Duarte Just a couple more stops until the Death Star. @sean_voegeli Many of our employees live a long way from the office. One of our designers has a particularly hellish trek. Sean Voegeli* is a talented illustrator, avid Instagrammer, and loyal Star Wars fan. First, where can we find your work? What tools do you use? I like Adobe Draw a lot. How has your #creativecommute affected your day? On the way home, it’s a good way to unwind and transition into dad-mode. How do you decide what to draw? Which comes first, illustration or photo? How long does each piece take to make? Why Instagram? Do you have a favorite piece? “All strollers and droids must enter through the gate please.” And this one. Don’t you dare order a hotdog at this Disneyland stand. Last question, who should we be following on Instagram? Even if you can’t draw, you can spend your commute being creative and productive. So we dare you. *Voegeli is pronounced “vaguely” in case you were wondering.
FormaVox - Agence Formation & Conseil | Interactivité, Communication, Apprentissage multimédia Too Much Entrepreneurship Is a Bad Thing - Bill Taylor by Bill Taylor | 8:17 AM March 29, 2011 At the risk of sounding like a Grumpy Old Man, and with near certainty that this post will be roasted by many who read it, I am about to make the case that there is such a thing as too much entrepreneurship — or at least too much excitement about becoming an entrepreneur too early in life. I know, I know. The Times piece was all about the new “War for Talent” in Silicon Valley, a replay of the battle waged more than a decade ago to recruit top-flight young engineers and coders from elite colleges and assorted countercultural pursuits. Talk about partying like it’s 1999: Zynga, the red-hot game maker, “dangles free haircuts and iPods to recruits, who are also told that they can bring their dogs to work.” All of this is pretty familiar, if slightly ridiculous, stuff. I suppose I’d like to be the next Mark Zuckerberg too, if only to get Jesse Eisenberg to play me on the big screen. Here’s my major beef with what’s happening. Don’t get me wrong.
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7 Lessons from Building a $15-Million-a-Year Lifestyle Business with No Loans, VCs or Angel Money Since we started Mindvalley, we’ve blossomed into an award-winning company with over 100 employees and revenues past $15 million a year (50 million in Malaysian Ringgit). We’ve become one of the biggest sellers of educational content online (mostly in meditation and personal growth but we’re expanding fast into other fields). We just hit 1.3 million subscribers and our 200,000th paying student. But best of all, we’ve done it all without ever having to take any funds or loans. It did not happen fast. I started with $2,000, lost money in the first two months, became profitable in the third month and just kept reinvesting profits into the company. But the upside is total 100% ownership and a company that is built around my lifestyle, which means that it never ever feels like “work”. This is important to me. The Mindvalley Headquarters But the climb was hard and long. If I could advise younger entrepreneurs who are starting out so they avoid the dumb mistakes I made, here’s what I would say:
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