Peter Shankman Skyped into our MSU journalism class the other day to talk a bit about his life. He delved into many things, including his podcast Faster Than Normal, his life with ADHD, and some impactful lessons he has learned throughout his career. He is a successful entrepreneur and author who founded HARO and has written… Continue reading A Lesson On Hard Work
Peter Shankman is a successful author, entrepreneur, corporate speaker and innovator and achieved all of that while being diagnosed with ADHD in a career that deals with a lot of math and comprehensive thinking. Quite the anomaly. He also wakes up and works out everyday before 5am. That’s an anomaly. Last week, Peter Shankman connected… Continue reading An Anomaly in More Than One Way
Everyone goes through something in their life that can cause a dramatic change to their world. Some fold into the negativity. Others use what they are going through to become someone better and prove others wrong. Peter Shankman is diagnosed with ADHD and uses what many consider a disadvantage to make himself into one of… Continue reading Peter Shankman: I Am More Than What You Think of Me
Everyone has weaknesses. These weaknesses, unfortunately, sometimes can be barriers to our success. But I’ve learned throughout the years that weaknesses can only affect your performance if you let them. If you work hard enough, you can turn your biggest weakness into your biggest strength. Or so I thought. Until this week, I’d never heard… Continue reading Eat A Vegetable or Two
Peter Shankman is a very successful entrepreneur in the media industry who currently hosts the #1 ADHD podcast on iTunes. Last Friday, my marketing media class at MSU was given the opportunity to have a live video chat with him on Skype. During this video session he was able to tell us his story and… Continue reading Advice From an Entrepreneur: What I Learned From Peter Shankman
Peter Shankman held a Skype conference with our class because he knows we’ve got a room full of the smartest, most intelligent, and most driven university students on the face of the planet. Our class is a select group of entrepreneurial students with the guts and gumption to build businesses to take over the world.… Continue reading Entrepreneurship Lessons from Peter Shankman
How do you avoid oblivion? This question has plagued me this semester as we’ve learned how to be a disrupter, how to innovate and how to be successful as a startup. I recognize that, as a startup, you have to worry much more about the present than some distant, uncertain future. But it’s bothered me.… Continue reading The Antidote to Oblivion? Continuous Innovation
The world needs more Peter Shankmans. Since graduating from Boston University, Peter has experienced a great amount of success, including starting several businesses and writing four books. His latest is a website and podcast called Faster Than Normal that shows how ADD and ADHD can be a gift — not a curse — for people.… Continue reading Peter Shankman: ‘If You’re Not Failing, You’re Not Trying Hard Enough’
As we develop startup ideas in class on how to innovate and redesign campus news media, our job is to look at target markets and target audiences for the solutions we come up with. Part of the way we can become disruptors in news media and news media distribution is, as the name suggests, changing… Continue reading Thoughts on Funding Local News
When creating a start-up or new business, you need to define who your target market is. You won’t be able to target everyone and that is okay! All you need to do is find your typical customer. The article, How to Define Your Target Market on Inc.com explains how to focus on a specific market that… Continue reading Infiltrate the Target Market, Find the Customers
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