Your desire is an essential thing to know before you decide where you are heading. You need to ask yourself over and over again if the thing you are planning to do is for you or not. Don’t try to live other people’s lives; be yourself and follow your passion and desire, otherwise you will get bored quickly and will quit easily. Choosing your path based on your desire is critical before you start any journey.

If you want to make money, then you should have the desire to make money and to overcome all the challenges, all the criticism that you’re going to face from your family and friends. You also should be strong enough to face the people who will laugh at you when you present your idea or fail in some ventures. Many people are watching what you are doing quietly — you know why? Because they are waiting for you to fail so they can come to you and say, “Well, we told you this is not going to work,” or, “This is very risky or hard.” They will tell you that not because you didn’t follow their great advice but to satisfy themselves. They need to justify why they are limited in their achievements or still employees and couldn’t dare to take a step further, because the fear is eating at them. You must have a strong desire to achieve what you want to achieve and prove the many haters wrong.

“The best revenge is massive success.” — Frank Sinatra

If you want to transition from employee to entrepreneur, then you should have the desire to take action. You should have the desire to suffer through the process for a certain number of years to achieve your dream. Make sure at the beginning that if you are not sure if you have the fortitude to suffer through the process that you select something that you enjoy to help keep you from quitting.

At the beginning, when I was doing some projects offline and online, I was thinking only about the things that I liked to do. But now that I have shifted into the business-through-automation mindset, I don’t care if I enjoy the project while I’m doing it or not, as long as I eliminate myself from the operations. If I am involved operationally, then I must enjoy it in order to do it.

The numbers don’t lie, whether it is a project that you like or you don’t like. So what you need to see is positive achievement — positive numbers — regardless if you enjoy this business or not. If you enjoy the game of making money but not the business itself, who cares? Many authors and experts talk about doing something that you love. For me, it’s not always the right advice, unless you are operationally involved. My advice to you is to do something that works.

Now I don’t care if I like a project or not. When I create a project, I care about if that project is going to add a certain amount of value for a certain group of people. If I’m convinced that the business is going to add value to certain customers — whether I’m passionate about it or not — I might get involved.

And with time as you build more experience, you will get to know that you’re right or not from the feedback that you are getting from your projects. Sometimes you have to jump into a project to test your inner voice and vision, and that’s what I enjoy now in the game of business. With time, you become better and better in the game, and you know more about where your desire is leading you.

Desire is all about you hankering or hoping to achieve something to get a certain result or outcome out of a certain journey. And you should keep motivating yourself to try and test different journeys till you figure out which journeys you enjoy the most, then focus on them.

If you would like me to help you with your journey, please let me know more about you and your business by clicking here.

Question: What matters for you the most when you start any business that you are not involved in it operationally, passion or numbers? Please share your thoughts as comment below?

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Chris Hexton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vero.

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv/chris-hexton/

• Why did you decide to study accounting and finance?
• What’s your background before Vero?
• How did you start in the Internet marketing world?
• Why you decided to focus on email marketing?
• What’s Vero?
• How Vero records the customers’ behavior and then segment them?
• How to Send one-to-one newsletters that matter to each customer?
• How Vero automate the emails based on behavior? How it works?
• Is Vero or you personally providing a service to manage the email marketing campaigns for companies or individuals customers?
• How the A/B testing works in Vero?
• How many emails on average should be sent per month for a list without annoying them?
• Is it wise to personalize the email by mentioning the name of each subscriber or that’s not required any more and just saying Hi, is enough?
• What’s the average email open rate and How to increase it?
• How the email opt-in should be designed?
• Should we capture name and email or just the email in the opt-in box?
• Which opt-in plugin you prefer the best for wordpress?
• Which opt-in software or service you like the most?
• Which auto responder service you recommend?
• Why asking the customers for feedback after the purchasing process is powerful?
• What’s the Best Day of the Week to Send Emails?
• How to Integrate Social Media and Email Marketing efficiently?
• Do you recommend any companies that you recommend to your customers to manage the email marketing campaigns through your software?
• Don’t you think that your prices a bit expensive? Any plans to make it more affordable for wider range of customers?
• Who are your main competitors and how different you are from them?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
• What’s one marketing strategy that helped you the most in developing your business?
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• If you are just starting today in your field, from where you will start and what are you going to focus on to be more successful?
• The most important factors for success in 3 words?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What do you do to change your mood when you are depressed?
• What’s the best advice that you ever received?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• Do you follow any routine to sleep?
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

Website & Social media links

http://www.getvero.com

https://twitter.com/chexton

https://twitter.com/getvero

http://www.chrishexton.com

https://www.facebook.com/chexton

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chexton

https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHexton/posts

http://www.slideshare.net/chexton

Bio

Chris Hexton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vero. Chris spends his time working with Vero’s customers to send smarter emails based on what their customers do and don’t do on their website.

