stop to become unstoppable entrepreneur
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STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE Stop Take breath Observe Proceed and Execute STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you Visualise your PATH and steps Start SOMEWHERE Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard times makes you stronger Fail FORWARD Learn from the BEST Hire only the WORLD CLASS people Think 80% of your time about the FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems) Become UNSTOPPABLE Unstoppable Entrepreneurship is key to success. Ilkka O. Lavas serial ict and media entrepreneur and angel investorTRANSCRIPT
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become
unstoppable
9 ways to booooooost up your business and life
Ilkka O. Lavas
Serial Entrepreneur ICT & Media
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Ilkka O. Lavas • Started 1st company 17 years old • 2 books about entrepreneurship • Studied while working: MBA, CS • Partner, board member, angel investor
– PorKolio of 14 businesses – 10+ aquisiPons done – 4 exits
• Young Entrepreneur of the year 2009 in ’Southern Finland’
• 35years, 2 boys, 1 wife, 1763 X connecPons, 1941 linkedin conns, twiYer @lavas 1803 followers
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
PorKolio EXITed:
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
80% ATTITUDE and hard work
20% technique
Enthusiasm, own thoughts, feelings, attitudet, goals, strategies and self-esteem (self-image). Dream and run towards your dreams. Work hard. Check where you are. Check direction. Move forward. Execute. DO IT.
Life skills Understanding of your domain / your own thing / life Learning skills, desire to learn and experience
Success is …
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
How would you define
Success?
Success is not a desPnaPon
success is a journey
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Step 1
1. Define what Success means to you
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
My definiPon on success:
1) I can do what I am good at and what I enjoy 2) I feel enough challenge in my projects and businesses.
I can work with the people who are more skilled than I. 3) I learn new things and develop personally 4) Change the world:
My life can give posiPve affect to my fellows, my friends, the City I am living in, Finland, Europe and World.
NoPce: SUCCESS FOR ME
DOES NOT MEAN MONEY!
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Good dream… • Is dream that you really want from the boYom of your heart • Makes you excited and moPvated again and again • Makes you work hard toward your dream • MoPvates you to learn all that you need to know to achieve your
goal • Is realisPc • Is achievable • Geong closer to your dream is measurable ”If you can dream it, you can do it”, -‐ Walt Disney
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Personal Mastery
Dream
1. Where I have been? How did I end up here? What have I learded in my life? Who I already know?
2. Where I am now? What are my strenghts? Where I am good at? What opportunities do I have?
3. What are milestones on my trip? How do I know I am getting closer to my dream? What critical things do I need to do to achieve ultimate goal? What do I need to learn?
4. Where do I want to go? How would I describe my dream day? Why this is my dream? Who with I live? What is my income? Where do I live?
MILESTONE
MILESTONE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Tell others about your dream • When you tell others about your dream, they will help you on your way.
• Tell about your dream for your friends and outsiders • Ask your family and people close to help you to achieve your dream
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
It requires about five to seven years of hard work for you to move to the top of your field. There are no short cuts. (2004)
-Brian Tracy
Felix Baumgartner studied base jums since 1995. 17 years of practise Made jump from space possible.
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Why good self-‐esteem is so important?
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't you're right.”
