Anthony Oyogoa, MD is the CEO and Co-Founder of UrSafe, the first and only hands-free, voice-activated personal safety app fully integrated with 911 to empower everyone to stay safe anytime, anywhere. Born and raised in Nigeria and then the United Kingdom, Anthony is a medical professional and business entrepreneur based out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Before working on UrSafe, Anthony founded i-Rotation, an app designed to streamline the entire healthcare education workflow from A to Z using innovative technology to manage clinical rotations, transform accreditation review, and validate clinical training.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Anthony’s Dad, Uncle and Mom
- Sir Richard Branson
- The guy who has the local restaurant
Also mentioned
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the shiny object syndrome for an entrepreneur which is you start project, you love it, this is growing great and then it’s like a shiny object over to your right and you get distracted by that and then all of a sudden that becomes the project that you really, really love now. That other project it’s still there but it’s… Try not to be distracted early on was and probably still is a challenge of mine ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Losing My Virginity Book by Richard BransonFavourite Quote:
“my belief is stronger than your doubt”
Recommended Online Resources:
The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“dream big, dream wild, have wild thoughts. Why not? Whatever idea you think of… What if it can do this? What if it can do that? Why not? You know nobody’s done it, sometimes technology hasn’t got there yet but why can’t it be you? Why can’t you?… Why not?… Just don’t let anybody limit you. Your ideas are your ideas, they are meant for you to try to dream them out and make them happen”…[Listen for More]
More About Anthony Oyogoa:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill
Other Quotes From the Chat with Anthony Oyogoa:
- “making your circles smaller… If you get a circle that you trust and that’s your team and trust your opinion good and bad and sticking to that. Everybody else is outside noise and everyone else has an opinion but you can’t let your aunt in Jamaica’s idea of you distract you for a week because of her suggestion. It’s just very, very distracting ”
- “what does success mean to you? To everybody is different… Is success to you being a multimillionaire?… Just trying to figure out what you want to do, to what level that you are comfortable with and how can you do it in an honest way. Try to listen to people… When people are giving you good advice try to figure out where you can go to listen to people that even not in your space but definitely entrepreneurs”
- “how bad do you want to be successful. People talk about being successful how bad do you really want it”
- “everybody says that they are a lion until they get dropped off in the jungle.”
- “Everybody says oh yeah I can do that I can do that but a lot of people are gazelles or giraffes pretending to be lions… A lot of people think that they are ready for the entrepreneur life and they get dropped into it and you have to decide are you really that lion or are you really that person that is ready for that. Because when you get dropped off in this world or in this arena of being an entrepreneur it’s real”
- “you have to believe in yourself when you are not just an entrepreneur but I think overall in life. And I think knowing that you really believe in what you are doing you really believe in your cause you believe in your goal you are always going to have doubt,”
- “look around, every idea that you have is a manifestation of somebody’s thoughts, somebody’s ideas”
- “you cannot let other people’s doubt in your abilities or them projecting their own insecurities onto you deter you from what you believe. So, your belief has to be stronger than their doubt”
- “People are attracted to that sense of confidence in knowing what you are going to do”
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