Vero is the easiest way to send data-driven, triggered emails and increase conversions.

Vero is a behavioral email marketing software that helps online retail stores increase their customer satisfaction and sales. Living between Sydney and San Francisco, his favorite part of working on Vero is helping other businesses grow.  Chris previously founded development consultancy Semblance Systems, having formerly worked in risk management at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Sydney.

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John Kremer is a Book marketing expert, the owner of Open Horizons Publishing and the author of1001 Ways to Market Your Books.

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv/john-kremer/

• Why and how you decided to become an author and book marketing consultant?
• What’s your background?
• How did you start in the internet marketing would?
• How to prepare the right book launch and marketing plan, what to do step by step?
• How to plan a giveaway campaign on amazon efficiently?
• How authors can be featured in the media efficiently?
• What’s The book marketing network?
• What’s the blog tour palooza? Why you created different blogs for your services and didn’t focus on putting all these content on only one blog?
• How to create a supper start blog tour for authors?
• How authors can create a loyal tribe efficiently?
• Which book designing service do you recommend?
• Where to find the best book editors and agent?
• Top 2 editors that you recommend?
• Do you recommend authors to use different editor for each one of their books and why?
• Top 2 agents that you recommend for non-fiction and fiction?
• How to pitch publishers efficiently?
• How the open book horizons publishing works in terms of deals with authors?
• Is it possible to agree with traditional publishers without giving their online selling rights?
• Publishing Vs. Self – Publishing, if the author has both options to choose from, which one to choose?
• Best e-books and audio books distributors that you can recommend?
• How Self Published authors should create their book codes and ISBN correctly?
• How self published authors can pitch book stores efficiently?
• How to hit the amazon best selling list? How many books are required to be sold and within how long?
• How to hit the wall street journal list?
• How to hit the new york times best selling list? How many books are required to be soled?
• Is it possible for self published authors to hit eh NY Times list?
• What are the types of coaching packages that you have and how much do you charge for 1 on 1 coaching sessions?
• Do you handle the entire marketing campaign for launching and marketing a certain book, if you do, how much it costs?
• Best blogs for book marketing that you recommend?
• How many online and offline team members are working with you?
• Best service that you recommend for book trailers?
• Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
• Share with us some of the tools or software that make you more efficient?
• What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
• What are your other hobbies?
• Who are your top 3 mentors?
• If you have the chance, what would you say to advice your younger self?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?
• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• What makes you really happy?
• How people can contact you?

Website & Social media links

http://www.bookmarket.com

http://blogtourpalooza.com

http://thebookmarketingnetwork.com

http://bookmarketingbestsellers.com

http://askjohnkremer.com

http://askthebooksellers.com

https://www.facebook.com/thejohnkremer

https://www.pinterest.com/johnkremer/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnkremer

https://twitter.com/johnkremer

http://www.selfpublishinghalloffame.com

https://www.youtube.com/user/JohnKremer

http://www.amazon.com/John-Kremer/e/B001H6L2T4

Bio

Book marketing expert John Kremer is the owner of Open Horizons Publishing. He is the author of1001 Ways to Market Your Books; Book Marketing Magic: How to Sell Your Novel, Children’s Book, Memoir, or Nonfiction Book Like a Pro; The Complete Direct Marketing Sourcebook; Do-It-Yourself Book Publicity Kit; and Celebrate Today.

He is also the developer of the Ten Million Eyeballs Internet marketing self-study course and theBlog Tour Palooza program.

As a book marketing consultant, his clients include a self-published author who has sold over two million books, a new age publisher with 60 titles, and a $100 million publisher with a rapidly growing list of 1,000 titles.

John is the founder of the Institute on Book Publishing Innovations as well as The Book Marketing Network social network for book authors and publishers (http://www.thebookmarketingnetwork.com).

