Adam J. Levinter is the founder and President of ScriberBase, a Toronto-based company helping businesses create recurring revenue through subscription e-commerce. Adam describes Scriberbase as a team helping clients be the next “Dollar Shave Club”. A digital entrepreneur, Adam is a true thought leader and subject matter expert in the subscription e-commerce space.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Jamie Foxx
- Tim Ferriss
- Larry David
- Bob Dylan
- Roger Federer
When business started difficulties overcame:
“When I started my first business I didn’t take a salary draw for 18 months, that’s the first thing that comes to mind, I relied heavily on savings that I had built up working in the corporate world and when I launched my first business back in 2011 it coincided with the birth of my first child and that was a really tough time”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale Carnegie
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles Book by Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Book by Timothy Ferriss
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE Book by Phil Knight
- The Truth: An Uncomfortable Book About Relationships Book by Neil Strauss
Favourite Quote:
- “Some get an education without going to college and the rest get it after they get out”
- “Once we’ve got enough money to meet our basic needs, money is just a story that we tell ourselves about money”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Four Hour Work Week – New York Times best selling author Tim Ferriss, teaches you how to escape the 9 5, live anywhere, and join the new rich
- Brain Pickings – An inventory of cross disciplinary interestingness, spanning art, science, design, history, philosophy, and more
- Twitter – an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, “tweets,” restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them.
- Tara Brach – psychologist, author and teacher of meditation, emotional healing and spiritual awakening
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Health before wealth always, if you don’t have your health then nothing else matters, absolutely nothing else, entrepreneurs are obsessed with working long hours and making sure their business is hitting targets but they’re neglecting themselves personally, they’re not exercising, they’re eating poorly, they’re consuming massive amounts of caffeine or supplements just to get through the day”…[Listen for More]
More About Adam J. Levinter:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” Primo Levi
Other Quotes From the Chat with Adam J. Levinter:
- “Anybody, even the leanest business model you can think of is going to take a minimum of 100K in the form of, time, cash, any other third party investment, etc”
- “Culture is always changing”
- “You can never do a good deal with a bad guy”
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