Naveen Jain is one of few who has aimed his goals to change the world through innovation and technology, rather than simply making money. Naveen is a serial entrepreneur – some of the companies Naveen has founded are Moon Express, World Innovation Institute, Viome, TalentWise, Intelius, and InfoSpace. Naveen teaches that a successful business idea should target long-term problem solving, rather than short-term symptom solutions. Naveen is a philanthropist and aims at promoting broader awareness and drive to learn in order to help humanity revolutionize itself and solve the world’s biggest problems.
Which Flavor of LLC Is Right For Your Business? Member-Managed LLC Vs. Manager-Managed LLC
When forming an LLC (Limited Liability Company), you have options for how you want to manage your company. With summer here, I’m going to break down your choices in a way we can all relate to as we’re looking for ways to keep cool: ice cream!
How to Go From Idea to Business
Entrepreneurship is hard, and coming up with a good idea can seem even harder when you don’t have much experience. I am big believer that there is money in just about everything and that the reason that some make it while others don’t is the simple fact that they focus on how well they execute, rather than focus on coming…
Secret Academy Episode – Caren Merrick
Caren Merrick is the CEO and founder of Pocket Mentor – an iTunes app for anyone with goals for improvement in self-awareness, leadership, discovering your strengths, and much more. Caren, alongside her husband, is also the co-founder of webMethods. Just as the internet was becoming popular, they grabbed at the opportunity to utilize the internet as a platform to connect global corporations with each other. Caren has plenty of advice and experience with gaining investors and getting the best outcomes with your funding. Caren took webMethods (while having $33 in her bank account at one point) and scaled it to the $200+ million yearly revenue it receives.
How to Grow Your Business by Being Resourceful
I’ve been an entrepreneur for over a decade. Having built countless successful businesses, I implement the idea that being resourceful will have to be the primary method to grow whenever I start a new company. Remember that being resourceful doesn’t always mean gaining equity for your company with every transaction; instead it’s about understanding how to position your business to gain massive support from those…
Secret Academy Episode – Brian Scudamore
Brian Scudamore is the founder and CEO of O2E Brands. Brian changed the way the world sees home service businesses. With 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, he built a unique and successful franchise model that revolves around turning an ordinary business into an extraordinary business by attracting the right people to own the franchises and establishing teams of passionate employees. Today, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? has 1000 trucks on the road throughout some 180 locations in Canada, the United States, and Australia. Brian’s experience proves that building a successful company without much funding is possible – and even a necessary learning curve for entrepreneurs. He is also an advocate for self-education and has received awards and recognitions in the media and business community.
Entrepreneur Of The Year 2016 – Tom Bilyeu
For 2016, Secret Entourage recognized yet another incredible Entrepreneur for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He has led as an industry leader in the nutrition space, has built a company that had in excess of 57,000% growth (that’s not a typo) and his company was recognized in 2014 by INC. as the 2nd fastest growing company in America. If all these accomplishments weren’t enough, he has now shifted gears from helping the world be healthier to addressing people’s mental state of mind by helping other Entrepreneurs through his latest project called Impact Theory. Secret Entourage proudly congratulates Tom Bilyeu, co-Founder of Quest Nutrition, host and founder of Impact Theory as the Entrepreneur of the Year 2016! It is with great honor that we welcome Tom in joining Andy Frisella and Fabio Viviani as one of today’s rare breed of Entrepreneur and incredible human being.