Jeroen Corthout is Co-Founder and CEO of Salesflare, an intelligent CRM built for SMBs selling B2B, mostly popular with agencies and fast growing startup companies. It’s a CRM that fills out itself and it’s top rated on platforms like G2 for its ease of use and automation features.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“we needed an income; we couldn’t just spend years on this without pay. So, in the very initial stages it was convincing people to give us money for that. That’s one of the first things that we looked at. It took us awhile to overcome that. I think we have the first money after five / six months. And then the whole trying to validate whether what we were building was actually useful, how we should build it, how we should bring it to people. Those were some of the most difficult things we did at the start I think.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams Book by Matthew Walker
- Elon Musk biography
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Book by Phil Knight
Favourite Quote:
“taking it day by day, trying to enjoy every conversation, everything you are working on and enjoying that comes with just being there in the moment”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“sometimes take it a bit slower. And I don’t mean go really slow or something. I mean take the right amount of time to do things. Don’t over run yourself… Don’t run faster than you can. Don’t hire someone before you know how the job is done. Don’t raise money before you know how you are going to use it. There is a bunch of things like that where you should slow things down sometimes for yourself. It’s just going to make your life so much better; you will make less mistakes. And in the end, you will actually move faster… If you don’t take your time to properly hire the right people then it is not going to be time saved it’s going to be a huge amount of time lost”…[Listen for More]
More About Jeroen Corthout:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” Mark Caine
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jeroen Corthout:
- “if you know everything now then you can always shortcut the learning curve”
- “If I had taken it more seriously then for sure that would have shortcut the learning curve. But that is just very hard because there is so much advice coming at you as an entrepreneur that it can first of all fully overwhelm you. Sometimes you need to be able to trust your own instincts and just go ahead with stuff and ignore the advice of other people. But that’s a very hard task. So, knowing what to follow and what not to follow is partly something you have to learn by doing it I think”
- “I think a lot of it just comes down to consistently improving things day by day and taking it piece by piece, day by day is extremely important. Because that sort of keeps up your motivation and it’s the constant moving forward that in the end will make the difference”
- “it’s really that day by day struggle that makes you go forward”
- “take 101 percent and do that to the power of 365. You get huge results if you make a one percent change every day”
- “that one third of your life that you spend sleeping or you should at least spend one third of your life sleeping is going to be spent so much better which makes the other two thirds of your life also dramatically improve”
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