Today we’re taking business and startup success to the next level when Dan Andrews of the TropicalMBA drops some serious insight on what it takes to build a million dollar product business and how find success sourcing and manufacturing products.
Key Business Takeaways
- Why you need to leverage your own business talents
- How passion and purpose balance into business and life
- How to find a balance in your startup
- The reasons work/life balance isn’t real
- What happens starting two businesses simultaneously
- Why you’ve got to make massive risks to build a business
- How having multiple startups can save your company from failure
- How to turn lifetime value into long term business success
- The difference between B2B and B2C startups and how to succeed
- Why you should sell your product for way more than you expect
- Sourcing strategies and the best ways to find manufacturers
- The reason getting your hands dirty is critical to a successful product
- How long it takes once your prototypes are ready to get a product perfected for Kickstarter
- Why sourcing products is hard and why you must take responsibility for the product
- Growing and scaling a business post-Kickstarter
- Why retail isn’t a good experience for entrepreneurs
- How to build a brand team and co-founder
Links
[clear-line]Epic Business Books
- The 7 Day Startup: You Don’t Learn Until You Launch
- Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm
- The Winds of War
Connect with Dan
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