Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Dru Riley, the founder of Trends.vc. Now, a few years ago, Dru did what many of us would love to do, he quit his nine to five and just traveled and took a sabbatical for years. He learned about himself. He learned about what made him tick, and eventually, he decided it was time to get back to work. He tried a few different startups and Trends.vc is one that's now thriving. They're a newsletter business model with about 50,000 subscribers, which provides reports on all different areas that are interesting to entrepreneurs and they can use to grow and accelerate their learning. Dru has a very structured way of thinking and he is all about being concise and you'll see that in this interview as he gives off value bomb after value bomb.We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Trends Website: https://join.trends.vc/Dru’s LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drurly/Dru’s Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/drurlyKeynotes:Introduction (0:00)What could I stick with? (2:08)“Path dependent” (6:48)People appreciate concise content (10:34)The idea of opportunity cost and competing with people (13:57)Predictions (16:42)Tools that Dru believes in (20:46)Setting a target and setting up systems (21:55)Short and long-term solutions (23:20)Bringing more focus and delegating (26:08)Design thinking (28:00)Means of self-improvement (29:35)Visionaries and Integrators (31:17)The A.E.D.O. process (34:47)The target (39:41)

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today’s guest is Nihal Mehta, the founder of Eniac Ventures. They invest in bold leaders who use code to create transformational companies. They especially focus on seed rounds and early-stage companies.Before becoming a venture capitalist, Nihal created 5 companies himself. Some of these went bankrupt and others were acquired for millions of dollars. So he’s seen the full range of what can happen at start-up and used these experiences to help many other founders. He is a strong believer in helping founders from underrepresented backgrounds and he does this through the initiatives such as ‘The 100k Pledge’ and through his wife’s initiatives such as ‘Girls Who Code’ and ‘Marshall Plan for Moms’.It was a real pleasure to chat with Nihal today. We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Eniac Ventures website: https://eniac.vc/Nihal’s LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nihalmehta/Nabil's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/nihalmehtaKeynotes:Introduction (0:00)The first company and staring failure in the face (1:47)Bouncing back  (7:20)Inspiring moments and mentors (11:21)People are attracted to cooler things (15:15)The switch (18:25)Creating structure and getting better every day (24:03)Resilience and creativity (28:55)“Convince me that you are the only team to pull this off.”  (31:07)Fail fast first (33:30)

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guests are Mark Tilbury and Curtis Tilbury who run multiple businesses and make millions of dollars per year. They built the Mark Tilbury brand which has 7 million TikTok subscribers, over 1 million on YouTube and hundreds of thousands elsewhere. They want to help their audience to strike it big and become wealthy because they believe too many people are set up to fail. You can learn their stories and their best advice throughout this episode.It was a delight to record with them and we're sure you'll love this episode. Make sure to subscribe and share! Follow us at https://entrepreneurshandbook.co.Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/LikeFatherLikeSonPodcast/featuredMark TilburyWebsite: https://marktilbury.com/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@marktilbury YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkTilburyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/marktilbury/Curtis:TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@curtistilbury?lang=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/curtistilburyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/curtistilbury/?hl=en

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Jason Yanowitz. The founder and CEO of Blockworks. It’s a financial media company that has grown rapidly since its inception in 2018. They have over 50 employees and run an editorial site, a newsletter, and multiple podcasts - which now have the biggest podcast network in the cryptocurrency space. He also hosts massive live events such as Permissionless which had over 7,000 attendees.Jason is a massive expert in the Blockchain space so I’m really excited to share this podcast with you and to share his thoughts on the future of crypto-currency and how he built his business and the risks he took. Blockworks website: https://blockworks.co/Jason’s LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanowitzjason/Jason’s Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/JasonYanowitzKeynotes:Introduction (0:00)The entrepreneurial journey (1:41)Creating something out of nothing (3:59)Failure is not an option (6:49)Ride the industry down with it or be successful (8:54)The “us versus them” mentality (12:32)Problems and opportunities (16:25)The gateway to the more complicated side (19:37)All about Permisionless (23:24)People don’t follow companies, they follow people (26:23)The next growing stage and changing something (28:28)Social media following (31:26)The team (37:43)Being more candid with feedback (44:14)Improvements (46:47)

