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Entrepreneurship
I have been on this entrepreneurial journey for more than twenty years.
Entrepreneurship
So you think you want to be on an entrepreneurship journey? Or perhaps you are just curious about other people who are entprenreneurs.
Entrepreneurship is made to look glamorous and yet on the whole it is not. Most people if you were to ask them, as business owners they are likely you will be living on a very tight budget, rather than driving around in a Tesla.
As they say the road to Entrepreneurship is littered with the carcasses of the ‘hopeful’. It is a lot of hard work however it can be extremely rewarding both financially and emotionally. However, neither of those things is guaranteed. You get to run your own business, and make your own rules as well as build something special from the ground up. But for every Silicon Valley success story there are thousands of people that will never be a true ‘entrepreneur’.
I have found that the best way is to learn from others. I have run many successful entrepreneurial businesses. And I have made plenty of mistakes. In these blog posts I share the ups and the downs. You may want to subscribe to my Monday Xpresso Newsletter so that you can get a weekly dose of motivation.
So let’s get started on your entrepreneurial journey. Be curious, and have fun – reading and learning about being an entrepreneur.
Different ‘Chapters’ to explore – Entrepreneurial blog posts
Turning the performance review on its head
When you hear the term ‘performance review,’ what is your immediate reaction: relish or dread? Is it something that needs to be endured or an exciting opportunity to learn, grow and develop? What if there was a way that you could completely flip the performance...
Shark Tank S2 Episode Thirteen on TEN
Perhaps the producers have saved the best until last - each one of the businesses in this episode has been built for scale. They have significant revenue and are out of the start up phase. All of them have come to seek Shark experience to truly Scale their businesses....
Shark Tank S2 Episode Twelve on TEN
Pentablock - The pitch for this product was instantly impressive - claiming that it is 49x faster than the work of your average stonemason. Pentablock is a unique interlocking vertical construction block system, featuring a patented design, the result of years of...
Shark Tank S2 Episode Eleven on TEN
This is a great episode to observe how co-founders work together - all bar one of the pitches have several people pitching - and Tommy who is the only solo founder tonight is well surrounded by advisors and mentors - some of whom have an equity stake in the business;...
Shark Tank S2 Episode Ten on TEN
This episode is all about customer experience and customer promise - whilst what is presented to us differs vastly in terms of customer groups, markets and audiences - the fundamentals of brand promise remains the same; Does the customer believe that 'you will do what...
Do you never seem to have any cash?
As I walked through the city last week between appointments, I noticed the Big Issue being sold by a regular face that I have seen many times. (The Big Issue is celebrating 20 years of helping people help themselves. It is a social enterprise that supports the...
Why pitching is storytelling with facts
I was asked last week, in an interview as part of the ANZ Business Ready program at #IdeaNation hosted by B-School, what makes a great pitch. Even though a third of my new book Ready To Soar is dedicated to answering that question, I think there is one element that...
Shark Tank S2 Episode Nine on TEN
Shark Tank S2 Episode Nine on TEN Another magical episode of Shark Tank Australia - exploring what it takes to turn an idea into a business. This episode we have many seasoned entrepreneurs that are looking to supercharge their businesses with the...