Scott Gerber is launching his newest book, Never Get a “Real” Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke
Scott is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated small business columnist, angel investor and public speaker. He is the founder and CEO of Gerber Enterprises, an entrepreneurial incubator and venture management company that invests capital, management expertise, and marketing services into innovative early and mid-stage companies.
He is part of the Young Entrepreneur Council, which is comprised of the world’s top young entrepreneurs, business owners and thought leaders.
Some of his quick tips on raising money are:
- Money won’t make you successful
- Be realistic
- If you don’t buy it, they won’t either
- The best time to raise money is when you don’t need it
- Fund-raising should never be the first alternative
- Don’t go broke raising money
If you are a young entrepreneur or anyone in a transitional stage, (at any age) I recommend that you pre-order Scott’s book today. It will be well worth it.
Scott is hitting all the nails on the head and I do hope he closes down the coffin of entitlement mentality that has gripped the young today, regarding careers, because nobody is entitled to a great paying job simply because of an expensive college diploma.
I think what makes his appeal so strong is that he is a peer with many graduates. But therein lies an issue that I think we need to ponder upon as well, and it is that the young have been trained by our school system all their lives to look for credible peers rather than for mature elders to emulate.
There is much that Scott says that is true. But there is much more that he could learn from those who have been in business 20 or 30 years longer than he.
We need to bring back the concept of discipleship, which is based on following someone not merely because of the knowledge collected in fields that we’ve yet to plough across ourselves but on fields that took far longer to traverse than we might have been yet alive to course through ourselves, though our mentors are now far across them and reaping ample fruit for it.
Starting a business requires mentoring recently posted..Show Me How Starting A Business While In School Is Cool
Excellent comment. I agree with you about accepting what an older mentor can teach who has had vast experience in business. Even though I believe Scott is highly perceptive there are always situations that come up that can be avoided by those who have been through them themselves.