{"id":1116,"date":"2018-01-14T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2018-06-14T14:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T14:51:41","slug":"why-luck-wont-help-you-build-a-successful-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/why-luck-wont-help-you-build-a-successful-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Luck Won&#8217;t Help You Build A Successful Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dvc3UMYIze8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The key to building a successful business isn\u2019t luck, but risk. The greatest entrepreneurs know how to reduce risk and gain better insights into running their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I explore how you can minimize the luck you need by taking on less added risk, and provide alternative strategies for creating profitable companies through the bedrock mindset. For more on this topic, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rfhDiU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>From The Ground Up<\/em><\/a>, my new show that\u00a0uncovers the not-so-secret strategies used by the owners of bedrock businesses.<\/p>\n<p>You can also learn more about topics like this in my latest book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2rf7nHo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Building on Bedrock: What Sam Walton, Walt Disney, and Other Great Self-Made Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us About Building Valuable Companies (2018)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The key to building a successful business isn\u2019t luck, but risk. The greatest entrepreneurs know how to reduce risk and gain better insights into running their businesses. In this video, I explore how you can minimize the luck you need by taking on less added risk, and provide alternative strategies for creating profitable companies through&hellip;","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dereklidow.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}