Dom Einhorn is the founder and CEO of CXSports, a technology platform that helps amateur and semi-professional sports teams develop and monetize their brand and media assets. Dom also serves as the president of Sarlat Rugby, a semi-professional rugby team founded in 1903.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Maternal Grandmother
When business started difficulties overcame:
“it was extremely expensive in context to launch a business, specifically the technology industry…computing was expensive, connections were expensive, servers were outrageously expensive ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Think And Grow Rich Book by Napoleon Hill
- The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Book by Norman Doidge
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology Book by Raymond Kurzweil
Favourite Quote:
“Winners never quit and quitters never win”
Recommended Online Resources:
TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare. It reports on the business of tech, tech news, analysis of emerging trends in tech, and profiling of new tech businesses and products.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Never give up. I’ve seen so many ventures that should have succeeded and did not ultimately succeed simply because the entrepreneur threw in the towel to early… If you truly are on the wrong track then yes you need to cut your losses but it doesn’t mean you have to give up being an entrepreneur. Try to pivot and try to find something that works. When you are doing gambles make calculated gambles that don’t cost you a fortune. Be able to quickly cut your losses and iterate. If you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur try and stay in entrepreneur and not get a job just because you had a failure. Don’t be afraid to fail. Fail as quickly as possible. The quicker you fail the cheaper it is. ”…[Listen for More]
More About Dom Einhorn:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.” William Faulkner
Other Quotes From the Chat with Dom Einhorn:
- “You need resilience, you need the ability to fall down and get back up virtually instantly, of having setbacks in life and focusing on the positive”
- “It is very easy to identify with success, it’s a lot more difficult to identify with the process of getting to success. And I think that is what we really need as entrepreneurs is understanding the underlying principals that separate an unsuccessful person from a successful one ”
- “The 28 years since I started being an entrepreneur have given me somewhat of a crystal ball. It is always easier in obviously to look at things in retrospect and say I clearly wouldn’t have done that knowing what I know today”
- “You can emulate successful entrepreneurs to a certain degree but we are all different”
- “Quickly you have to become your own mentor”
- “I think that the biggest secret to success is that there is no secret.
- “In technology trend is your friend and if you don’t follow it, we all know what happens”
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