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Entrepreneurial
Philosophy
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Start with a big market
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Go for big margins
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Super people
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10 Tips for Build market share fast
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Partner and create a network
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Running Win. Grow big, fast, and just win
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Get a customer
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a Company Now, go get another customer
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Build strategic relations
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Take it public
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Entrepreneurial
Lifecycle
(14 steps in the Entrepreneurial Lifecycle)
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Myth 1: “Let's call a spade a spade. We are not the intellectuals who use
scorecards or operational research to study a problem and write triple A
papers about it. We are not the cultivated gentlemen who show off our
cultural knowledge in literary salons. We are not the Roman Caesars who
entertain noble families in their golden palaces. We are street fighters,
tough buggers, pirates, buccaneers and sometimes shameless fortune
hunters. We are the barbarians at the gate.” (Belgium)
Entrepreneurial Myth 2: “In order to create we need stimuli. That is why we go for buzzing
environments and bustling places. I can understand why people love
Myths Porsche. Although this marvelous car can easily reach 280km/h, its drivers
probably seldom exceed 140km/h. For them it is sufficient to have all
options open, should they wish to make use of them.” ( Germany)
Myth 3: “When I was an employee, I was convinced that my management
had no clue what they were doing. That is why I set up my own companies.
Later I heard that this is called the Dilbert Syndrome* (the perception that
management is incompetent). I know that my employees probably think
the same about me and when they are convinced of this, they will leave
and set up their own companies. That is why I try to be always one step
ahead of them. It also makes me humble about my own management.”
(10 myths of entrepreneurship) (USA)
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• What we have found is that there is a body of faith, or a
system of belief that is ritually clung to very much in the same
way as a religion is…
• ...We have come across three types of Financial IQ in our
research.
• …Type-1 has basic Financial IQ . These entrepreneurs are
Types of in a sense part of the rat race. They are employed by their own
company but will never leave it. It is their baby. They work for
status and security. They have a house and maybe an
financial IQ apartment somewhere which they may rent out. …
• …Type-2 has an advanced Financial IQ. These
entrepreneurs are slowly shifting towards private investors or
business angels. They want to be investors and realize that in
the past they have been nothing but savers. They are however
not armed against giant market crashes. ..
• …Type-3 has superior Financial IQ . They play their own
game. They work for equity and only with structured finance
(Research at IUM ~ Entrepreneur Religion : products. They do technical trading via their own money
manager and frequently have their own trading floor (it is
Towards Financial Immortality) available on a rent per month basis from certain banks). ..
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To me, democracy is people of all races, colors, and creeds
united by a single dream: to get rich and move to the suburbs
away from people of all races, colors, and creeds.
Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with
money you don't have to impress people you wish were
Globalization and dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean
having just one ineffective political party; it means having
two ineffective political parties…
Democracy …Democracy is welcoming people from other lands, and
giving them something to hold onto — usually a mop or a leaf
blower.
And finally, democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar
bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail
feathers, and 13 stars over its head. This signifies that when
(7 definitions of Democracy) the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the
Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and
lights out for the American eagle. I thank you.
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Walter Brouwer
FORK CAPITAL NV/SA
Kerkeveldstraat 37,
B-1020 Brussels
Contact Us Phone: +32-2-646.66.61
Fax: +32-2-649.38.00
KBC: 738-0065345-86
Fortis: 001-4115573-36
E-mail: w@turingindustries.com
Skype: walterdebrouwer
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