Summary: (http://www.patrickwiscombe.com/images/subscribeinitunes300x38.jpg)(http://www.patrickwiscombe.com/images/patrick4.jpg) In this edition of the Entrepreneur Addiction Podcast (http://patrickwiscombe.com/category/entrepreneur-podcasts/), we talked about: * Jim Beach's 'School for Startups' * Steve Jobs broke entrepreneurship for most of us * Starting a business...don't be creative * Remove the risk by making money first * Don't look for a job, start a company * Creating multiple income streams * Do your job poorly and get fired * Don't kid yourself, you're expendable * Build your business slowly * Zero risk business ideas * Adding value to your email marketing * The :18 second elevator pitch * Be passionate about the right things Press the 'PLAY' button to listen to Entrepreneur Addiction 9: Sexy in 18 seconds Cool Voice Guy: Fueling your business success, this is the entrepreneur addiction podcast, breaking the small business loan news you need if you obsess about your company. Heard exclusively on Lendio.com. And now here are our your hosts: Brock Blake, Dan Bischoff and Patrick Wiscombe. Patrick: This podcast is sponsored by Lendio.com, the online source you need to find the right business financing to grow your company. So, check them out: Lendio.com, to get your business growing right now. It’s the entrepreneur addiction podcast episode number nine. My name is Patrick Wiscombe. Thank you as always for tuning us in and taking us a long wherever and however you’re accessing the podcast. Dan Bischoff joins me for the podcast. Good morning! Dan: Good morning, Patrick. Patrick: We had to switch studies because we were having technical issues. And we also have Chris Knusden from SocialPlayz.com. It’s good to have you here. Chris: Hey, good to be here with you Patrick. Patrick: We’ve got a very special guest in, well, I was going to say in studio. Where are you Jim? Jim: I’m in Atlanta Georgia. Patrick: We’ve got Jim Beach, who is the author of ‘School for Startups’, and this is very, very cool talking to you because, number one, I always like talking to authors, and number two, I really enjoy talking to entrepreneur authors. So, I’ve got your book here in front of me: School for Startups. Give us a little bit of background and you and your business experience. Jim: I thought I was going to be a corporate guy, and a company told me that I would be better off working for myself. They said that I did not play well with others, and so at twenty-four, twenty-five, I started my first business. It was a children’s technology education company. It started off as a summer camp company, but it grew into a children’s technology education company. And I sold that in 2001, when it had 700 employees and was doing about 15 million dollars a year in revenue, and started teaching at Georgia State University, and taught there for nine years teaching international entrepreneurship. And that’s where the book started to take form, where some of the philosophies that I’d love to tell you about really started to develop. And where we developed, more or less, a method, where we think you can start a business very easily, very quickly with little risk. We used that in our classes and taught that to the students, and the students really responded. Instead of having a text book, we just started a business every semester. So, it became very fun, yet educational for them. Patrick: That’s very cool. Now right on the cover of the book it talks about the breakthrough course for guaranteeing small business success in ninety days or less. Take us through some of those steps if you would. Jim: Well, the first thing we want to do is realize that creativity is not part of the process. You know, it can be and, you know, Steve Jobs of course epitomizes that. But in a lot of ways Steve Jobs broke entrepreneurship for the rest of us. You know, so many people are sitting at home going, “Oh,
