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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?
• Create value out of thin air
• Solve problems
• Motivate: customers, employees, communities, 
• See beyond the rules

• The dark side
• Stress
• Risk 
• Health
• Relationships: Marriage, family 
• Failure 

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." U.S President Theodore Roosevelt, (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)

• Talent required 
• Energy
• Writing, Speaking, Presence
• Sales/Marketing
• Self confidence 
• Cleverness 
• Persistence

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."  U.S. President Calvin Coolege, (American 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)

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

          Lady Gaga, 25, (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) performer, five Grammy Awards, #7 Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women, 15 Million Albums

From Indianapolis

Madam C. J. Walker, Walker Manufacturing Company, first woman millionaire - ever!

Scott Jones, inventor of Voice Mail

Mark Hill, Banking Software, Venture Capitalist

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/

Remember:

     The questions are more important than the answers.

     People are polynomials.

     Life is non-linear.