The Entrepreneur Way

Josh Segal is the founder and CEO of AdLoop, an ad-tech platform which allows brands to wield the power of programmatic digital advertising through the same technology employed by Fortune 500 companies. Using location behavior to create, target, and analyze audiences and provide deep customer insights. “just stay persistent, nothing is going to be handed to you, and you kind of learn that the hard way. Money doesn’t grow on trees and nothing is going to be handed to you. So just be persistent and stay strong in your mind that what you are doing is something you believe in, and then work hard at it and it will lead to good things ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Yc

Brian Marcel is a pioneer of barcodes and the first to start joint ventures in the former Eastern Bloc after the fall of Communism. His book Raise the Bar Change the Game acts a primer to help budding entrepreneurs change the game as he did. “Well all these things I have mentioned really. Self belief, being positive, eliminate naysayers, not to get stuck with finding original ideas, perseverance, all of those good things. And just start the business, try not to look for excuses not to do it because you will love it. Because if you are looking to start a business you obviously hate being managed by anybody or reporting to anybody. You are if free spirit, a loner so go and spread your wings, fulfil your dreams. And what difference does it make if you fail. You know the number of times I have failed… Just pick yourself up, start again. You are so young - go for it.” (4 Lines minimum – if less then need more quotes) …[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Y8

Dan Hill, Ph.D., is the president of Sensory Logic, Inc. and an internationally recognized expert on the role of emotions in business, politics, and sports. His innovative market research firm pioneered the use of facial coding and has done work for over half of the world's top 100 B2C companies. “work hard and be humble… The work hard is you have got to have some vision about the offer. And the humble thing goes back to your question earlier about changes going to come, how are you going to deal with it? Getting smug isn’t going to work, nobody buys smugness, they buy that you can help solve their problems. As my father said early on first of all never perjur yourself always be honest, the second thing is that your customers are going to tell you what business you are in – and they will, so listen. The more you talk in a business meeting the less well the business meeting is going”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Y1

Brian Rhea is an entrepreneur who grew up watching his mom and dad grow their business from a desk in the kitchen, to the garage, to a new office building in his hometown. Brian has been building websites since 1994. He has used Photoshop 3.0 on a Macintosh Quadra 650 and wrote code in BBEdit for Netscape Navigator.The point is: He has been doing this for a while. He has had enough successes (executive member of an eight-figure acquisition) and made plenty of mistakes to have learned a thing or two about building successful businesses online. Knowing how to build something is easy compared to knowing what to build. The customer-centric (Jobs to Be Done) approach Brian uses will ensure you won’t waste time chasing bad ideas. With years of experience navigating the competing priorities of engineering, product, sales and customer support, he likes to help companies ship profitable software. “build up savings to give you a margin for failure because you will fail along the way. Things are going to come up that you can’t control. Just go for it is really terrible advice and just increases the likelihood that you will have to give up on your dreams. So yeah be bold. Going into business yourself is already very very bold, you are already being brave. But be thoughtful and patient about it beforehand so that when you do make this leap you have actually more room to to be even more daring, more crazy, more risky”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6XV

Ran Poliakine is a serial entrepreneur and founder of several different technology and health-related companies.The common denominator in each of his endeavors is a love for modern technology and a desire to alleviate suffering. Ran’s philosophy is to find new ways to use technology to solve real life problems. Each of his endeavors -from using technology to hydrate Africa or devising a technological solution to eradicating bedsores and even devising a new, easier way for the visually impaired to communicate via written text -hasbeen a labor of love enabled by technology. “I think my best advise because life is very very short is follow your heart, do only what you like, don’t work with people that give you bad vibes, focus on what you are trying to do and enjoy the ride”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6XR

Leigh Ashton is the author of “iSell” a speaker, trainer and coach. She has been working with business owners and sales professionals for over 20 years to change the way they think about sales. Once people change their thinking on the inside, they develop unshakeable self-belief and confidence to achieve consist sales success. “just do it, just decide what you want and then go for it and don’t let anything get in your way”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6XM

