Kurt Wilkin is a trusted advisor for high-growth, middle-market companies as founder and managing partner of Bee Cave Capital and Co-Founder of HireBetter. With a passion for growth and a hard-earned, proven set of tools in his toolbox, Kurt works with other entrepreneurs and CEOs to help them escape the start-up mindset and achieve next-level success.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Kurt’s Brother and Dad
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The biggest one was that I came up through Ernst & Young and Ernst & Young is not exactly a playground for entrepreneurs, it doesn’t really teach you entrepreneurial skills. So I had to learn a lot of things the hard way on my own by watching other people. So that was definitely a struggle. The other struggle was do you prioritise?”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business Book by Gino Wickman and Mark C. WintersFavourite Quote:
“I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” Mother Teresa
Recommended Online Resources:
21 Hats – Business advice, entrepreneurial insights and more. Get cutting edge business advice, entrepreneurial insights learn what it takes to run a business with 21 Hats host Loren Feldman
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Keep grinding. It’s hard work, it’s glorified when you see Mark Zuckerberg and Steve jobs of the world… But it’s a grind and it’s worth it if you can continue the journey”…[Listen for More]
More About Kurt Wilkin:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Forget your excuses. You either want it bad or don’t want it at all.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kurt Wilkin:
- “I probably would have brought on some more senior level experienced talent early on rather than learn a lot of lessons the hard way. I think I could have got there faster if I had built a team of people who had done this before”
- “Finding your highest and best use and focusing on that… And outsourcing either to someone else or someone outside of your organisation the things that you suck at”
- “Knowing when to seize the opportunities. There are opportunities in front of each of us and we don’t always seize those opportunities and so we get jealous or envious and oh my gosh I can’t believe they had the opportunity. But really having the opportunity then also seizing the opportunity ”
- “As great as you think you are it’s never as bad as you think it is”
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