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STOP being an Entrepreneur. START being a Business.

Stop chasing your clients away. Run your business likes a true business with a business mentality.

Created byRobert Gebhardt
4.2
(14 reviews)
IntermediateUpdated Jan 21, 2025
STOP being an Entrepreneur. START being a Business.

What You'll Learn

check_circleSTOP being an Entrepreneur
check_circleSTOP shooting yourself in the foot through Entrepreneurship
check_circleSTOP trying to be a Successful Startup
check_circleSTART running a business
check_circleSTART taking your business seriously
check_circleSTART building something reliable that can last

About This Course

If you introduce yourself as a Serial Entrepreneur, this course is for you.

Are you trying to be a Successful Entrepreneur? Are you creating a great new Startup? 

This course will show you why you should STOP what you're doing, and what to concentrate on instead.

Being an Entrepreneur and running a successful business are not always the same thing. In fact, they're very often in conflict. Will people really trust doing business with you in the long term when you call yourself a "serial entrepreneur"? Will you really take your business seriously if you think of it as a "Startup"?

In this course, I outline why you should stop falling for these traps, even though it looks like everyone else is doing them. Then I will show you my personal example of how I use these steps in creating a successful business.

Your Instructor

Robert Gebhardt
Robert Gebhardt

Translator / AI Consultant

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Robert has been a translator since childhood. He started translating for extra money while in high school, and continued to do so throughout college and graduate school. These days, his clients include banks, corporations, non-profits, consulates, as well as private individuals, and he has been able to expand and set up his own boutique Translation Agency called Lugano Translations, run entirely with Freelancers. His education and background was in finance and fiscal policy, and his translation agency specializes in financial and legal translations. His expertise is in Entrepreneurship and Freelancing, from both the perspective of the "hirer" as well as the "hiree". Robert also has a passion for languages, both for work and just for pleasure.

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What Students Are Saying

4.2
Student's Choice
14 reviews

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