Age for an entrepreneur, how old are startup entrepreneurs? Are you too old or too young? A constant question always seems to be: “How old should I be? Am I too old?” I have a few surprises for you, both with examples, and some survey material. Many Famous Startup Entrepreneurs began Later in Life First, let me give you a few examples. Ray Kroc, Founder of McDonald’s franchise, you may have heard, he didn’t start. Actually, he met the McDonald’s brothers when he was 52 years of age and that’s … [Read more...] about 94 – Startup Entrepreneurs – Older than Thought
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93 – Overcoming Adversity; Aaron Curry’s Plateau & Breakthrough
We’ve discussed many different topics. Here is a great real life example of overcoming adversity, which bring many topics together. This particular episode and its example brings in many different pieces that we’ve had in the past and shows a great example of goals, ensuring the drive to succeed; hitting a plateau, striving and obtaining super success – all of the things that most of us want to do. This also is why and where we stop. Aaron Curry, one of the top linebackers entering NFL ever. … [Read more...] about 93 – Overcoming Adversity; Aaron Curry’s Plateau & Breakthrough
92 – Leadership and Leadership Styles – Become one in Your Niche
I want to talk about leadership. Often you hear and you see a lot of things for leadership training or how to be a leader, etc. Just like everything else, just like in business you have many alternatives. There are many different types of leaders that have been incredibly successful in life. What I want to do is go over some of the differences. I’m going to point you in the direction of a particular blog post that was done that really does a nice job of showing the differences with some … [Read more...] about 92 – Leadership and Leadership Styles – Become one in Your Niche
91 – Get Business Advice – Easiest Way for Business Information
I want to talk about getting business advice. Actually it could even be considered getting advice for life, life advice. Before I get into the episode I want to remind everybody that I’ve always said over and over again how you can learn from anybody and everything. I’ve given examples of how birds and other animals sometimes know how to raise their young better than we do. Why? Because they raise them to survive. Taken that little intro in light, ignore the person, but I want to talk … [Read more...] about 91 – Get Business Advice – Easiest Way for Business Information
90 – Feel the Customer – Be the Customer
This episode is about feeling as the customer or to 'be the customer'. This is apparently very difficult for people, but we all know and have wonderful experiences as a customer. How come we can’t reverse it and feel so well by being the customer that’s in front of us or around us to have them have the feeling that they want to do business with us? At the end, I’m going to give a few examples of some good companies and one person as well. You can't understand customer perception without actually … [Read more...] about 90 – Feel the Customer – Be the Customer