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today’s guest is Nabil Borhanu who is the founder of Graphene Ventures. They invested in both Snap and Lyft before their IPOs. He’s got a very interesting background having grown up in Saudi Arabia. He worked his way up by starting multiple companies and running divisions worth over $100 million dollars with massive clients like Saudi Telecom.One day, circumstances changed and he then left Saudi to go all the way to America to start afresh. For a time, he wasn’t sure if that move was right or not but today, he’s investing in companies all across the world. Especially focusing on how they can penetrate the middle eastern market.We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Graphene website: https://www.graphenevc.com/Nabil’s LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabilalnoor/Nabil's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/NabilAlnoorKeynotes:Introduction (0:00)The early years as an investor and his biggest lesson (1:51) You only know what you know (11:14)The hard reset (26:12)Taking a chance (32:56)Building the momentum (39:12)Breaking into the middle east market (47:10)The ups and downs of entrepreneurs (48:38)Common mistakes (50:51)

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Justin Welsh. He’s got massive audiences on both LinkedIn and Twitter. He started by working on start-ups where he helped build two companies to 50 million in annual recurring revenue. He also helped businesses raise over  300 million in venture capital but along this path, he burnt out and that’s where the flip to becoming a creator.He is now making millions per year with a high-profit margin and his goal is to build a portfolio of one-person businesses to five million in revenue. We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Justin’s website: https://www.justinwelsh.me/Justin’s LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinwelsh/Justin's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/thejustinwelshKeynotes:Introduction (0:00)Talking about lack of control and the switch (1:18)“I didn’t know what it was like to run my own business.” (6:19)Spending time on what gives you energy (9:04)Eliminate. Automate. Delegate. (11:03)New and unique channels (15:32)Derisking your situation as an entrepreneur (20:12)Talking about failures, mistakes, and trying out new things (22:08)Hybrid work and relationships (27:19)An indicator of success (34:23)Starting from the bottom and working all the way to the top (36:12)"Become known for something.” - Justin (39:56)

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world. Today's guest is Vasu Prathipati, the founder of MaestroQA. Vasu didn’t have an easy journey to where he is today. He struggled to get a job after University and then build a business that for many years didn’t quite seem that it was ever going to take off. Now they’ve got over 31 million in funding. Their clients are Monday.com and Class Pass where they are changing the face of customer service for these businesses which makes them more effective in their industries. We hope you enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.MaestroQA website: https://www.maestroqa.com/Vasu’s LinkedIn Account: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasuprathipati/Vasu's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/vasu_prathipatiKeynotes:Introduction (0:00)Choosing this life and lessons learned (1:34)Handling feedback (7:44)The pivotal moment and the right path (10:49)The founding team (17:52)Moments of failure and success (23:23)Having different roles of people in your life (25:48)Growth projection (31:51)Reinventing and reimagining (35:24)Biggest learning opportunities (39:37)Better than the competition (41:28)The company, the people product, and the culture (43:03)

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Greg Jackson, the founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. He's one of our favorite guests ever! He's a serial entrepreneur who has run multiple successful businesses while believing strongly in doing the right thing. His current company Octopus Energy was founded in 2016 and is already worth $5bn with $6bn in revenue and 3100 employees. They grew so fast by carving out technological advantages over their competitors. Remarkably they don't have an HR department and have pledged £50m to help households struggling during the energy crisis. We hope enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Follow Greg on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/g__j?lang=en Follow Octopus Energy on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/octopusenergy Follow Octopus Energy on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/octopusenergy/Listen to the Octopus Energy podcast: https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/ Octopus Energy: https://octopus.energy/

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Sam King a.k.a Sam King FTW. He started a YouTube channel aged just 16 which blew up and supported his lifestyle for several years with 160k followers. He realized he loved the marketing side of his channel the most so then started up his own marketing agency. Now he's a Co-Founder of Flick.Tech, a SaaS product for creators and businesses to help them grow faster on social media. They currently have $3M+ ARR. All this and he's only 25! We hope enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samkingftwFlick.tech: https://www.flick.tech/

Inspirational stories plus practical takeaways from the entrepreneurship world.Today's guest is Dickie Bush who you might know from Twitter where he has amassed 200k followers in just over 2 years. He started writing online as he realized his corporate career with Blackrock isn't where he wanted his life to go. After 9 months of struggle, he finally had a breakthrough, and ever since he's been helping others through Ship30for30 with Nicolas Cole. He's also released TypeShare, a SaaS product to make it easier for online bloggers to publish on multiple platforms. He only went full-time 6 weeks ago so we've caught him at a turning point in his already successful career. We hope enjoy the episode and don't forget to share it with others. You can learn more at http//www.entrepreneurshandbook.co.Find out more about Dickie: https://www.dickiebush.com/Follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dickiebushFollow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickiebush/Start Writing Online: https://startwritingonline.com/Ship30for30: https://www.ship30for30.com/TypeShare: https://typeshare.co/