Welcome to a real-world MBA, where entrepreneurs guide you through what it really takes to start, scale, and sell your own business. Your hosts: J and Carol Scott, who left careers in corporate management to launch their own house-flipping business. Every Tuesday, you'll meet a new guest and learn actionable tips for hiring, firing, marketing, raising capital and more. So whether you're looking to boost profits or bring a new idea to life, you'll come away informed and inspired. Tune in, and ...
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105: The MOST Profitable Skill to Learn (From a $200M+ VC Investor) with Codie Sanchez
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Successful business owners are addicted to building businesses, sometimes to their folly. For someone like Codie Sanchez, this isn’t a problem, but a superpower. Codie is a journalist, a venture capital partner, an angel investor, and an entrepreneur. She loves, as she puts it, “building herself out of a job”, which means creating businesses with h…
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104: How Anyone, Anywhere, Can Start Buying Profitable Real Estate with Andrew Luong
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It’s hard for real estate investors to get started, especially without a mentor, a background in real estate, or an existing network. Many of those interested in buying profitable, cash-flowing real estate are busy with their 9-5 job or even running their own business. This was at least the case for landlord and founder of Doorvest, Andrew Luong, w…
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103: Are You Seen as Credible in A Customer’s Eye? with Mitchell Levy
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What does it mean to be credible? Are you showing up and providing for your customers, your partners, and the world as a whole? These are questions that today’s guest, Mitchell Levy has been asking. Mitchell is an expert on credibility and is trying to make not only business, but the world a more credible place to live and work. Mitchell has been w…
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102: Are You Ready to Take the Entrepreneurial Leap? with Gino Wickman
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Many business owners and entrepreneurs have read books like Traction and Rocket Fuel, both of which talk about how to build a successful business, partnership, and how to use the EOS (entrepreneurial operating system). Today we have on the author of both those books, and a new book Entrepreneurial Leap, Gino Wickman. Gino always had the entrepreneu…
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101: Acquiring a $1.5M Business with Only $10k Out of Pocket with Nigel Guisinger & Sean Ade
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We buy and sell a lot of different assets like houses, stocks, and even bitcoin (sometimes). But what about buying and selling businesses? Business acquisitions can seem like an entirely different world, but they aren’t too different from the regular buying and selling of assets we do every day. Today’s show features Nigel Guisinger, who you may re…
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100: You Can't Fear Failure: Scott Trench on the Evolution of BiggerPockets
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How does a 27 year old become the CEO of a major online brand? Not only that, how does a 27 year old take an online brand, build upon it, and create something better? Well, if your name is Scott Trench, the answer is: a lot of hard work, some tough decisions, and looking out for the customer whenever possible. Before he was head honcho at BiggerPoc…
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99: Finding Profitable Opportunities Using “Deliberate Data” with Dr. John Johnson
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Data can be a confusing topic for most people, but what about when it has to do with your business? How is your business using data? Are you even using data at all? Dr. John Johnson, expert witness, professor, and founder of Edgeworth Economics and Edgeworth Analytics argues for businesses using data to grow. Dr. Johnson understands why so many peo…
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98: Build a Big Life, Not Just a Big Business: Advice from The Hosts of The Empire Building Podcast
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How do you build a business that ties in healthily with your life? While you’re trying to bring in millions in revenue, are you there for your children, your spouse, your loved ones, or even yourself? If not, why are you building the business at all? This was a main topic of discussion for the hosts of the Empire Building Podcast, Wendy Papasan, Sa…
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97: Put Profit First: How to Compound Your Business and Personal Income with Rocky Lalvani
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Rocky Lalvani came to the United States as a small child. Like many immigrants, Rocky’s parents arrived with a small amount of money, around $25. As hard workers, they were consistently talking to their friends and relatives about how to make more money so they could have the coveted “American Dream”. This is how Rocky started his education in mone…
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96: Starting Successful Businesses with NO Industry Experience with Jeff Fenster
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There are often standard prerequisites for starting a company. First, you need to go get a degree for a certain field, then you need to find a job that is in that field, then you need to stay in that job for 10 years to gain connections, and finally, you can start a business. Jeff Fenster, serial entrepreneur and founder of Everbowl thought this li…
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95: Developing Unstoppable Partnerships with Elliot Smith and Tucker Merrihew
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Building businesses from the ground up isn’t easy. It requires patience, hard work, and most importantly, a solid team. Without trust in that team, the product, the company, and the vision can completely disintegrate. When a team flourishes, you can create a massive success, where everybody wins. Tucker Merrihew and Elliot Smith have been working t…
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94: How the Science of Humor Can Turn You Into a Better Businessperson with Peter McGraw
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What does humor and business have in common? At first glance, not much, but after digging a little deeper, there’s quite a lot that humor can teach us about business. Peter McGraw, behavioral scientist, author of Shtick To Business and The Humor Code, and host of the Solo Podcast kept wondering why we find certain things funny. He decided to put it…
