Before Cook shared three of the lessons he's
learned as an entrepreneur, two large screens flanking the stage continually flashed a single question:
One of the important lessons you can
learn as an entrepreneur is where to focus your time.
After Hurricane Maria savaged Puerto Rico, a man named Jesse Levin used what he'd
learned as an entrepreneur and applied it to disaster relief.
The lessons this year are both big and small, but no matter the size, I'm very grateful for all that I've learned and continue to
learn as an entrepreneur.
I can use my experience I've
learned as an entrepreneur and continue to push forth women into the workplace, and hope they find true success — success that brings them happiness.
GG: What's the biggest lesson you've
learned as an entrepreneur?
Not exact matches
He once described the contestants on the British remake of «The Apprentice»
as «14 odious, over-confident wannabe
entrepreneurs, every single one of whom you will
learn to hate twice
as much
as Hitler.»
«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.
Anu Duggal took what she
learned as an ecommerce
entrepreneur to launch a venture capital firm called Female Founders Fund.
How this
Entrepreneur contributor discovered online
learning as a way to share her startup skills.
Mistakes will be made, but why not
learn from the stumbles of those that came before you?Particularly in the digital era, there are more ways to save
as an
entrepreneur or small business owner than ever before.
Women
entrepreneurs were
as highly educated
as their male counterparts, had the same early interest in starting their own businesses, and had
learned the same valuable lessons from their work experience and from prior successes and failures.
As a parent, you influence your child's willingness to try, fail,
learn, and try again — an essential skill for
entrepreneurs.
Since the third century BC the man, myth and legend known variously
as Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle, La Befana, Yule Tomten and Christkindli has been an amazing
entrepreneur each and every startup founder can
learn from.
The only skills you need to be an
entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even
as you fail you
learn and move onto the next adventure.
As eLearning Industry founder Christopher Pappas explains, AI and machine
learning will free up considerable behind - the - scenes resources for
entrepreneurs.
I've
learned a lot over the years
as a real estate
entrepreneur that applies to any business owner.
However, unbeknownst to me at the time, I
learned five powerful lessons over those three days that continue to serve me
as an
entrepreneur all these years later.
«While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to
learn that it's an issue that we have to control, that it's part of my responsibility
as an
entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.»
This model, known
as «personalized» or «individualized»
learning, has become popular among tech
entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
As a first - time
entrepreneur, Wojcicki admits she's
learned the hard way not to tackle all the pieces of a complex undertaking simultaneously.
As a new
entrepreneur, this was something I had to
learn very quickly.
«
As entrepreneurs, we know a lot and
learn a lot — but sometimes we forget,» she says.
One of the main lessons Becker has
learned about being a first - time
entrepreneur is that nobody cares about your business
as much
as you do — so it's you who needs to put all the extra effort in.
We see a spike in new podcasts every now and then in part because
entrepreneurs and small businesses want to market themselves and they see audio podcasting
as an inexpensive, easy - to -
learn cousin of video production.
Though she's excited to have a career with more infrastructure, Lickley says she'd never take back her time
as an «artist
entrepreneur,» which she considers a mini-MBA of sorts, forcing her to
learn the arts of networking, cold - calling and time management.
But just
as importantly I've
learned from other successful
entrepreneurs along the way.
Successful
entrepreneurs often adjust their path
as they and their team
learn and grow.
For it often seems
as if
entrepreneurs have to
learn this lesson the hard way — by collapsing, literally or figuratively.
However, within that first year, I was able to overcome a lot of obstacles and
learn what it takes to truly succeed
as an
entrepreneur.
As an
entrepreneur, you have to
learn to stay calm and focused on the roller coaster of running a business.
As an
entrepreneur, I have applied this principle when I
learn new skills that are needed to help grow our company.
Here, the craft brewery connoisseur reflects on the hardest lessons she's
learned and what she wishes she had known
as a young
entrepreneur.
Every time I tune in, I
learn new tips for my own hustle —
as well
as exciting new business strategies from successful
entrepreneurs, like Facebook employee No. 30, Noah Kagan.
The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars, religious and spiritual leaders,
as well
as entrepreneurs and business men and women interested in
learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.
In short, you don't want an
entrepreneur to
learn as they go with you funding it.
As many
entrepreneurs have
learned the hard way, there's a downside to preparing for months for a business launch.
As entrepreneurs we've
learned to fight for what we want, and hate losing.
If you're planning on becoming an
entrepreneur, or if you've just entered the world of business ownership,
learn these five skills
as early
as possible:
If you can
learn effectively and consistently, you'll have no problem building the other skills you'll need
as an
entrepreneur.
But the fantasy of letting
entrepreneurs fix our government is starting to look more realistic,
as I'm
learning at the Gov 2.0 Summit in Washington, DC.
Finally, Ballinger points to his own experience
as a business owner to highlight one of the biggest lessons
entrepreneurs will
learn from mountaineering — you will fail sometimes, but you have more resilience than you'd ever imagine.
As entrepreneurs, we may not share the likeness of an athlete's physical prowess, but we can certainly relate to their passion and
learn from their pursuance to follow their dreams.
After spending 15 years
as an
entrepreneur focused on product innovation and market transformation, I've pinpointed the four lessons any aspiring innovator should
learn.
Much of what every kid would ideally
learn in school is, in part, a working familiarity with the same attitudes, approaches and outlooks that we try to instill in our aspiring 1871
entrepreneurs as a lasting part of their overall experience with us.
As any seasoned
entrepreneur for advice and he or she will likely dip into a well fed by some degree of failure, because people
learn the most when they screw - up.
Instead of running from failure, the
entrepreneur will now embrace failure and apply the lessons
learned so
as to advance.
As an entrepreneur, you will make mistakes, but it's how you learn from them that will define your success as a leade
As an
entrepreneur, you will make mistakes, but it's how you
learn from them that will define your success
as a leade
as a leader.
Cash - strapped but creative
entrepreneurs can
learn how to stretch an operating budget; unearth little - known credit programs; and,
as Johnson and chocolatier D'Aquanni have proved, make a major purchase without even a down payment.
Entrepreneurs and small businesses that want to market themselves see audio podcasting
as an inexpensive, easy - to -
learn cousin of video production.