ENTREPRENEUR INSPIRATION ##### ##### ##### Roger James Hamilton !1 www.geniusu.com Edition 2 Welcome Hello, A few years ago, I began writing and posting images and stories on Facebook that inspired me as an Entrepreneur. Early in 2015, I put them into a Facebook album. The album went viral and has now been shared over 400,000 times and the different stories within the album had also been shared a combined 1,000,000+ times across different social media channels. In 2016 I published the stories into an ebook. With the number of new stories in the last year, it was time for a second issue. That’s what you’re reading right now. Here is the link to the Facebook album. Here is the link to the download page. If you have chosen to subscribe by email, you’ll get links to my stories. And you can subscribe to my FB profile, to get my new posts on your FB newsfeed. As the Founder of Entrepreneurs Institute, Entrepreneur Resorts and GeniusU, and as the Creator of Wealth Dynamics and Talent Dynamics, my mission is to support the entrepreneur movement. I’ve made this book free so it’s simple to share. If you are inspired by the stories within it, share the album and stories on Facebook, and share the link to this download with your entrepreneur friends. Keep shining brightly, Roger James Hamilton www.rogerjameshamilton.com !2 www.geniusu.com Table of Contents RESILIENCE 10 How tough is your journey? 11 The Monk Moment 13 Will Smith’s story 15 Are you between a rock and a hard place? 17 A story of what's possible 20 How resilient are you? 23 Would you leave it all to come back for more? 26 What would you do without your body? 29 The key to overcoming anything 31 Tina Turner’s story 33 Patience, perseverance and resilience 37 Who has your back in the hard times? 38 How Yolande Mabika got her family back 40 How to turn your problems into profit 43 You always get a second chance 46 Are you playing to win? 48 What does 2017 have in store for us? 50 PERSEVERANCE 52 It takes 20 years to create overnight success 53 The key to success 56 6 years, 35 attempts and $180 million overnight 57 Never too old to dream a new dream 59 Jamie Vardy’s story from underdog to champion 61 My 8 favorite famous failures 63 PATIENCE 65 !3 www.geniusu.com The story of Aung San Suu Kyi 66 What product that you create will outlive you? 68 How Satoshi Tajiri created Pokémon 70 How focused are you at your one big thing? 73 Just think “Momofuku” 75 The inspiration behind Fawlty Towers 77 ENTREPRENEUR TIPS 79 Richard Branson’s top 12 tips for entrepreneurs 80 The 10 commandments of entrepreneurship 83 Academics vs entrepreneurship 85 Steve Jobs’ top 10 rules of thumb 87 Are you trying to be first or last? 89 How to build a Minimum Viable Product 92 How amazing are you? 94 Are you taking the path of working hard or hard work? 95 Top 10 entrepreneurs to follow 97 How do you avoid bottlenecks in your business? 100 Is your to-do list too long? 102 The best books to read this month 105 The #1 ingredient in entrepreneurs 107 The 12 best reasons to be an entrepreneur 110 Are you running your life by the Sun or the Moon cycle? 112 The Beatles strategy 115 Make your customer the hero 118 The 7 human rights we can do without 120 12 rules for startups 122 FAILING FORWARDS 124 Losing your way to billion dollars 125 What’s the price when you fail 128 Michael Phelps incredible story 130 The top five company comebacks 133 !4 www.geniusu.com Repairing with gold 137 What is the cost of saying ‘yes’ or ‘no’? 139 It doesn’t take nine ‘no’s’ to get to a ‘yes’ 142 6 tips to get to Gangnam 144 What’s your big dream? 147 RESOURCEFULNESS 150 Rented out her garage. Made $300 million 151 An ancient city discovery by this 15 year old 153 Year of the monkey 156 How big are you thinking? 159 Scarce resources vs entrepreneurial resources 161 Are you courageous? 163 The world’s wealthiest self-made female billionaires 165 The graphic calculator 168 Is viral content more of an art or a science? 172 How do you keep up with the cutting edge of entrepreneurship? 174 CRITICAL MOMENTS 177 The billion dollar tweet 178 What’s the possible outcome of Brexit? 180 How to make $20 billion in one day. 183 What do you stand for? 185 5 things that happened on 11/9 188 When James Blunt prevented World War III 191 How to make a Mark 193 Would you turn down an offer like that? 195 How a near-death experience became worth $2 billion 196 How much could you make with $5 and 2 hours? 199 A lesson from “The Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894″ 202 The odd moment when I met Nelson Mandela 204 What were you doing during the US elections? 