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Building the Growth Institute from ground up with Daniel Marcos
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This is part one of a two-part podcast with Growth Institute CEO Daniel Marcos and Growth Institute COO Alex Faust. In this episode Phil Rose talks with Daniel about his journey from his T shirt selling business as a young boy, to selling his financial trading business in his early 20s through to starting the Growth Institute to support other business founders on their journey to scale with Impact and reduce drama.Some of)
The main points for listeners:
· Seizing opportunity when it’s there is key …
· The benefit of carrying out your own skills inventory
· As an engineer Daniel ‘didn’t know how big businesses operated’ so he had to learn the basics
· Leaving Mexico to go to Hong Kong in 1998 and recognising value outside the US
· Building a business that became the missing piece in the strategy for someone else – and how that adds value
· The drama that accompanies (most) business founders and how to manage it
· Lessons from the 2008 financial crash – loosing the business, work visa and home…
· How a conversation with Verne Harnish unleashed the next entrepreneurial venture
· How flying 200K miles round America sparked the creation of the Growth Institute
· Bringing in a capable CEO co founder (and team) to run your business…
· The value of understanding your flywheel
· The keys to building a business – learn marketing and copywriting early… and hire a scaling coach!
· The story continues on episode 2…
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Connect with Daniel here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmarcos/
Books Referenced in this Episode
Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0), Verne Harnish https://amzn.to/3lUvtVg
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