Jill Salzman is currently growing her third entrepreneurial venture, The Founding Moms, the world’s first and only collective of offline meetups and online resources for mom entrepreneurs to build better businesses. A graduate of Brown University and law school, she started a music management firm and then launched and later sold a baby jewelry company before creating her current venture. She’s the author of Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs and has been busy writing The Best Business Book In The World (And Other Bold Statements For Entrepreneurs). Jill is a co-host of Inc. Magazine’s top-rated entertaining business podcast, Breaking Down Your Business. She gave her own TED talk on 11/11/11, was dubbed a “mommy mogul” by CNNMoney, a “ Cool Mom Entrepreneur We Love” by MSN Live, and she was recently named one of the Top 50 Women to Watch In Tech as well as a Top 100 Champion Small Business Influencer after Forbes’ named The Founding Moms one of the Top 10 Websites For Entrepreneurs. She’s shared the speaker stage with Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Daymond John, Marilu Henner, and Desmond Tutu and she regularly appears on ABC7’s Windy City Live TV show. In her spare time, Jill enjoys kloofing, baking, and erasing her daughters’ crayon artwork from the kitchen walls.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Stand up Comedians
- Richard Branson
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I had to overcome the guilt of starting something on my own even though my parents were very unhappy with me doing that, lots of friend’s judgement, lots of extended family judgement, lots of judgement that either was real or I created in my head. That sort of abyss we all look into once in a while no matter how long you’ve been running a business”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever book by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier HanssonFavourite Quote:
“Just do it”
Recommended Online Resources:
Help A Reporter Out – HARO, an acronym for Help A Reporter Out, is a publicity service created in 2008 by public relations expert Peter Shankman. If you click this link you can listen to the Peter Shankman Podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Stop hiding in your silo of your industry or in your home office, get out and work more. Go meet more people, do work in a co working space or a coffee shop; leave the house, because the magic that happens with face to face interaction far surpasses anything we do online ever”…[Listen for More]
More About Jill Salzman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I am a teacher and the reason I’m a teacher is because I’m learning as hard as I can. I’m not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.” Andy Andrews
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jill Salzman:
- “Ask the market if they’re ready for me”
- “There’s an entire segment of the population that believe scaling and finding venture capital funding is the only way to go but then there’s a different type of success in the world that I live in where as long as you have a sustainable business and you’re feeding your family, that’s success. What’s your measure of success, if you can define it and achieve it you will be successful, but don’t absorb what everybody else tells you”
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