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Get unlimited access to EVERY MasterClass, and as a HACK THE ENTREPRENEUR listener, you get 15% off the Annual All-Access Pass! Go to https://MasterClass.com/hack My guest on the show today started his career as a lawyer, where he spent 4 years before becoming an entrepreneur – this transition happened over 40 years ago. He's what I would call a serial entrepreneur, having started 11 companies of varying degrees success. This conversation takes a couple fascinating turns as Ken discusses $100+ million dollar exits and business ideas that have continued to pay him every year for 10+ years. In addition to his own ventures, he's been investing in companies for the past 18 years. Through all of this, he began to notice a thread that ran through successful entrepreneurs -- an entrepreneurial mindset -- so he put pen to paper and wrote a new book called The Dream Toolbox: Building an Entrepreneurial Mind and Financial Abundance. In this conversation, Ken Aldrich and Jonny discuss: Friction points: why you must

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Learn how you can save time and money with Intuit Quickbooks. Go to Intuit.me/hack My guest today is a bestselling author, award-winning advertiser, and entrepreneur. Jason Harris is the CEO of the creative agency Mekanism and the cofounder of the Creative Alliance. At Mekanism, Jason has helped the agency produce campaigns for such companies as HBO, Muscle Milk, The North Face, PepsiCo, MillerCoors and Ben and Jerry's. In 2014, Mekanism led the White House's "It's on Us" campaign to raise awareness of campus sexual assault. The campaign is currently in its third year. This past summer Jason published his first book The Soulful Art of Persuasion, already a Wallstreet Journal Bestseller. Now, let's hack... Jason Harris.

Dave Munson of Saddleback Leather Co. spent several years journeying across North America with his dog to create bags and other products made to outlast their owners. Their slogan is: They'll fight over it when you're dead. His founding story is one of legend. He spent three years living in a $100 a month apartment in Mexico with his dog Blue, and dodged a crooked Mexican federale who was sent to kill him, all while trying to start his business. Saddleback Leather Co. currently has over 250 employees in the US and Mexico, where they have built their own leather factories. In this conversation we discuss the importance of being principled in life and business, hiring business coaches, and sticking with it long enough to succeed. Now, let's hack! Dave Munson.

Get a free 14-day, no risk trial. No credit card required. Visit Volusion and as a special for Hack the Entrepreneur listeners, get 50% off your first month's plan with promo code HACK. My guest today is a triple Pisces, marketing and growth coach, and a smart entrepreneur. She is the founder of IttyBiz, where her and her team turn smart, quirky people into smart, quirky entrepreneurs. She has been coaching and teaching online marketing since 2006 and has been featured in major outlets such as Forbes, Cosmopolitan and USA Today. Plus, her newsletter has attracted over 50,000 subscribers from across the globe. Now, let's hack! Naomi Dunford.

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Start your 14-day free trial by going to Monday. Then use the promo code HACK to get 10% off a paid account. The bestselling author of Pitch Anything is back to flip your entire approach or persuasion and selling. In his decades of pitching, presenting, and closing high-stakes deals, Oren Klaff has learned that people are sick of being sold to. What people love is coming up with their own great idea, even if it's the same idea you were guiding them towards. That's why Oren is throwing out the old antiquated playbook on selling and bringing you a new approach with his brilliant new book Flip the Script He'll show you a new approach that works on this simple insight: everyone trusts their own ideas. That might sound easier said than done, but Oren has taught thousands of people how to do just that with a series of simple steps that makes it simple for anyone to follow. Now, let's talk to Oren Klaff and learn how to flip the script.

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Get a free 14-day, no risk trial. No credit card required. Visit Volusion and as a special for Hack the Entrepreneur listeners, get 50% off your first month's plan with promo code HACK. My guest today is a WordPress Developer, podcaster, and a business coach. He started like a lot of us do, with lots of dreaming, thinking, and talking about working for himself and running his own online business. But also like many of us, it wasn't an easy transition. In fact, he made the first leap into freelancing and a couple years later he had to go back to working for someone else. But he thought about what had gone wrong the first time, created a plan, and headed out on his own once again. He's now been in business since 2010, and even though it hasn't always been unicorns and rainbows, he's persevered through the hard times and come out on the better end of business success. In this episode, we discuss: Always keeping your 'why' front and center when making decisions Why and how to create micro-experiments for your fr

Start your 14-day free trial by going to Monday. Then use the promo code HACK to get 10% off a paid account. After spending the first 15 years as a graphic designer and growing her own agency, today's guest decided it was time for a challenge and a change. Twenty years after falling in love with rum during a trip to India, her and her husband decided to see if they could turn that love of rum into a business. At this moment, Montanya Distillers was born. Flash forward eight years and Montanya produces three rums, is distributed in forty-four states and seven countries and has won countless international awards. In this conversation, we discuss being a female distiller in a male-dominated industry, building your wings on the way down, and not being constrained by what other people think. Now, let's hack¦ Karen Hoskin.