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Dr. Gather Williams has lived a renaissance-like career spanning across fields like business management and development, marketing, corporate training and speaking, coaching, consulting, counseling, writing, music production and songwriting, as well as community outreach. He is one of the most diversified professionals, and Serial Entrepreneurs in the world!

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The rat race is an endless, pointless, self-defeating process of repeating certain actions, much like the life of some employees.

Most often, employees wake up in the morning, have a quick breakfast, rush-feed the kids if they have any, drop them off at school quickly, then dash quickly to work to arrive at 9 a.m., grabbing their morning coffee. Then they work two to three hours, keep looking at their watches to count the minutes until lunch time, sometimes stretching their hour lunch to 90 or 120 minutes. They return to work for a couple of hours, chat with colleagues, work a bit more, then spend the rest of the time planning when to leave work.

Other employees kill themselves working an extra two to three hours because they are workaholics or hope to achieve a promotion. After they leave work they are stuck in traffic because of rush hour, then reach home in one to three hours, based on traffic and distance. During weekdays they often don’t have time for family, sports or entertainment because they’re exhausted from their work routine and always under stress to keep their job by strictly following the policies and politics of the company and doing their best to be nice to people they’d rather not be nice to.

They have a quick dinner with the family; sometimes the kids are asleep by that time, so they chat or argue with their spouse. Then they go to sleep, and the next day they get up and do it all again. At the end of the week, they start counting the hours to reach the weekend.

“The trouble with being in the rat race is that
even if you win, you’re still a rat.” Lily Tomlin

The weekend arrives, they do some shopping, then hang out with the family, entertain the kids, and many of them get drunk to forget the tiring week that they’ve gone through. This same process is repeated their entire life as they hope life will change by itself, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t until they get a wakeup call due to a disaster or from a revolution that comes from within them. The fact is, you don’t have to wait for a disaster. It’s never too late to start over again.

This is the rat race of far too many employees. It’s one of my goals to help more people become aware that they’re caught in this routine, as many of them don’t discover it until they are much older.

Sometimes when I wake up early, I see the rat race in the morning at 8 o’clock as all cars are going to work at the same time, the traffic is horrible, and my brain draws a picture of too many rats leaving their homes and running in the direction of their cheese. This image repeats between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. when employees are traveling home from work.

I often go to malls to eat, work, interview somebody, go to the bank, watch a movie or shop, but I try my best to avoid weekends in the malls because the heavy traffic brings the same rats there, when you have to struggle to park or simply enjoy your shopping experience. So I try to plan my visits to the malls on weekdays when most employees are still at work.

It’s important to diagnose the rat race that you’re in, and then take continuous focused action to escape it over a certain planned period of time.

Please share your experience and thoughts about the Rat Race?

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Kamal Hassan General Partner of Fenox Venture Capital, Founder of i360accelerator for Startups, President & CEO of Innovation 360 Institute and Managing Director of Turn8 a seed accelerator program initiated by DP World

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

How did you do the transition from biology & genetics to startups & investments?
Why you decided to come to Dubai and develop the startup community in Dubai?
Why & How the Turn8 project started by DP world?
What’s the difference between i360accelator & DP World’s seed accelerator Turn8? And the Cribb?
How the process of the acceleration works?
Do the startups need to open a company to be listed in the Cribb?
Which criteria you use to select startups at the Cribb or Turn8?
What’s the percentage of startups that you choose from the total applied companies?
What happens after the graduation of the startups? Do you introduce them to VCs or Angel Investors?
What’s the most successful startup in terms of net profit that came through the Cribb or Turn8 program?
What are the major challenges that you are facing with the new startups in the region?
What are the major challenges for the startups in Dubai?
Is there’s a real environment of Angel Investors in Dubai? Is the startup market is mature enough?
How different is the VC & Angel Investing world between the Middle East and the US?
What’s the difference between a VC and Private Equity Firm?
You are a general partner at Fenox Venture Capital, what’s the usual structure of a VC company? What does partner or general partner means?
How those principals, general partners, advisors get paid?
How do you select the general partner or advisor in your VC?
What are the different series of investment Example what you call Series A up to the IPO?
On which criteria would you choose the right IPO market for a Startup or company?
How somebody can pitch Fenox for investment? It can be an early stage startup or after the Angel round?
What’s the system that startups follow to put a value for their startup? Don’t you think these values are exaggerated most of the time?
Do you think this focus in investing in technology will lead us to a bubble?
How about the offline or physical products project which is representing more than 90% of the projects in the world? Do you or Fenox or the Cribb invest in?
How the consultancy services of the innovation 360 works? Do you provide 1:1 coaching?
What’s your personal portfolio of investments?
How a startup can pitch you?
Tell us more about your other projects that you are currently working on or planning for the future?
Take us through your typical working day?
What are your other hobbies?
3 things that you believe are the most important factors for any success?
What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
What are your top 3 favorite books?
What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
What are the things that make you happy?
How people can contact you?
Websites & Social Media Links

