Bart Rupert has founded nearly 30 companies, negotiated over $500M in contracts & business deals, and has sold companies worth over $100M. He has made a career buying & selling companies for a living having purchased companies across three different countries using none of his own money. Today, he’s helping entrepreneurs become millionaires and showing ordinary people how to buy & sell companies for a living.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Being flat broke, no money at all. It’s a disadvantage spot to start but you learn how to embrace the MacGyver Theory. If people don’t know who MacGyver is … He would essentially take something that was very trivial to you or I and invent something fantastic out of it. The guy would take a pair of shoelaces and make a bomb out of it, it was really incredible stuff. I think that was really defining for me because when you have no money at all you’ve got to get super creative particularly as it comes down to how do I go out there and kick up some entrepreneurial spirit and get some things done”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Atlas Shrugged Book by Ayn RandFavourite Quote:
- “get it done”
- “just do it”
- “get after it”
- “Get shit done”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Crunchbase is the leading destination for company insights from early stage startups to the Fortune 1000. Get insights into your competition. Uncover startup trends, get company funding data. Find new prospects, beat competitors and quotas
- LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- State Secretary of State websites Business Entity and Corporate Record Search
- Social Media
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“get out of your own way, drop the fear. Whatever your excuses you’ve been telling yourself it’s just a narrative it’s not real. There is literally millions of people that have taken your exact situation and probably worse within excuse that’s far more justified than the one you are giving yourself and they’ve figured it out. So, if you continue to sit there, if you continue to do nothing, if you continue to be idly standing by waiting for someone else to do something for you, you are never going to achieve what you are meant to achieve”…[Listen for More]
More About Bart Rupert:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.” Ross Perot
Other Quotes From the Chat with Bart Rupert:
- “I wish I knew decades ago that the way to really achieve radical success is to buy and sell companies. It would have saved me so much time.”
- “It’s having a very clear vision for what you want, being brave enough to go after it and getting out of your own way. And having the determination, the dedication and the discipline to pull it off”
- “88 percent of all wealth is created through the sale of a small business or real estate. As you know that you start to say okay how do I get involved with that? And then you start to look towards who can really teach me to be able to go out and do this? If you’ve got that information then all you’ve got to do is put one foot in front of the other and make it happen”
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