Mitchell Levy (pronounced Lee Vee) is The AHA Guy at AHAthat who empowers experts, thought leaders, and businesses to share their genius. His superpower is extracting the genius from your head in a two-hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book and make you an Amazon bestselling author. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. Mitchell is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author with sixty business books. He’s provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies, has advised over five hundred CEOs on critical business issues, and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. In addition to these accomplishments, he’s been happily married for twenty-nine years and regularly spends four weeks annually in a European country with his family and friends.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“…it was just to sit back and relax, make sure I put myself out there and let the world bring me opportunities. And so I did my thing and my initial reaction which was I don’t think I know anything about SE0 was one you know I don’t know when the next present is”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Selling The Wheel: Choosing The Best Way To Sell For You Your Company Your Customers Book by Jeff Cox and Howard Stevens
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Technology Products to Mainstream Customers Book by Geoffrey A. Moore
Favourite Quote:
“Good thought leaders are at the top of mountain, great thought leaders are at the bottom of the mountain helping others climb up ” Robert Classy
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube 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.
- TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100 languages Ideas free to stream and download
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“a) got to love what you do. b) make sure you could solve a problem that is repeatable over time. c) document that problem and figure out how to get other people to do it whether it’s a service firm or it’s a product that you need to create. Test drive, experiment, listen to the audience, listen to the market, leverage where you possibly can, make sure you grab at least one mentor and two mentees and have fun ”…[Listen for More]
More About Mitchell Levy:
- Mitchell Levy – The AHA Guy
- BEing Seen & BEing Heard as a Thought Leader! – Mitchell Levy’s Tedx talk
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” Jeffrey Zeldman, entrepreneur and web designer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mitchell Levy:
- “an entrepreneur is somebody who has an idea and they immediately go after trying to see if there is value”
- “if you are working 40 hours a week you have got another 10 maybe 15 hours a week that you can actually experiment with your stuff on the side and see if it works. And if it works and you can make money then then you can make a decision of whether you want to be an entrepreneur”
- “if you are an entrepreneur you are going to wake up in the morning you are going to have ideas and you are going to start executing on. Because all ideas are great ideas until you hit the market and you determine who wants to pay for it”
- “whenever humanly possible try to leverage other people, other services”
- “going through life with one mentor and two mentees is a really beautiful thing to have”
- “you learn from teaching, you learn from others”
- “to be an expert what you do having a book that demonstrate your expertise that’s beautiful, helps you become the expert”
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