http://i360accelerator.com/
http://i360institute.com/
http://thecribb.co/
http://www.turn8.co/
http://fenoxvc.com/
https://www.facebook.com/i360accelerator
https://www.facebook.com/AtTheCribb
https://twitter.com/Innovation360
https://www.facebook.com/kamal.hassan.56
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamal12hassan

Bio

Kamal Hassan is General Partner at Fenox Venture Capital, based out of Dubai office and leading the operations in the Middle East. He is a 20-year veteran of the business world with expertise in corporate strategy, innovation management, performance excellence, as well as startup development and growth.

Concurrent to his role at Fenox, Kamal is founder, President and CEO of Dubai-based Innovation 360, a global innovation management firm. As an active supporter of startups and SMEs, Kamal has invested in 19 startups through regional seed funding programs. He is the driving force behind i360accelerator, a 120-day accelerator program for startups, as well as a Managing Director for TURN8, a seed accelerator program organized by DP World.

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Carol Roth is a Business Strategist, Media Contributor, and Expert in Raising Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, and the New York Times Best Selling Author of The Entrepreneur Equation Book.

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

– Why from investment banking to hosting a radio show to business consulting then Authoring, what’s planned and not planned in this journey?
– What’s The Entrepreneur Equation?
-What’s the difference between a jobbie, a job and a business?
-What is FIRED-UP?
-How to put the right valuation for a company sold 0 and its in the idea phase but has a unique idea and another company sold $100000 during its first year but its idea is not so unique but it can be leveraged?
-How do you help your clients raise capital, do you have access to some Angles or VCs or you teach them the strategy to how get into a VC or Angel Investors?
-How much % of growth per year in terms of money a company should make to be able to get into the IPO level?
-Who’s the major partners or team members or services that you work with to help company get acquired by another big company?
-What’s the M&A process?
-What are the types of business licensing deals and what are you specialized at in this area?
-What kinds of businesses are sellable and how to make good decisions today to ensure that we can sell our business?
-The difference between financial and strategic buyers, and how the sale process differs in relation to each group?
-What we need to do today to prepare to get the maximum value in an exit
-How to Boost Marketing and Sales of a Book?
-Main strategies that helped in getting your book into the New York Times Best Selling List?
-What are the added benefits of The Entrepreneur Equation Fashion Doll in terms of marketing for your book or personal brand?
-You also involved in fashion, are you a designer, investor or business partner in fashion?
-You’ve been the host of The Noon Show, what did you learn from that experience and why you quit the show?
-How to get featured in Wikipedia?
-What’s the PR strategy that you use to get into the major TV channels? What’s your team exactly do to achieve than on regular basis?
-What are the marketing or publicity channels that you use to help your clients to reach a broader audience?
-What’s the routine that you use to write constantly and efficiently?
-How often you blog, the people who posted some blog posts on your blog are they from your team or they are other guest bloggers?
-Why you don’t put a date on your blog posts?
-How do you help your clients in terms of Content Creation/Syndication
-How to get a Paid Speaking Gigs?
-How much do you charge for an hourly sessions or a full day session with you?
-How many team members are working with you and how you structure them?
-When you make money in what you like to invest? Do you think capital gain or cash flow?
-What are your most important working tools?
-What’s your daily life and work routine looks like?
-What are your other hobbies?
-Who’s your no.1 mentor?
-The most important factors for success in 3 words?
-What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
-What are your top 3 favorite books?
-What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
-Do you listen to any music when you work?
-Do you follow any routine to sleep?
-What makes you really happy?
-How people can contact you?

