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Guys, very impressed with the structure and articulation of your sessions. You are gently squeezing us through the funnel to streamline our story and offering. Phil Knight may have inspired me with his brand, Nike, but I’m learning you can only sell waffle if it’s on the underside of a shoe or covered in syrup. Refine, refine and refine again, only then can you offer a plausible story. Perhaps may be worth asking, at the start of each coaching session, cohorts to write two words or a sentence that they’ve taken from the session? Mine would be: refine and why
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Hi Mike, while we’re in the ’ask and ye shall receive mode’, any chance you could build me a property information platform over the weekend?! I’m sure it’s not too much to ask!
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I just need to know in what colour do you want it and an unlimited supply of coffee
Now in a more serious tone, happy to help you finding the way to make technology serve your goals.
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Mike/Jesus, I’ve just ordered a mobile Costa Coffee and a waiters outfit, I’m on my way! Thanks Jesus, would certainly appreciate some feedback on the feasibility at some stage. BTW you should call yourself the bat crew. 1.20am! Is the nocturnal working a prerequisite of a start-up or is that supply of coffee having an affect?!
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Brilliant! I wondered why he had that wire dangling from his head! Shame, I was just trying on a new pair of high heels
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The insomnia of a creative mind. It’s one o’clock in the morning and my mind won’t rest until I put pen to paper. Is this a sign of a great entrepreneur who only needs a few hours sleep a night, or the sign of a parent who’s ignored his own self imposed, ’no internet before bed time’ rules. All those neurons fizzing and bustling, like young kids high on Haribos. But who’s really to blame here? Squarely I lay the finger of blame on one man- Ben Legg. He’s on a mission to change the world and his cohort at the portolio collective have awoken my dormant self.
How appropriate that the Monday catapult course session is on Linkedin profiling, pushing me to explore this networking behemoth. How could it be that at mid-life this would be my first endeavour into this professional network of the new age?! Fortunately for me, on clicking my home page, I found immediate comfort in the now familiar logo of the portfolio-collective and the ever smi…
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steven reader you never cease to make an impression and I love this post and the creative spirit that goes with it! Word smithery is now a word/phrase even if it wasn’t before and one I will proudly use!
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Great to hear that we are energising your entrepreneurial spirits Steve! And for you – and any other members – we would love to collaborate on articles/ research/ interviews. This is all about learning from each other
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What a great post. I love the storytelling – you will do great in the next module Steve, I just know it. Great to have your enthusiasm on board!
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Steve this was just brilliant. It made me smile and laugh… I hope you had writing or poetry on your skills inventory! It’s an absolute pleasure to share this with you and very excited for your next steps and journey. Here’s to your continued contribution, massive engagement and marmite style voice!
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Hi all, Enjoying the process, which has unlocked my creative mind. I can’t work out if this is a good or bad thing?! Here’s my dilemma, which may or may not be relevant to others. In short I would love to brand and sell myself to bring in that £500+ a day to put food on the table. My issue is, the more I do of the course, the more I’m fighting the ’big idea’. I can’t stop the notion of becoming the next big game changer. The next ’rightmove’ or dare I say it the next ’Amazon’ (no I’m not really that egotistical). I can see huge potential in disrupting the status quo, where my forecasts are in the millions rather than the thousands. Does this put me outside the visions of a portfolio career? Am I deluded, or is your vision that a portfolio career could indeed launch a seed or even pre-seed internet start-up? I can get the vision of someone with an established career and experience seeking to exploit day rate, NED roles, …
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Great question and insight steven reader! I will weigh in with my personal experience and story. I, like you am super ambitious and I want to not only change the world but I want to be very successful whilst doing it. I have a very varied portfolio career (MBTI coach, brand strategist, graphic designer), with all these skills I wanted to launch a start-up (which is where The Portfolio Collective comes in). Although being the CMO & Co-Founder of TPC takes up a vast quantity of my time…
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Hi Steve,
You are not alone or weird. In my experience something like 1 in 3 portfolio professionals are planning to build something bigger, i.e. a company/ product/ team. They use the portfolio career to try out a few things and pay the bills simultaneously.
It doesn’t have to be either/ or. It can be ’both’.
Ben
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Hi Steven,
I am in a very similar position to you and as Ben said, I am looking at starting a Portfolio Career as a start and foundational point that could potentially grow into something bigger. I have similar high level ambitions and some big ideas but you have to start somewhere. As someone that has worked in multiple start-ups now, one of the key lessons I have learned is that you can make the best plan in the world but until you put it into practice it doesn’t matter… There w…
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Alex great reply… an author called Cal Newport talks about what you mention here known as ’the adjacent possible’. You work in a field intensely and get close to the ’edge’ of it – the edge where the innovation happens where you spot the opportunities of the future.
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I really love this concept of the adjacent possible laura – really resonates with me! Thanks for sending over… will check it out further!
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Hi Steve, a bit late to the party… but if you have a vision and ambition, absolutely pursue it!! Just use the philosophy of a portfolio career to support yourself and strategically build the relationships, skills, and knowledge that will give it even more chance of success. I can’t wait to hear more about your plans!!
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Word smithery is perhaps your new title steven reader! Great idea on the coaching session. Thanks as always for your engagement and enthusiasm.