As an entrepreneur with a career spanning over 16 years and multiple successful companies under his belt, Blake B. Johnson knows that building a solid core team is a pillar of innovation.
As an entrepreneur with aspirations to be an influential leader, remember that relatability is everything.
One as an unhappy yet successful businesswoman and
another as an entrepreneur with all the rewards I once dreamed of — doing something I was passionate about, finding love, and finding my tribe.
Reclaim your energy and optimism for winning results
as an entrepreneur with the following exercises.
If they're going to pay me the great compliment of buying my books, again and again, the least I can do is approach it seriously
as an entrepreneur with a professional business - minded attitude.
Not exact matches
But edging successfully into nearly saturated spaces,
as Uber did
with food delivery, requires
entrepreneurs to think outside the box.
Friends and colleagues in Toronto's clubby media firmament describe him
as both reserved and creative, an
entrepreneur with a knack for hiring smart people.
Entrepreneur spoke
with Akana, who shared that starting out on YouTube
as a «one - woman crew» gave her valuable technical experience acting, directing and filmmaking.
This April, I partnered
with the Council for Economic Education (which educates thousands of teachers annually, providing financial and economic curriculums for K through 12 students) to ask 28
entrepreneurs, editors and economists for their top tip for saving money
as part of a social media campaign titled #MySavingsTip.
The word «
entrepreneur» is thrown around a lot these days,
with many people seeing it
as a means to enjoy a whole new level of professional, financial and personal freedom.
As an
entrepreneur, you are enlisting the services and support of those who you hire and surround yourself
with.
I think that's because
entrepreneurs are obsessed
with what they do, and any inkling that things aren't going right is seen
as a sign that they're failing.
Pursuing a career
as a freelancer also offers many of the same «lifestyle benefits» that people normally associate
with entrepreneurs — from the ability to control the type of work you do and time spent working to the potential for higher earnings and improved mental and physical health.
«I have learned,
as an
entrepreneur, the most important skill you have to have is you have to be an optimist and pessimist at the same time,» said Stephanie Tilenius, former Google VP and founder of Vida, an app that pairs you
with 24/7 access to a health coach.
Perhaps few
entrepreneurs in the world today revel in the impossible
as much
as Walter De Brouwer, the 55 - year - old Belgian self - described anarchist
with a Ph.D. in semiotics who believes he can disrupt the entire health care industry
with a tiny device inspired by Star Trek.
That's because many aspiring
entrepreneurs see a business plan
as simply a tool — filled
with strategies and projections and hyperbole — that will convince lenders or investors the business makes sense.
Equity crowd funding is worth trying
as just one tool to help foster startups, at the very least to keep pace
with the U.S. and give Canadian
entrepreneurs more reason to stay here.
As infrastructure and public transportation collapsed, and customers prudently stayed home,
entrepreneurs found their coping ability and ingenuity tested to the limit — along
with their social media creativity.
As Entrepreneur magazine observed in a recent article about the book industry, we now have a «market flooded
with forgettable books created by companies for hire.»
One of the first decisions you must make
as an
entrepreneur is how to deal
with your competitors.
This basic formula means that
as an
entrepreneur or business leader, you can't compromise on your principles when dealing
with your staff, your customers, your suppliers, or anyone else connected
with your business.
As a small, one person business, can your prices compete
with a large national or global
entrepreneur?
In our May issue, we chronicled the unlikely rise of Youngstown, Ohio, a city long - since abandoned by the steel industry now trying to reinvent itself
as a hub for technology
entrepreneurs with the help of the Youngstown Business Incubator.
So, it's probably safe to predict:
As the on - demand industry moves forward, only those
entrepreneurs who manage to balance contractor demands
with their companies» ability to fulfill them will find the success they desire.
As a serial
entrepreneur, I know firsthand how important it is to connect
with customers.
A panel of three
entrepreneurs discussed the relationship between purpose and profitability in greater depth: Pocket Sun, who,
as founding partner of female - focused VC firm SoGal Ventures, has a purpose of «building an empire for millennial women to invest in startups»; Eileen Gittins, a serial
entrepreneur who founded book self - publishing firm Blurb and now runs Bossygrl, a mobile app meant to introduce Gen Z girls to entrepreneurship by helping them launch micro-businesses; and Cathie Reid, co-founder and current digital advisor to Icon Group, an Australian cancer - care company
with annual revenue of more than $ 1.5 billion.
