Isaac Morehouse is the founder and CEO of Praxis, an awesome startup apprenticeship program. Isaac is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of freedom. He’s written some books, done some podcasting, and is always experimenting with self-directed living and learning.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Isaac’s brother
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Realising that I didn’t need anything from anyone else in order to get started, it’s really easy to have an idea and feel like I could do this if only I had a bunch of capital, I could do this if only I had someone with a certain skill set who was willing to work with me, I could do this If only I had…..and it’s really easy to get stuck there, and I was stuck there for a little while and I finally realised and my brother was helpful in this as well, look, even if I need to raise capital at some point, it’s not an attractive ask to say hey this thing won’t happen without your money, it’s a much more attractive thing to say this thing is happening, it’s got momentum, it’s moving regardless, with your investment it could move a lot faster”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future Book by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel
Favourite Quote:
“Criticise by creating”
Recommended Online Resources:
Breaking Smart – Technology, Serendipity and Society
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Advice that my brother gave me when I was worried about starting at first and even when I’ve been worried about things not going well and since then he’s said look we live in the most amazing time in human history, the bottom is not that far, so if you think about, what would failure look like, what would the worst case failure look like, that bottom is better than most humans have had for most human history all across the world so I’m blessed to live in a really wealthy country full of opportunity and if I were to fail miserably at this, as I said if we were living in my mom’s basement and I went and worked at a gas station and a restaurant to make things meet, that is a better standard of living than anyone in history and it’s not that bad, just realising that the bottom is not that far, you’re not going to fall as far as you imagine you are”…[Listen for More]
More About Isaac Morehouse:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.” Johann Kaspar Lavater
Other Quotes From the Chat with Isaac Morehouse:
- “Criticise by creating, that’s another thing when you’re blogging every day you find that you have a low tolerance for the professional critics or the people who they lurk around on facebook or whatever and all they do is comment, they have a criticism of everything, oh this post could have been this way, oh this author should have done this, did you see this book everything was wrong with it and if you want to be a perpetual critic go ahead but wouldn’t you rather be a creator and if you have something that you think is a better angle, write your own book, start your own business, create something”
- “Do one thing every day to make the company more valuable”
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