This week we met an entrepreneur who told us about a side project he did that ended up making him and his partner $30,000 in just 2 months. The story is about how one young entrepreneur started an exotic car meet up in his home town that ended up growing to a sizable community, and how he eventually found a business opportunity in shooting high quality car videos for businesses.
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- Episode 221: How freeCodeCamp Is Creating Thousands Of Programmers With Only 12 Employees
- Episode 220: What’s Next For The Mentors
- Episode 219: How a SpaceX Engineer Launched a Rapidly Growing Consumer Health Startup
- Episode 218: What You Should Learn Before Starting A Company
- Episode 217: The Power of Small Actions and an update to The Story of A Homeless Neuroscientist
- Episode 216: How To Have A Strong Sense Of Self Worth
- Episode 215: The Story Of A Homeless Neuroscientist
- Episode 213: How Andrew Clark Turned A Small College Into A $120 Million Online Learning Public Company, Zovio
- Episode 212: How Great Entrepreneurs Learn To Be Great Writers
- Episode 211: The Fastest Way To Resolve Conflict
- Episode 210: Why There’s No Growth Without Delegation
- Episode 209: Why Starting Over In Your Career Can Be A Good Thing
- Episode 208: How Real Change Happens
- Episode 207: Why Your Competition Matters Less Than You Think
- Episode 206: Why We Need To Approach Our Careers Differently In Uncertain Times
- Episode 205: From Running Three Companies At Once To Finding A Singular Passion With Michael Fenchel Of Paradox Ventures
- Episode 204: How To Overcome Limiting Beliefs and Labels
- Episode 203: How To Handle Self Doubt As An Entrepreneur
- Episode 202: Should You Be Fundraising During The Pandemic?
- Episode 201: How A College Dropout Ended Up Running A Sales Team At Google
- Episode 200: How Darrell Silver Of Thinkful Taught Himself How To Build Companies Part II
- Episode 199: Finding Focus During A Time Of Crisis
- Episode 198: How Darrell Silver Of Thinkful Taught Himself How To Build Companies Part I
- Episode 197: What Can Happen When You Set Audacious Goals
- Episode 196: How Entrepreneurs Are Responding To The Crisis
- Episode 195: Getting To Millions Of Users Through Word Of Mouth With Vu Van Of ELSA
- Episode 194: What We’re Working On During The Quarantine – Announcing School16
- Episode 193: From A 7-Figure Event Business To A Global Leadership Training Company, With Claudia Chan of S.H.E. Summit Part II
- Episode 192: Why It’s The Perfect Time To Start A Company
- Episode 191: From A 7-Figure Event Business To A Global Leadership Training Company, With Claudia Chan of S.H.E. Summit Part I
- Episode 190: What Happened When Our Venue Canceled On The Morning Of Our Event
- Episode 189: How To Build A Fashion Marketplace With Billions In Transactions, With Mona Bijoor
- Episode 188: How To Get Influencers And Celebrities To Support Your Work With Heneka Watkis-Porter
- Episode 187: How To Create An Unfair Advantage
- Episode 186: Fundraising 201: When To Walk Away
- Episode 185: Why Adversity Breeds Entrepreneurs
- Episode 184: 3 Questions Entrepreneurs Are Afraid To Ask Part II
- Episode 183: How To Decide When You Have Too Many Options
- Episode 182: How To Get Someone On Your Side When You’ve Made A Mistake
- Episode 181: How One Experiment Uncovered A Huge Opportunity In Insurance With Natalie Gray of Cover
- Episode 180: How To Know If You Found Your Calling
- Episode 179: How To Get Press For Your Startup
- Episode 178: How To Avoid Golden Handcuffs
- Episode 177: How Ishveen Anand Is Scaling Sports Sponsorships For The Biggest Athletes In The World – Part II
- Episode 176: The Virtue of Discipline and Empathy Learned In The South Korean Special Forces
- Episode 175: How Ishveen Anand Is Scaling Sports Sponsorships For The Biggest Athletes In The World – Part I
- Episode 174: The Secret To Greatness From Barcelona’s Most Celebrated Architect
- Episode 173: Why Cheat Days Work
- Episode 172: The Four Stages Of Becoming An Expert
- Episode 171: How To Turn A No Into A Yes
- Episode 170: Fundraising 101: Closing The Round
- Episode 169: Can Empathy Be Learned?
