Ch 1 Pt 2 - MillionDollarWeekend by Noah Kagan

One day a friend showed me a product in development from an unknown company that was then called My Mint. The founder, Aaron Patzer, had created a tool to help people manage their finances.

At the time I was blogging on my site OkDork about personal finance, and I immediately saw that this could be huge. I was so excited, that I told Aaron that I wanted to be his director of marketing. 

The only problem was, as he pointed out, that I hadn’t done marketing before. So I did what I’ve always done—I just started. I hustled. 

And with no experience, I created a marketing plan that got 100,000 registered users before the site even launched which got me a full-time offer: 1 percent of the company and a $100,000 job.

Marketing is easy when you have a great product.

Don’t base your happiness or your self-worth on being the smartest, the most successful, the richest. 

There’s ALWAYS going to be someone who’s smarter, more successful, or richer.

Every time you see that you’ve fallen short, it will eat away at your motivation. 

Being so focused on the end results sets you up for a major fall.

Defining yourself by the things you do each day (the process) will get you to where you want to be quicker and more joyfully than measuring yourself against others.