Raising Entrepreneurs

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Today I received an email from the author of an internet marketing course we bought last year, talking about a newly-released book by young entrepreneur, Ryan Allis. Here’s an excerpt:

I’d like to ask you to buy a copy of the book today. Here’s why…

First of all, the book is only $11.53. Second, if you buy your copy TODAY ONLY you’ll receive $750 in bonuses from Ryan and six other A-list of web marketing experts and entrepreneurs.
But first let me share some background…

Ryan built three companies to over $1 million in sales by age 21, raised over five million dollars in venture capital at age 22, and today at age 23 runs an 85 person company in North Carolina called iContact that does over ten million dollars in annual sales. Ryan knows what he’s doing when it comes to business.

I initially discounted him because of his age.

WOW – was I wrong and totally blown away! A 23 year old who runs an 85 person company! I met Ryan last year but had no idea.

Ryan overnighted me a copy of his book last week.  I’ve taken a look and it has definitely earned my seal of approval and strong endorsement.

The full title of the book is ‘Zero to One Million: How I Built a Company to $1 Million in Sales… And How You Can Too.’ If you want to become a multimillionaire entrepreneur, this is your no-BS step-by-step guide.

All of the proceeds from Zero to One Million are going to Ryan’s non-profit organization The Humanity Campaign, which works to reduce poverty and hunger in developing nations by increasing access to education, healthcare, and technology. You can read an article about Ryan’s efforts to give back at http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/900111.html.

Ryan actually has the crazy goal of being the President of the United States someday-I think he might just make it!

Here’s a message direct from Ryan:

“Zero to One Million is my effort to share my message of entrepreneurial possibility and social change, help anyone (who believes they truly can) become a multimillionaire entrepreneur, and make what I’ve learned the hard way about entrepreneurship, raising investment, venture capital, opportunity evaluation, product development, business planning, building a sales team, management, hiring and retaining superstars, organizational behavior, web 2.0, marketing, and scaling a business accessible to anyone.

Zero to One Million provides a ten step process for building a company from idea stage to over $1 million in annual sales based on my experience building iContact over the past five years to over $10 million in annual sales and 80 employees. We are working to make the book #1 on Amazon and reach the New York Times Bestseller List.”

Isn’t it great to see a young entrepreneur giving back to charitable causes to early in his career? Hats off to Ryan Allis. Oh, and buy his book …