30-year old Entrepreneur Shares Advice/Experiences From His 20's (8)
30-year old Entrepreneur Shares Advice/Experiences From His 20's
I posted this on the STM page a while back and thought you folks might like it.
Taken from Business Insider (http://www.businessinsider.in/30-Yea...40287405.cms):
Ryan Allis just turned 30. In his 20s, he created and sold a company, iContact, for $170 million.
Allis created the longest PowerPoint deck imaginable of life lessons learned over the past year. It's 1,284 slides and his advice includes gems such as:
"Important people like opening FedEx packages."
And:
"Let your inner child come out daily and silly dance."
The presentation is separated into three parts: Life (566 slides), Entrepreneurship (449 slides), and The World (269 slides).
Since we're all lazy affiliates, here's a direct link to the PDF containing all the slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tvh76dtqw6...Allis.pdf?dl=0
I'm sort of acquainted with Ryan Allis, we're Facebook friends - met him way back at an entrepreneur's conference/summit when I was running my own startup. He's smart and intelligent obviously, but not brilliant or anything with off-the-charts IQ, the biggest quality that I see in him is his intense FOCUS in everything he puts his mind to and that's what makes him successful. Super-obsessive, focused, and passionate guy - he doesn't sleep.
Another key thing that I take away from his life story is that he started young and gradually leveled up - no such thing as an "overnight success story". Started web development/design as a teenager, that snowballed into a local web consultancy, then learned some internet marketing and built that up, then partnered up with a tech co-founder and bootstrapped first few years and were minting $ with an email marketing tool, which would then snowball into iContact and they pursued VC money and scaled like a mofo thereafter.
Also interesting that Wes Mahler, founder of Prosper202 and hardcore affiliate, linked up with Ryan Allis over the last few years: http://wesmahler.com/hive-org-becomi...-driven-leader
Had a read over this on the weekend, have a tonne still to go but there is some little gems in there thats for sure its interesting to read
Thanks zeno buddy!
Great share, thanks!
(The FedEx tip is a gem, and one I shall test out in the future...)
great share, defiantly gonna go through it!
Great share zeno! I met him in person when he just started out with iContact. He has a book called "Zero to One Million" also.
He's a great speaker and truly motivational! Lots to learn from him 
Hey did a Mixergy interview a few years back. Definitely a vibrant, motivational guy.
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