207 Whatsapp x Facebook = $19 Billion(!) 210 !5 www.geniusu.com Why Donald Trump is the new President 213 STARTUP STRATEGIES 215 User experience vs design 216 Rethink your business model 218 Instagram - 3 steps to $1 billion 220 4 things make up 79% of all failures 224 3 steps to $30 million 226 How do you sell a 3 month old company for $680 million? 229 Turning a 200 year old invention into a billion dollar startup 232 The story of FedEx 234 How do you start your first startup? 236 Startup 101 - The AirBnb story 239 The 1st drone billionaire 243 The startup paradox 245 How do you scale a startup to over $300 million in value in 3 years? 247 How to get (and forget) $3 Billion in a snap 250 The world’s most secretive startup 253 Are you thinking intricately enough? 256 GROWTH STRATEGIES 258 Warren Buffet’s story 259 What does this english teacher know about math? 262 It doesn’t take a genius 264 What is your mission? 267 The entrepreneur journey 270 Could you solve things faster by thinking bigger? 272 The man beating Steve Jobs at his own game 274 Alphabet - The most valuable company in the world 277 7 billion dollar questions 279 The biggest tech IPO ever seen 281 What do you do when you can’t afford the original? 283 3 steps Blockbuster took to make Netflix a $60 billion company 285 !6 www.geniusu.com Pirate metrics for entrepreneurs 287 Happy Martin Luther King Day 289 Are we about to disrupt governments? 292 To do right, do the right thing 295 Amazon’s secret sauce 297 LEADERSHIP 300 When Mark Zuckerberg asked Steve Jobs for advice 301 Our year in 4 buckets 303 Quantity vs quality 305 The sweet spot 307 New knowledge always beats most knowledge 309 How do I find my life purpose? 311 Fake it until you make it 314 Theodore Roosevelts speech at the Sorbonne 316 If your brain was a garden 318 Be your own hero 321 You’ve already arrived 323 The difference between ordinary and extraordinary 325 PEOPLE & PARTNERSHIPS 327 Who’s your hero? 328 3 steps to $20 billion 330 Are you “networking while not working”? 333 Your network is your net worth 335 Lesson from Branson ~ Income = Incoming 337 Stop doing everything 339 Here’s how Masayoshi Son made his first $2 million 341 How fast do things change? 344 What would Alexander Hamilton do today? 346 Star Wars for entrepreneurs 349 Woman Power: This is Tory Burch 352 !7 www.geniusu.com ENTREPRENEURS Vs EMPLOYEES 354 Brian Acton and the Whatsapp story 355 What work would you do if you didn’t need to? 358 10 shocking stats about the millennial generation 361 Women hold up half the sky 363 One billion entrepreneurs 365 GLOBAL BUSINESS 367 World population as a village of 100 people 368 Start your own country 370 The history of opportunity 373 Not made in America 375 Which version of Facebook are you using? 377 What if governments were more entrepreneurial? 379 Why I applied for citizenship to the world’s first space nation 382 THE FUTURE 384 Top 12 predictions of all time 385 3 steps to future presence 387 The rice and chessboard problem 390 Are you getting older or newer 392 Nikola Tesla 394 How fast are you disrupting your own company 396 Where will your company be 130 years from now? 398 Where will you be in 2027? 400 What crazy ideas are you putting off? 402 Artificial diamonds that can generate electric power for over 5,000 years 404 The quadrillion dollar asteroid 406 2017 : Chinese Year of the Rooster 409 The future is here 411 GIVING 413 The paradox of entrepreneurship 414 !8 www.geniusu.com What could you achieve if you had this board? 416 Martin Luther King Day 418 Would you give all your money away? 420 11 things Michelle Obama achieved in 8 years 423 The rockstar formula that works 425 Remembering 2015 for the right reasons 427 Invent new tools 429 $1 million in 10 days 432 ENTREPRENEUR SPIRIT 434 Wash the dishes to wash the dishes 435 Forgiveness 437 A story of Turkeys and a Unicorn on Thanksgiving weekend 439 When you get inspired, do you take action? 442 Have you found your Ikigai? 445 How Mark Cuban couldn’t keep a job and started on his own 447 Definition of wealth 450 What are you doing with your spare time? 453 The value of nothing 456 Harmony 458 Give up the drop to become the sea 461 Pale blue dot 463 The Sneetches by Dr Seuss 465 How Olympian are you? 469 LETS CONNECT 471 !9 www.geniusu.com RESILIENCERESILIENCE Stories of struggles, setbacks, falling down and bouncing back Stories of struggles, setbacks, falling down and bouncing back “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom” “Success is how high~ George you bounce S.