Taking the Jump into Entrepreneurship with Kim Perell: An EOFire Classic from 2021
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 10 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Kim Perell is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author. She sold her last company for 235 million dollars. Kim loves supporting entrepreneurs and is an investor in over 100 companies.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Failure is essential to success.
2. It is important to plan, save, and know what you are willing to give up in order to achieve your vision.
3. Being afraid means you're growing.
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| 0:00.0 | Like that, Sparkfire Nation, JLD here. And welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire. |
| 0:06.5 | Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals |
| 0:10.4 | with great shows like marketing made simple. Today we're pulling a classic episode from the |
| 0:14.7 | archives and we'll be breaking down how to take the jump into entrepreneurship. |
| 0:18.3 | To drop these value bombs, I brought to Kim Perel into EO Fire Studios. Kim is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and bestselling author. She sold her last |
| 0:25.5 | company for $235 million and loves supporting entrepreneurs and is an advisor to over 100 companies. |
| 0:33.3 | In today, Fire Nation, we'll talk about how failure is essential to success, how it is important |
| 0:37.1 | to plan, save, and know what you are willing to give up in order to achieve your vision. |
| 0:41.0 | And being afraid means you're growing and oh so much more. |
| 0:44.6 | And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Kim and our sponsors. |
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