807: You May Fail Over and Over and Over Again, That Doesn’t Mean You’re a Failure, It Means You Just Haven’t Picked the Right Idea yet With Adam Stern Founder and Owner of Infinitely Virtual

Adam Stern is an entrepreneur who saw the value of virtualization and cloud computing nearly a decade ago. Adam’s company helps businesses move from obsolete hardware investments to an IaaS [Infrastructure as a Service] cloud platform, providing them the flexibility and scalability to transition select data operations from in-house to the cloud.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Guy he used to work with

When business started difficulties overcame:

“The hardest part about starting a business is starting from scratch, you have an idea about something that people might want but you have to get them to purchase it, you have to get them to do what you’re asking them to do, there’s start-ups on every corner right now, it’s actually quite popular to start businesses that have absolutely no value for hopes that someone will give you money to do so”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations Book by Barry Posner

Favourite Quote:

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts”

Recommended Online Resources:

Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking for.

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Take a risk, don’t be afraid to take a risk”…[Listen for More]

More About Adam Stern:

Infinitely Virtual

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.” Jack LaLanne

Other Quotes From the Chat with Adam Stern:

• “If you fail, which you will, you will fail, and you may fail over and over and over again, that doesn’t mean you’re a failure, it means you just haven’t picked the right idea yet”
• “You have to be willing to chart and change your course based on the currents you encounter on your journey”
• “When you’re charting your course by yourself to chart it no matter what anyone says is wrong with what you’re doing, you can’t imagine how many people said that is not a good idea when I started my infrastructure business, but by the same token be open to hearing people out about how to make things better”
• “You have to be able to jump out on a limb and once out there have to let people tell you how to get back there off the limb”

Did you like what you heard?

If you liked this podcast, please leave a review on iTunes! Visit https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-entrepreneur-way/id1080600330 to discover the iTunes page. If you found value in this episode why don't you help a friend out and share this episode on Social Media