The Global Community of the HELLENIC Cashflow Club Association through LIVE worldwide broadcasting presented itself on the Athens Open Coffee Club Meeting

On the 2nd of October 2007 at 7 p.m, the community of the HELLENIC Cashflow Club Association had the opportunity to present itself on the Athens Open Coffee Club (The movement of the Greek internet StartUps) which took place at the multi-room of Bacaro ( 1 Sofokleous Str.- city center-across Athens Stock of Exchange). The meeting consisted of 4 different presentations (ours included).

The audience was the tech community of Athens (geeks, bloggers, entrepreneurs, investors, etc.) and it was consisted of approximatelly 70 people but through live broadcasting from the internet, the whole Greece as well as many Greek people from all around the world were watching us at the same time from their homes.

It was an excellent presentation. Despite the fact that the speakers had only 5 minutes to present themselves we have managed to explain the basic principles of Rich Dad, the CASHFLOW game as well as we had the opportunity to speak about the mission of the global community of the HELLENIC Cashflow Club Association and our plans for the future. At the end of our presentation we’ve answered to questions from the audience. The responses were very good. In fact most people didn’t even knew that something like that existed. They were really impressed. In future posts we will talk more about these responses. At the end of the presntations we had the opportunity to meet other people and explain them more things about our community.

You can find the report of our presentation (in greek) here. Below is the link of the video of the 4 presentations ( our presentation included). You can also find the photos of the meeting here.

Watch the video of the four presentations (ours included) here!

The HCCA (Global Greek Rich Dad’s Community) is expanding very fast

The HELLENIC Cashflow Club Association (aka the Global Greek Rich Dad’s Community) is getting bigger and bigger. Right now there are: 8 Cashflow Clubs in Greece, 2 in Cyprus, as well as 1 Greek Cashflow Club in U.S.A, Australia, Sweden and in South Africa very soon. You can find details of these clubs at our Greek Cashflow Clubs List. Furthermore,there are individual Greek Rich Dad’s fans in U.K, Belgium, Canada, Holland and Germany. All these individuals are making efforts to form Greek Cashflow Clubs in the above countries.

All these Greek Cashflow Clubs and individuals from all around the world are interconnnected and through an internet platform that we’re now developing this interconnection will become much more easier.

Apart from this global Greek Rich Dad’s network of people, specific eforts are made by the HCCA in order to spread the word about the rich dad philosophy in Greece and Cyprus. Our target  is the Greek higher education and the kids’ schools. After the introduction of Rich Dad and the CASHFLOW game at the Technological Educational Institute of Heraklion in Crete we’re in discussions with some other Universities and T.E.I’s for the introduction of the game into their curriculum as well. We insist in the higher education because we strongly believe that our traditional educational system although it’s very important, it’s not enough anymore. We must all understand money and its principles.

Furthermore we’re trying to approach kids’ schools in Greece for the introduction of the CASHFLOW game for kids on these schools because as Robert Kiyosaki says, giving kids an educational head start at this early age can have long-term financial results in their lives.

More over, in the coming months the HCCA will make an effort to inform the Greek and the Cypriot Media about our community.

As you can see, our community indeed is getting bigger and we’ll do our best to continue our efforts. The HCCA would like to thanks its community for their support, because without this support much of the above could not have been accomplished.

Greek Cashflow Clubs Presentations: VERIA Cashflow Club

In the North of Greece lies the beautiful town of Veria. Most foreign people probably know Veria  from the bible, from Apostle Paul. He walked in the streets of Veria and talked here almost 1950 years ago.

In the modern days Veria is an an agricultural and industrial (in agricultural products) centre of North Greece. But 3 months ago, in the summer of 2007  the VERIA Cashflow Club was created here.  The organizer of the club Christos Bakalidis, entrepreneur, says: ” I’m excited about our town’s newly formed cashflow club. I’m a big rich dad fan, the principles of whom have transformed my life. We are looking forward to get more organized as time passes by and more importantly we’ll do our best to attract more people to our club from Veria and the regions around the town. I’m also excited about the idea of the HCCA (Global Greek Rich Dad’s Community). It was something that we as Greeks were needed”.

For people who want to join the CASHFLOW game meetings of the Veria Cashflow Club, please contact us in order to re-direct you to the club.

Greek Business Success Stories: Jason Pappas from EntreQuest

Seventh Shot Success For Entrepreneur

In our series of posts entitled “Greek Business Success Stories” we are presenting business success stories from Greece as well as from Greek enrepreneurs who are living and thriving abroad.

Why we are presenting these stories? Because as Robert Kiyosaki says: ” If nothing comes to your mind on how you can get rich by working for free, keep pushing your reality or begin investing some time and education into studying the lives of people who became successful and rich in the “B” and “I” quadrants.

Indeed, by studying the success stories of the other people we are increasing our own drive for starting our own businesses, begin investing, etc. That drive is even bigger when the success stories comes from Greek people. That’s the main reason on why we present Greek Business Success Stories.

Below is the business success story of Jason Pappas from EntreQuest. His story is interesting becauce he made it only in his seventh business endeavor. This affirms rich dad’s statement that: ” Failure is part of the winning”.

“Jason Pappas, 39, is co-founder/CEO of EntreQuest, a Baltimore-based sales consulting company. He grew up in North Baltimore, went to Gilman School, Yale University and the University of Maryland School of Law.

However, Pappas decided he wasn’t a lawyer but rather a “serial entrepreneur.” In his own quest to create a successful business, Pappas tried his hand at real estate investment, property management, owning a driving range and starting a golf apparel company, among other things. EntreQuest was “one-for-seven.”

Q: What made No. 7 work?

A: Honestly? A phenomenal partner. [Joe Mechlinski] is 10 years younger than I am. … We’re very similar from a core standpoint, but our tactical strengths are different. He’s much more detail-oriented compared to me. The other thing is – we know how to fight really well. … [We] never make it personal.

Q: You describe yourself as a “serial entrepreneur.” What do you think it is about you that drives you that direction?

A: It’s clearly a control issue. I need to control. I’m totally comfortable with the uncertainty and the risk. But, I’ve gotta be the one holding the dice.

Source: Baltimore Sun