Are you an 80-degree entrepreneur or a 90-degree entrepreneur? Today, I want to share with you a concept called the success thermostat. You may not realize it… But in your mind, you have this thermostat for the level of success you feel worthy of. And until you can increase it, you’ll stay locked where you are… I’ve literally seen entrepreneurs
It’s one thing to have a great idea… But how do you take a crazy idea and turn it into millions per year and then exit? That’s what we’re discussing in today’s video with my guest Trent Kitsch. Trent’s a guy that’s done it all. Right from the get-go, he was faced with uncertainty and rejection. But Trent pushed through.
It’s hard to say goodbye… For years, the last thing I thought about every night was my company, Spheric Technologies. It was part of me. It was me. My identity was: Dan @ Spheric And at 28 years old, something happened that changed my life forever. Someone asked me if I was looking to sell. Sell? My baby?!
Think of how easy it would be to scale if you could say… “Google is one of our customers.” (Or an early adopter equivalent in your industry.) Right? There are some early adopters out there… And if you can sign them on as a customer (or strategic partner) they’ll bring all your other perfect-fit customers along with them. You go
I failed for 7 years straight. After clawing my way out of the gutter from drugs and crime… I still had to face setback after setback. I was smashed in the face with two failed businesses… And while I was working on my 3rd one, I was regularly awake at 2 am loaded up on Red Bull thinking to myself:
“If it doesn’t matter to an 8-year-old, it doesn’t matter.” Back when social media was barely a thing. And when Zuckerberg was still coding in Harvard. Lane Merrifield was on a mission to change the world… His mission:
A little while ago one of my businesses got 18 demos and 0 show-ups… ZERO. Crazy? I know right. I couldn’t understand how it could be ZERO… They had all booked a call that was on the calendar. They had all received email confirmations. And they had all gone through the pipeline smoothly. Or so we thought… Here’s what happened:
When we talk about scaling… What comes to mind as your #1 bottleneck: Securing capital? Getting the right people in the right seats? Dialing in your systems and OKRs? Well here’s a curveball. What if it’s none of that?
Imagine you’re the captain of a ship. You’ve recruited sailors. You’ve sailed out of the harbour in search of far away treasures… And now you’re caught in a raging open sea storm.
When Josh was 18, he saw a young entrepreneur in his town driving a lamborghini… A guy who lived in the rich part of town. “Wow, this guy is SO young, and so successful. I wonder what he does.” Josh was amazed. And that was it.
