Best of 2020: My Personal and Readers’ Favorite Articles on D-Eship.com

What a year 2020 was!

With my basketball friend, we often end emails with the phrase “stay in your stance.” This is what basketball coaches say to their players so they are always “ready” for anything and don’t have to “get ready,” because if they have to “get ready,” it is probably too late.

With all the adversity and challenges, it has become clearer that entrepreneurship needs to be more broadly embraced beyond just startups. It is crucial for society and not just the individuals doing it. The concept of antifragility (now we call resilience+) took hold in an amazing way. For example, we have already had over 30K views (and that number goes up every day) of our Antifragile Entrepreneurship Speaker Series with literally zero market dollars spent to promote it.

It was a year that tested us and made us stronger in the end. I am completely confident that these newly enhanced (and maybe found) muscles will make us more successful when we get to the other side of the awful pandemic. While we would never wish for a crisis, good can come out of them if we approach them properly.

With that perspective, what were our favorite articles of this past year on this web site? There were so many great ones but my personal favorite was “What Gives Me Confidence That We Are Successfully Teaching Entrepreneurship.” It was so important to me because it really proved to me that what we are doing has a significant impact. I always believed strongly that it did because I see the examples every day with my own eyes but it was good to have such concrete and compelling data to prove this. I must admit as well, while I was very confident, the numbers exceeded even my high expectations.

But each of us probably has our different favorites because of our individual perspectives and interests but it is interesting to see what the top ten were from the consolidated “voting” (voting was done with your clicks specifically, what articles did you view). Without further ado, here are the top ten viewed posts of 2020 (let the arguments or agreements begin in the chat area):

1. The LTV Calculation Spreadsheet (Joe Gibson);
2. Teaching Entrepreneurship, Cultivating Antifragility (Bill Aulet);
3. Disciplined Entrepreneurship “vs.” Lean Startup “vs.” Business Model Canvas (Marius Ursache);
4. The MIT Antifragile Entrepreneurship Speaker Series (Bill Aulet);
5. How the Antifragile Entrepreneur Can Improve with Improv (Mike Grimshaw & Nate Lee);
6. The New Disciplined Entrepreneurship Toolbox (Marius Ursache);
7. What Gives Me Confidence That We Are Successfully Teaching Entrepreneurship (Bill Aulet);
8. That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea (Bill Aulet);
9. Using Disciplined Entrepreneurship with Established Teams (Mark Riddley);
10. The Best Technology Does Not Win. A Business Succeeds Because of People (Bill Aulet).

What one do you feel was overlooked? What do you agree with?

Congratulations to Joe Gibson of Clemson for getting #1 of 2020. We welcome your contributions for 2021 as our goal is to continue to build this global, electronic community. If you want to contribute, please get in touch!

Welcome to 2021 and be resilient+!!!