Presentation by James Eder Founder of The Beans Group, studentbeans.com - Is your glass half full? Well it should be! An inspiring session for the students who were on a placement at HP.
2. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw
7. What are you passionate about in life?
Which other people and/or
lifestyles do you admire?
What do you want out of life?
What do you not want out of life?
30. 'Make it so - because
A vision without action is just a dream;
An action without vision just passes time BUT
A vision with an action changes the world’
Margaret Mead
31. Recommended Books
• The Naked Leader, by David Taylor
• Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• Business as Unusual Annita Roddick
• Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingstone
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• Wunderlist
• The E-Myth by Michael Gerber
35. "Twenty years from now, you
will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do
than by those that you did. So
throw off the bowlines. Sail
away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your
sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover."
Mark Twain
Notas do Editor
Young Enterprise: What is the worst and the best that can happen. In the shop Learning by doing - there is no other more relevant environment School said no. Rude woman shop Friday afternoon - inner london finals Fear - what is the worst that can happen? They say no. - Courage
Has anyone done tele sales? What was it? Rejection training - if you believe in what you are doing keep going. It is a numbers game, there are some people that are always going out with someone? They’re not particularly good looking and it is unfair! Yell Campus Brand manager - seeing opportunities every day.
What are your ideas? Anyone want to share what you are doing? People afraid of sharing ideas as people will steel them? By sharing an idea you can feed it and make it more of a reality - it is how things happen and makes you accountable. To be more innovative, do something different - out of routine. KISS - Keep it simple Stupid example google. Keeping Focused: Niche - http://www.cocoribbon.com/
This is one of the most useful and underestimated parts of business that was never emphasised enough before finishing university. KPMG - Some of our biggest companies we work with have been as a result of recommendations from other people. I was in a meeting with our biggest client todate and they stopped and said the reason why they are working with us is because the enjoy meeting with us and hearing what we have achieved and what we are doing? People do business with people. BOB Clubs Business Start Up conference beermat Come to the next free monthly Beermat Entrepreneur Club (Beermat Monday) networking event in Birmingham this Monday - 20th November from 6pm At the Old Royal Pub in the City Centre have a look at www.beermat.biz Has anyone ever been speed dating? Yesterday at Microsoft offices met the founder of linkedin
Talk about gap year - setting goals - how many of you have taken / want to take? my gap year - set it a year in advance. When I say, Hey West Hatch? You say, hey what. concentric circles / find someone you don’t know - (Ski season - not wanting the situation) What do you not want out of life? What have you done - who done cold calls?
Who thinks it is risky to set up a business? Who are we? Myself and my brother are the two directors of the company With a web development team And a number of different promotional staff to enable us to be flexible.
I’ve given you a little bit and I mentioned if you can help? How many of you have made an online purchase in the last week? 3 of you what did you buy? How many of you are out of contract and not upgraded yet? What is your favourite thing about sb? Have you noticed a change in the site? What would you like to see?
Like the chair said this morning - just need to do it.
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