Looking to achieve success with a new product launch or business startup? You’ve come to the right place. At the Starting Entrepreneur, discover ‘gold nuggets’ to inspire the journey. This remains true whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur looking for fresh product ideas or just starting out.
Who is Shaun?
Shaun has experience and vision. From early in his life, he was inspired by the world of the entrepreneur.
"The Starting Entrepreneur came about for two reasons. Firstly, I am passionate about sharing my experiences (both good and bad) to benefit your journey. Secondly, to pioneer new ideas with like minded 'travellers'. This is the show where we walk the walk, instead of talk the talk."
Think 'Value' Not 'Money'.
It is true that many successful entrepreneurs make millions. Typically when launching, most people focus on the financial prosepects. This is understandble, yet equally a trap. The reason? Every unique human being has a potential of creative value to add to the world. Get this right and the money will follow.
Becoming an entrepreneur is far more of a journey than a destination. It's a belief system based around the idea that you can provide the world with something today that didn't exist yesterday - and could not exist without your unique potential.
Although many try to do this, most fail as we are conditioned to focus on the financial model. This often leads to sloppy execution for the sake of soley working towards a financial destination. Of course, being profitable is a fundamental aspect of business, but keeping focussed on value creation should be our foundation.
Do Most Entrepreneurs Fail?
Making the tough journey to achieving our entrepreneurial goals requires continuous improvement and flexibility in our daily lives. For sure, results happen as a consequence of taking action, action requires productivity and productivity in turn requires energy. A lack of energy and short-term results induces a feeling of doubt. By not having a strong, conditioned mindset to deal with doubt and failure in turn leads to the one reason most entrepreneurs fail - they give up.
Therefore, to make a success of this journey, one has to look after their health, being careful what they consume both mentally and physically. You have to be determined, stay hungry and seek your motivation to come from wanting to leave your mark and provide value, rather than seeking the immediate financial gratification. The good news is that most don't start with this specialized skill, rather they acquire it.
The Starting Entrepreneur Podcast provides a weekly behind the scenes journey into becoming a successful entrepreneur.
The purpose of theStartingEntrepreneur is to give you visibility into everything Shaun is working on in order to reach his life goal of launching a successful business startup, but also to fulfill a deep need to achieve his life dream of coaching, mentoring and supporting others in achieving success in realizing their own goals.
The podcast is the vehicle in which the content of this transparency into Shaun's daily life is delivered. However, via the subscriber dashboard, you can also get real-time visibility into:
the IDEA Laboratory: This shows the real-time and current idea's which are being worked on right now and are not yet patented or live in the market place.
Shaun's Tasklist: Based on the C4 Solution checklist framework discussed in podcast session #3, you get absolute visibility into the actions being taken by Shaun which serve to show how we plan on achieving great results.
Tools and Training: Download useful tools and keep up to speed with any behind the scenes training covering areas such as marketing techniques, product development strategies,