Indiana entrepreneur Jonathan Partlow takes a humanity focused, human centered approach to his business endeavors, working every day to save our planet and those living on it. For more than 20 years, Jonathan has created and implemented multiple game changing, innovative designs and won multiple design awards in Experience Design, Service Design, Product Design, Systems / Software Design, Marketing Design and Business Model Design. Jonathan’s dedication and passion led him to create Aggressively Organic, an ag-tech startup whose mission is to help people declare their food independence and ultimately end food insecurity not only in the USA, but worldwide.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“it’s the same ones that every entrepreneur faces. My firm belief is it is always about funding and support… There is no unlimited amount of funds. There is always that self-doubt. There is that what if you put it out there in the wild and nobody wants it. So there is that fear that drives… That impostor syndrome… We have gotten a lot of press and I just can’t wrap my head around them talking about me and what we are doing. I saw something in FastCompany, they had us under world changing ideas – and that is an article I would have read and I can see anyone else in the world being that article but it is still hard for me to wrap my head around; they call it impostor syndrome”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Book by Douglas AdamsFavourite Quote:
- “On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.”
- “Sharks don’t complain about Monday’s. They’re up early, chasing, biting & reminding everyone they’re a freaking shark.”
- “just trying to figure out a way to go through life go down the stairs without going bump bump bump on the back of your head”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Jim Rohn – the philosopher who has left an indelible legacy of time-proven principles.
- You Tube – YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets, see what worked for them…
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Show up. Find something that you are passionate about… take the leap… if you want to be an entrepreneur is a whole different thing than if you want to be an entrepreneur acting like an entrepreneur and then being an entrepreneur as an entrepreneur as a way of being. Just do it…it’s terrifying, you are going to go downstairs and bump the back of your head a lot but do it anyhow because it is worth it if you find that one thing, or you create that one thing in your life that drives you every second of every day. That’s the biggest thing find the thing that matters”…[Listen for More]
More About Jonathan Partlow:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: “I guess I’ll find out.” Dean Koontz
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jonathan Partlow:
- “I really just start with what exists and then start stripping away everything that isn’t what I want to see in it”
- “get great people”
- “be prepared to make mistakes”
- “always staying true to the values, not compromising”
- “there is value in taking the time to learn it yourself”
- “stand on the shoulders of giants”
- “if you are looking towards innovation get out of the silo of your field because what we find is that we have this tendency to take what exists and then change it. But that is very much like painting a cart read that is a lemon, you still have a lemon it is just a red lemon instead of whatever colour it was before. If you want to go for that change Caterpillar to butterfly where you don’t even recognise what existed before you truly have to look at it from different fields and different spaces”
- “we exist because my gut feeling disagreed with the data”
- “What value are you providing? how are you providing goodwill with your audience and with the world as a whole?”
- “Do you truly believe in what you are doing? Because if you do truly believe in what you are doing you should be making additional offers because you truly believe that it is a disservice to the planet and to your client base to not sell them what you have because it makes their life better”
- “you never know when the next thing that you do changes everything”
- “every single day we show up and we show up ready to play. We play at 100%”
- “there are a lot of people that I listen to that I don’t agree with everything they say but even that has value because you now have something that you hadn’t thought about before even if it’s a complete disagreement because then you have to think about why you disagree and how you would apply what you disagree with in your business”
- “our greatness shows up in you”
- “I hear the word best practices I throw up a little bit in my mouth every time I hear the word best practices because it makes a lot of assumptions that unless somebody can explain those assumptions”
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