Roger James Hamilton's Blog, page 10
August 4, 2016
How do you keep up with the cutting edge of entrepreneurship?
How do you keep up with the cutting edge of entrepreneurship?
While Facebook gives many great posts to share, Twitter gives the train of consciousness of many of the World’s top entrepreneurs in real-time.
Following their tweets and using Twitter as a receiver more than a broadcaster is one of the best entrepreneur educations you can get.
Here are 25 of the most followed entrepreneurs on Twitter:
1) OPRAH WINFREY (33.3M followers)
2) BILL GATES (29.8M followers)
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August 2, 2016
Chen Dongshen’s 24 year journey to success
What do you do when you can’t afford the original? You could take a tip from Art-lover, Chen Dongshen who – 24 years after copying Auction House, Sotheby’s – has this week become its biggest shareholder.
Almost 30 years ago, in 1987, Dongsheng saw news of the Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting auctioned for $39.9 million in London. It made history at the time by tripling the world record price tag for a painting.
As he remembers, “The images of the auction on television seemed inconceiv...
July 28, 2016
How a near-death experience became worth $2 billion
How a near-death experience became worth $2 billion:
What would you do if you survived a major plane crash in a 747? William Wang closed down his business, reassessed his life, and started anew. 16 years later, he’s been rewarded for that decision with the $2 billion sale of his company, Vizio, today to LeEco, the “Netflix of China”.
On Halloween night in 2000, Singapore Airlines Flight 006 took a wrong turning at Taiwan’s Chiang Kai-shek Airport during a typhoon. The plane took off on a runw...
July 25, 2016
What is your mission?
What is your mission? All the most successful and fastest growing companies are not centred around a product, but a mission. Because missions create movements.
Here are 16 billion dollar mission statements that grew into 16 billion dollar companies:
FACEBOOK: “To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”
GOOGLE: “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
UBER: “Transportation as reliable as running water, everywhere f...
July 21, 2016
Can one viral video lead you to a billion dollars?
Can one viral video lead you to a billion dollars? That’s what has happened to startup entrepreneur, Michael Dubin, who just sold his company, dollarshaveclub.com, to Unilever today for $1 billion.
It was 4 years ago that Michael was struggling with his new startup. The idea was simple – to sell razors online for a dollar a month (an idea he came up with at a party with his partner, Mark Levine).
So they threw their life savings into the idea, and worked for 2 years to try and get things goin...
What was Sophie’s incredible journey to success?
Who can take credit for most of the microprocessors in our mobile phones today? The answer is Sophie Wilson, born Roger Wilson. Her ARM chip design has been installed in over 50 billion devices. This week, ARM Holdings is being bought by Softbank for $32 billion.
What was Sophie’s incredible journey to success?
1) YOUR 1st CUSTOMER
It began with the creation of her first product – an electronic cow feeder for a farmer in Harrogate. It attracted the interest of fellow Cambridge student, Herman...
July 19, 2016
How long does it take to create an overnight success?
How long does it take to create an overnight success? For John Hanke it’s taken him 20 years to create Pokémon Go.
This week, the Pokémon Go app has broken all records, with 10 million+ downloads in the first week, exceeding Twitter in daily active users, and with higher average user time than Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram & WhatsApp.
How did John Hanke create such a massive overnight craze? Here’s the 10 times he levelled up in his lifetime to reach Pokémon Go:
1st Level up: In 1996, while s...
July 18, 2016
How many of these top 10 entrepreneur habits do you have today?
“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” ~ John C Maxwell
How many of these top 10 entrepreneur habits do you have today? What good habits can you start and what bad habits can you stop to change your results tomorrow?
1) Create a routine – Set a rhythm to connect to the big 5 P’s every day: Purpose (why?), Products (what?), People (who?), Processes (when?), Productivity (how?)
2) Keep the mornings fo...
July 15, 2016
In the last week Pokémon Go has become the biggest mobile game in US history
In the last week Pokémon Go has become the biggest mobile game in US history, and is now set to overtake Snapchat and Google Maps in daily mobile users.
A few days ago I wrote a post on John Hanke’s 20 year journey to create Pokémon Go. Some people asked “what about the creator of Pokémon?” which is a great question. Because Satoshi Tajiri’s story is even more extraordinary than John Hanke’s.
This year Pokémon is 20 years old, and it’s easy to think it was always a success. But the truth is t...
July 8, 2016
Success isn’t earned by those who deserve most, but those who serve most.
The top 7 excuses on the road to success:
“I’m not good enough.”
Reality: There are people not as smart, talented or experienced as you who got started and are already ahead of you.
“I don’t have the time.”
Reality: Success doesn’t come from having time. It comes from making time.
“I don’t have the money.”
Reality: You don’t need money to make money. You need a mission. Then deliver value to those who have the money.
“I don’t know the right people.”
Reality: You can change who you know and wh...
