Why You Must Own All the Assets of Your Business

Why You Must Own All the Assets of Your Business

Author: Hard Knocks June 1, 2024 Duration: 1:18:15

Join us this time as David and John talk about the importance of OWNING your assets and the dangers of not learning about KEY and RELATED parts of your job.


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📖 Key points in the episode:

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:31 Hard Knock 1: Not owning your assets

00:02:11 Stark Industries didn't own their website

00:07:30 Productivity Point didn't own them either

00:09:14 Durendal owns none of their advertising

00:15:08 When you don't own your assets… you recreate them

00:18:00 Avoid single points of failure

00:20:30 Vendor Lock

00:22:25 Lack of Accountability

00:23:35 Fix 1: Formal Ownership Agreements

00:26:16 What is a Letter Agreement

00:27:28 Fix 2: Google Shared Drive Hack

00:29:15 Fix 3: Get all your code inside of github

00:31:38 Digital Asset Management System

00:33:48 Fix 4: Data Governance

00:36:57 Hard Knock: Not knowing how key parts of your job work

00:42:50 For those of you in operations

00:44:45 More examples!

00:49:20 You minimize the value that other people provide

00:53:33 Fixing the problem

01:05:45 David Asks John

01:10:10 John Asks David

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👥 Credits:

Writers: David Fox and John Fox

Editors: Maggie Fox

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