- Episode 168: Fundraising 101: The Investor Pitch
- Episode 167: Jerry Seinfeld On Creativity And The Value Of Always Experimenting
- Episode 166: Fundraising 101: Getting Investor Meetings
- Episode 165: The Opportunity In Reversing The Flow
- Episode 164: Better Late Than Never
- Episode 163: Fundraising 101: When To Approach Investors
- Episode 162: How To Get On A National TV Show
- Episode 161: The Art And Science Of Being Happy With Nataly Kogan Of Happier – Part II
- Episode 160: How To Capitalize On Inspiration
- Episode 159: The Art And Science Of Being Happy With Nataly Kogan Of Happier – Part I
- Episode 158: How The Bullseye Framework Can Help You Choose A Marketing Strategy
- Episode 157: The Systems And Habits Of Digital Marketers With Matt And Joe Of Evergreen Profits
- Episode 156: How To Impress Important People
- Episode 155: How A Team Of College Students Launched A Rocket Into Space
- Episode 154: How To Turn Anyone Into An Ally
- Episode 153: How To Choose Your Hero
- Episode 152: Sales For Founders 101: Closing The Deal
- Episode 151: How Quickly Things Can Change
- Episode 150: Sales For Founders 101: Getting Meetings
- Episode 149: The Power Of Now
- Episode 148: Sales For Founders 101: Introduction
- Episode 147: What’s Wrong With Starting A Lifestyle Business?
- Episode 146: How To Accelerate Your Career Like Kal Penn Of Harold And Kumar
- Episode 145: Why The Future Of Mobile Payments Is In Audio With Rodney Williams Of LISNR, Part II
- Episode 144: How To Define Your Own Success
- Episode 143: Why The Future Of Mobile Payments Is In Audio With Rodney Williams Of LISNR, Part I
- Episode 142: What Mindhunter And Watergate Taught Us About Being An Innovator
- Episode 141: When To Seek Legal Help For Your Startup With David Postolski Of Gearhart Law
- Episode 140: How To Use Your Existing Skills To Find Opportunities In A New Industry
- Episode 139: Reducing Plastic Waste By Dominating The Sustainable Paper Straw Market, With The Founders Of SeaStraws
- Episode 138: How To Know If It’s Okay To Give Up On Your Idea
- Episode 137: How To Build A Billion Dollar Company And Start All Over, With Nigel Eccles Of FanDuel And Flick – Part II
- Episode 136: How To Become The One That Creates The Rules
- Episode 135: How To Build A Billion Dollar Company And Start All Over, With Nigel Eccles Of FanDuel And Flick – Part I
- Episode 134: The Power Of Saying Yes And Other Lessons From Improv Class
- Episode 133: What We Learned From The Founder Of Draw Something
- Episode 132: Stumbling Into Greatness
- Episode 131: How To Create Opportunities Like A Russian Oligarch
- Episode 130: How A Food Scientist Invented A New Type Of Bread With Tristaun LeClaire of Simple Kneads
- Episode 129: How To Stop Coming Up With Excuses
- Episode 128: How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks – Part II
- Episode 127: How To Get Started In The Competitive Beauty Industry
- Episode 126: How This Award Winning Industrial Designer Is Reinventing Navigation, With Kevin Yoo Of WearWorks – Part I
- Episode 125: The Truck Driver That Retired On A Caribbean Island
- Episode 124: 3 Questions Entrepreneurs Are Afraid To Ask
- Episode 123: The Inside Story Of How Foursquare Was Started
- Episode 122: How The CEO Of A Global PR Firm Got His Start, With James Wright Of Red Havas
- Episode 121: You Don’t Have To Be The Next David Letterman
- Episode 120: Our First Assembly And Keeping The Attention Of 500 Eighth Graders
- Episode 119: Chernobyl, The First Days After The Disaster
- Episode 118: How Two Moms Bootstrapped A Children’s Product To Millions, With The Co-CEOs of Slumberkins
- Episode 117: Memorial Day And Our History With The Red Army
- Episode 116: How To Start Solving The Student Debt Crisis, With David Chang Of Gradifi
- Episode 115: What Happens After Shark Tank
- Episode 114: From Field Sales At P&G To President At A Public Company, With Becky Frankiewicz Of ManpowerGroup
- Episode 113: How To Talk To A Billionaire
- Episode 112: From Introvert To CEO Of A Global 100 Law Firm With Andrew Glincher Of Nixon Peabody
- Episode 111: What I Learned From Meeting RZA Of The Wu-Tang Clan
- Episode 110: Starting A Gaming Company While Getting A PhD In Neuroscience At NYU, With Wayne Mackey of Statespace – Part II
- Episode 109: How To Convince Other People That You’re Not Crazy
- Episode 108: Starting A Gaming Company While Getting A PhD In Neuroscience At NYU, With Wayne Mackey of Statespace – Part I
- Episode 107: How To Win A Nobel Prize
- Episode 106: Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist – Part II
- Episode 105: How To Get Past Embarrassing Public Moments
- Episode 104: Building A Successful Travel App In A Competitive Market With Gillian Morris Of Hitlist – Part I
