Alex Mehr is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in digital marketing. He founded the dating site Zoosk, which recently sold for $255 Million, as well as his current business MentorBox, which has 80,000 paid subscribers watching 300 video courses taught by best-selling authors.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the biggest obstacle I had to overcome was actually my reluctance to take on risk… For me it was it was like well I started as an entrepreneur relatively late in life, I was 25 I want to say, 26 may be when I started as an entrepreneur and I had to spend the first 26 years of my life since I was five years old wanting to be a scientist, a physicist initially and then I became an aerospace scientist… My willing to throw it all away to try this new thing. That was my single biggest obstacle to say okay I am going to risk it all and risk becoming an obsolete scientist and in return I’m going to try this entrepreneurship thing”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. Covey
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…and Others Don’t Book by James C. Collins
- How Brands Grow: What Marketers Don’t Know Book by Byron Sharp
Favourite Quote:
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain
Recommended Online Resources:
Wikipedia – Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“take a lot of risks in a calculated manner. In other words, have conviction so it’s again keeping two opposing ideas in your head. One of them is having conviction and the other one is not being fully committed to an idea until it’s proven itself. So, the solution to that, to have those two opposing ideas in your head simultaneously is to take risks. Meaning look this is a project, this is an idea, I’ve researched it for a couple of weeks or whatever a month. I think it’s worth a try and then you have enough conviction to actually try it. So that’s the risk you are taking however that risk has to be balanced with progress. And if you have launched and if you have tried it and you are not making progress you have to reassess”…[Listen for More]
More About Alex Mehr:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Alex welcome to the show, are you ready to share your version of The Entrepreneur Way with us.
Other Quotes From the Chat with Alex Mehr:
- “analysis paralysis is probably my number one mistake. And I know a lot of other people have the same issue and all I can tell them look get started with something just make sure you don’t bet the farm on it. And start small and if it doesn’t work pivot to the next idea and if it doesn’t work pivot to the next idea. I think of it as like swings of a baseball bat. So you are going to have to swing and everybody has a batting average. So, keep swinging until you hit it. And that’s what I do.”
- “I know I know a lot of people say perseverance, you have to keep doing it until you succeed. I am like well not really what if you are doing the wrong thing? What if you have an idea that the market doesn’t want? And you can’t just force your will on the market, the market has to want your product”
- “that’s perseverance versus question yourself. And great entrepreneurs actually live that dilemma. So, in times they trust the direction they are going. At other times they step back and question it and then the choose to go back on the same path or pick a different path”
- “when you are faced with challenges of the potential for things to go wrong you have two options. You can sit back and let the puzzle pieces fall in place or you can actively proactively going try to fit things together”
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