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Derulo is only 26, but he’s already responsible for a lifetime of hits. (Photo courtesy of WBR). The Florida native got his start ghostwriting for the likes of Lil Wayne and Diddy, breaking through with debut single “Whatcha Say” in 2009. Since then, he’s notched 14 top 100 hits, including “Talk Dirty,” “Wiggle” and 2015’s “Want To Want Me.”

Derulo started the new year with a bang, earning a spot on the 30 Under 30 Class of 2016 in the music category. He answered a battery of questions on his origins and influence for us below.

Date Of Birth: 09/21/89
Title: CEO Future History Records / Recording Artist / Entertainer
Twitter handle: @jasonderulo
College attended: AMDA graduate Residence: Los Angeles, California Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida

Here are 17 Questions With Jason Derulo an under 30 Forbes Billionaire.

Are you a first-generation American? Yes

Are you married? No

How many children do you have, if any? None

Are you an early bird or a night owl? Both

How much student debt do you have? Zero

Who’s your dream mentor? Warren Buffett

Who’s your single biggest influence? Michael Jackson

What gadget can you not live without? Cell phone

What’s your go-to app? Snapchat (derulo_jason)

At what age did you decide on your profession? 5 years old

What’s the single most important trait for entrepreneurs? Work ethic

How do you define success? Success is when you can make money doing what you love.

Why did you decide to start your business/career? To change the world, get rich, [find] self fulfillment, be my own boss, follow my passion.

Where were you when you launched your business/career? I was a ghostwriter in LA writing songs for other artists.

What’s the best way to describe this generation? Antisocial

What’s the first song you learned by heart? “I Believe I Can Fly”

If you could listen to only one album for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why? Thriller. Every song is a masterpiece.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2016/01/05/17-questions-with-30-under-30-star-jason-derulo/

Cc: lalasticlala

charix:
You're calling lala when your article has no source? I don't even believe it. Jason derulo, billionaire? Improbable!

Check www.forbes.com you will see it there.

K

lofty900:
But our own celebrity will say If you want to be ftc, oya come and collect it

What's ftc?

Derulo is only 26, but he’s already responsible for a lifetime of hits. (Photo courtesy of WBR). The Florida native got his start ghostwriting for the likes of Lil Wayne and Diddy, breaking through with debut single “Whatcha Say” in 2009. Since then, he’s notched 14 top 100 hits, including “Talk Dirty,” “Wiggle” and 2015’s “Want To Want Me.”

Derulo started the new year with a bang, earning a spot on the 30 Under 30 Class of 2016 in the music category. He answered a battery of questions on his origins and influence for us below.

Date Of Birth: 09/21/89
Title: CEO Future History Records / Recording Artist / Entertainer
Twitter handle: @jasonderulo
College attended: AMDA graduate Residence: Los Angeles, California Hometown: Boca Raton, Florida

Here are 17 Questions With Jason Derulo an under 30 Forbes Billionaire.

Are you a first-generation American? Yes Are you married? No

How many children do you have, if any? None

Are you an early bird or a night owl? Both

How much student debt do you have? Zero Who’s your dream mentor? Warren Buffett

Who’s your single biggest influence? Michael Jackson

What gadget can you not live without? Cell phone What’s your go-to app? Snapchat (derulo_jason)

At what age did you decide on your profession? 5 years old

What’s the single most important trait for entrepreneurs? Work ethic

How do you define success? Success is when you can make money doing what you love.

Why did you decide to start your business/career? To change the world, get rich, [find] self fulfillment, be my own boss, follow my passion.

Where were you when you launched your business/career? I was a ghostwriter in LA writing songs for other artists.

What’s the best way to describe this generation? Antisocial

What’s the first song you learned by heart? “I Believe I Can Fly”

If you could listen to only one album for the rest of your life, what would it be, and why? Thriller. Every song is a masterpiece.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2016/01/05/17-questions-with-30-under-30-star-jason-derulo/

Cc: lalasticlala

Yes ooo

Nothing pays more than having your own business.

While you work on another persons business (being an employee) pls create your own business and run it sideways to prevent shock.

Nothing pays like having your own business. Take the bold step and start working on it now!

Ok

Police Rescue Team pls go there ASAP

K

Demons shopping! Demons shopping!

It seems that every content generator on Earth has banged out a post with 10, 13, 21, 34, even 50 reasons to start your own business. And that’s just in 2015 alone.

The only problem is that every single one of those reasons in every single article is self- serving.
Truth is, customers couldn't care less about that.

There really is only one good reason to start a business: You’ve discovered a market need – a customer problem that begs to be solved – and have the passion and commitment to come up with a better solution than what’s out there. That’s what real entrepreneurs do.

Every successful business I’ve ever heard of started that way. Every single one. No exceptions. No kidding. Here are just a few examples, off the top of my head:

•GrubHub was founded by Matt Maloney and Mike Evans. While working on a job, the pair got hungry and that’s when it hit them that there was no one- stop-shop online for food delivery from local restaurants.

•Once the Web grew from a collection of static pages to an interactive platform, Matt Mullenweg knew users would need an open source content management system, so he created WordPress.

•After leaving Yahoo, Jan Koum and Brian Acton felt the need for a messaging app with no ads, no games, and no gimmicks. That was the genesis of WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion.

•Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp founded Uber as an app built on scalable infrastructure to get people rides from one place to another.

•Richard Branson created a discount mail-order record store, Virgin Records, because he was frustrated with paying exorbitant prices for music and thought others felt the same way.

•Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer to meet the growing demand for fully assembled personal computers with a display and interface for loading and saving programs. Today, Apple is the most valuable company in the world. When friends asked for custom PCs, Michael Dell started building them to order out of his Austin, Texas, dorm room. That became Dell Computer.

•Fred Smith came up with the idea of using a bank clearing house concept to more efficiently ship packages from one place to another. That’s how Federal Express was born.
•Bill Gates loved writing programming languages and customers needed them, so he started Microsoft for just that purpose. With a billion people and little brick and mortar infrastructure, China had thousands of small merchants with no easy way to reach customers.

•Jack Ma built Alibaba to meet that need. I could go on, but you get the point.

Look, there’s a massive amount of hype around entrepreneurship these days. You can’t visit a single website without reading about it. So the pressure to conform to this particular social norm is enormous.

And I understand how easy it is to start a company with a website and a blog. It costs almost nothing to get started. Not only that, but it feels good to have a site, a company, a business you can call your own.

But none of that changes the laws of supply and demand, the fundamentals of competitive markets, and what it takes to start and build a successful business over the long haul. They’re as true in today’s virtual world as they’ve always been in the real one.

So if you’re going to forsake your career, and give up the opportunity to learn and gain experience by working for others, it’s a good idea to know upfront what you’re up against so you have the best chance of winning in the end. Without the passion and commitment to come up with a better solution to a problem that really matters, that will never happen.

Don’t just take it from me and all those successful entrepreneurs. After reading my new book, Real Leaders Don’t Follow, an old friend and business associate who’s had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the pack:

What makes real entrepreneurs is their passion and commitment to solve a problem/need that really matters to them. These people are also willing to take the great personal risk, and make the significant effort that's required to solve this problem.

Ziv goes on to say that "innovation is also part of it since they are trying to solve a problem that either hasn't been solved until now, or was solved in an insufficient manner."

And he's absolutely right. That's what real entrepreneurs do. And that is the only good reason to start a business in 2016 … or any year, for that matter.

Cc: lalasticlala, ishilove, obinoscopy

Let him resign

It seems that every content generator on Earth has banged out a post with 10, 13, 21, 34, even 50 reasons to start your own business. And that’s just in 2015 alone.

The only problem is that every single one of those reasons in every single article is self- serving.
Truth is, customers couldn't care less about that.

There really is only one good reason to start a business: You’ve discovered a market need – a customer problem that begs to be solved – and have the passion and commitment to come up with a better solution than what’s out there. That’s what real entrepreneurs do.

Every successful business I’ve ever heard of started that way. Every single one. No exceptions. No kidding. Here are just a few examples, off the top of my head:

•GrubHub was founded by Matt Maloney and Mike Evans. While working on a job, the pair got hungry and that’s when it hit them that there was no one- stop-shop online for food delivery from local restaurants.

•Once the Web grew from a collection of static pages to an interactive platform, Matt Mullenweg knew users would need an open source content management system, so he created WordPress.

•After leaving Yahoo, Jan Koum and Brian Acton felt the need for a messaging app with no ads, no games, and no gimmicks. That was the genesis of WhatsApp, which was acquired by Facebook for $19 billion.

•Travis Kalanick and Garrett Camp founded Uber as an app built on scalable infrastructure to get people rides from one place to another.

•Richard Branson created a discount mail-order record store, Virgin Records, because he was frustrated with paying exorbitant prices for music and thought others felt the same way.

•Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer to meet the growing demand for fully assembled personal computers with a display and interface for loading and saving programs. Today, Apple is the most valuable company in the world. When friends asked for custom PCs, Michael Dell started building them to order out of his Austin, Texas, dorm room. That became Dell Computer.

•Fred Smith came up with the idea of using a bank clearing house concept to more efficiently ship packages from one place to another. That’s how Federal Express was born.
•Bill Gates loved writing programming languages and customers needed them, so he started Microsoft for just that purpose. With a billion people and little brick and mortar infrastructure, China had thousands of small merchants with no easy way to reach customers.

•Jack Ma built Alibaba to meet that need. I could go on, but you get the point.

Look, there’s a massive amount of hype around entrepreneurship these days. You can’t visit a single website without reading about it. So the pressure to conform to this particular social norm is enormous.

And I understand how easy it is to start a company with a website and a blog. It costs almost nothing to get started. Not only that, but it feels good to have a site, a company, a business you can call your own.

But none of that changes the laws of supply and demand, the fundamentals of competitive markets, and what it takes to start and build a successful business over the long haul. They’re as true in today’s virtual world as they’ve always been in the real one.

So if you’re going to forsake your career, and give up the opportunity to learn and gain experience by working for others, it’s a good idea to know upfront what you’re up against so you have the best chance of winning in the end. Without the passion and commitment to come up with a better solution to a problem that really matters, that will never happen.

Don’t just take it from me and all those successful entrepreneurs. After reading my new book, Real Leaders Don’t Follow, an old friend and business associate who’s had a long and successful career, Ziv Azmanov, sent me an email that, among other things, does a pretty effective job of explaining what distinguishes real entrepreneurs from the pack:

What makes real entrepreneurs is their passion and commitment to solve a problem/need that really matters to them. These people are also willing to take the great personal risk, and make the significant effort that's required to solve this problem.

Ziv goes on to say that "innovation is also part of it since they are trying to solve a problem that either hasn't been solved until now, or was solved in an insufficient manner."

And he's absolutely right. That's what real entrepreneurs do. And that is the only good reason to start a business in 2016 … or any year, for that matter.

Cc: lalasticlala, ishilove, obinoscopy