Most people in their 20s and 30s believe this time period is for finding their grand business idea or discovering what they’re going to do for the rest of their life.
I think this is the wrong question to ask and can be detrimental if the right questions aren’t asked. Here are the things one should consider at this stage in life.
On this episode of The EnTRUEpreneurship Podcast, Wes speaks with Dr. Rob Douk, whose resume is extensive and whose story is truly remarkable. Dr. Douk is the founder and chairman of Behavioral Health Works (BHW), co-founder of the global non-profit organization Hope Out Loud, founder of healthcare software company ClinicSoft, and founder of Douk & Co., a growth investment firm focusing on social entrepreneurship. Douk is also an acclaimed author.
This week on The EnTRUEpreneurship Podcast, Wes talks with Jillian Bridgette Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of Virtual Health Partners (VHP). VHP is an online wellness mobile platform that partners with wellness specialists to offer patients a one-stop-shop for appointment scheduling, live classes, nutritional advice, wellness plans, and much more.
Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed meeting and interviewing entrepreneurs who have built various types of businesses. This is how they’ve answered the question of whether or not to scale their business.
Focus and discipline are admirable traits that are becoming rarer in today’s noisy and fast-paced environment. For entrepreneurs who tend to move quickly, it’s important to know what areas of opportunity require undivided attention.
Here are a few lessons I’ve learned from guests on The EnTRUEpreneurship Podcast who seem to manage it all.
Here are a few lessons I’ve learned from guests on The EnTRUEpreneurship Podcast and how they manage it all.
On this week’s EnTRUEpreneurship podcast, we welcome Wade Barnes, CEO and co-founder of Farmers Edge, a leading precision agronomy firm that offers integrated data solutions to farmers to increase their yields. From a humble family farm in rural Manitoba, Canada, Barnes and co-founder, Curtis MacKinnon have grown Farmers Edge to become one of the world’s leading ag-tech firms, with an estimated revenue of $75MM in 2018. Farmers Edge’s processes are used on nearly 25 million acres of crops – more land mass than the entire country of South Korea.
As they say, perfection is the enemy of progress. So how should we, as entrepreneurs, handle screw ups early on in starting a business? I’m sharing my personal recent experience with my mistakes while launching the EnTRUEpreneurship Podcast.
This week, on the EnTRUEpreneurship podcast, we welcome Debra Wetherby, CEO and founder of Wetherby Asset Management, one of the leading independent investment advisory firms in the United States, with over $4 billion in assets under management. Since starting her company in 1990 Deb has been recognized as a Top 100 Women Advisors by Barron’s and has been named a “Woman to Watch” by InvestmentNews.
Deb is joined by Justina Lai, Wetherby’s Director of Impact Investing. Listen in as she and Deb discuss the values that differentiate their company from others in the business of providing objective financial advice, how that philosophy guides the day-to-day operations of their business, and how being different is ultimately a good thing.
On this week’s EnTRUEpreneurship podcast, we welcome Brendon Schrader, Founder and CEO of marketing and consulting firm Antenna. After stints in the corporate world (including 3M and the NBA) Schrader grew his company from a one-man operation to an Inc. 5,000-listed firm with over $10 million in revenue and a pool of talented experts at-the-ready to handle clients’ marketing and leadership needs.
Brendon, a former Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, shares what it’s like to scale a company while starting a family, what it takes to leave a comfortable corporate career and the future of the gig economy.
The beginning of an entrepreneurial journey is always pretty lonesome. Most entrepreneurs like thinking about the future, which makes living in the present disappointing at times.
Without the desired traction, how does one push through the hard early days of building a business?