188. Earn Your Leisure: Entrepreneur Shares Success, Setbacks, and Other Learnings Not Taught in Business School

The Marketplace: Online Business | Marketing | Finance| Lifestyle

Content provided by Priest Willis. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Priest Willis or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.

3+ y ago 52:41

MP3•Episode home

A highly successful entrepreneur, Matt DeCoursey launched his first company in a spare bedroom of his Indianapolis home in 2009. Using nothing but an AmEx card with an $8000 limit, he built companies that generated millions of dollars in revenue.

Matt is also the founder and CEO of GigaBook, a cloud based appointment-booking platform, which has the ability to provide utility to millions of small and medium sized businesses. He now lives in Kansas City with his wife and two children.

In this discussion, Matt and I cover:

What were the steps that led Matt to be an entrepreneur
His personal story around his book ‘Million Dollar Bedroom: Scrappy Lessons of Success, Setbacks, and Other Surprises Not Taught in Business School‘ Based in a spare bedroom in his home.
How Matt approached building companies that generated millions of dollars in revenue and huge amounts of profit.
His “coin toss moment” that he faced and mentioned in the book.
Work/life balance and why it sucks just trying to have the look on instagram
and more….

219 episodes

#Society #Business #Marketing #Authors #Bitcoin #Ecommerce #Finance #Fitness #Hiphop #Subscriptionbox #Priest Willis #Careers #ITunes