By day, he’s an oft-quoted top ranked stock-picker, but his evening job offers the greatest excitement. A parallel entrepreneur and award-winning writer, Christopher Carosa grew up in his family’s carnival stand. He used that experience in raw capitalism to start a series of businesses before he was even a teenager.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Chris’s Father and Grandparents
When business started difficulties overcame:
“if you really want to go before I was an entrepreneur you are going back to when I was in elementary school. By the time I was a teenager I had already started businesses… When you talk about what is it like before you are an entrepreneur I don’t know that there really is a before you are an entrepreneur. You are probably already thinking about how to bring your market, how to bring your talents to other people or you are thinking about how to monetise what you are already doing in a way that increases margins”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Stars Howard Zinn
- Targets: How to Set Goals for Yourself and Reach Them! Book by Leon Tec
- Beyond Entrepreneurship: Turning Your Business into an Enduring Great Company by James C. Collins and William C. Lazier
- How To Write A Good Advertisement: A Short Course In Copywriting Book by Victor O. Schwab
- Scientific Advertising Book by Claude Hopkins
- My Life in Advertising by Claude C. Hopkins
Favourite Quote:
- “Never Give Up. Never Surrender” Galaxy Quest
- “In space no can hear you scream” Ridley Scott’s Alien
- “in space you don’t stop”
- “Excelsior”
- “keep moving forward”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“look for the voids. There are always voids in life, those voids represent gaps between where people want to be and where people are today. And if you could be the first one to offer a solution to fill that gap you are probably going to have a winning business at least in the short-term. If you are very successful others will follow. So there are things that you need to do to go beyond that and believe it or not those marketing books that I talk to you about, those old, century-old marketing books talk about this”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Carosa:
The Pizza The Action
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Leaders concentrate single-mindedly on one thing– the most important thing, and they stay at it until it’s complete.” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Carosa:
- “ignore the learning curve. The learning curve is there and it’s an obstacle. And it’s an obstacle if you choose to allow it to become an obstacle or stay in obstacle. The idea of just holding yourself back is the biggest impediment to starting. And that could be because you are analysis by paralysis, analysing and then not doing anything because of this you are waiting for the next thing before you can start – all these reasons that will hold you back. Get rid of them don’t do it just take a step into the water and wade in, move forward. That’s the key thing”
- “it’s how you define success and not confusing the means to get to success with the ends of what you personally imagine your own success to be… You have to figure out what success means to you and don’t get confused by these false measurements of success. I am not saying don’t go out there in try to become rich or don’t become wealthy because obviously wealth can help fuel success in other ways. And when I say success I mean if you’re wealthy you are more able to help other people sometimes. But it’s that helping other people or helping yourself that way through helping other people that’s kind of really the end that you want to focus on”
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