James Jacobson has founded several companies and is a serial entrepreneur whose career has primarily been focused in the media arena since graduating from the University of Virginia in 1988. Currently James is building Dog Podcast Network. In the past several years, James has been putting his attention on a promising cancer therapeutic company he co-founded with Dr. Demian Dressler in 2008 called Functional Nutriments. James Jacobson has been described as both “a serial entrepreneur” and as a “monk in the marketplace.” He has authored best-selling books, been a broadcaster and built businesses that leveraged new trends that were sometimes considered “just a little ahead of their time.” The overarching theme of his career has been building ventures that make a meaningful difference in the lives of as many people as possible. For over 20 years, that took the form of creating projects and companies that leveraged the power of media including teleproduction, radio, publishing and, the Internet. Since 2008, James Jacobson’s focus has been on Functional Nutriments, a biotech company that has developed and brought to market first-in-class nutraceuticals that induce and support apoptosis. Apoptosis is a critical biological life process that is encoded in the DNA; and the absence of normal levels of apoptosis is linked to serious diseases including cancer. Businesses that he developed, founded or helped co-found include a video yearbook company, a teleproduction and video marketing company, a talk radio station, a cable TV network, an e-commerce company, a magazine publisher, a book publisher, and a biotech nutraceutical firm. His author credits include “How to Meditate with Your Dog” and the best-selling series “Top Maui Restaurants” which he co-authored with his wife, Molly Jacobson.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I spent a lot of time asking myself what are all the things that could go wrong? What’s the worst thing that could happen and what’s the best thing that could happen? And then developed a plan that would mitigate the bad things and potentiate the good things… The plan was to start building it in earnest in the first quarter of 2020 and then this little thing came along called the global pandemic and then financial uncertainty and all of that . But despite that I already committed and I sort of had a plan in mind and I didn’t have to pivot that much”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground Book by Gay Hendricks PhDFavourite Quote:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Amazon is an American multinational technology company based in Seattle, Washington that focuses in e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. Amazon is the largest e-commerce marketplace and cloud computing platform in the world as measured by revenue and market capitalization.
- Jay Abraham – Business Consulting & Strategic Marketing Expert. Jay increases business income, wealth and success by looking at situations from totally different paradigms He uncovers hidden assets, overlooked opportunities, underperforming activities, and undervalued possibilities unseen by his clients
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“do what you love, be passionate about what you love and don’t do it for the money. If you love money don’t be an entrepreneur be a salesperson… If you are going to dedicate your life and your blood and your sweat and your tears and your shower time and endanger relationships should be for something that you really, really love. And I think that’s so critical and I think sometimes especially at the beginning of someone’s entrepreneurial journey they are just looking to make the quick buck that usually… I won’t say never… That usually doesn’t work out in the long-term and it certainly doesn’t pay the psychic dividends that will feed you when you come across adverse”…[Listen for More]
More About James Jacobson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Other Quotes From the Chat with James Jacobson:
- “every subsequent business builds on the successes and lessons that I have learned from the previous one”
- “I am constantly learning. I think that any entrepreneur or any business person or pretty much any person who is like I know everything is at best self-delusional. So, I am constantly learning and growing and refining my ability to pivot. I think it’s good to have plans but you have to look at new data that comes in and figure out how to go with the flow… Or embrace the change and come up with something that in many ways is better than you would have ever thought”
- “do what you love, take time to think, meditate or just going into the silence and being introspective is so critical to anyone’s success. And it’s the easiest cheapest thing to do but not enough people do it”
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