We have explored many subjects during these past few weeks. I hope you are finding this series interesting, insightful and inspirational. If so, please share them with every architect you know. We started the Entrepreneur Architect Academy with a session on Personal Productivity. Without understanding the basic fundamentals of being efficient with your time, making the […]
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Entrepreneur Architect Academy 002 | Your Life Plan: Personal and Business Planning
What do you want to accomplish in your life? Specifically. Do you want to be “rich and famous”? Do you want to spend more time with the ones you love? Here’s another secret that the experts don’t tell you… you can’t do both. People who reach the pinnacle of financial success, in any profession, have […]
5 Secrets to Success from an Entrepreneur Architect
My wife and I launched our architecture firm, Fivecat Studio, in 1999. We were 29 years old. Young, ambitious and a little crazy, we started with no money and no clients. One good lead and some help from a few local architect friends gave us the courage to take a leap of faith, and we […]
The Passion Profit Cycle of Success
Prior to starting our own firms, we business-owner architects experienced an “entrepreneurial seizure”, as Michael Gerber so accurately described in his book, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It. It’s the precise moment when a passionate employee commits to starting her own firm. Frustrated by the process […]
Great Architecture Will Not Build a Great Business
1) Design great architecture. 2) Get noticed. 3) Thrive! Isn’t that how it is supposed to work. Well… it doesn’t. The trick is step 2. Getting noticed. How do you get noticed? The answer in a word, is Marketing. Even uber-successful “starchitects” have a marketing team working to get their “great architecture” noticed. Whether you […]
Five Lessons of Success I Learned from Eminem
1. Be Real. Whatever your opinion of Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, and his controversial rap music recordings, one thing cannot be denied… he is real. The stories told in his lyrics talk about a life of poverty, violence and overcoming the fear of what may come next. He is bitter, angry and aggressive. He is […]