Mighty Wise Media
Want solid wisdom from over 600 high-impact entrepreneurs? To be exact — 636 of the most successful entrepreneurs and game-changers in America?
Yes, me too.
Jumping at the chance to get a sneak peek at a special report created by two entrepreneurial behemoths in Ernst & Young and the Kauffman Foundation — I quickly found 8 nicely packaged bits of wisdom to share with you.
So much noise in the world. So much chatter.
Most of it sounds like the adults speaking on Charlie Brown: “mwa mwa-mwa mwa mwa”
But sometimes between all the mumbo-jumbo comes ear piercing wisdom. Yes — pure unfiltered advice in search of a landing pad in the brain of startup entrepreneurs.
And so my question when having an audience of rock star entrepreneurs is always this:
“If I were a 20 year old just starting my first business; and you could give me only one piece of advice or wisdom; what would it be?”
Having landed smack dab in the middle of a ton of smart, well heeled entrepreneurs at a recent live event in Scottsdale, Arizona — I asked my question.
Low and behold, 18 entrepreneurs fired off 20 bits of wickedly good advice for all of us.
Let the wisdom begin…
Fresh back from a conference in Scottsdale Arizona — bursting with pearls of wisdom pouring from the veins. Dare I say wisdom that can help you tremendously as an entrepreneur if you will only heed the advice?
So many entrepreneurs; both aspiring and active; walk past solid gold on their way to a chunk of fake silver. Please don’t be one of them.
Soak in these 3 nuggets of wisdom I learned from Internet Entrepreneur Jeff Walker and do something about it, will you?
Salivating at the idea of business ownership?
As an aspiring entrepreneur, you might be scheming in your head on how to jump right over the “startup” part and land right into instant business ownership.
And why not? With thousands of businesses and franchise opportunities for sale, it’s certainly a viable strategy. But a word of caution: If your arms are tightly clutched around this concept and you think you’ve found the perfect opportunity; it might be time to ask yourself one key question first:
Yes — Accounting Can Kill Your Business
Now don’t get me wrong, I love accounting. And I love people in accounting. In my mind, businesses cannot live without bookkeepers, accountants, and all the smart teams who work in this important area. As entrepreneurs, we need these people. Brilliant people. Amazing work. All good.
Okay, is that enough of a butter job? Did I lay it on thick enough? I hope so. My aim is not to ruffle feathers.
However, as a business owner and entrepreneur, you need to know something. Something important. A something that could be killing your company and you don’t even know it.
What is this “something”?
Starting a new business? You might want to avoid these like the plague.
You see — I’ve spent the last 10 months working with hundreds of startup entrepreneurs on their businesses.
And yes — a multitude of problems and roadblocks explode to life in a new startup. But here are the top 7 that can stop an entrepreneur dead in his (or her) tracks:
Picture this: Guy meets girl on Match.com using a picture of his yellow lab puppy; pursues her to no end; ends up walking down the aisle with this gal and together they produce a baby girl to fawn over. So what, right? We’ve heard this story before.
But wait — this story is different. Together, working side by side; these two launch a company on target to generate $9 million in revenue this year.
Here I sit in the forest again. Monday afternoon, 3pm. Bailed from my home office with my wife and headed to our favorite spot down by the river. Put up a tent for nap taking; 2 camp chairs to sit in; and bagged some food to eat at Melvin’s Fir Street Market along the way.
Yes — call me one of those new world “lifestyle” entrepreneurs.
And you? Are you sitting there in your office staring out at the world in frustration wishing you either had your own business to run, or the business you already run wasn’t running you?
The good news is you can have both. Cake and frosting; together on the fork headed to your open mouth.
It sure tastes good.
But how do you get there? Where do you start on the road to entrepreneurial and financial freedom?
Internet Entrepreneur Jeff Walker with Tony Robbins
We’ve all heard of the $6 million dollar man. But what about the $400 million dollar man? Meet Jeff Walker– Internet Entrepreneur Extraordinaire.
Yes — it’s a new day when a common man barely earning enough to scrape by and feed his family can leverage the Internet into an empire responsible for $400 million in sales over a 15 year period.
Yes — Jeff is a common man. Just like me. Just like you.
You see, he is the Founder and CEO of a company called Internet Alchemy, Inc located in a little town in Colorado. Never heard of it, right? Yes — I hadn’t either.
Sitting by a creek discovering the 7 secrets of Click Millionaires
My love for entrepreneurs is fueled by my own passion of being one.
Striving to have the lifestyle I crave wrapped around a business I own is a driving force. My refusal to let a business dictate how I choose to live my life feeds the fire to read as many books as possible on the subject of being a lifestyle entrepreneur.
And you might want to aspire to have the same thing. Isn’t one of the reasons you want to be an entrepreneur fueled by the desire for freedom? Freedom from the tyranny of working for the man? But a tragic truth in the circles of entrepreneurialism and business ownership is the fact many founders are caged animals. Trapped by the very design of their own business.
I say no more my friend.
