There’s a new breed of entrepreneur looking to realise their dreams – those that want to succeed in business but also live a happy and balanced life. In this talk I highlighted that more companies should focus on happiness as their primary goal, then watch as profits soar.

1. WHYHAPPINESSSHOULDBEYOURBUSINESSMODEL
Laurence McCahill, The Happy Startup School
@welovelean

3. “He had the wealthiest pockets,
but the poorest soul. And in
those last minutes of his life, he
realised where he had failed.”

4. TOP REGRETS OF THE DYING
1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to
myself, not the life others expected of me
2. I wish I hadn’t worked so hard
3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my
feelings
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier

8. “When you take
money from investors
their business model
becomes yours ”
Steve Blank

12. *I’m crap at selfies

14. Credit: Bud Caddell

15. “Have fun, do good
and the money
will come.”
Richard Branson

16. Who do you work to impact?

18. “How can you
make your life,
and the lives of
others,
meaningfully
better?”

20. “More of the economy
needs to move further up
Maslow’s pyramid”
Alain De Botton

24. “If employees are treated right,
they treat the outside world right,
the outside world uses the
company’s product again,
and that makes the shareholders
happy.“ Herb Kelleher

27. HAPPYPEOPLEAREMOREPRODUCTIVE

28. HAPPYCUSTOMERSSPENDMORE

29. IFYOUCARE,THEY’LLCARE

31. “Culture eats strategy
for breakfast”
Peter Drucker

33. DEFINEWHATSUCCESSLOOKSLIKE

34. What will you do and bring to
being in the next 1,000 days?

35. FINDYOURHIGHERPURPOSE

36. “A business without a purpose
is as useless as a compass
without a needle.”

37. LIVE(DON’TLAMINATE)YOURVALUES

38. “In the absence of values,
all decisions go down to
profits.”

39. WRITEYOURCOMPANYEPITAPH
We shall remember them.
For they got us there
Cheaply and quickly*
*And that’s about it

40. “He never missed a meeting”
or
“He was a great father”

44. MAKEHAPPINESSYOURBUSINESSMODEL

45. HOME.THEHAPPYSTARTUPSCHOOL.COM!

46. THE PROGRAM
FROM PASSION TO PROFITS
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47. 4 WEEKS
100 People
30 spots left
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48. MISSION
ENTREPRENEURIAL HAPPINESS
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49. @WELOVELEAN @HAPPYSTARTUPS
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