1. BUSI 2800 ENTREPRENEURSHIP

2. Background Entrepreneurship is in my blood – first business @ age 11
Competitive upbringing – Ravens basketball
Started Extreme 22
Co-founded 23
Combined fiscal revenue targets are 2.2 million

3. The Non-Traditional Job Market
PPC Strategist (45-120K+)
SEO, Content Management (45-80K)
Social Media Manager (40-60K)
Inbound Marketing Strategist (50-120K)
Automation/Workflow Design (60K+)
IT Security (70-150K)
Communications (55-80K)

4. The Non-Traditional Job Market
UI Developer (45-100K)
Sales, “Growth Hacking” (45-250K+)
Recruiting (40-120K)
UX Design (50-120K)
Data Mining (60K+)
Director Level Reporting (70-100K)
Branding/Storytelling (45-80K)

5. Bridging the Gap to Making $$
Class Size?
By Show of Hands:
Who’s going to be “successful”?
Tell me why/how…
And again…
Make the choice For The Right Reason

6. What is the Right Reason?
PASSION – and a shit ton of it
It determines everything
Makes your past irrelevant and shapes your future
Couple familiar examples of True Passion

7. 2 Types of Business Owners
“I’m Self Employed”
Small team
Compensation directly correlated to hours worked
The “True Business Owner”
Makes jobs solving real problems
System & process orientated for scaling
Revenue is not tied to hours worked
But you work harder than anyone else anyways

8. 7 Keys to Success
Nobody’s perfect, but you should ensure you’re of the mentality that everybody has the ability to teach you SOMETHING

9. Key # 1 Just Start – follow your passion
Your passion is what you fall asleep thinking about
Endless “painless” hours of hard work

10. Key # 2 Make a commitment to lifelong learning
It never stops – follow the Malcolm Gladwell principal that it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill

11. Key # 3 Stop thinking about money – focus on others
Generating business ideas by solving problems is the foundation to getting started
Give and then you will Get

12. Key # 4 Fill your toolbox with lots of tools
Absorb everything, and keep good documentation
It’s all about efficiency in the long run
Your battling time more than anything

13. Key # 5
Connect & Reflect
The best opportunities arise when you least expect
The best networking happens when the event isn’t labeled as a “networking event”

14. Key # 6 Start selling & put more money to work early
It will transform your growth rates
Easy to do:
Kickstarter, pre-sales, incubators, grants & competitions
Bootstrap
Example of “smart” online marketing
I want to hear from you guys
Who has the best business idea – Sell me!

15. Key # 7
EXECUTION
This is what separates the true winners from everyone else
1% Idea, 10% planning & 89% getting shit done 
Be strategic, don’t tread water
Start with the end goal and work backwards
You’ll be surprised how powerful this is
There’s no Eureka moment, but tons of satisfaction

16. Key Takeaways Passion Sales Execution
If you know you will be successful, you really will!

17. PASSION, PASSION, PASSION
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PASSION, PASSION, PASSION