Websites & Social Media Links

http //www.carolroth.com/

https://twitter.com/caroljsroth

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-roth/b/376/653

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Carol-Roth-The-Entrepreneur-Equation/133522800041844

Bio

Carol Roth is a national media personality, ‘recovering’ investment banker , investor, speaker and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Entrepreneur Equation. She is currently an on-air contributor for the national cable television station CNBC, the preeminent name in business news. Carol’s multimedia commentary covers business and the economy, current events, politics and pop culture topics.

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Roz Martin The Founder and CEO of MedColl, a Leading Anti-Ageing Supplement Company
Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

How the idea of MedColl started?
Did your company invent its products or distribute other companies’ products? Or both?
How did you do the research process? Who helped you?
Where’s your current head office and which markets or countries you are targeting next?
What’s the collagen?
How your product can boosts the collagen? And improve the healthy joints and the immune system?
What is the range of your products?
Is your products solves the problem of aging only or helps in other areas as well?
What are the disadvantages and side effects of Botox? And how your product can replace it in terms of functionality?
What’s the side effect of MedColl products?
What else can we do to prevent the skin from ageing?
Why you didn’t continue as employee at Johnson and Johnson? And what did you learn from this multinational company?
When you think an employee should quit his/her job to start a dream entrepreneurial venture?
How did you raise capital for your business? How much you raised so far? Are you planning to raise more this year?
Step by step what’s your strategy to be featured in the media efficiently?
How many radio stations, TV shows, Web shows, Magazines you plan to target per month and how do you pitch them?
Do you use press releases other techniques to be featured in the media, please share with us some of your techniques?
What’s the distribution plan for the product as of now its available only in Dubai, UK and Ireland?
For your products or industry which media platform is working the best for you, social media, traditional media, others?
What are the big deals that you are close to secure or already secured so far to distribute your products?
How close you are now from your dream?
When you make money in what you like to invest? Do you think capital gain or cash flow?
Take us through your typical working day?
What are your other hobbies?
If you are just starting today in your field, from where you will start and what are you going to focus on to be more successful?
3 things that you believe are the most important factors for any success?
What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
What are your top 3 favorite books?
What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
What are the things that make you happy?
How people can find you or contact you?

Websites & Social Media Links
http://www.medcoll.ie

https://www.facebook.com/MedCollDerma

https://twitter.com/MedCollDerma

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rozmartin

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC17dVMGJ_Scvijd0vsHGH3Q
Bio

Roz Martin is The Founder and CEO of MedColl, a Leading Anti-Ageing Supplement Company

Roz Martin studied Business and Pharmacology in the UK and spent almost 10 years working in the UK’s pharmaceutical industry. She then relocated to the Middle East to specialise in Biotechnology Pharmaceuticals for Johnson & Johnson.

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EVAN CARMICHAEL Business Coach who helps Entrepreneurs Believe in their Dreams and Act on them by Building their Dream Business to Achieve their Goals, he’s also a Marketing and Publicity Strategist

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

When you started as Entrepreneur and what’s your background?
Why you sold your biotech company at age 22? Why you didn’tkeep it and kept generating passive income in case of automating its operations?
What’s your strategy to achieve your vision of helping 1 billion entrepreneurs? I guess it’s a strategy that needs to continue after you die for hundred of years till the world first have 1 billion entrepreneurs?
Best tips to raise capital from angel investors?
Best tips to raise capital from a VC?
Do you help entrepreneurs raise capital, if yes how?
Are you still an Investor (Angel or VC)
What’s Kiva and your main role in it?
I love the motivational and inspirational videos that you share, do you edit some of them yourself?
Can you share your video editor name?
Where do you record and publish your radio show?
What’s your social media strategy and how do you use it to generate more leads?
Share with us some of your key strategies to build engagement for some brands?
Which PR companies or techniques do you use for the brands that you help to generate more publicity?
Facebook or Twitter and why?
How your twitter chat system works?
What are The 5 step process to getting tangible results from social media.
Your top 3 strategies to get paid speaking engagements?
How many team members are working with you on your projectsor marketing company, how many of them are offline and how many are outsourced?
What are the major services that you offer and how do you structure its cost for your clients? How much you charge for 1:1 consultation or consultation for companies?
What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
How people can contact you?

