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Planning to Fail to Succeed!
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Jeremy Delk is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for disrupting industries. Since 2001, his businesses have earned hundreds of millions in revenue, created 100’s of high-paying American jobs, as well as other notable distinctions.
He jumped into entrepreneurial ventures with the naivety of a child and the tenacity of a tycoon. He started the day trading at the age of sixteen, learning and failing with each trade.
By the age of 19, he earned 30K to 50K a day as a day trader from the desk of his college classroom. As quickly as the money came, it vanished just as fast. After amassing almost 2 million in his early twenties as a day trader, it took him only four days to lose it all! The tech bubble has a way of making people go broke quickly.
His knowledge and skill as a day trader would help him land a job as one of the youngest brokers at Fidelity trading institutional equities in Boston and later in New York. He was earning great money, but it didn’t fulfill the entrepreneurial spark within him, so he decided to go out on his own.
Delk Enterprises has grown from making $6,000 in its first year in business to a diversified VC fund that has built and exited investments in both private and public transactions. Today, more than 20 years later, Delk Enterprises has holdings in biotech & healthcare, consumer brands, technology, building materials, and real estate development.
Jeremy now focuses on investing in and advising entrepreneurs through speaking. His upcoming book shares his reality of the Good, Bad, and UGLY of entrepreneurship. It serves as a not-so-subtle reminder of fundamental principles he’s learned through his journey: while great times don’t last forever, neither do the truly bad ones.
Here's What We Cover:
- Entrepreneurs' approach to fear and failure
- How to plan to fail to succeed
- Biggest mistake entrepreneurs make
- Rigid plans actually hold us back
- The DNA of an entrepreneur
- Know what you are good at
- Taking risks and the setbacks that come along with it
- The good, bad, and ugly of entrepreneurship
- Learning is a superpower
- You don’t value what you know because you know it
- Put yourself in your customer's vantage point
- The 90% formula
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