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January 13, 2016
Are you an Entrepreneur?
Are you an entrepreneur? If so, you are one of the rising billion – the fastest growing economic sector in history.
In the 1950′s, the rise of corporations and the middle class grew to several 100 million, when the world had a population of 2.5 billion.
Today, there’s 7 billion of us, and in the 1st 20 years of the new 21st Century entrepreneurs are growing from 4% to 12% of the population.
We’ve grown from less than 200 million in 2000, to over 400 million today, to 1 billion by 2020 – this...
It’s launch day! Here’s your link
It’s here! For the last 2 months we’ve been building up to today – Our World Tour Launch Day.
This is the biggest launch in our history: Join our entire 2016 calendar of Fast Forward your Business Events in one 12 month festival of international entrepreneurship. This event series is already the No. 1 Entrepreneur Event in the world, and today it gets much better.
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It’s never too late to succeed
John Pemberton invented Coca-Cola when he was 55 years old.
Ray Kroc bought McDonald’s when he was 59 years old.
Colonel Sanders began franchising KFC at 62 years old.
Tim & Nina Zagat were 51 yr old lawyers when they wrote the 1st Zagat guide.
Charles Darwin was 50 years old before he wrote “On the Origin of Species”.
Julia Child was also 50 years olf when she wrote her first cookbook.
Henry Ford was 45 years old when he created the Model T car. Microfinance pioneer, Muhammad Yunus, launched...
January 7, 2016
Are you getting older or newer?
Are you getting older or newer? The answer
The answer lies in the Upgrade Paradox: Version 2 is always both older and newer than Version 1.
In past times, before regular upgrades, a product or a person would simply get older. Each year, whether you liked it or not, you’d age by another year.
Today, with regular upgrades, the latest version of Adidas or Apple or Adele is newer than last year’s, even though the brand is older.
This upgrade paradox first struck me when I heard my friend, Lynne...
January 5, 2016
The difference between mindful vs mindless failure
My 8 favourite famous failures. Thomas Edis
My 8 favourite famous failures.
Thomas Edison was told by his teachers that he was “too stupid to learn anything.”
Oprah Winfrey was fired from her first job as a television reporter and told she was “unfit for tv.”
Walt Disney was fired from his first newspaper job because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”
Henry Ford went broke 5 times before finally creating the Ford Model T when he was 45 years old.
While first writing Harry Potter, J....
January 3, 2016
What’s in store for 2016?
What’s in store for 2016? It’s the Chin
What’s in store for 2016? It’s the Chinese Year of the Monkey! I was born in 1968 so I’m a Monkey, along with Elizabeth Taylor, Will Smith, Tom Hanks, Mick Jagger and Leonardo Da Vinci.
In Chinese mythology, Monkeys are metal & water creatures. Metal is connected to gold and water is connected to wisdom and danger. So this is a year of financial events and – as it’s a Red (fire) Monkey year – that means dramatic financial events (which could be positive...
December 31, 2015
3 best steps for the new year
Happy New Year! I hope you had a fantastic end to the year, and are looking forward to a big year ahead. On behalf of all of us at Entrepreneurs Institute, I wish you a super-successful and fulfilling year ahead.
Here’s a New Year message from me in Singapore, with my top 3 tips to ensure you have the very best year ahead. I use these same 3 steps each year to ensure I have a year in flow.
Watch the video: 3 best steps for the new year<<
This yea...
<<December 30, 2015
Startup 101: Start faster and get going smarter
Startup 101: You just need 1) a great idea, 2) money, 3) marketing, right?
Just ask Brian Chesky, Billionaire CEO & Co-founder of AirBnB, who will tell you… err… the exact opposite.
Brian says of AirBnB: “It wasn’t supposed to be the big idea – it was supposed to be a way to pay the rent while we thought up the big idea.”
That was back in 2007, when Brian and AirBnB co-founder, Joe Gebbia, were broke and trying to figure out how to make rent. They decided to try and cash in on an upcoming des...
December 28, 2015
What’s the best way to think differently in 2016?
What’s the best way to think differently in 2016? This inspiring video on “moonshot thinking” featuring Astro Teller (Captain of Moonshots) and theGoogleX team says it best.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead
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December 26, 2015
Be the change to see the change
This is a photo of a young buddhist monk being evacuated from the Himalayas in May 2015.
It’s easy to forget the earthquake and humanitarian outpouring that happened in Nepal this year, because it’s easier to remember 2015 for other things.
It’s easier to remember 2015 for the terrorist attacks in Paris, and for ISIS, and Putin in Ukraine and Syria, and Donald Trump everywhere. It’s easier to remember 2015 for the crisis in Greece and the scandal in FIFA. It’s easier to remember 2015 for Steve...