- Henry Ford
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Your own thoughts About your ability Is often the Biggest limiter Of your success
Photo: Robbie Grubbs
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Lmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
SUCCESS IS ALL ABOUT LEARNING BY DOING AND EXECUTING
My first company, making web-‐pages
ArPc.net portal Exit Internet Operator
SuperWeb ja Neopaja
Internet Operator Neopaja Exit Website business growth Computuki business buy
Geong ready for 2001 IT-‐bubble 17 people Own products Malesia Kauhava Winnie
Army Almost bancruptsy Computuki spinoff First turnover STOP
MBA LifePlanning SWOT
First Entrepreneurship book Natural entrepreneurship Second biz: ilmainensanakirja.fi
Suomikauppa.fi Kaannos.com NO Spam Samex
W3 Group newco, FTC, TietoexperPt, Sossizing Micro Aided Design
Karkkigalleria Computuki buyback Ostohyvitys.fi NO Spam exit
City –magazine Huilil ekomagazine, MoonTV, City turnaround City Digital growth Vivas newco Vivas internaPonal Improve Media
17-18v 19v
20v 21v
22v 23v
24v 25-26v
27-29v 30-31v
32-33v 33-35v
14-16v: Metal factory Happoteräs Ltd summer job
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Don’t let failure crush you down
• Give yourself a change for success. If you don’t make mistakes, you propably are not doing anything else. – Learn from your mistakes – Learn to laugh about yourself – Fail, fail, fail again.
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas Edison who invented Electric Light Bulb
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Learn from the best
Think about your idols: Whay are their leverages in life? What are they passionate about? What are their success factors?
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Find a Mentor
• Find mentor, people to talk about, personal business trainer or someone who is interested about your proceeding toward your goals regularly: – How was your week. What acPons did you take towards your dreams.
What did you learn? What are your next plans?
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
YOUR MOST VALUABLE RESOURCE IS
• TIME
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
My 168 hours per week Week schedule
sleeping
w orkpersonal
development
eating
w atching tv
w atching movies
active sports
other free time / sports
being w ith friends
w ith kids and family
travel to w ork (per w eek)
time for my self, rest
Be efficient. Use 100% of your days
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST, hire the BEST 7. Manage your TIME 8. Think 80% of your Lme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
KEEP YOU FOCUS AND ACTION ON YOUR GOAL
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
STOP to become UNSTOPPABLE
STOP
TAKE BREATH
OBSERVE
PROCEED, EXECUTE
1. STOP and define your GOAL: what success means to you
2. Visualise your PATH and steps 3. Start SOMEWHERE 4. Enjoy ADVENTURES, hard Pmes makes
you stronger 5. Fail FORWARD 6. Learn from the BEST 7. Hire only the WORLD CLASS people 8. Think 80% of your Pme about the
FUTURE (Avoid dwelling on PAST problems)
9. Become UNSTOPPABLE
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Entrepreneurial Tips and Tricks:
PrioriPzaPon and Pme management • Teach yourself all the Pps and tricks to
– PrioriPze things – Manage your Pme
• Discuss with your friends about: – What Pme management techniques they are using • Learn from the best – Read books, go to seminars, find a mentor
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Fill your days with energizing habits
• PosiPve self-‐talk PosiPve self talk can improve your emoPonal and physical health and well-‐being. “be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.”
• Visualize your future (imagine how it feels when you achieve the GOAL).
• Give your braint a posiPve mental diet (good books, seminars, blogs, etc. No ”soap opera and other crap from television”).
• Surround yourself with posiPve people. (inspiring people, people who courage you to conPnue ).
• Eat right. Rest enough. Drink well. “if you eat like crap, you’ll feel like crap.” (Food, Rest, Sports).
• Move on: no one is perfect. (Execute, work hard ).
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Take care of yourself • Physical health • Do some exercise regularly • Eat healty food • Drink healthly • Recognize your own strengts and use those
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Create your own ”Success reminder” • Take your smartphone calendar, • Schedule for Saturday at 10 am:
– Dear [me], ___this is my dream ___. – These things I want to achieve in my life:____________
My definiPon of success is ____ . My dream is to _________. Set this reminder to repeat every month.
Serial Entrepreneur Ilkka O. Lavas https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.ilkkaolavas.com
Have a successful life!
www.ilkkaolavas.com Ilkka O. Lavas Angel Investor and Entrepreneurship EnthusPac [email protected] TwiYer: @lavas Facebook: IlkkaLavas www.linkedin.com/in/ilkkaolavas www.vivas.us www.ilkkaolavas.com