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Presentation to Irvington Community Schools
Career Day, 2011
Kim Brand
Entrepreneur
- Definition of Entrepreneur: Owning your own business, being your own boss, earning what you are worth
- Entrepreneurship is patriotic: without Entrepreneurs nobody would have a job
- What does an Entrepreneur do?
- Creating value out of thin air
- Creative problem solving
- Motivating: customers, employees, communities,
- The dark side
- Talent required
- Energy
- Writing
- Sales/Marketing
- Self confidence
Famous Entrepreneurs
From anywhere
Mark Zuckerberg, 27, Facebook founder, he's worth $13B, $100M to Newark Public Schools, pledged to give half of his fortune to charity
Bill Gates, Microsoft, youngest self made billionaire, saving children's lives through immunization programs around the world
Bill Cook, Cook Industries,, Medical Devices, richest man in Indiana, historic preservation of Fench Lick and West Baden Springs, Orange County
Ted Turner, started CNN, father committed suicide, pledged $1 Billion to the United Nations
From Indianapolis
Madam C. J. Walker, Walker Manufacturing Company, first woman millionaire - ever!
Scott Jones, inventor of Voice Mail
Mark Hill, Banking Software,
Dave Becker, founder of First Internet Bank
Visit these sites for more information
http://www.gaebler.com/What-It-Takes-To-Be-An-Entrepreneur.htm
http://hewhoenters.pbworks.com/w/page/18004778/FrontPage
http://www.delicious.com/kjbrand/boi
Notable books:
Four Hour Workweek, by Tim Ferriss
The E-Myth by Michael Gerber, particularly this chapter.
More about me: http://kimbrand.com/ and my companies: http://www.computerexpertsindy.com, http://filesafeserver.com/
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