As an immigrant entrepreneur, I'm going to continue with business as usua
As an immigrant
entrepreneur, I'm going to continue
with business
as usua
as usual.
We chatted
with Earnhardt on the phone recently about his other life in the fast lane —
as an
entrepreneur.
But taking my talks online via video, building our email list and partnering
with other Internet
entrepreneurs provides a possibility of growth that actually far outstrips anything I could make
as a speaker.
The second is less conventional,
with Mr. Schilling's current startup BoardPaq engaging some of the facility's startups and
entrepreneurs as service providers.
As I look over the business plans and projections that these
entrepreneurs share
with us, one thing I constantly see is a lack of sophistication in calculating the investor's return.
He is a seasoned software
entrepreneur, project and product manager
with 10 + years of experience in the IT arena, advisor to several fast - growing ventures, popular blogger and contributing author in tech and business media (Inc., Wired, Pando Daily) Also, Andrew frequently speaks about project management, business and innovation at such events
as E2 Innovate, PMI Global Congresses, Enterprise Connect, IBM Connect and more.
With something that might be more complicated and not
as obvious, I think having women around the table will help get more female
entrepreneurs funded.
The first is making it
as easy
as possible for
entrepreneurs to work
with us.
With the
entrepreneur being the new rockstar, starting your own business is almost
as cool
as being the lead singer or guitarist in a band — almost.
In this special feature of «Ask
Entrepreneur,» Facebook fan Louise Psarras from Carthage, N.Y., asks:
As a one - person business, I feel overwhelmed, especially
with three kids and pets.
That was true since automobiles transformed our lifestyles while simultaneously killing thousands a day, and it's true in our current reality of mind - bending technological progress
with entrepreneurs aiming rockets at Mars and envisioning artificial intelligence that makes humans look about
as smart a house cat in comparison.
As Britain moves forward
with plans to leave the European Union — a so - called «hard Brexit» —
entrepreneurs across the euro zone worry that the move could have a negative impact on their bottom lines.
Richard Branson is known
as an adventurer, a billionaire and a prolific
entrepreneur with an ever - expanding brand, Virgin.
Millman: We had bootstrapped the company
with some success up until [this past winter], but realized that to take things to the next level, we needed an injection of capital and that
as first - time
entrepreneurs, mentorship would also be extremely valuable.
He seems compelled to add that his children are
as obsessed
with the iconic bricks
as he is — but increasingly, successful
entrepreneurs needn't find shelter in the «it's because of my kids» rationale for building
with LEGO bricks.
It should come
as no surprise then, that many of this year's winning firms are run by serial
entrepreneurs with money to burn.
With a theme focusing on tackling how
entrepreneurs can be supported by the ecosystem, the event aimed to celebrate and leverage Bahrain's strategic role for startups in the GCC region and around the world
as an ideal startup hub for
entrepreneurs and investors looking to expand their impact.
On Friday, the MBA teams typically give a presentation to the
entrepreneur with their findings and recommendations from over the week,
as well
as any tools or models they developed to help the business owner run the business more effectively.
Bill Carmody, CEO of innovative marketing firm Trepoint and acclaimed author of the how - to guide Online Promotions: Winning Strategies and Tactics sat down
with Lewis Schiff, executive director of The Business Owners Council, to talk about Bill's approach
as an
entrepreneur and the breakthroughs he has unlocked through his Tony Robbins experience.
As entrepreneurs, our work is so intertwined
with our life that in order to live authentically, we must be engaging in work that is itself authentic to us.
As an
entrepreneur, you're all too familiar
with the feeling of being stressed out, but you probably don't know the extent to which stress impacts productivity at your company.
With programs like the Domain competition, Idea Village, Launch Pad, and the New Orleans Startup Fund, New Orleans is building a reputation
as an under - the - radar location for young
entrepreneurs.
In my research
with entrepreneurs and managers, this fact is often cited
as a reason these generations are unsettled and difficult to manage, expecting foosball tables and access to an Xbox.
The city might be in such a state that institutions of all types feel it's necessary to throw resources at it, creating opportunities for young
entrepreneurs who won't have to compete
with as crowded a field
as they'd find in New York or Silicon Valley, but that doesn't exactly solve the problem of what to do on a Saturday night.