world is neuroplasticity, neuro meaning brain and plasticity meaning plastic. The idea that our brain can change and can learn over the period of our lifetime is such a cool idea. So this week, I want to talk about how we can get mentally stronger through some of our habits. I will start with an example right after this. One of the best ways to become mentally stronger is to control your focus. That's right, not think about certain things. Many people get

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SFS Minute 939: Remain Calm

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2026/03/01

This week, we have been talking about why some people advance more quickly than others. We have talked about the fact that some people solve problems without being asked. They respond faster than expected. They improve the systems around them. They make decisions when other people hesitate. I have one more thought to share on this. I'll do it right after this. People who advance quickly remain calm when major problems appear. I used to run summer camps. I had 89 summer camps around the country, and

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SFS Minute 938: Improve Systems

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2026/03/01

Some people get promoted more frequently than perhaps they seem like they deserve. Why do some people advance faster than others? This week, we are talking about that, and I hope you can take some of these lessons, some of these ideas, and apply them to your career and get a promotion sooner. I'll give you one way to do that right after this. Some people complete their work as assigned, and that satisfies them. Other people, though, look to see if they can improve the system. They simplify

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SFS Minute 937: Make Decisions

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2026/03/01

Have you ever heard of the Peter Principle, the idea that some people get promoted very quickly, and everyone else shakes their head and wonders why? This week, we want to talk about that, why some people succeed more and get noticed more than everyone else. They advance faster than the rest of us. I'll share why right after this. In the first company that I started in my mid 20s, I had a business partner, and we were equal owners and both had the same amount of responsibility. We met with a very

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SFS Minute 936: Respond Faster

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2026/03/01

This week, we are talking about why some people advance so quickly and maybe without merit. We've all seen it and all wondered, what did that guy do to deserve that promotion? Nothing that I see. What a chump he really is. This week, we want to talk about that and figure out how you respond and how you put yourself on the track to get promoted quicker than everyone else. In my very first job, when I was 22 and 23, I got a letter asking for information from someone very important in town. Normally,

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SFS Minute 935: Solve Problems

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2026/03/01

Have you ever noticed that some people advance and get promotions quicker, more frequently than you think they should? I've seen that a lot of times, and it seems like the people who do advance don't deserve it. We've all seen that. This week, I want to talk about that, why some people advance faster than others, and how we should respond. I'll be right back to give you an example. Many of us do what we are told. We complete our assignments, we meet expectations, and we wait for more direction from

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SFS Minute 934: Long Term Thinking

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2026/02/21

Amateurs and professionals do things differently, and amateurs need to learn from the professionals and improve their skill sets. I've given you five ways this week that professionals are different from amateurs. I hope you have been keeping score to determine what areas you need to work on and how to improve your skill sets. I'll introduce the last trait of professionals right after this. Amateurs focus on short-term outcomes. They don't think about the long term, whereas professionals consider

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SFS Minute 933: Take Responsibility

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2026/02/21

This week, we are talking about the difference between professionals and amateurs. I'm introducing five traits of professionals, and I want you to give yourself a score at the end of the week to see how many of them you are already doing. It's very important that you understand where you currently are and what you need to work on. I'll share another professional trait right after this. Mistakes happen in business and in our personal lives all of the time. We really can't eliminate that. We can,

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SFS Minute 932: Communicate Clearly

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2026/02/21

I hope you're keeping score. This week, I am revealing five personality traits of professionals versus the things that amateurs do. I hope you're keeping score to see how many of the professional traits you are already doing. I'll share one more professional trait right after this. Amateurs assume that people understand what they want or what they are thinking, but that's very rarely true. Professionals understand that you need to communicate clearly and confirm every decision, confirm that everyone

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SFS Minute 931: Boring Work

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2026/02/21

Professionals do things differently from amateurs, and this week, I am talking about some of those distinctions. I want you to keep score throughout the week and see how many of the five apply to you to help determine how close to a professional you are or how close to an amateur you are. This will apply to your business life, your personal relationships, absolutely anything. I'll have one of the personality traits of professionals right after this. Amateurs enjoy the exciting parts of business, the

