The Entrepreneur Way

Rick Elmore is an entrepreneur, sales and marketing expert. As the Founder and CEO of Simply Noted, Rick developed a proprietary technology that puts real pen and ink to paper to scale handwritten communication, helping businesses of all industries scale this unique marketing platform to stand out from their competition and build meaningful relationships with clients, customers, and employees. Founded in 2018 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Simply Noted has grown into a thriving company with clients of various sizes across the country including in hospitality, real estate, insurance, nonprofit, franchise, B2B, and others. Rick has served as the company’s CEO since its founding, for more than three years, and has over a decade of sales and marketing industry experience. “I help businesses of all industries to stand out from their competition & build meaningful relationships by using unique marketing platform”

“every person kind of has that analysis paralysis in that they don’t get started. If you don’t get started today most likely are never going to get started. And it is just getting started and taking that first step… That’s what it is to build a business, it’s just one step at a time… And you have got to be patient… It may take a long time”…[Listen for More]

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Stephen Dean first built his career in information technology, working as a developer for Hewlett-Packard and several start-ups. He received his MBA from Duke before co-founding Keona Health, where manages all facets of finance, marketing, and operations.

“I really do feel that figuring out how to get through… Life is tough… And being able to get through the hardships and being able to be comfortable with situations that are uncomfortable and that are hard and you don’t know what success is going to look like. But creating a plan and taking that next step anyway is kind of key to all of life whether you’re an entrepreneur or not”…[Listen for More]

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Josh Bremmerer, co-founder and CEO of Komodo Covers, is an innate navigator, an experienced leader in the boating industry with over a decade of experience in management and company development and a lifelong passion for boating.

“Hang in there man… It will all be okay in the end. If it’s not okay it’s not the end”…[Listen for More]

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Yong-Soo Chung left a successful career in cryptocurrency software engineering to found his first 8-figure e-commerce business Urban EDC, a venture with an impressive social media following. He then went on to launch GrowthJet, a Climate Neutral Certified third-party logistics company. Yong-Soo is passionate about sharing the lessons he's learned with other entrepreneurs so they too can start a bootstrapped company that is both profitable and sustainable.

“Start first of all. Starting can be very difficult for a lot of people. So, start and then whatever you decide on just be consistent. I think consistency is really, really important… The most important factor for survival is consistency… Really focus on something that you can control… Just having something that you can control and doing that consistently, that compounds over time. So, consistency is a really important aspect of all of this”…[Listen for More]

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Valerie Hayes is on a mission to help small businesses beat the odds and push through the roadblocks to become an industry leader. She helps overburdened entrepreneurs, small business owners, and CEOs run their companies like a high-performance sports car. Fast and effective.

“Growing your business is all about personal development. That is it in a nutshell. Yes, it is about growing your market share, maintaining profitability, protecting your profit margin, hiring the right people. But all of those decisions are made by you. If you are hunger in some negative thought process or not willing to hire people who are better than yourself… And unfortunately, it happens all of the time, entrepreneurs and small business owners are often tempted to hire B and C players because then they won’t threaten them in their position of leadership or direction for the company. So, the ability to grow your business is more about personal development than anything else ”…[Listen for More]

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Matt Ostanik is an entrepreneur who has founded four startups. In 2019 he started working on Grateful, a platform where socially good businesses do “grateful giving” by donating to their customers’ favorite nonprofits. In today’s world, social good has never been important and is a powerful tool for customer retention.

“Entrepreneurship takes incredibly hard work. It’s really a combination of three things… Entrepreneurial success… It’s having a right vision or strategy; it’s executing, executing, executing and delivering on it; but it is also having a bit of the right timing and the right product or service at the right time and place as well. But you are never going to get there without really hustling as hard as you possibly can to throw all of those things at it as well… It’s a long journey but it’s absolutely worth it… Keep going, its persistence… Persistence pays off on the entrepreneur side as well. So keep fighting, keep pushing, keep running that next race and it’s always a journey and it’s absolutely worth it”…[Listen for More]

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Kurt Wilkin is a trusted advisor for high-growth, middle-market companies as founder and managing partner of Bee Cave Capital and Co-Founder of HireBetter. With a passion for growth and a hard-earned, proven set of tools in his toolbox, Wilkin works with other entrepreneurs and CEOs to help them escape the start-up mindset and achieve next-level success.

“Keep grinding. It’s hard work, it’s glorified when you see Mark Zuckerberg and Steve jobs of the world… But it’s a grind and it’s worth it if you can continue the journey”…[Listen for More]

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Wei Deng is the founder and CEO of Clipboard Health, an app-based marketplace that matches healthcare facilities with nurses nearby, and operates in dozens of U.S. cities. It is backed by Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator. Wei was previously with Sendwave, and started her career as a lawyer.

“my best advice is to talk to customers and put one foot in front of the other. It’s like exercise. If you want to lose 50 pounds tomorrow don’t try to lose it all tomorrow. Like I mentioned progress is non-linear. I think if you lose the first couple of pounds you will see that compounding effect of wow I can do this and I just need to do more of this and it seems suddenly very doable. I think that unblocking your own psychology there is probably the most powerful thing you can do as an entrepreneur ”…[Listen for More]

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Dr. Christopher Croner is a Principal with SalesDrive, LLC, a firm that specializes in the selection and deployment of high performing salespeople. Dr. Croner is co-author of the book, Never Hire a Bad Salesperson Again. Dr. Croner developed the proprietary DriveTest® assessment and the Drive Interview for salesperson selection.

“Monitoring what you think about, and keeping in mind that you become what you think about. But also, after setting a goal rather than focusing too much on the goal… Think about the consistent process that you will use to reach that goal. So coming up with a consistent process, a consistent system… A consistent system that you can use to reach a goal… A consistent process that you can use. And focusing on the process”…[Listen for More]

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Jordan Schindler is on a mission to simplify health and wellness. As the Founder/CEO of Nufabrx, he built the #1 fastest growing company in the region as named by Charlotte Business Journal, and has developed and launched a new category of products to 8-figure revenue and nationwide retail

“This back to this idea of perseverance… It’s trying to figure out what you do and what you know better than other people. What insights do you have that you can build a business around? The other one that we have adopted is get to ‘no’. How do you try to get to an answer as fast as possible… Sometimes that no teachers us a lot”…[Listen for More]

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