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7. Find and build specific knowledge/skills

We should build valuable skills. Selling skills for example.

If you can create a product, you also need someone who can market it and sell it to the public. Also, you can be that person for a partnership with someone else who creates the product.

What would Apple be today without the marketing and branding skills of Steve Jobs?

Specific knowledge comes from your passion.

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