Websites & Social Media Links

http://www.evancarmichael.com/
https://twitter.com/evancarmichael
https://www.facebook.com/EvanCarmichaelcom
http://www.youtube.com/user/ModelingTheMasters
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evancarmichael
http://www.pinterest.com/evancarmichael/
https://plus.google.com/108469771690394737405/post
https://www.tumblr.com/search/Evan+Carmichael
https://angel.co/evancarmichael
https://medium.com/@EvanCarmichael
Bio

Evan Carmichael helps entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22 he was a venture capitalist helping raise between $500,000 and $15 million. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, one of the world’s most popular websites for entrepreneurs. His goal is to help 1 billion entrepreneurs. He has helped set 2 world records, works 20 hours per week, uses a stand-up desk, rides a Vespa, raises funds for Kiva, and created a line of Entrepreneur trading cards. He graduated from the University of Toronto and enjoys salsa dancing, being a DJ, and the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Sawan Kotecha Business Director of Sk & SK Sons, A Family Business Empire Specialized in Trading & Manufacturing

Is the New School Way of Management works with the Old School Way to Run a Family Business? – Interview with Sawan Kotecha

The Full Interview Questions

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

What your companies Manufacture, export and trade in?
Where’s your factories and trading businesses located?
Who’s your main customers and where they are located?
Do you focus mainly on wholesale or retail and why?
How many products patents do you have? Can you describe for us some of these inventions?
Which business you prefer bicycles,or trading in natural rubber, carbon black, rubber processing oil, polymers and Grease. And Why?
How many people employed in your factories and trading businesses?
Your network is covering many countries all over the world can you give us some examples of those countries and what are the logistic challenges that you facing between those countries?
The expansion of your companies is targeting which markets? And Why?
What are the major opportunities and threats for the businesses that you are involved in?
From which university you received your MBA degree?
How much your MBA costs in terms of time and money?
Why you decided to do an MBA?
Is the MBA was beneficial to run the family business?
What the MBA have changed in you?
Don’t you think that there are many other more efficient ways to learn instead of doing an MBA like using mentors and through other learning channels like books and other resources?
If you go back in time would you do it, yes or no why?
You are a running a family business, so now you are the new blood for the company, is the family accepting the new school style of management, any challenges that you are facing in that’s regards?
Take us through your typical working day?
What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
What are your top 3 favorite books?
What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
What are the things that make you happy?
How people can find you or contact you?

Websites & Social Media Links

http://www.sawanin.com/
http://www.skandsk.com/

Bio

Sawan Kotecha, is a business director running a successful business empire for his family which is specialized in manufacturing, exports and trading, his family runs different business which is spreading over Africa, Middle East and South West Asia.

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Ismail Issa is an entrepreneur & Technology Evangelist, Co-Founder and CEO of Ta3rifa

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The Full Interview Questions

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

• What is ta3refah and how its started as an idea?
• How did you raise capital for your idea?
• Are you planning to raise more?
• What are the ways that you used to raise capital for your dream
project?
• What are the other ways that you know or recommend to raise capital
for new startups?
• I see that Ta3rifah was listed in many famous media channels, how
did you do that?
• Did you work on any other startups before?
• Optimum is one of the companies that you founded, is it a web
services company?
• What is the in5 providing you as new startup in terms of services or
support?
• What are the other similar places to the in5 in dubai?
• Take us through your typical working day?
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• What are the current challenges that you are facing as startup?
• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?
• What are the main challenges for the startups in dubai?
• How many co-founders and employees are currently with you?
• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay efficient?
• What’s your advice to the new startups?
• What are your top 3 favorite books?

• What are the best startups competitions in the region?

• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?
• What are the things that makes you happy?
• How people can find you or contact you?

Websites & Social Media Links

 http://www.ta3rifah.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ta3rifah

http://about.me/iissa

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismailissa

https://www.facebook.com/ismail.eissa

https://twitter.com/egcoder

Bio

Ismail Issa is an Entrepreneur & technology Evangelist, he’s the co-founder and CEO of Ta3rifa a (customer loyalty system and marketing tool), and several other technology startups,

As an Entrepreneur, Issa is also is the co-founder of variety of technology related startups as:MoCCA: Stands for “Mobile Creative Communication Architecture” is an innovative idea for telecommunication project. The idea is based on the integration of different telecom technologies in one solution. It is composed of an affiliation of 3 major components (SMS/MMS, Fax and Email services) with a fourth component (Voice) to follow in the second stage.vGate: A java-based platform for creating a collaborative and interactive 3D virtual worlds to deliver web-based solutions which will create a fully interactive virtual e-malls or e-institutes.FilSekka: A social-based activities and location platform which yields to smartly gives you the easiest access to you favorite locations through your mood, favorites and friends preferences.This besides a SoLoMo (Social-Location-Mobile); a Dubai based start-up which aims to implement a unique and innovative approach for loyalty and incentives solution for the first time in UAE and MENA region.

