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Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works
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Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works

by Daniel Priestley
May 2013
Beginner
232 pages
3h 44m
English
Capstone
Content preview from Entrepreneur Revolution: How to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and start a business that works

2. DOING SOMETHING YOU’RE GOOD AT

Now that we’ve talked about discovering what you are passionate about, let’s talk about the next step in moving to the entrepreneur sweet spot.

You can’t just be passionate, you also need to deliver real value.

At the heart of every great business is something of value, an asset. You cannot build a business if there’s a lack of value.

No matter how good your sales people are, no matter how much advertising you do, no matter how much you push, if there’s no value there’s no business in the long run.

I am fortunate enough to be mentored by some brilliant people. One of these people is a guy who used to be a top performing fund manager for a huge investment bank. Over lunch one day he said a sentence to me that ...

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