David Conley is an igniter, a change agent, your startup sherpa. He helps people start new companies or reinvent their current one. More often than not, it’s about changing something inside – changing something about yourself.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Fred Wilson of AVC
When business started difficulties overcame:
“My biggest difficulty was finding out why I was so unhappy in my job and I’d mentioned earlier that I’d started my career in basically helping everybody get on the internet for the first time and that was just a crazy amazing lottery win job like how do you just get a job where you’re making a huge difference for millions of people so that’s one thing.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Joy on Demand: 100 Minutes to Happiness book by Chade-Meng Tan
Favourite Quote:
“If you don’t know where you’re going anyway is the way” Alice In Wonderland
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“A lot of the time it’s quit, get out. Think about doing the exact opposite of what you’re currently doing and try on that suit a little bit and see how it works for you. I find that a lot of people get into a rut and they do the same thing over and over again”…[Listen for More]
More About David Conley:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.” James Stephens
Other Quotes From the Chat with David Conley:
“My flipped model is, why don’t you do awesome stuff and connect with amazing people and that nut will cover itself, so if you stop focusing on the wrong thing and start focusing on the thing that lights you up and drives you, those incidentals, those things that you think are so important actually become less and less important and you just get much, much happier”
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