After years in the web hosting industry, Sharon Koifman started DistantJob as the first remote recruitment agency aimed at disrupting the way companies hire. He’s the author of #1 Amazon bestseller in its category Surviving Remote Work, an in-depth guide for both managers and employees on how to navigate remote work.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Sharon’s Dad
- Bill Gates
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the first challenge is to pay your pay check… Is to generate enough profit and enough revenue to say this is real and I can afford living on this… Been able to generate enough profit, I’m talking about small amount of money to be able to pay for your beer money and for yourself is the biggest challenge because until then you always need to think ‘what am I going to do to live?’”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions Book by Dan Ariely
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity Book by David Allen
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable Book by Patrick M. Lencioni
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement Book by Eliyahu M Goldratt
Favourite Quote:
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” Albert Einstein
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- LinkedIn – 500 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
- Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
- Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users in the form of opinions. Its publisher, Quora Inc., is based in Mountain View, California.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“if you have the capacity to fail, to fall on your ground, wipe yourself off and stand up and try again there is no question about it that you will succeed”…[Listen for More]
More About Sharon Koifman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” John Wooden
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sharon Koifman:
- “I really avoided being transparent with my employees… I thought that I had a pretty innovative product, the concept of a recruitment agency for remote employees. And I was putting so much effort in people not stealing that idea that it slowed down the process. I would literally have my customer service people independent from my recruiters, independent from my biz dev. Everyone was on a need-to-know basis. And that sucked. That prevented people from being invested in my company and bringing it to the next level ”
- “one of the other things that I actually regret from the beginning is not taking on investors. I feel that this entire concept of building a business bootstrapped is not a good idea. It is a very, very slow process. And if I would give someone 10, 20 percent of my business and they would give me a good chunk of change to accelerate my business to hire the best salespeople in the world and the best business in the world I would have been in a very different place today than”
- “The secret to success is the ability to fail. This is huge. I find that if you are able to take on failure and also take on criticism, to take on uncomfortable feedback you will have a much bigger chance of succeeding. You really need is a start-up as an entrepreneur to eliminate all obstacles that should not be there”
- “If you are the type of person who is afraid to succeed man you are in trouble – get a therapist or don’t get into business. Because there is no room for those little extra obstacles out there. You have got to go in all of the way, you have got to dream big and you have got to know how to land softly when things don’t work so you can get up again. This is in my opinion the key to success. It gives you unlimited energy until you get it right ”
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