Waldon Fenster is the creator of over 50 startups. Experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of working with corporations & startups to launch or turn around companies. Skilled in Sales, Entrepreneurship and Development along with Marketing & Tech process creation. Waldon is a strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Science (BS) from the University of Wyoming.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“not knowing what I didn’t know. It’s one of those things where… there is so many ways that I should have done it different. I was in the mindset growing up on that cattle ranch that something needed done you just got it done. You literally just picked up a broom if it needed swept up type of mindset or plunged the toilet, you’re the custodian, you are the floor sweeper, you are the computer programmer, you are the salesperson, the client rep, everything”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America’s Wild Frontier by Stephen E. Ambrose
- Russell Brunson Books
- Gary Vaynerchuk Books
- Tony Robbins Books
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich Book by Timothy Ferriss
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business Book by Gino Wickman
Favourite Quote:
“luck happens when preparation meets opportunity”
Recommended Online Resources:
Dani Johnson Expert Business Training, Money & Relationship Advice
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“surround yourself with people that are smarter and better than you. If you are the smartest person in the room you are a big fish in a small pond. But overall if you are filling a room full of those hundred millionaires and those billionaires and the people that have what you want you are going to become the average of those five people. The term out there is birds of a feather flock together”…[Listen for More]
More About Waldon Fenster:
Unchained Entrepreneurship
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” Tony Robbins
Other Quotes From the Chat with Waldon Fenster:
- “you don’t have to be everything to everyone”
- “overall, it’s like looking at it just knowing that hey I need to go and hire a ton of people so that I can leverage other people’s time not just my own”
- “being able to learn fast and be teachable, it’s the two main things I look for in employees and sales people and contractors, it’s literally what I strive for in myself”
- “if I know I can step into a room or step into a client’s business on a consulting contract and learn their whole business, learn the ins are doubts in a day that gives me the upper hand advantage over everybody else because I can learn that much faster. Just like if I can read that much faster, just like if I can just pick up knowledge”
- “the faster you can learn and absorb is really going to give you the upper hand in business”
- “I am going to prepare, prepare, prepare and know so much stuff because when an opportunity happens it’s the people that are prepared for it to happen are the ones that end up being successful with it”
- “Messes to Successes”
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