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Sacha Vekeman CEO of Scense, Managing Partner of 247 Invest Venture Capital

How To Raise Capital For Your Startup Through Incubators, Angels And VCs – Interview With Sacha Vekeman

Interview Questions / Find the complete interview on www.BeEfficient.Tv

• What’s the main focus of 247 in terms of regions and industries?

• What’s the portfolio of the companies that you have invested in?

• At what stage of investment 247 get involved, early stage,
profitable companies, other stages?

• Did you go public with any of the companies that you invested in?

• Can you tell more about your background before getting involved
in the VC world? And how did you get involved in it?

• Do you personally invest out of 247 or all your investments goes
through 247?

• As you are a partner in a VC firm, means you like to have control
in the companies that you invest in, do you still like to Angel Invest in different companies and have no control over it?

• How many partners & employees you have in 247?

• What’s the major role of each employee of a typical VC
company? As many people think that the VC job is so easy and
relaxing?

• What’s the success rate of the companies that you or your
companies have invested in?

• How somebody can pitch you? And what are the things that you
want to see in a pitch?

• What’s iMinds, can you please clarify your major role in it?

• What’s the difference between Private Equity & Venture Capital?

• In financing & fundraising, what’s the difference between selling
technology (customer model and selling shares/stock (investment
model)?

• How to valuate a new startup? How many ways are out there to
put a value for a new startup?

• What are the companies that you have invested in, in the Middle
East?

• Do you get involved in the company trade license or you open an
offshore company?

• What are the challenges that you face in the Middle East in terms
of finding or working with new investors or startups?

• Why most of the Angel Investors or VCs now days are focused
more on the fashion of the Technology & Online Startups, how
about the Offline Startups?

• Why all the investing concept is built around capital gain and
exiting the investment, how about cash flow? • Can you recommend some Angel Investors or VCs that works
with the offline or online industries?

• What are the other ways that you know or recommend to raise
capital for new startups?

• How much is the salary of the VC members, is true that most of
them are employees

• What are the services that you provide through Prosquare?

• Take us through your typical working day?

• What are the Top 3 apps that you use on your smart phone?

• What are the habits that you are trying to develop to stay
efficient?

• What are your top 3 favorite books?

• What are the top 3 people that you are inspired by?

• What are the things that make you happy?

• How people can find you or contact you?

Websites & Social Media Links

http://www.247invest.net/

http://www.scense.com/

http://qamira.com/

Bio

Sacha Vekeman is the Managing Partner of 24/7 invest Venture Capital, board member and co-founder of different companies in various fields, he’s also a mentor for many startups and big companies. He is the CEO at Scense, which is a fast growing software company. Sacha has more than 15 years of experience in large multinational corporations, technology startups and high-growth companies.

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“Broke is temporary; poor is eternal.”  – Robert Kiyosaki

I’ve been broke many times. You know that time called “back to zero,” when you have nothing and sometimes you even owe thousands of dollars? Yes, I have been there many times, even after I made the transition to entrepreneurship. I call those times the “restart times” or, even better, “the restart time but be wiser this time.” It does not matter if you are back to zero after some failures; what really matters is what you have learned through that experience and that you know how to come back and stand on your feet.

One of the reasons I have been able to come back is that I learned how to invest. I continued to be broke for a couple of years, because whatever I was making I was reinvesting, testing new ideas or businesses. Of course, some failed and others worked, so I was always lacking in cash flow. Sometimes you need to be able to break into a certain level of cash flow to be able to finance your other projects, but when you are in an early stage of breakthrough, the restart times might repeat again and again until you find your own magic formula of success.

