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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Steven Hoffman | The Essential Traits of People Who Are Successful Entrepreneurs

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Steven Hoffman teaches us what it takes to not only start a business but overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of success. Being a successful entrepreneur isn't all about the big sales and the fancy cars. It's also about the dead-ends, losing money and all the headaches. Discover the essential traits needed to believe in your ideas, rise after failure and come out on top.


Visit Steven's website to get in touch with him and learn more about what he's doing | https://www.foundersspace.com


Steven Hoffman is the author of Surviving a Startup, available now | https://www.survivingastartup.com


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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're taking that bigger leap,

0:01.8

kind of that bigger, innovative leap into something

0:04.6

that is going to either transform the art world,

0:07.1

or it's going to come out as a movie or a book

0:10.0

and just like blow people away.

0:11.6

Like, I've never seen anything like this.

0:13.3

Well, that's a much bigger leap,

0:15.0

and it's going to be much riskier.

0:17.2

Like, every time you're asking people to take a leap,

0:20.3

like with what they're doing,

0:21.8

you're going to be taking a bigger chance,

0:23.2

because there's no validation in the past,

0:25.2

you can't get people to tell you

0:26.6

you're necessarily on the right track.

0:29.2

So what I tell people to do,

0:31.9

number one, you have to have a clear vision

0:33.4

of what you want to say.

0:34.7

You have to have a real feeling

0:37.8

that this is meaningful to you,

0:40.4

and you have to realize at the same time,

0:43.2

are there a lot of other people like me?

0:45.0

Like, if you're one of kind,

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