Jeremy Streten is a successful entrepreneur and lawyer applying his passion and experience to help entrepreneurs and small to medium sized business owners to succeed in their business so that they can live the life that they want to live.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“mindset I think was a big thing about whether I could start my business. So being a lawyer is very tempting and a lot of lawyers think that oh I can just go and start my business because I can do it myself. You know you’ve got a lot of training especially as a business lawyer… And really that mindset shift was a big thing that I had to overcome. Also going from a very well-paid job to being an entrepreneur is also a tough sell to family”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- High Output Management Book by Andrew Grove
- Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell Book by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle
Favourite Quote:
“if it’s not a hell yes it’s a no”
Recommended Online Resources:
Slack is where work flows It’s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get advice and to learn from others. You don’t know it all. No matter what you are a specialist in you will have blind spots and all the great business leaders have got advice. You don’t hear about it often but even the Steve Jobs ??? founders had a coach. All the great people in business know that they have their blind spots and so do you, so does everyone… so get advice, get help because if you don’t you will struggle in business ”…[Listen for More]
More About Jeremy Streten:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Seek advice on risk from the wealthy who still take risks, not friends who dare nothing more than a football bet.” J. Paul Getty
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeremy Streten:
- “where I see people fall down is that they get barbecue advice from well-meaning friends and family and they don’t going get specialist advice for them. So, I always say speak to an accountant and a lawyer to make sure that you are setup correctly because there are lots of things that you miss out on that you don’t get if you don’t get that advice”
- “get advice earlier on get advice from people who have been there before. Whether it be a coach or a mentor or some kind of business adviser get advice from someone who has been there before and take the advice. Do the tasks, do what you need to do to help build a better business because we don’t know it all, we have many blind spots”
- “you can’t do it yourself. I think also often we get stuck in our entrepreneurial bubble with ourselves and we have confirmation bias and we have all those good things that help us make decisions that probably help us make bad decisions and I think that actually getting advice from a team of advisers where you need to is crucial and people fall down in a lot of ways ”
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