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A fellow entrepreneur once said to me fail often, but fail fast. The idea behind this being that we learn the most from our failures, which only make us that much more likely to succeed the next time around as entrepreneurs rarely succeed on the first try.  By failing fast, you learn a lot, but also minimize your costs, time, and lost of resources in the process.  Recently, Adam Savage of the popular TV show Mythbusters gave a speech on the topic of failure highlighting his (many) failures throughout his career to get to where he is today.  Whether your a fan or not of the show (I am), there is no denying the success of Adam from Mythbusters.  Failure is a common topic in the entrepreneur space and knowing how to work with it a crucial to any entrepreneurs’ success.  Adam brings up many good points that any entrepreneur can apply to their own life and goals.  See for yourself!


Run Time: 1 hour (w/ Q&A at the end)

I’m currently in the process of reading the Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss and actually almost done for that matter (book review coming soon!).  I have featured Tim Ferriss on this site in the past for various entrepreneur related topics (The Entrepreneur Spotlight: Tim Ferriss).  He is a pretty interesting guy who has found one path to entrepreneur success inspiring many others to do the same.  The other day I came across this in-depth interview with Tim where he discusses in good detail some of his past businesses and how he built his own business from the ground up.  It’s a great interview worth the watch and pretty recent.  Check it out and don’t forget to leave a comment before you go.


Run time: 54 min

Gary Vaynerchuk is an interesting recent high-profile entrepreneur.  Some people seem to love him while others find is in your face personality to be a little too intense.  Either way though, it doesn’t change the fact that Gary is a successful entrepreneur by any standard who was able to turn his parent’s small wine business into a multimillion dollar per year business.


As I discussed here a few weeks ago (The Entrepreneur Spotlight: Gary Vaynerchuk), Gary has since gone onto publish a book and become a motivational speaker for hopeful future entrepreneurs.  In the interview below, Vaynerchuk offers some good advice to anyone looking to start their own business and provides some insight into what he feels helped to make him such a success.

Making money online is something many of us as entrepreneurs aim to do.  Pat Flynn was an Architect who lost his job a little a little over a year ago.  Being down on his luck, he decided to give entrepreneurship with very little background in the area.  Over the course of the next year he was able to generate over $200,000 in sales from his small online business.  Pat now works full time on his business as an entrepreneur with no plans of ever going back to the daily 9-5 workweek.  I’ll let Pat himself tell you all about it from how he did it (step-by-step) to what you can do to have the same success as Flynn. More »

Becoming a successful entrepreneur is no easy task, but it is something that can be very rewarding when achieved.  Often times it can be hard for upcoming entrepreneurs to get their idea off the ground, which is why talking with already successful entrepreneurs is such a great resource for anyone interested in starting their own business.   This week I had the privilege to sit down with serial entrepreneur Alex Lawrence who has launched several successful businesses and currently lives the entrepreneur lifestyle.  Read on to see just how he did it and what valuable advice he has for any upcoming entrepreneur who wants to do the same! More »