Fail To Learn | Obstacles are Opportunities
Obstacles are opportunities | Learn from the mistakes of others...
I’m doing things a little different in this episode. Instead of the typical interview, I’m taking control.
I’m not sharing my failures (I don’t know where to start). Instead I’m addressing the reasons why most business ideas die and never find life. And what you need to do to give your ideas a fighting chance.
Ian Brodie started off as a business consultant and was great at helping his clients with their strategies and making changes. But to progress in his company he had to sell. And that’s where the problems started.
Keenan went through a lot before he found success as A Sales Guy. He’s a great example of persistence in light of disasters after disaster. He had one collapse after another, falling like dominoes in a line.
In this episode I talk with Ravi Jayagopal, to cofounder and codeveloped of Digital Access Pass (often called DAP). DAP is a sophisticated membership plugin and marketing platform for WordPress. (And, if you don’t know what any of that means, don’t worry. This isn’t a tech show so we won’t geek out on you. Keep reading.)
Ravi built DAP after noticing a gap in the market. He built the first PayPal and ClickBank download protection scripts. Before these scripts, if you sold digital downloads/content (ebooks, audio, video, etc), anyone with the link could download your products and you couldn’t do anything about it, except lose money.
Chris Johnson is the founder of Simplifilm. We talk about his failures here. We talk about his failures in the mortgage business. We talk about his failures with his family and business partners.
You’ll enjoy Chris’ confessional. You’ll recognize challenges you face every day and hopefully have a new way to approach these difficult decisions.
Steli Efti’s start is a stunning story. He came to the United States in search of the American dream. He sold everything he had in Germany and moved to Silicon Valley. And then he found a few challenges, to put it lightly.
When he arrived he didn’t know anyone here. He didn’t know the area. He didn’t know English very well. He didn’t even carry a proper visa. And that’s just the start.
We talk about those struggles, the failure of his first business, and what he’s learned along the way to build his amazing company, Close.io.
