My Entrepreneurial Journey

a presentation by

ilias diamantis

- My name is Ilias Diamantis - Civil Engineer TEI Serres- Civil Engineer MSc , AUTH- Proficiency in English- Certificate in Computer Science- Certificate in AutoCad- Stores Licenses - Host of SBM Thessaloniki- Host of SBM Athens

Don’t wanna kill you with Powerpoint .

I’ll just tell you what I’ve learnt from MY ENTREPRENEURIAL JOURNEY .

What is an entrepreneur

?

Entrepreneur is someone who through

systematic procedures

gives value

to his/hers costumers and exchanges money for it .

What is value

?

VALUE :

Irrational Passion

and/or

Unbearable Pain

What do you need for a killer burger house ?

“All I need is a hungry crowd.”

Gary Halbert

And then what

?

“Fuck it , ship it .”

Minimal

Viable

Product

Ship

Optimize

Repeat

How do I optimize

?

PROCEDURES

and

SYSTEMS

PROCEDURES

Screenshot from Asana

SYSTEMS

Screenshot from Asana

PROCEDURES + SYSTEMS

Repeatability

Scalability

Dynamic

So , is a good product enough

?

NOPE !!! :(

Become better professional

Become better Entrepreneur

Become better marketer

This is where the money is !

Now we got it all covered , right

?

Not so fast buddy !!!

“One more thing .”

Steve Jobs

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time

with .”Jim Rohn

Join a peer group

Small Business Meet up

Join a peer group

PI Family

Dynamite Circle

Don’t anticipate , PARTICIPATE !

Join a mastermind

Chris Ducker’s London Mastermind May 2013

MASTERMIND

More people work in your favour .

Outside perspective .

Accountability .

Entrepreneurship is a

wonderful JOURNEY .

We would like to be like this ...

... in reality it’s more like this .

BUT ...

after all .... BUSINESS is FUN !

Thanks for your time.

And until we all become entrepreneurs ...

Be healthy and smile !

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www.adeiesleitourgias.gr

Let’s meet up

Athens

Thessaloniki

My podcast available at iTunes Store