Ed Vincent is an Entrepreneur with over 25 years business, technology and management experience including 6 years banking and valuation experience. Founded an e-commerce business in 1999 which was sold to a competitor in 2001. Repeat Founder including SimplyEngage, myProducer, & Predict Ventures. Currently Founder & CEO of festivalPass. Specialties: Subscription Business Models, Marketplaces, NFTs, Corporate Development, Marketing and Branding, Company Structuring, Technology Marketing Solutions, Entertainment Consulting, Complex Deal Structuring
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think there is many, many lessons… The good all the bad… I am a long-term entrepreneur so I have had many challenges along the way that had to be overcome… When I started my first online business and selling it and thinking we had made success only to realise that success can be taken away very quickly in terms of a financial perspective… Continuously throughout the process there is always challenges…. ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs Book by John Doerr
- A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life Book by Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman
Favourite Quote:
If— By Rudyard Kipling
” (‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!”
Also mentioned:
“Be stubborn on vision, but flexible on details.” – Jeff Bezos
Recommended Online Resources:
Slack is where work flows It’s where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Patience… I think every entrepreneur expects things to go faster than they do… I think the patients to realise that value is built over time and things don’t always happen as fast as you expect them to. Persistence and patience is what usually creates value”…[Listen for More]
More About Ed Vincent:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If there is no wind, row.” Latin Proverb
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ed Vincent:
- “No problems, no business”
- “When given the opportunity to be right or be kind choose kind . What I realise after being an entrepreneur for over 20 years is the world is a small place and the kinder you are to people along the journey usually pays itself back tenfold along the way even if it’s not for another five or ten years, people remember the kind of person you are…”
- “The hope is that with each mistake we can make less of that going forward”
- “a lot of times people feel like the challenge all the obstacle is hard to get over. But the truth is almost all obstacles can be overcome and it’s really just about persistence… Certain levels of persistence rather than fear may have allowed different outcomes”
- “Too many people think that they are better than others when they find triumph, and I think too many people think they are worse than others when they find disaster ”
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