Entrepreneur Office Hours - Issue #161

Looking back and looking ahead.

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On one hand, as a content creator, I get frustrated around the end of the year because I spend lots of time writing new articles and lots of people in my audience don’t read them because of the holidays and what not. It’s so bad that I didn’t even bother publishing new articles this week. Instead, I’m sharing an article I published last week that I didn’t include in the previous issue of EOH. I assume my laziness isn’t going to bother anyone since… well… as mentioned above, not a lot of you saw the article.

On the other hand, as content creator, I love the end of the year because I’ve published 100+ articles in 2022, nearly as many newsletters, and, for at least one issue of EOH, I get to take a break and recycle old content by posting “My Top 10 Articles of 2022.”

So, without further ado, below you’ll find last week’s article you probably didn’t read, and a bunch of articles from the past year that a lot of you already read and enjoyed. In the meantime, I’m going to log off for a few more days, keep relaxing, and we’ll all jump back into the daily grind together next week.

Happy New Year!

-Aaron

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My Top 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

As determine by total readership across multiple platforms

#10: I’ll Never Forget the Day a VC Made Me Feel Like an Idiot

#9: 3 Contestants From The Bachelorette Taught My Students an Important Lesson About Entrepreneurship

#8: The Email Technique I Used to Convince Anyone to Take a Meeting With Me

#7: 8 Data-Driven Ways To Validate Your Startup Idea

#6: I Trusted a Billionaire, and He Destroyed My Company

#5: The “Garage Startup” Is Officially Dead

#4: Every Entrepreneur Should Steal My Daughter’s Trick For Selling More Girl Scout Cookies

#3: A Venture Capitalist Told Me How He Decides Which Startups to Fund, and I Couldn’t Believe It

#2: I Wish Someone Had Warned Me About the Real Reason Most Startups Fail

#1: A VC Told Me His Favorite Question to Ask Entrepreneurs, and the Brilliance of it Shocked Me