- Your July NOtivation

Published: Thu, 07/16/15

This Month's Trivia Question
The first ever Independence Day celebration was 1777.
July 4th, Independence Day, is known as one of the "booziest" holidays in America - but do you know the history behind that? Think you kNOw? Find out below!
This Month's NOtivational Article
GoforNo
Documentation of 7 Rejections 
by Andrea Waltz & Richard Fenton

Have you heard of Airbnb? The tagline on the website is: Rent Unique Places to Stay from Local Hosts in 190+ countries. We haven't used it yet but know a ton of people who have. It's the thing to do.

The numbers of its value flying around the internet are quite impressive - we've read that Airbnb is valued somewhere between 10 and 13 billion dollars. 

In the era of Shark Tank, watching businesses raise money has become major entertainment. 

That's why the post from co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky (on the blog site Medium) called 7 Rejections was so fun to read.

In 2008, the founders of Airbnb were attempting to raise $150,000. (As Brian points out,this means that for $150,000 you could have bought 10% of airbnb.)

If you visit the post, you'll see that Brian shares 5 of the actual emailed rejections that they received.

The other 2 actually never bothered to respond. (Sound familiar?) 

As he says at the end, the next time you have an idea that gets rejected to remember these emails.  Brian doesn't say what they did next but it's safe to say one thing: they did not give up. 
Go for No! News...
Have you checked out our blog recently? Andrea has posted some posts like...


Please check those out if they sound interesting and share with other people who need some NOtivation!

As we mentioned last month, Audible, Amazon's audio program platform is exploding. You can even download the audible app onto your ipad and listen to audios that way. Our three titles there are Go for No! as well as...Million Dollar Year and then The Fear Factory. 

In other news, we have another book coming this Fall, details soon!  
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This Month's Trivia Answer
It is said that drinking on the 4th became a tradition when George Washington issued his soldiers double rations of rum to mark the anniversary of their independence. It is estimated that beer sales top $1 Billion on July 4. Fascinating fact... but whatever you do, just don't drink and drive.  

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