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93: Creating a Plan for Your Business, Career and Life with MIT Teacher Mark Herschberg
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An author, a CTO, and a champion ballroom dancer walk into a podcast...it’s Mark Herschberg! Mark is a man of many talents, graduating from MIT, becoming a champion in ballroom dancing, and later becoming a COO and CTO for multiple startups. How does someone do it all, and do it all so well? After college, Mark was working in computer science and b…
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92: The 3 Biggest Mistakes People Make During Negotiations with Kwame Christian M.A. Esquire
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Negotiation is all around us, whether we see it or not. Whether it’s a business negotiation, an argument in a relationship, or convincing your child to eat their greens, you’re always negotiating. With us on today’s episode is Kwame Christian M.A. Esquire, host of the Negotiate Everything podcast and author of Finding Confidence in Conflict. Most p…
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91: How Businesses Get Sold for Millions with Chris Younger
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If you’re a new entrepreneur, it may seem like a dream to sell a business for millions of dollars. People like Chris Younger, make that dream a reality. Chris founded Class VI Partners, an investment bank that helps entrepreneurs plan and prepare businesses for sale. Chris will be the first to admit that selling isn’t an easy process, it takes time…
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90: How Solo Entrepreneurs Can Improve Their Products and Businesses with Ben Foster
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You may own a small business, some rental properties, or are just tinkering with a new idea. Regardless of where you’re at in your entrepreneurial journey, you’re most likely trying to make something that will not only resonate with customers, but allow them to solve a problem in their life. So how do you make a product that accomplishes this to th…
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89: How David Greene Plans to Sell $150 Million of Real Estate in 2021
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For the first episode of 2021 we have David Greene from the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast! We’ve heard from David before on a couple of past episodes, but today he goes over something a bit different: how he successfully scaled his real estate business from being a sole agent to a team doing $90,000,000+ in transactions a year! This didn’t happ…
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88: What’s Your Special “Cut”? Why Brandon Turner and David Greene Doubled Down on Theirs in 2020
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If you’re a fan of the BiggerPockets Business Podcast, you’re probably also a fan of the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast. Lucky for you, we’ve got a combo of these two shows on today’s episode! Joining us from Maui are the co-hosts of the BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast, Brandon Turner and David Greene. Both Brandon and David are known for thei…
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87: The Benefits of Franchising vs. Starting a Business from Scratch with Jon Ostenson
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You hear the word “franchising”, what’s the first thing you think of? For many people, they think of selling hamburgers, sandwiches, or opening up convenient stores. To franchise matchmaker and consultant Jon Ostenson, that’s just the surface level. There is a whole world of franchising that many entrepreneurs and business professionals don’t know …
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86: Becoming a Real Estate Angel Investor with Jonathan Wasserstrum
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Jonathan Wasserstrum, founder of SquareFoot likes to say that he was working in PropTech before PropTech was a thing, and he’s right! For the past few decades, many industries were seeing expansive growth, new ideas, and upgraded technology. One of the industries that didn’t see that tech growth was real estate. Jonathan found that many commercial …
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85: Building More Income Streams During COVID-19 Shutdowns with Ralphie Martinez
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No business has had a tougher time this year than physical-based businesses, and that is certainly the case for our guest, Ralphie Martinez. Ralphie owns Martinez Elite Fitness in Northern California, and was just reaching his business’s peak when COVID-19 started to spread, rendering his business closed until further notice. Ralphie is the definit…
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84: Becoming the Most Successful Version of You With Dre Baldwin
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Are you lacking in motivation? Don’t have the focus on you want/need to succeed? Not sure how to define who you want to be and how to get there? If so, today’s episode is for you! Dre Baldwin -- former professional basketball player and current motivational entrepreneur -- has worked hard to get where he is today. He went from sitting on his high s…
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83: Build Your 7 Figure Amazon Business Step-by-Step With Mike Begg
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Did you know that over 200,000 entrepreneurs currently sell over $100K per year on Amazon? Sales continue to skyrocket with no indication of slowing down anytime soon… and this week, our guest is here to help you get in on the action! Mike Begg -- co-founder of AMZ Advisers -- started a side-hustle business selling on Amazon with three buddies whil…
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82: Putting Your Business on Auto-Pilot With Justin Silverio
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Do you want to get your business to the point where you can simply leave for several months without worrying about things continuing to operate and grow? Do you want to get there quickly and with little risk? If so, today’s episode is for you! Justin Silverio - real estate investor and founder/owner of the real estate marketing company, Open Letter…
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81: Using Your Strengths to Find Opportunity With Dustin Reichman
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Do you have strengths that can help other business owners? Do you have skills that can be used to help elevate someone else’s business to new heights? Do you have expertise that makes you the perfect partner for someone else’s business? If so, starting a business isn’t the only way to become a successful business owner! Dustin Reichmann -- partner …
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