Entrepreneur - Bryan Clayton

Current or Primary Business(s) - GreenPal

Topics of Conversation

• Sometimes it's better to not hire an industry expert, hire a motivated person and teach them your systems instead
• Business is hard, but you should have a fire in your belly to get through the obstacles
• Find a hacker and a hustler - ideal business partnership
• Need a beta testing stage, helps to identify skill gaps in the team  - then address the missing skills 
• Build, measure, learn cycle
• I don’t have an articulate thought - but very cool to see such a small add-on service (cigarette butts) increase a businesses revenue so drastically
• Be patient, plant seeds and keep watering them, they could grow and become something huge
• Become a ‘learn-it-all’
• Hitting a plateau leads to resentment
• Naivete can be a powerful tool
• Keep sight of what matters
• Whether you plan to sell or not, if you build it to sell it will run smoother

Quotes and Soundbytes

• Feel the fire in your belly
• Naivety can serve an entrepreneur well
• Luckily I’m not very creative
• Be paranoid you don’t know enough
• Don’t worry about level 10 when you’re at level 3

Recommendations and Links

• The E-myth by Michael Gerber
• A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald miller