Business Lessons from sucessful entrepreneurs and business leaders: LunchLearning.com

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Video Time: 46 minutes 6 seconds

Mike O’Donnell (@iCopyright on Twitter) is the founder of StartUPbiz.com, one of the first internet-based services organization with the aim to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Since it’s inception in 1997 (that’s dinosaur years in Internet time), Mike’s firm has helped over 25,0000 businesses ramp up to larger levels of success.

Part of Mike’s desire to mentor and help others comes from his own success that straddles decades of work in the high-tech industry with companies responsible for introducing new ideas and new technology to the world; including Compuserve and Design Intelligence which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft.

In the below presentation entitled “The Six Phases of Entrepreneurship,” Mike tackles the “ocean of opportunity” the can, at times, confound entrepreneurs and how to tackle those challenges effectively. I really enjoyed this presentation because Mike addresses in a linear fashion some of the ways we can move from idea to market, and he does it in his engaging and funny style. Enjoy the program. . .Mike’s a lot of fun and will give you lots of ideas as you move through your day!

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Video Time:  6 minutes 7 seconds

Seventeen year old Chicagoan, Zoë Damacela is the personification of every entrepreneurial dream. Humble beginnings, huge Chutzpah, loads of talent and the innate ability to see past any obstacles in her path.

She serves not only as an inspiration to budding entrepreuenuers everywhere, but to those of us already knee-deep in the game. Her efforts have taken her from 8 year old greeting card designer to fashion impresario selling her wares and gaining the attention of Chicago entrepreneurs like Larry Levy, of Levy Restaurants, and Joe Mansueto of Morningstar. Not a bad deal.

As Crain’s Chicago business puts it, Zoë Damacela’s story, “isn’t about success, it’s about the power of entrepreneurship.” Amen to that. Enjoy the video! To get the video to play, you’ll have to click the “play” button in the upper right corner of the player, just off to the side. . .where you’ll see Zoe at her machine and the “play” button. . .

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