Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneur’
Jason Halek Finds His Entrepreneurial Calling
Most 10 year old boys spend their free time riding bicycles or playing baseball. When Jason Halek was 10, however, he was working small jobs in his community. His work ethic was unprecedented for his age, and helped him earn various job opportunities from landscaping to cleaning dog kennels. By age 12, Jason Halek’s entrepreneurial spirit began to develop when he capitalized on a source of untapped revenue and established a soft drink machine at his father’s office building. His early experience would eventually lead him to become the youngest person ever to lease and operate a Sinclair gas station at only 21 years of age. He went on to successfully run his own automobile and oil and gas companies.
Jason Halek’s Oil And Gas Companies Gain Momentum
Jason Halek moved from Minnesota to Texas in 1998 and soon thereafter, found his passion for the oil and gas industry. With sheer determination to become a force within the industry, he quickly began soaking in as much knowledge as he could, surrounding himself with seasoned veterans of the profession. It wasn’t long before Jason Halek had formed his own oil and gas production and exploration companies, drilling wells in Texas, Montana, and North Dakota. By September 2011, he had drilled over 75 wells, some reaching depths of over 10,000 feet. Jason Halek’s cutting-edge stimulation techniques have yielded outstanding results in both sand and limestone formations, and have attracted the attention of highly respected financial partners and industry experts nationwide.
In addition to running his thriving oil and gas companies, Jason Halek dedicates much time to Halek Charities, his IRS-registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. Halek Charities is committed to providing assistance to a number of children’s causes, Christian charities and public service organizations.
Bankruptcy records are documents of declaration that an individual or a company no longer earns sufficient income to finance the business and pay other financial obligations. In the United States, bankruptcy is divided into two categories. The first type of bankruptcy is called liquidation. Liquidation means that an individual or a company already has all their assets sold off and therefore, rids itself of its debts. Reorganization, the second kind, is when either the person or the business files for a new plan of action to still address its remaining financial responsibilities. Either way, filing a bankruptcy record gives a signal that a person or an organization is admitting that they can no longer turn losses into profits.
However, business persons who are considering of filing bankruptcy records simply to escape paying debts are in for some major disappointments. These records are actually created under an individual’s name or the business name and will then be made available for access to the general public. This is all because bankruptcy records are considered public records.
Such records may limit business opportunities later and may discourage potential business partners. In our days, most wise business persons check bankruptcy records before doing business with individuals and companies.
So, whether you are the type of entrepreneur who wants to work solo or someone who prefers to work with a partner, it will do you good to check bankruptcy records. You can check bankruptcy records to check if a potential business partner ever had a bad business history. From there, you may decide for yourself if you really want to do business with the person or organization.
Marc D. Manoff: Entrepreneurial Expert And Business Consultant Helping Companies Achieve Measurable Successes
Marc D. Manoff’s entrepreneurial mind and spirit first appeared back when he was in elementary school. Realizing his stickers and candy supply were in high demand among his grade-school classmates, he created his very first business by selling these items in the schoolyard. From there, his corporate capabilities flourished, as he’s demonstrated in the number of successful businesses he has started, managed and sold in a variety of industries. Whether manning the helm of an employment verification organization, acting as owner and broker of a real estate firm or leading the team at his automobile services company, Marc D. Manoff has consistently proven that he is a force in the corporate arena.
Marc D. Manoff Consulting: Uniquely Designed Strategies And Customized Business Solutions
Marc Manoff has proudly announced that Marc D. Manoff Consulting is his latest commercial endeavor. Drawing on his unique experience as both an attorney and lifetime entrepreneur, Marc Manoff is partnering with companies to help them successfully engineer a new business path to success.
As a business owner himself, Marc Manoff empathizes with the obstacles and hurdles endured by entrepreneurs. He uses his firsthand experience and knowledge of his clients’ business needs, objectives and visions to design a specific strategy focused for success. Whether looking to redefine, realign or rekindle your business approach, Marc D. Manoff Consulting can help!
Most people (and especially those who have never been through a coaching process) never really understand how important their values and their recognition of them are. Our values determine what makes us happy and what makes us stressed. Our values, if we are aware of them, can serve as a compass that navigates us toward our best choices – having the career that is ideal for us, being just one of them.
