Nestor Villalobos
The Iron Man Entrepreneur
About The
Iron Man
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Business leader, speaker, mentor and Ironman finisher, Nestor's boundless energy is contagious. With BS and MBA degrees from Bentley University, Nestor started his career in product management launching hundreds of consumer products for Dell and CompUSA. After escaping the corporate world (with his soul mostly intact), Nestor entered the world of entrepreneurship after launching his own startup.
Core Beliefs
Fail Fast
Fail Forward
Training for an extreme competition like the Ironman and starting a new business venture have a number of things in common, chief among them is the certainty of facing failures along the way. “Fail fast, fail forward” is a two-part strategy crucial to success for professional athletes and entrepreneurs. When you try something new and it fails, it’s important to pinpoint why it failed and then rapidly adapt, moving forward in a new direction. Spending too much time dwelling on a failure or “digging” for solutions to non-existent problems is not only unnecessary but detrimental to your future success. This concept helps you to be more productive, innovative and increases resiliency.
Embrace Delayed Gratification
Delayed gratification is defined as "the resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long-term. In other words, delayed gratification describes the process that the subject undergoes when the subject resists the temptation of an immediate reward in preference for a later reward." Generally, delayed gratification is associated with resisting a smaller but more immediate reward in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later. Recognizing, internalizing and learning to appreciate the idea that great things take time is necessary to success.
Be Iron Man Committed
Walking down the street the chances of running into someone who has completed the Ironman race is about 1 in 1,000. If you’re in a room full of entrepreneurs, your chances of meeting someone who has finished the long-distance triathlon are much, much higher. Why? Because many of the same tactics, mindsets and learned behaviors needed to complete the world’s most intense triathlon are the same needed to be a successful entrepreneur.
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