And sometimes what makes you broke is that you understand the power of investing and you start investing most of your money. As an early investor, sometimes you start with 10 percent to 20 percent of what you have. Sometimes when your knowledge of the investing subject exceeds your cash flow, it pushes you to try to invest more, regardless how little cash you have. I have been in this situation many times; despite my small cash flow, I still invest up to 70 percent to 80 percent of what I’m making. Of course, that process pushes you many more times into the restart time, but at the same time it stretches you more to succeed. Without stretching yourself, you will stay limited. Of course, when you have more at stake, such as a family to take care of, you need to be more careful with your stretching.

So being broke is not a necessarily bad thing. Even if you are not building businesses or systems, it’s normal that you sometimes fail and become broke. It’s not a shame that you are broke. This is how you are going to learn. When you start from zero and you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, you have more motivation to do something. The pressure shakes us from time to time, and sometimes this shake is good, because that is where most people take massive action toward what they want to achieve. Many entrepreneurs make the transition after they lose their jobs; so many entrepreneurs made the transition in the bad times of the financial crisis in 2007 and 2008. Since they couldn’t find a job, they took the entrepreneurial journey.

So coming back to zero a couple of times is not a bad thing. It’s part of the success and learning process. You better do it quickly and the younger the better, because when you are young, you are more flexible in stretching yourself and discovering new limits. When you’re young, you also can take more risks as you have less responsibilities. That’s why startups usually are led by people in their 20s; their drive is amazing and they are generally fearless at this age. So do it as early as possible in your life, so for the rest of your life you will enjoy the wisdom that you gained from these experiences.

This will be a priceless experience that you will never forget and you will always appreciate. But, of course, at the time of the crisis, you will feel pain, you will hate yourself, and you will have disbelief in yourself. But later on, when you look back and connect the dots, you will feel that this is what made you who you are: stronger, wiser, and more successful.

So being broke is a very, very normal thing. What is abnormal is being poor; this is when you have nothing but never bounce back from it. So this is what you should have in your mindset: Although the words mean the same for many people, you have to differentiate them and focus on the feeling of coming back, bouncing back. This is what is important; the real entrepreneurs can just bounce back.

After what I learned through the years, I made the transition. I’m not rich yet, but I’m financially free. I know I’m going to be very wealthy; it’s just a matter of time and more experiences, because I broke many areas of the money code, but it just requires more tuning to break it completely. Before you break the money code, you need to work on breaking many other codes, such as how to learn efficiently, how to have a vision, how to be persistent and fight to achieve your dreams, and many others. Each one of us learns to break different codes at many different levels, so breaking the wealth code requires breaking certain other codes. The most important aspect that you need to keep in mind when you break any code is time. For example, everyone is learning, but the question is how efficiently you are learning, whether you can achieve your goal within a certain period of time.

So the main point of this post is not to talk about being mega-rich, because I haven’t become mega-rich yet. If you want to learn something from someone, make sure to listen to the people who have achieved the thing you’re trying to accomplish. What I have accomplished is financial freedom, and this is what I’m trying to teach you about. So don’t listen to the people who want to impart wisdom about things that they have never done. I see so many authors or professors who talk about, let’s say, business, and they never had a business in their life. They never managed a company in their life.

If you want to learn how to manage a company, then you go learn it from somebody who has broken through in making a great company. If you want to learn how to be an investor, you go learn it from an angel investor or a venture capitalist.

This is the point that you need to understand: Being broke is a temporary thing. Being poor is something that’s going to continue and you need to do something to change that. It’s completely fine to be broke. And the point of being an entrepreneur, a real entrepreneur, is to know how to bounce back from your previous failures.

Before, when I was an employee and when I was at the beginning of my entrepreneurial journey, I was terrified, because I was confused on what to do. Again, I had to start from zero. But now I’m completely fine with coming back to zero, because I know that I will bounce back. I know how to bounce back from many disaster situations, and in case I still don’t know how to bounce back from some of them, I will figure out a way to do so. It’s important to learn and gain experience, because no one can take those two things from you, and those two things are what will help you figure your way out of a disaster. Maybe I will lose my money and make mistakes, but nobody will take this experience from me that has taught me how to bounce back. That’s why I’m no longer scared of going back to zero or becoming broke again.

Even if it’s painful, even if it will take time to bounce back, when you’re confident enough that you are able to bounce back, then you will become fearless in the business world. You will be able survive many disasters and come out of it stronger and wiser and more successful.

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