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SFS Minute 930: Show up

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2026/02/21

This week, I want to talk about things that professionals do differently from amateurs, and this will apply to all aspects of your life: professionally, personally, your relationships, absolutely everything. I'm going to introduce five ideas this week that professionals do differently. You can keep score during the week and see how many of them apply to you. It'll be very interesting to give yourself a score at the end of the week. I'll tell you the first thing that professionals do right after

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SFS Minute 929: Neuralink

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2026/02/15

Today, we're wrapping up our discussion of Elon Musk and his collection of companies and how they all fit together. There's one more piece that I'd like to talk about: the Neuralink piece, right after this. There are already 22 people in the world who have a Neuralink implant in their brain. It allows them to control a computer using only their thoughts. Now, if AI and connectivity accelerate, the interface layer becomes critical, and that Neuralink implant in your brain now allows you to control

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SFS Minute 928: X

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2026/02/15

This week, we're talking about Elon Musk and his network of companies and how they all fit together. When you look at his collection of businesses as a whole, you can see that he has much grander plans than just selling us cars. I'll tell you how X, also known as Twitter, fits into it right after this. A lot of people call it Twitter still, but X is Elon's social media platform. Underneath, it's a real-time information engine. It allows payments, long-form content, AI integration, and identity

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SFS Minute 927: SpaceX

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2026/02/15

This week, we're talking about Elon Musk and how all of his companies together have a much larger goal than just selling us cars. When you look at the companies and see how they fit together, you'll see that Elon has an even grander plan than what we're aware of already. I'll tell you more in just a second. Tesla is the ground layer. SpaceX is the orbital layer. SpaceX is really important to Elon because it allows him to control the data. He's building the Starlink data network with all of his

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SFS Minute 926: Tesla

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2026/02/15

Elon Musk is one of the most controversial people out there right now. Some love him, and some hate him, but we can't deny that he's doing really cool things all over the world in different technologies. Yesterday, I spoke about his new Boring Company. They're going to be digging a tunnel from two theme parks in Orlando to connect them. Today, I want to talk about Tesla and show you how it fits into Elon's grand plan right after this. We all know that Tesla sells really cool cars. Did you also know

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SFS Minute 925: Boring Company

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2026/02/15

This week, I thought it would be fun to talk about all of the things that Elon Musk is doing right now. I know he's very controversial. A lot of people love him, and a lot of people hate him, but he's doing some interesting things that I think you need to know about. I'll start right after this. Universal Studios in Florida just opened a third theme park, and it's a little bit away from the first two. This week, Boring Company, Elon's tunnel-digging company, just announced that they're going to

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SFS Minute 924: AI Cutting Hours

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2026/02/08

This week, we have been talking about technology that was supposed to save us time and make our lives better. In many instances, it's worked out that way. In others, it hasn't. Some of the software, some of the updates, and some of the silly things that we have to do to maintain our office automations are really just a pain and take up more time than they save. I'll have my final thought right after this. They all say that AI is going to do the exact same thing, another technology that's supposed to

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SFS Minute 923: Meetings

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2026/02/08

Technology was supposed to make our lives easier and to save us time and to make us more productive. Sometimes that's true, but a lot of times, it's just not true at all. Today, I'm going to talk about one of the things that happens every week at your business that technology has probably made worse. Technology was supposed to make meetings so much easier. We created technology so that we could share documents and collaborate without getting together, and then we schedule a meeting to review the

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SFS Minute 922: Passwords

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2026/02/08

This week, we are talking about security and technology that's designed to make our lives better, to save time, and to make us more secure. All of these updates, we've been talking about the silliness of some of them. This week, in just a second, I'm going to tell you my thoughts on passwords. Oh, passwords. I like just a simple, easy password that I can remember and type quickly, and then the site says you must update it and choose a new password. And so I do that, and other sites make me choose

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SFS Minute 921: Updates

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2026/02/08

This week, we are talking about all the technology that was supposed to save us time that isn't. We've already talked about how software is not as easy as it's promised. It just never works out that way. It's supposed to install in five minutes, and then you're supposed to be up and running. Well, then why do I have to hire another company to come in and help me install it? It's all just crazy. I'll talk about another technology lie right after this. There's nothing scarier than when your computer

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