Christopher Burres is a Mechanical Engineer turned scientist turned entrepreneur. Using a Nobel Prize Winning molecule tested and used by NASA that has been shown to almost double the lifespan in test subjects, Chris is on a mission to make ESS60 a household name to help people live longer, healthier and pain-free lives one dose at a time.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Chris’s Mentors
When business started difficulties overcame:
“we were trying to put together a deal where we could actually office out of the University of Houston facility and in order to do that we had to write a business plan. Which everybody will tell you a business plan is a great idea and I believe it’s a great idea. We wrote this business plan and that Business Plan was based entirely on the consumption of the University of Houston – what materials, what carbon 60 materials would they purchase from us. And to this day they have never purchased from us. And so I think that story is good and relevant in the sense that a business plan is worth putting in place because it shows your ability to work through the process and what direction you may go. And just know that in two months you may have to totally rework that business plan and again plan what direction you are going to go based on what new information you have in two months… And just know that no business plan… I have never heard an entrepreneur say my business plan went exactly as I originally written it. It always changes, it always pivots”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and DreamsBook by Matthew Walker
- Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action Book by Susan Jeffers
Favourite Quote:
the law of deservedness “you have today or you don’t have today exactly what you truly believe you deserve. And we are talking at a subconscious level. And if you get more than you truly believe you deserve you will sabotage it or not enjoy it” Patrick Wanis
Recommended Online Resources:
The Great Courses – Teaching Company: Online Courses & Lectures for Home Study and Lifelong Learning
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“business your business so that it runs without you. Like even if you’re on day one having your mind what are the processes, what are the systems, how is the company ultimately going to define its culture, how is the company ultimately going to hire people and get new business and on-board new customers? Be thinking in terms of how all of that’s going to happen without you. Because ultimately that’s going to be a more valuable business both to you and your customer”…[Listen for More]
More About Christopher Burres:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Christopher Burres:
- “if you have suspicions that it might, could possibly be better for your company that that person is gone it’s probably the case that they should be gone and you should be moving on”
- “this is going to get tough. Why are you doing it?”
- “once you’ve selected the business that you want to get into find a mentor with expertise in that business. And you will be surprised how easy it is to pick up a mentor. It’s flattering when somebody approaches you and says that I would like you to mentor me, I will buy you a couple coffee once every other week and I can pick your brain. That’s really flattering and I think you will be surprised who you can get as a mentor. And I think that that adds an incredible amount of value to what you are doing and what you are going through”
- “I didn’t have mentors quick enough and I think mentor would have really helped”
- “I’ve seen people who were less intelligent be significantly more successful, and people who are significantly more intelligent be significantly less successful. I don’t think intelligence is the real thing I think it’s just not quitting and being willing to let go of what happened in the past, those are mistakes that were misguided or whatever”
- “if you just keep trying things you will eventually hit a thing that works and then just do that”
- “I think a very key piece of success is the things that are working wake up and do them every day”
- “a lot of marketing fails because it was working and somebody decided that it needed to change because it was old. No, it’s working double down on what’s working”
- “we are problem solvers we solve problems for money”
- “have a diverse life because if something falls off in your life then it doesn’t really matter if you have a very diverse life”
- “it’s not that people who do things that others can’t don’t feel fear it’s that they feel the fear and then they do it anyway”
- “you need to constantly be working on yourself and litmus testing and making sure that the next level you want to get to you also need to really believe that you deserve it”
- “live beyond the norms”
- “in terms of opportunities and even in terms of directions I like the phrase sometimes opportunity isn’t. So sometimes this great opportunity that is in front of you is not an opportunity it is just a distraction from the path that you are on”
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