Ross Kimbarovsky founded and is CEO at crowdspring, where 220,000+ experienced freelancers help startups, small businesses, and agencies with high-quality custom logo design, web design, graphic design, product design, and company naming services. There’s a rumor that Ross quit his law practice to wear shorts daily. The rumor is true.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Non-specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“trying to understand how I could move from a fairly low risk high paying very successful career as a lawyer to a potentially very high risk very low pay stressful career as an entrepreneur while still maintaining some semblance of a balance with my family. And so that was one of the biggest challenges. And actually balance with family was one of the most important things that I focused on”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Turn The Ship Around!: A True Story of Building Leaders by Breaking the Rules Book by L. David MarquetFavourite Quote:
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” Thomas Edison
Recommended Online Resources:
- Paste App – Copy and paste smarter. Paste is the world’s favorite clipboard manager for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It stores everything you copy and keeps your clipboard organized across all your devices.
- Twitter – It’s what’s happening. From breaking news and entertainment to sports and politics, get the full story with all the live commentary.
- Tweetbot for Mac – Tweetbot is an award-winning, full-featured* Twitter client for the Mac. It has a beautiful interface with light & dark themes, multiple-column support and much more.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“not to seek a single mentor before you get moving. I think a lot of people make the mistake of reading and researching and searching for that one person that they think they need to latch onto to help them get started. And of course, the most important thing that nearly all successful entrepreneurs will say if you asked them after a few years in business is what actually started their learning at a much more significant pace was starting… I don’t think anyone person knows all the answers, I don’t think anyone person can help us understand what we need to do. I think many people can… My biggest advice is don’t assume that somebody has been successful is the person who could teach you how to be successful. Take a small lesson from every single person that you meet along the way. Because success is at the end of the day a combination of luck which you can’t control but obviously you can put yourself in a position to take advantage of. And a combination of making incremental decisions that ultimately put you in a position to succeed those decisions are much better informed when you can learn from each of the people you interact with…[Listen for More]
More About Ross Kimbarovsky:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again. That’s the way life is, with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is.” Bob Feller
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ross Kimbarovsky:
- “I know there is this notion that people have a mentor or a couple of mentors that they typically follow and they listen to. But for me that has never been the case largely because I’ve always appreciated several things: 1) that you can learn from just about anybody. You can learn how to do things well and how not to do things. And in that sense, I always open my mind to listening to people of different ages, different races, different experience because in my career as a lawyer and my career as an entrepreneur I’ve learned a lot from people that were inexperienced but asked really good questions. And so not one role model but definitely many different people”
- “problem the biggest…if I had to look over the last 12 years and ask myself what’s the biggest mistake I made where I am invested both my own learning curve and the team it was in understanding the importance of that experience for our customers. And that includes not just product that we built, our marketplace but every touch point with the customer, from customer service to marketing to social. I didn’t appreciate how important that customer experience was for the first two, three years of the business.”
- “For me it’s been stubbornness. I think that’s an important secret…when you are an entrepreneur people say it’s like a rollercoaster, read Hoffman says it’s like jumping off a cliff and building your plane… And those are all true but the reality of entrepreneurs is there are times in your start-up’s life… And it doesn’t matter if your company is worth 50,000,000,000 dollars today or is a small company with three people the reality is every single one of these companies faced a situation where they just about went out of business… So, stubbornness helps you persevere over those humps”
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