Guest Speaker: Erik Hanberg

*Started 26 – Non-profit movie theater director
?Non-profit movie theater? – plays indie movies, old movie, exist for the love of film.

-“For surplus,” money goes back into organization.
-Volunteers are unpaid.
*Strived to make it autonomous
*Wife graphic designer entrepreneur
*Just kind of fell into entrepreneuring
-Starting and finishing something no one else told you to do.

Self motivation

-Ran for office, also self-motivation

*Advice: Start and finish things.
*”Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

*”New laziness is not about physical labor, it is fear. Fear of expending emotional labor.” – Seth Godin
*Publishing
-Literal time investment
-Selling a book not written yet.
--Said it was out of print, did not accept money. Ask for email if interested.
-Publish system. Author gets 10% of book sale. So publisher sells it for 3$, reseller sells it for 20$. Author just made 30 cents.
--E-books disrupt system, author can get 70% of retail.
*Unintended revenue.
-Being consulted based on experience
*Sidexside (design, main thing) *The Horation *Exit133.com *Suite133
*Books worth reading
-The 100$ startup
-4 hour work week
-E-myth revisted
-Turning Pro
*Advice for fiction writer: write first book
*Worked on books around the edges.

*Understand the business of your art.

-Get best readership.

?What are your genres?

?How hard is your science?
?Degrees? – B.A. in English, helped in writing, not entrepreneurially though.

*Time investment applies to graphic design I.P.
*Fry’s wife is the rock, Fry is