As the founders of GiftCast, Tim Campbell and Joel Deitz each bring over 20 years of experience, expertise, strategy and entrepreneurial skills and have developed the first ever mobile gifting app, which they created in 2017. The app allows users to send a video and money gift through your phone.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Steve Jobs
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
- Brian Chesky Co-founder of Airbnb
- Tim Brown of Ideo
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there were a lot of difficulties to overcome. But I think like most entrepreneurs who want to do something, have an idea it comes down to how much money you have, how much capital, can you get to actually make a viable product. Having to bootstrap a business like the one Gift Cast when you have limited access to money and you are just using your own money you have to find alternative ways to get things done. So you look at cheaper alternatives and the problem with that is that you get what you pay for”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Book by Simon Sinek
- But What If We’re Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past Book by Chuck Klosterman
Favourite Quote:
- “When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.” Steve Jobs
- “there are people less qualified than you, doing the things you wnat to do, simply because they decide to believe in themselves. period.”
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Angel List – Search tech startup jobs, find new tech products, and invest in startups.
- Clarity – Make faster better decisions to grow your business. Clarity is your lifeline that instantly connects you with battle tested advice from entrepreneurs. Find and schedule a call in minutes.
- Smashing Magazine – for web designers and developers. Smashing Magazine is a website and eBook publisher that offers editorial content and professional resources for web developers and web designers. It was founded in 2006 by Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman as part of the German-based Smashing Media AG.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“always believe in yourself and your vision. There is going to be challenges, there is going to be people who second-guess you, they will second-guess you and your idea, there is going to be times when you actually second-guess yourself, you are going to get down. You are going to wonder should I keep doing this, is it ever going to make it, should I just stop now? But don’t. There is no better feeling when someone buys your product for the first time and it has a positive impact on whatever they are doing”…[Listen for More]
More About Tim Campbell and Joel Deitz:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Chase the vision, not the money; the money will end up following you.” Tony Hsieh
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tim Campbell and Joel Deitz:
- “I really think you need to listen to other entrepreneurs and just reach out to them or read articles about what they’ve written because they’ve been there before. Which is I guess why you do this podcast but I think listening to those that have done it have so many valuable insights, just really take them in and make sure that you follow them ”
- “do your research”
- “we all make mistakes, we all don’t need to make the same mistakes. So if other entrepreneurs have made them before you can watch out for them”
- “I’m not sure that there is any recipe or secret”
- “I think there has to be a certain amount of blind belief”
- “things take longer than you think they are going to take. People are going to ask you ‘I here you are still working on that’. And it’s tough to have to push through all of that and say you know what ‘Yes. This is what I believe in and what I’m going to continue doing until it reaches a conclusion’”
- “turn it around, look at it from another side, what if I’m wrong”
- “self-doubt is like a stop sign in our minds, you just got to move past it, you have just got to move past it”
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