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We love the budding local startup scene, but entrepreneurship cliches and self-proclaimed entrepreneurs can be, well, very annoying<\/strong>, to be polite about it. Satirist JP Sears nails it with his impression of an \u201centrepreneur\u201d<\/a> talking about his Entrepreneur Life. The entrepreneur talks about himself and his business, saying \u201cmy favorite question to ask people is the only question I know how to ask people: How\u2019ve you monetized that?\u201d On his business, he says: \u201cAll you really need to know is I\u2019m in tech, the business of innovation\u2026 I\u2019m expecting the valuation of my startup to come in north of a hundred mn. How much revenue has my company earned? We haven\u2019t earned any revenue. I just raise capital.\u201d One gem of advice he gives: \u201cFailing forward is not only what I aim for it is essential for entrepreneurs. I learned so much more than if I were succeeding. When disasters happen in business I know how to proclaim \u2018I\u2019m failing forward,\u2019 that turns my failures into automatic success and those successes are exactly what helps me disrupt the market\u201d (runtime 05:40).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We love the budding local startup scene, but entrepreneurship cliches and self-proclaimed entrepreneurs can be, well, very annoying, to be polite about it. Satirist JP Sears nails it with his impression of an \u201centrepreneur\u201d talking about his Entrepreneur Life. 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