Chris Hutchins is an endless optimizer of money and life, and entrepreneur. This story begins with him being laid off in 2008 and founding an organization called LaidOffCamp where he hosted dozens of events around the country to help the unemployed learn new skills for the evolving job market. Then in 2011, he co-founded a company called Milk. This venture was short lived, as they were acquired by Google 13 months later. Today he is the founder and CEO of Grove, and his mission is to make financial planning accessible and affordable for everyone. In this conversation, Jon and Chris discuss: The varying skillsets required for product management and biz dev Where and how to find business partners The true value of relentless optimization Now, let's hack... Chris Hutchins.

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In 2011, my guest and his team started an online store that offered posters with motivational quotes, and they called in Startup Vitamins. The success of Startup Vitamins pushed the team to want to branch out and start selling apparel. They wanted to do it the same way they did with posters: on-demand. Unfortunately, at the time there were no services that would do print-on-demand apparel and be able to consistently supply quality products. So they created their own company called Printful. My guest today, Davis Siksnans, is the co-founder and CEO of Printful, the print-on-demand dropshipping company that makes it easy for anyone to sell custom print products online. He co-founded Printful in 2013, to solve their own problem, and in just six years he's grown the company from 5 to 500 employees across the USA, Latvia, and Mexico. Now, let's hack... Davis Siksnans.

Whether you're just beginning to build your dream or are already well on your way, Pantheon can help you deliver the best online experience and future-proof your digital presence. Learn more at Pantheon My guest grew up in Maine, working in his family's seafood business. In 2007, he graduated from university and moved to New York City to work as a financial analyst. After a couple years he was earning a great salary, but he felt a calling back to his roots. So at 25 years old he decided to quit Wall Street and open a 200 square foot lobster shack in New York's East Village. With $30k in start up cash, from his savings and a 50% investment from his father, he founded Luke's Lobster. During the past 9 years, he has grown from that first hole-in-the-wall lobster shack to 40 locations across three countries. In this conversation, we discuss: Why you need to treat people the way you like to be treated Finding a co-founder on Craig's List What the most difficult part of entering a new market is Now, let's hack...

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Marcin Kleczynski is a Polish-born immigrant who moved to the US at age of 3 and grew up in the Chicago suburbs. As a kid, he spent much of his time on forums and in chat rooms during the early days of the world wide web. Due to his families financial situation, he couldn't afford to buy computer games, so he downloaded them from the internet and one fateful time his family's computer became infected with Malware. Frustrated that his computer's anti-malware didn't prevent the infection, he took to seeking help from security message boards to troubleshoot and remove the malware by hand. While developing his own tiny solution to his problem, he realized other people could use it too, and so he founded Malwarebytes. In early 2008, his company's first product was released. What began in his suburban home is now an international company with a 750 employees, is used by more than 60,000 businesses and millions of people worldwide. Now, let's hack... Marcin Kleczynski.

LinkedIn Marketing Solutions: Every day, over 500 million professionals engage with content on LinkedIn, and chances are, your future customers are among them! To redeem a free $100 LinkedIn ad credit, go to LinkedIn Have you ever thought to yourself, that would make a great app or that would be a cool idea for a game? 10 years ago my guest had the exact same thought, except unlike most people he took small steps to push it forward. He spent the next few years researching, testing, and developing his very own board game called Spontuneous before finally earning a full time living from game sales. This journey has taken many turns from selling individual games from mall kiosks to getting the game into 600+ retail outlets, before Rob finally discovered the power of Amazon sales. In this conversation we discuss: How to use the threat of regret to push you forward Reaching out for advice to people in your marketplace Going from ranch manager to board game entrepreneur Now, let's hack... Rob Ridgeway.

Content marketing, content strategy, and blogging – these are things we talk about constantly. In fact, I've said it before and I'll say it again, all businesses in 2019 are in the content business, whether they know it or not. But understanding the importance of content marketing is only one piece of the puzzle. Executing effectively is a whole other thing. You can't just write and publish mediocre articles without a strategy or plan and expect any benefits to come from it. Which brings us to today, and this episode of Hack the Entrepreneur. Four or five years ago, I had no idea how to write for the internet, I didn't know what content marketing even was, and I had been convinced by teachers that I wasn't a writer. As I learned the strategy and tactics behind content marketing, I set out to relearn the art of writing. During this process I stumbled Copyblogger, a site dedicated to teaching the content marketing, copywriting, and strategy. Throughout this journey, I've made a ton of mistakes and learned a lot

Mike McDerment of FreshBooks is a former web designer, collector of advisors, and Canadian entrepreneur. In January 2003, he was running a four-person design agency. He was using Microsoft Word to create his firm's invoices. One day, he accidentally saved over an old invoice, and something in him snapped he knew there had to be a better way. Over the next two weeks, he coded up a solution for his clients and eventually turned that side-project into what is now FreshBooks. Mike McDerment and his team spent the next three and a half years building FreshBooks out of his parent's basement. In fourteen years, he has built a team of 250+ people and FreshBooks is used by more than 10 million people. Now, let's hack! Mike McDerment.