The Entrepreneur Way

Hyungsoo Kim is a firm believer in the importance of universal design with the goal to co-design innovative products that are accessible and useful to everyone. His team has created an innovative fashion timepiece, The Bradley, that everyone, including the blind, can touch to tell time. “I offer the advice not to go all in. The reason is if you really go all in it will push you to work harder for sure but often times you will not be able to think rationally, you won’t be able to relax and step back to solve unexpected problems you face. And you would often find yourself going for very short-term profits and results. You will lose patience when you need to wait for the right timing to catch something”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hY

Jenn Nicken launched The Chef and The Dish, a globally unique company, which provides private, one-to-one cooking classes live over Skype with chefs around the world. Her unique mission is to connect kitchens, pass down recipes, and bring the world closer, one meal at a time. “if you are going to go for it, go for it. That said be flexible. I’ve seen a lot of business owners spend an enormous amount of money on things at the beginning of their business and they haven’t yet proven their concept yet. And that’s one area where I have seen businesses go out of business before they really get a chance to start. Because they have invested so much money in for example things like building websites… So my advice would be to invest and do the things that you believe you need to do to get up and running but don’t invest so much that it doesn’t allow you to be flexible ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hT

Reid Blackman was gripped by ethical problems the first semester of his first year in college over 20 years ago. Countless hours later, after reading, arguing, and teaching about ethics, he’s still hungry for more. While his early research concerned issues largely contained within the ivory tower, his research has become increasingly action-orientated, particularly as it concerns the ethics of emerging technologies and institutions like governments and corporations. Reid is a Senior Advisor to Ernst & Young and is a Founding Member of EY’s AI Advisory Board. He also sits on the committee for “Methods to Guide Ethical Research and Design” for the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems and is a member of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Alliance. He has taught at Northwestern University, the University of Texas in Austin, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and Colgate University. When he isn’t doing ethics you can find him with his wife and children, unless there’s rock climbing to be done. “I really think it’s important to talk to lots of people and just network your head off. There’s a way of networking that is gross where you just go around asking people what they could do for you. But I think there’s a kind of networking that is on the ethical up and up where you are motivated just as much by curiosity as you are self-interest. And so, you go around meeting people because you are curious to hear what they do and maybe they are in your field or maybe they are in and adjacent field or maybe they can’t help you but you can help them. I just think that stuff is extremely gratifying when you make connections, when you connect people to other people. And then also it could lead to your own welfare because then those people are grateful and then the introduce you to these other people that actually do benefit you. So do not underestimate the power of networking”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hO

Venkates Swaminathan (Swami) is the founder and CEO of LifeLaunchr, the world's first virtual college admissions coaching platform, and a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Swami has been an executive in the education and technology industries for over 25 years. He has a M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. “really think hard and spend time understanding what it is you really want to do and why you want to do this business. There will be lots… No matter what business you start and who the entrepreneur is there will always be times when it just feels difficult. And the thing that keeps you going is not that you want to make money, the thing that keeps you going in all those difficult times is knowing why you started the business. Did you start it because you want to make a difference in the world? Did you start it because you have a particular problem that you are really passionate about solving? So, understanding what problem you are passionate about solving I think that will keep you going through the difficult times… Know what that is and no it deep in your gut. And once you know it the solutions will show up.”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hJ

Kristen David, a former trial lawyer who went from working 85 hours a week and being a slave to her law firm to a successful million-dollar-plus owner who then sold and pivoted into a business coach guru. She empowers business owners to build thriving, profitable businesses that are self-managed. “take the time to get clear on what you want to build. Then build a roadmap quarter by quarter to get you from where you are right now to that point… Build a plan every quarter to make more money until you hit that goal. But at least then you know what you need to do. So, when you have a plan it makes it so much easier to stay at it when you have those rough days, because rough days will come. So my best advice to entrepreneurs is build a plan you believe in and then even on the rough days keep doing the things the plan tells you to do”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hC

Johanna Zlenko is the founder of The Closet Trading Co., an upscale consignment boutique based. Johanna founded this brand while a freshman at University of California Santa Barbara, grew the brand to 4 successful locations, and is now looking to expand nationally. “we are our own worst enemy. We tell ourselves we are not enough, capable enough, knowledgeable enough, outgoing enough, strong enough, smart enough. But the truth is that everyone feels that way at one point or another. And to succeed as entrepreneurs we have to push through those doubts. We have to get up, get dressed, put on a brave face even when we don’t feel like it because at the end of the day like I said the people who make it, the people that succeed are the ones who actually execute on their dreams, on their ideas”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hy

Arti Bedi Pullins is a strategic, data-driven entrepreneur with deep experience in business strategy, product innovation and digital marketing. As the founder and CEO of Pundit Consultantz, Arti helps clients in the healthcare, medtech and emerging technologies industries to drive innovation and rapidly expand into new markets and channels. “as an entrepreneur it tends to be a very emotional journey. You are doing something you are very passionate about; you are very close to; you are obviously taking a big risk. So, you have to be bold, strong, obviously a risk-taking but try not to be illogical more importantly arrogant especially early on when you start to see success… Always remember to sit next to your customer not across from them. And I don’t mean that in a physical sense when you are in a conference room I truly mean if you visualise that any time you are in a setting and you have two people sitting next to each other and conversing and talking in ideated and working together versus two people sitting across the table from each other and working – there is a clear difference there in partnership, collaboration and what the person across the table is trying to do”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hu

Michelle Barr is a Business Coach, Mindset Mentor, and Author of From Calling to Cash, helping Spiritual Entrepreneurs turn their life’s calling into a profitable business they love. She turned her own expensive hobby into a full-time profitable business, took it online, and built a thriving global business. …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7ho

David Thomas Tao is an entrepreneur, editor, and voice actor based in New York City. David is the Co-Founder and Editor of BarBend.com, an media brand that provides multi-platform coverage of news, analysis, training, and opinion in strength training and sports. One of the largest and fastest-growing fitness sites on the web, BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting and is also a partner broadcaster for the 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games. David is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list maker for Media. A veteran of the health & fitness industry, he has nearly a decade of experience building and running editorial teams in the space. “start it and don’t be afraid to fail… Just begin. If you don’t make it no one is going to buy it. You are not going to get it right the first time. You may not ever get it 100% right but few businesses do and they still become massive runaway successes. So just start something. Start something small, don’t be afraid to start it small. Don’t be afraid to have one customer and to have one customer for a year that’s still a customer and you can still learn a lot from them. The best time to start it was 20 years ago, the second best time is now. Get started on something because the best way to learn is by doing”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hk

Rytis Lauris is the co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, the powerful marketing automation platform that’s focused on the omnichannel approach. He believes that rich customer data empowers eCommerce businesses to generate more sales by sending highly personalized messages via channels like email, SMS, Facebook, Google retargeting, etc. Omnisend has become a top-rated app in the Shopify App Store. “start doing now. Whatever that means. Either starting your business, either some new ideas, how to improve your product, how to improve your service. If sometimes you think okay now I need to nail this, and I have to do that, and blah blah, and get ready for that, so you had better start now and then you are going to improve”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-7hg