Business & Personal Development with Chris Haroun
Welcome to the Business & Personal Development podcast with Chris Haroun, where you’ll find tips on how to take your career to the next level. Chris has sold more than 1,000,000 courses globally and has been featured in Business Insider, NBC, Inc, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur & TedEx. Chris is the author of the #1 best selling online business course called "An Entire MBA in 1 Course" and the author of the book "101 Crucial Lessons They Don't Teach You in Business School," which Business Insider wrote is "the most popular book of 2016." Forbes called this book "1 of 6 books that all entrepreneurs must read right now."He is the founder & CEO of Haroun Education Ventures, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career. He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO. He is a frequent guest lecturer at several Bay Area MBA schools including Berkeley & Stanford. Download a free "Networking" book (retails for $19.99) at www.harouneducation.com.
Business & Personal Development with Chris Haroun
How to Increase Your Motivation, a Day in a Life Working at a Hedge Fund and More.
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Episode 84
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This episode is a compilation of answers to YOUR questions that were asked directly from my listeners who attend my weekly business education YouTube live webcast. Topics covered include: how to increase motivation, a day in a life working at a hedge fund and more. Refer to chapter marks for a complete list of topics covered and to jump to a specific section.
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I've started to lose motivation for work and learning during this quarantine, can you give me any tips to gain it back?
Is day trading legal as a secondary source of income even if I'm working as an investment banker?
What advice do you have for people with no business background to get into venture capital?
What are the other sources of income when you have a 9-5 job?
How many years does it take to reach the C-suite?
What are the benefits of getting an MBA in your work life? What skills do you gain from it?
What are the frameworks you learn in Business School?
How do I calculate the return on my investment with my year over year revenue and costs?
In today's time, should one switch from one job to another every two years to grow their career? Does staying loyal to a company for an extended period not work anymore?
What is the best way to deal with lawyers, what precautions to take?
What country has a better quality of life according to you, Canada, or the United States?
What are your tips for becoming a leader?
When is the perfect time to start a research and consulting business?
How do you stay positive?
How do we handle stress during the interviews?
I believe there will be business opportunities when we emerge out of this pandemic, how do I prepare and position myself?
What's a better city to start a business, San Francisco or New York?
How's life in the Bay Area?
You recommended business biographies of Richard Branson and Bill McDermont, could you please suggest some more?
How to be the best manager?
What's your definition of success?
What do you think of Trump's decision of no national lockdown until now?
Is dropshipping a good business idea?
I have an idea for a consulting model, the logo, website, and already two potential customer feedback. When is the perfect time for me to go public?
How are you doing in this current COVID-19 situation, and how are your parents?
I created a free app where investors can create portfolios and view the risks. My app uses the Google Finance API, how do I know if Yahoo is okay with this?
I just finished my bachelors in engineering, how can I start my startup?
If you are in a midlife crisis, and you want to become an executive, what are the top 10 business apps?
What are the best resources in macroeconomic reports, apart from websites such as the World Bank, IMF, and WTO?
Can you advise me on how to start a small startup?
Do you think the two trillion dollar stimulus bill will cause the US dollar to depreciate?
What are the best resources to understand the oil industry?
Which one do you prefer technology, finance or FinTech?
If you were still running your hedge fund, which trading strategy would you use to help investors?
Looking ahead when things recover, would you expect a continued lack of interest in the metal markets as stocks rebound in response to pent up demand?
Questions regarding the MBA program
When did you get your US citizenship?
How to build apps?
What kind of resources does Goldman Sachs have that small hedge funds don't?
As the discount rate is reduced by central banks, could cash-rich entities take term loans to meet Capex requirements and settle existing loans with higher interest rates to take new loans at a lower rate?
I'm thinking about getting a credit card for my consulting company, what do you think about credit cards, do you have any advice?
Are you friends with other hedge fund managers?
Can you please share with us a day in the life of running a hedge fund what goes on behind closed doors?
What books do you recommend to achieve success?
Leaving the company you worked for in search of other opportunities and COVID-19 breaks out, what's your advice?
What would you do if you have a solution that could take humanity to the next level while preserving capitalism but don't have the tech skills to create it?
I just started your financial analyst course, is it enough to learn about the stock market?
I'm nearly 30, is it too late to join an investment bank?
How to maintain focus for eight hours during a typical workday?
Advice for a 20-year-old student
What do you think would be the future of real estate, anything you recommend for real state education or to invest in real state?
I'm in Israel, and here we have mandatory military service, I'll be serving for the next couple of years, would I be able to open a business on the remote control in such conditions?
What side hustles would you advise teenagers, especially during this time?
What's your opinion on God and religion?