Payman Taei is the founder of Visme which was bootstrapped on a 10K budget and is one of the leading Visual Communication tools used by over 3.5 million users from over 100 countries including leading Non-profits and Fortune 500 companies that such as IBM, WorldBank, Capital One and General Dynamics. He’s also the Founder of Respona (Just launched) The all-in-one PR/Blogger outreach tool that empowers marketers to promote their brands at a fraction of the cost and effort of traditional methods.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Ben Chestnut CEO & Co-founder at Mailchimp
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there has been so many, there has been a lot of challenges… I didn’t go to business school, I didn’t have a prior business, I didn’t have backing, I just started it myself from nothing… Some of the challenges that I faced was basically where do I start and what do I do first and what do I do second and what do I do third. So a lot of it was just figuring it out. And for me it’s been a lot of trial and error”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
None
Favourite Quote:
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King Jr
Recommended Online Resources:
- Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users in the form of opinions. Its publisher, Quora Inc., is based in Mountain View, California.
- Facebook Groups – A Facebook Group is a place for group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion.
- Also mentioned
- SaaStr Blog – Resources & Training for Scaling SaaS Companies. Grow your SaaS company with industry leading tips, tricks and best practices
- CNBC – International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis. CNBC International is the world leader for news on business, technology, China, trade, oil prices, the Middle East and markets
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you have to have this relentless pursuit of improvement. You are going to fail a lot and there is going to be… It’s like climbing a ladder or giant staircase, you take two steps back and you are going to fall down. As long as the steps forward exceed the steps that you take back then you are moving ahead… If you are at the very beginning of entrepreneurship take the first leap of faith… You have got to start somewhere and continue moving, baby steps”…[Listen for More]
More About Payman Taei:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“A-B-C. Always Be Closing.” Blake in Glengarry Glen Ross
Other Quotes From the Chat with Payman Taei:
- “for me it’s been hard work, full dedication, almost an addictive sense of if you believe in something, have a passion for something you do whatever the heck you need to do to get it done. and the matter what it takes… I’m not talking about something illegal… What it takes from the aspect of how ever hard you need to work at it, pound the pavement, work hard. So, I think that’s a key factor, also work smart is something as well”
- “coming from a background of biology you kind of learn that evolution, everything is always adjusting”
- “today we are always looking out for what is a new trend, what’s coming, what’s on the horizon. And then in advance how could it impact us and work on addressing or mitigating the risk or even improving our tool or rolling out new features and so on to cope with it”
- “you can never sit still or you will just get run over”
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