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How to Prevent Burnout and Increase Productivity

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Bill Gates, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Facebook, Fear, Inspiration, Management, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Preparation, Productivity, Steve Jobs, Strategy, Teamwork

Two heads are better than one. —John Heywood, English playwright. One of my favorite events in the Summer Olympic Games is the 4×100 meter relay. In this event, a team runs 400 meters total, once around a regulation athletics track, with four teammates running 100 meters each. Currently, Jamaica holds the world record time of […]

View Post Bill Gates, Eduardo Saverin, Fear, Google, Greed, Jamaica, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Johnson, Olympic Games, Olympics, OmniPublisher, Paul Allen, Pride, Sergey Brin, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Track & Field, Usain Bolt, World Record, Yohan Blake

Tell Everyone about Your Business

Posted on November 20, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Courage, Creativity, Inspiration, Marketing, Mavericks, Mentor, Mentorship, Misconceptions, Motivation, Networking, Sales, Serial Entrepreneurship, Talent, Youth Entrepreneurship

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. —William Stafford, poet For the past two years, I have had the privilege of being an instructor for the Teenpreneur conference, a two-day program that has taught thousands of teens the vital concepts of entrepreneurship. Along with other instructors who are entrepreneurs, I […]

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4 Common Reasons Your Business Could Fail

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Competition, Competitive Landscape, Strategy

Competition is very good. . . . It’s what makes one strive to be better. —Christine Lahti, actress, film director. Ninety-five percent of the time, arrogance leads entrepreneurs to believe that they have no competition in the marketplace. However, on rare occasions, arrogance isn’t the true cause of this belief. Instead, arrogance is an effect […]

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Don’t Hold Grudges

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Altruism, Business Plan, Failure, Humility, Patience, Perseverance

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. —Albert Einstein, German physicist. Entrepreneurship is a humbling exercise in learning how to deal with your negative feelings, so as to do what’s best for your company. One of the most difficult feelings to tame is anger caused by a prospective customer who finds no value in […]

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You’re in Sales, Whether You Want to Be or Not

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Accomplishment, Apple, Competition, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Landscape, Facebook, Failure, Making Deals, Management, Mark Zuckerberg, Marketing, Misconceptions, Risk, Sales, Serial Entrepreneurship, Software, Software Development, Strategy, Success

Timid salesmen have skinny kids. —Zig Ziglar, author, motivational speaker Reality hit us like a Mack truck and stopped us dead in our tracks. Although we reached our goal of creating OmniPublisher, one of the first content management systems built specifically for newspapers and other periodicals, we realized that we forgot to include the most […]

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2 Qualities That Make a Perfect Mentor

Posted on November 16, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Advisory Board, Board, Mentor, Mentorship, Preparation, Strategy

Everybody can tell you how to do it, they never did it. —Jay-Z, recording artist, entrepreneur. Since I started my business, I have been fortunate to have excellent mentors who have helped me to grow as an entrepreneur. In fact, not only have they been great advisers, but they have also brought me valuable clients. […]

View Post Advisory Board, Angel Investor, Board, Fear, Initial Public Offering, Mentors, Mentorship, Venture Capitalist

Pay Taxes Quarterly

Posted on November 15, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Advisory Board, Education, Employees, Fear, Finance, Fortune, Millionaires, Misconceptions, Money, Research, Risk, Strategy, Youth Entrepreneurship

You don’t pay taxes. They take taxes. —Chris Rock, comedian, actor I was anxious out of my wits as I sat in my chair waiting for the calculations to tabulate. I had dreaded this day ever since the previous January, when I knew I had only three months left until the deadline. On that early […]

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Make Your Dreams Come True

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Accomplishment, Billionaires, Courage, Dreams, Inspiration, Marketing, Millionaires, Success

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. —Walt Disney, founder, the Walt Disney Company. As he approached the middle of the basketball court, Michael Jordan had tears in his eyes. It was halftime during his final NBA All-Star Game in 2003, a highly emotional moment for sports fans […]

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Success Is Not the Goal

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Facebook, Generation Y, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Self-Actualization, Serial Entrepreneurship, Success

Nothing recedes like success. —Walter Winchell, newspaper and radio gossip commentator. In 2009, Canadian recording artist Drake released “Successful,” the second single from his third release, titled So Far Gone. The song has a melodic and a catchy chorus: “I just wanna be, I just wanna be successful.” The same lyric is repeated over and […]

View Post Canada, Facebook, Generation Y, Initial Public Offering, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, Self-Actualization, Serial Entrepreneurship, Success

Choose Your Spouse Wisely

Posted on November 12, 2019 by Kevin D. Johnson in Calculated Risk, College, Dreams, Facebook, People, Productivity, Risk, School, Self-Discipline, Success

The most important career choice you’ll make is who you marry. —Sheryl Sandberg, COO, Facebook As I watched my life play out on the big screen in the movie The Social Network, I smiled, reminiscing about my college days when I, too, was an instant campus superstar like Mark Zuckerberg, cofounder of Facebook. It was […]

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