From my extensive experience as a coach, I know that people often become restless in their careers because they don’t understand the impact their values have on their everyday working lives.
Let’s say one of your highly rated values is freedom. Yet you go to the same office, day in, day out, meeting the same colleagues, following the same routine. Is there any wonder that at a certain point this situation begins to upset you; you become bored, lazy and de-motivated? Your performance drops and you get fired? Another options is, you keep giving it your best effort, even if you don´t enjoy it, you keep going, only to get seriously physically unwell some time later, from suppressing the same unhappy emotions. This didn’t show in your performance but took its toll on your health. Needless to say, that very same person, who has freedom as one of their values, would thrive in a job with flexible hours, with unexpected situations that would require unusual solutions, or as an entrepreneur.
On the other hand, we can have a person whose number 1 value is stability. For such a person, anything unexpected represents stress; anything unusual can create a panic attack. Such a person would never dream about having their own business and enjoys knowing the environment and routines that go with it.
Both of the examples above are, of course, a little bit extreme but I am sure many of you can find yourselves in them or somewhere on the spectrum between them.
If you are feeling unsettled/unhappy/unsatisfied in your current career and don´t know where to begin when it comes to possibly changing it, being honest about your values would help you a lot. But how do you go about it?
1.) Ask yourself which situations make you the happiest.
2.) Ask yourself what you enjoy doing the most.
3.) If nothing substantial comes up, return to your childhood/youth and recall your favorite games, sports or activities.
4.) List all the parts of your work that you enjoy the most.
5.) Explain why these particular parts of your job are the best for you.
If, after following the previous 5 steps, you still feel unsure about your values, you can try going through a professionally led “values elicitation exercise”, which any experienced life coach should be able to do for you.
Looking at developing trends can help you position your business for sale at the right time and at a higher price.
Today it’s surprising we thought it was a big breakthrough but when I wrote the first business plan to get the AOL franchise, it was considered breakthrough. That’s quite comical given that I wasn’t a great market researcher and had a zero technology bent. I just realized that you could ask questions of anybody anywhere by talking through type.
So it’s a great application of using what you know and doing it in a new way before anyone else had ever thought of it.
I think a great lesson to be learned is to be fearless in trying new things. Figure out how to hedge your risks, but then plunge forward. I wouldn’t advise diving head first into a shallow pool, but I certainly would encourage walking into a shallow pool and trying to figure out how to make best of the water.
So what is a trend spotter and what was my path to become one?
Actually, to me the word ‘trend spotting’ is anomaly. It doesn’t really apply to anything except how we go about entertaining the conversation.
I was just a sophisticated market researcher who is very good at extrapolating medium range trends – what I was seeing in society and how it was playing out numerically from survey data and our quantitative data points.
Then I would add in what I was seeing qualitatively doing journalistic interviews and ethnographic work. What was I seeing and learning that could be put to good use and every day life for business?
My objective has never been to be the kind of a crystal ball person. It’s really to build businesses; to know when to get in and when to get out.
So what I’m talking about is feet on the ground work, grabbing a lot of data from different sources and then pulling that together and connecting the dots in order to figure out what’s going on out there.
The only other piece that is really critical is timing.
Look at George Magazine, which John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Michael Berman started more than a decade ago. In those days, politics was not pop culture. It was an idea before it’s time.
If a magazine like that would have been launched around the rise of Obama culture, it would have had a very different place, much more mainstream, and the timing would have been even more right for it.
It’s medium term trending. It’s not going out too far or too far fetched.
I don’t write science fiction, and I can’t make accurate predictions about the stock market. My work is usually oriented to what’s going to happen the next 12 to 18 months from a political standpoint, from a commercial standpoint, from a consumerism standpoint, that’s going to really create business opportunity.
How did I get to do what I’m doing now?
It was a combination of having great bosses, having a lot of guts to go in and out of entrepreneurial life back into corporate life; and then really understanding how to take these ideas, the major observations that I had developed, and translate them into positive commercial events.
It sounds very multiple disciplinary.
I’m not an economist. I’m not just a hard core advertising, hard core PR person. I’m really a marketer, looking to identify a desire and how do you put product in that fulfills that desire.