Warren Bravo is the co-founder and CEO of Green Relief: a licenced producer devoted to bringing innovation and social responsibility to the medical cannabis field through the use of aquaponics. By combining aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (soil-less plant growth), aquaponics organically simulates a balanced ecosystem in which plants can thrive. After graduating from Mohawk College in Hamilton, Warren became the third-generation of Bravo to join the family business - Bravo Cement Contracting. By the early 1990s, Bravo had climbed from journeyman cement finisher to company president, leading the business to become the largest concrete floor finishing company in Canada and building a worldwide presence. In 2013, Bravo took a leap of faith, leaving Bravo Cement to establish Green Relief Inc. with co-founder Steve LeBlanc. Their mission: help patients improve their quality of life while furthering the science of medical cannabis and sustainable agriculture around the world. “I had a lot of challenges with waiting for answers from our governing body which is health Canada. As I mentioned earlier I am kind of a take the bull by the horns and get it done type of personality. And so I was used to the construction industry and had gratification and getting things done by me making phone calls and me making things happen on job sites. And so that was gratification for me because I was the master of my own destiny and now in this new industry there’s waiting for health Canada to give me an answer which would take 30 to 60 days in a question that I had about some of our production activities. That was a big personal learning curve for me, and learning patients in something that I have never had to be dictated to in my businesses previously”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6XH

Willie Degel is a serial entrepreneur, motivational speaker, founder & CEO of Uncle Jack’s and Jack’s Shack restaurants, and host of Restaurant Stakeout on The Food Network. Born on September 1, 1967 in Queens, NY, William Jack Degel demonstrated his entrepreneurial skills early on when he helped with family finances by operating multiple newspaper routes and other service ventures “you have got to make everyone around you better, you have got surround yourself with good passionate people - hungry, eager, trustworthy. You have got to build a bond with them, you have got to create a family. They need to know that you are real, that you will go to war for them when they are on your team. You have got to get the most out of them, you have got to inspire them, you have got to pay them well, you have got to make them happy. So building your winning team is everything. Then as an entrepreneur being willing to take risk , willing to be different, willing to fail, having patience to let the brand grow and to get the customers to come in ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6XA

P. Brendon Lundberg, a previous chronic pain suffer, co-founded Radiant Pain Relief Centres, along with David Farley, MD, a Harvard-MIT trained physician, with a vision to build the safest, most consistently effective and appealing solution to the epidemic of chronic pain. Their story and vision for the future of pain management can be understood by reading their Amazon Bestselling book, Radiant Relief - A Case For A Better Solution To Chronic Pain. Inc. Magazine called the book, “A Manifesto” and “an epic example of how to create a movement”. “get in action. There is never a perfect time, there is never a perfect amount of money or circumstance and there is never going to be anybody that believes in the way that you believe in it. So if you have in your heart or in your minds some idea do it, start it, put it in action. You might not have total clarity as to how it’s going to unfold or what is going to do what it can become but that’s okay. That clarity comes through the activity. I say just getting action, make it happen and you will be glad you did”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Xv

Passionate philanthropist, speaker and entrepreneur, Deborah Harris is co-founder of the Grow CFO Co. - a company specialising in growing the financial capabilities of purpose driven businesses. A dedicated number nerd and mother of 5 with an enormous capacity to uplift others through her strategic thinking and quirky sense of humour… “invest some time in thinking bigger, thinking what you could do that is going to push boundaries, that’s going to 10x your business and gives you the opportunity to look down from above on what your business is doing so that you can actually work out is this something that I’m proud to be part of? Is this something has a great product, a great culture, a great compensation package for my employees. Have I got a great commitment to do better in the world? And just invest that time for your own inspiration to see if that’s actually still ticking the box to work towards your vision ”…[Listen for More] Click Here for Show Notes To Listen or to Get the Show Notes go to https://wp.me/p6Tf4b-6Xo