Don't Be A Sheep: How to Take Risks and Reach Your Goals
Path to Progress with Paul Heintzman and John Ackerman
Release Date: 08/23/2018
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info_outlineJohn Shumate, CEO of Venture First (and the most interesting person we've ever met), teaches us how to take risks and reach our goals.
Some questions answered in this episode:
- Did you see yourself as an entrepreneur growing up?
- How did you make the leap to become an entrepreneur?
- How did you get and keep your first clients?
- What was your day to day like starting out and what where the first few years like running Venture First?
- What is the best marketing tool you have ever used?
- How did you expand Venture First's services from business valuation to outside CFO Services and bookkeeping?
- What does it mean to be a CFO for a company?
- How do you grow your services when you aren't an expert in that service line?
- How do you differentiate yourself in an industry that has a "stodgy" reputation and make finance sexy?
- What separates people who take risks from those who do not?
- How can great things happen from really bad situations?
- What does your day to day look like now that Venture First is more established?
- What are the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur?
- Why does being an entrepreneur suck?
- What are the benefits of being an employee vs. being an entrepreneur?
- Do you think the entrepreneur spirit is genetic or is it something you learn?
- What does Venture First look like today?
- When did you take on investors and how has it changed the company?
- How will you know when you've made it?
- What is the best decision you've made running Venture First?
- What is the future of Venture First?
- Why should people take risks?
Last call:
- What advice would your 60 year old self give you today?
- Break More Rules, Have More Fun, Work Harder
- What advice would you give to an entrepreneur just starting out?
- Find a really good mentor
- Be ready to spend more time and capital than you expect
- What's the best thing you've spent money on in the last six months?
- Satellite phone (overall best purchase)
- Nice bottles of bourbon -
- What book/documentary would you recommend?
- What's your favorite thing to drink?
- 1968 Old Fitzgerald
- Old Fashioned
- Basil Hayden
Shoutouts:
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