The story of the Issa brothers Created by the author — original image from EOY_UK You’ve probably never heard of the Issa brothers but they are worth over $4bn each and together they run The EG Group. The picture shows them smiling after winning EY’s Entrepreneurs of Year award. All this despite coming from humble beginnings where their father worked
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Let the Silicon Valley legend teach you to pitch Created by the author — Original image from WikiMedia Commons Guy Kawasaki has listened to hundreds of entrepreneurs looking for funding. In his words, “most of these pitches are crap”. He knows a thing or two about how to market effectively. He was a member of
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Exclusive with the CEO of ByErim Created by the author — original image on @Erim Erim Kaur says her ‘product runs through her veins’. After sitting down to interview her, I left thoroughly convinced. Don’t look at her 190k Instagram followers and think she had it easy because it’s as if her whole life was leading her to
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With infographic cheatsheets Created by the author Some entrepreneurs feel framework is a dirty word and rely purely on instinct for decision-making. Yet when it doesn’t work out, hindsight can be a nightmare. The management consulting industry is worth over $250bn and is built on the foundation of simple frameworks combined with experience. Frameworks are never a guarantee
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Key lessons to help you avoid making the same mistakes Created by the author — original image by Jp Valery on Unsplash Your startup can still fail after hundreds of millions in funding. This may be a scary thought. But it is an important fact to reflect on to stop you from getting lost in the hype surrounding
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Not all entrepreneurs are privileged Created by the author — original image from Pexels My dad arrived in London aged 7 and could barely speak English. My grandparents had little except for the dream of a better life for their children. Half a century later he owns the majority stake in a nearly 100-year old business with clients
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3 hours of effort over 3 years Created by the author — original image from Toa Heftiba on Unsplash I’m talking here about real passive income, not the kind where you spend years writing a book. There’s one caveat though and you need money to make money. I started investing part of my income every month at
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How to start something and succeed Created by the author — original image from Kevin Moloney/Fortune Brainstorm Tech Half the internet tells you to just do it. Just start. Yet 90% of businesses fail so why do what everyone else is doing. Entrepreneurship can suffer from survivor bias. We only hear about the superstars because the
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There’s more to life than money Created by the author — original image from Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Do you ever get imposter syndrome before talking to someone who has success you admire? That’s exactly how I felt before a call with Todd Brison, a bestselling author in creativity, who had done it all while keeping a 9–5. But
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