20 Non-Traditional Entrepreneurs That Will Inspire You1808005
I just took one entrepreneurship course in school (I was a Women's Studies major at Washington University in St. Louis...we will miss THAT storyline for now). It was a solid class, but in many situations it was a parade of traditional entrepreneurship. For example, here were common steps heard throughout the session:
Think of an idea.
Find out more about the heck out from the idea, write an enormous business plan, raise money, create business.
As your life is your company, tide farewell to family and friends.
After creating business, expand business by hiring one zillion people and move into every marketplace on earth.
Following your gigantic expansion into a domination that is worldwide, sell your company for top dollar.
Post-sale, go back to step one or retire to your own preferred island and wash, rinse, repeat.
Now, there's nothing wrong with this particular advice per say. Actually, there was a parade of special guests through the term that shared their story that fit into those measures one manner or another.
The problem, as I see it, is less in validity of the advice and instead more in the limitations of it. Significance, be like, feel like, entrepreneurship definitely doesn't have to look like or follow most of those measures. It is sort of like offering a course on sports, but the only sport is baseball.
Fact is, there are many types of entrepreneurs.
There are entrepreneurs whose entire aim is to develop a company and sell it for as much as you can or take it public. These are the "large way outs" we hear about in the tech world.
There are entrepreneurs who create a company to franchise it (the E-Myth doctrine). Examples where I am from in St. Louis include a chain of tanning salons and massage parlors.
There are. Maybe the factory makes hats or cups or something of the like.
There are entrepreneurs which are in more traditional businesses that have no aspirations of selling but rather look to make a living brick and mortar design. A good example could be a clothing boutique or the corner bakery.
There are Internet entrepreneurs focused on creative passive income by any means necessary to earn a living (and maybe appreciate life on the seashore or something). Example might be someone who sells vitamin supplements online.
But, there's an alternative group all together that I bet you're a part of (I understand I 'm). And that's the entrepreneurs that are non-traditional. Features of the group include:
Doing work that matters. Not merely work to earn a dollar (such as selling odd vitamin nutritional supplements online..unless you are ridiculously enthusiastic about vitamins, and in that case stone on). Work that you're enthusiastic about. Work that makes a difference. Work which is artwork. Cash follows passion and not the other way around.
Challenging the manner it's always been done. Altering industries which were stayed for years (or decades or centuries). Creative disrupters.
Enjoying the fruits of our labor. No, this doesn't conventional entrepreneurs do not work difficult. It only means we understand and live by the philosophy that there is more to life than just work (passions and hobbies outside work, friends as well as family, enjoying life the manner in which you would like to).
Does this mean as an unusual entrepreneur which you can not sell your business or hire a group of people? Not at all. It just implies that you aren't conforming to the confines of traditional entrepreneurs.
Since 2008, I Have had the incredible chance to interview over 300 entrepreneurs of sizes and shapes. Traditional and non-conventional. Businesses that are tremendous and solopreneurs. People that have sold 50 businesses among others that have started one. But I'd have to express, if I had been hard pressed, my favorite ones will be the non-traditional ones (and that's where most interviews will drop in the immediate future). Tom Caufmann Here is set of them, in no specific order, that I wager you'll pick up inspiration, ideas and insights from. Love!
Why? Successful yet unfulfilled from his previous endeavor, Andrew has made it his life's mission.
Interview with Andrew
- 2: Ishita Gupta - panic.less
Why? Who says magazines must be in print? Always a disrupter, Ishita is changing the publishing world through her exceptional magazine panic.less.
Interview with Ishita
Why? Rejected by everybody in the publishing world, Tucker didn't give up. Instead, he took his outrageous, hilarious stories to the Internet and results have been astounding.
Interview with Tucker
- 4: Seth Godin - SethGodin.com
Why? Leader and the quintessential disrupter, Seth Godin is throwing a wrench to the publishing industry with The Domino Project.
Interview with Seth
Why? How is it possible to earn an income by infiltrating and learning from the secret world of celebs, pick up multiple and artists -passport sneaky world travelers? Neil has done it.
Interview with Neil
Why? Moving to Africa? Being a professional writer in less than one year? Inspiring others to not live conventional lives? Check, check and check.
- 7: Matthew Inman - TheOatmeal.com
Why? By doing it his way Matt has established an empire from his unique and hilarious comics.
- 8: Rob and Kim Murgatroyd - JetSetLife.TV
Why? They created among the coolest jobs ever Traveling to the world's poshest areas and composing unique, insider guidebooks. Sweet.
Interview with Rob and Kim
Why? What does Jason get to do? Create all sorts of fun videos along with other goodies online and he's paid to wear tops. Sweet.
Why? Yes, all of US understand Tim has inspired an amazing number of men and women to work less, live more (and more lately, get in great shape), but there is a great deal to understand from how Tim has created his own business and lifestyle. He's a walking model of entrepreneurship that is unusual.
Why? The guy that has built an empire around wearing a name tag regular for the past 10 years and counting. You must see it to believe it.
- 12: Michael Buckley - What The Buck
Why? Michael took a love for pop culture and turned it into his dream profession. His show, Exactly What The Dollar, is certainly one of YouTube's most popular
- 13: Adam Baker - Guy Vs. Debt
Why? Can the action of sharing the insights become a company and getting yourself out of debt? Leave it to Adam Baker to turn it into one.
- 14: Chris Ducker - Virtual Company Lifestyle
Why? The walk walks and talks the talk. His business is likely running from a beach somewhere, as I type this.
Interview with Chris
- 15: Gregory Ng - Freezer Burns
Why? Two words: Frozen food. That is precisely the subject matter of this unconventional entrepreneur's net show.
Interview with Greg
- 16: Elizabeth Marshall - Writer Telesminars
Why? She found her passion for books and turned it into a fantastic profession. The top part might be she gets the pick of the litter when it comes to her clients.
Interview with Elizabeth
Why? Vanessa did not wait to be picked. She wrote a parenting publication from a teenager's view when she was a teenager. Her empire has incredible expanded since then and she gets to do every day, what she adores.
Interview with Vanessa
- 18: Jonathan Coulton - JonathanCoulton.com
Why? The entrepreneurial musician. His business model allows him to create (and make money from) the music he desires without the bounds of a label.
Interview with Jonathan
- 19: Scott Kurtz - PvP
Why? The man who's redefining the world of cartooning. And he's doing it .
Interview with Scott Kurtz
- 20: Kai Hasson and Nate Houghteling - White Collar Brawler
Why? Leaving their day jobs make an online web series and movement and to become recreational boxers? This items is simply amazing.
