Ivan Raiklin Recovering Lawyer, Diplomat, Green Beret, Turned Startup Investor/Advisor #LifeHacker who accidentally ran 50 miles once
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Elon Musk
- Jason Calacanis
- Gary Vaynerchuck
- Brian Fanzo
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The risk of do I want to disengage what I’m currently involved in with the potential for losing everything I have by putting in all my time money and effort into the endeavour so I think that’s the biggest thing was taking that leap of faith, do I want to expend my time and energy on something that could potentially go wrong”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie
- Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future By Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
- The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich Book by Timothy Ferriss
Favourite Quote:
“Do what you can with what you have with where you are”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Keep plugging away, the best piece of advice is set your goal, and then set a goal that’s even higher than you think you can achieve and then start backwards planning and keep pushing towards that goal because if you try to shoot for a hundred miles, in my instance, you shoot for 51 miles and you only make 50 well I can now say I accidentally say I ran 50 miles once”[Listen for More]
More About Ivan Raiklin:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I’m really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why, or what.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ivan Raiklin:
- “You need to start working on things that make you uncomfortable, so if you’re currently in a position where you’re completely comfortable with your life then you’re not pushing yourself hard enough, you need to start, for example, pushing yourself educationally, learn about the entrepreneurial space”
- “Tenacity and drive, continue to learn from your mistakes”
- “You don’t want to compete, you just want to completely dominate in your space”
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