- Episode 103: Why You Should Organize An Event
- Episode 102: How Darius Baxter Built A 25 Person Non-Profit, GOODProjects, To End Gun Violence And Poverty In Washington
- Episode 101: How This Founder Is Building The Netflix Of Africa
- Episode 100: The Best Moments From 100 Episodes Of Our Show
- Episode 99: What To Do When You Got 99 Problems
- Episode 98: How To Pitch Anyone In 30 Seconds
- Episode 97: How To Reach Your Big Vision By Listening To The Market
- Episode 96: LeVar Burton and Alicia Levi – From Reading Rainbow to Partnering With RIF
- Episode 95: Behind The Scenes Of The Mentors – Getting Great Guests
- Episode 94: SXSW EDU: From 0 To 8,000 Attendees, With Founder Ron Reed
- Episode 93: How To Get Motivated By Using Reframing And The Release Of Our Second Parody
- Episode 92: Why World Champion Dancer Olga Nesterova Thinks Corporations Should Teach Their Employees To Dance
- Episode 91: From A GMAT Prep Business To Running For President
- Episode 90: Why Everything Is Negotiable
- Episode 89: What We Learned From This 17 Year Old Entrepreneur
- Episode 88: How Getting Bullied Made Us Stronger
- Episode 87: The Importance Of Being Yourself And The Debut Of Our First Parody Song
- Episode 86: How PathSpot Built A Hardware Business With Just A 3D Printed Prototype
- Episode 85: How To Keep Pushing Even If You’re Uncomfortable
- Episode 84: How To Reduce Work Related Stress
- Episode 83: How To Create Your Own Destiny
- Episode 82: Lessons Learned From Two Weeks Of Talking To Customers
- Episode 81: Getting 51 Meetings In 9 Days – Live Interview At A Bar
- Episode 80: How Four Brothers Got A Deal On Shark Tank For Their Skincare Brand, Nardo’s Natural
- Episode 79: How To Get What You Want By Letting Others Win
- Episode 78: Going From Employee To Entrepreneur With Author Steve Glaveski
- Episode 77: Why Keeping Your Network Is More Important Than Growing It
- Episode 76: How To Stick With Your New Year’s Resolution
- Episode 75: 2018 Lessons From Our Top 5 Episodes
- Episode 74: How Micah Brown Sold Two Companies And Started A Neuroscience Fund – Part II
- Episode 73: How A Trend Can Become A Big Business
- Episode 72: How Micah Brown Sold Two Companies And Started A Neuroscience Fund – Part I
- Episode 71: Remembering Colin Kroll And How To Deal With The Struggles Of Entrepreneurship
- Episode 70: How To Capitalize On Your Failures
- Episode 69: Why We Spent $300 At A Russian Bathhouse
- Episode 68: How To Think Big While Starting Small With Praful Mathur
- Episode 67: What I Said When The CEO Of Sprint Picked Up The Phone
- Episode 66: Can Entrepreneurship Be Learned?
- Episode 65: What I Learned From The Mexican Drug Cartel
- Episode 64: How To Ask For Help
- Episode 63: Why I Didn’t Start Instacart
- Episode 62: Teespring’s Meteoric Rise And What Happened After They Raised $65 Million, with Evan Stites-Clayton
- Episode 61: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Shark Tank Episode That Almost Never Aired
- Episode 60: Becoming A Top 100 Comedy Podcaster With Jared Freid
- Episode 59: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – How You Can Build Entrepreneurial Skills Through Community Work
- Episode 58: Growing An Alcohol Delivery Marketplace To 40 Cities With Lindsey Andrews Of Minibar
- Episode 57: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – How To Make Decisions Like A Fortune 500 CEO
- Episode 56: The Three Books That Will Change Your Life
- Episode 55: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The $30,000 Side Hustle
- Episode 54: Becoming A Venture Capitalist with Diego Berrio
- Episode 53: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Making of Jackie Chan
- Episode 52: From Trading Stocks To Building A Pet Care Startup, With Throw Me A Bone
- Episode 51: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Email That Got Us The Meeting
- Episode 50: The Reality of Fundraising and How Most Entrepreneurs Get Capital
- Episode 49: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Creating Your Own Daily Routines
- Episode 48: The Importance Of Saying Fuck It
- Episode 47: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Update to Testing A New Idea Episode
- Episode 46: Turning a Gelato Shop Into a 16 Store Franchise, With Frost Gelato
- Episode 45: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Case For Doing Door To Door Sales
- Episode 44: How Kyle Bergman Sold 6 Figures In Sweatpant Overalls While Working Full Time And Going To School
- Episode 43: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – How I Met Daymond John
- Episode 42: Negotiating Salaries, Speeding Tickets and Used Cars
- Episode 41: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Testing A New Idea Part 1
- Episode 40: How Food Period Built A Loyal Customer Base To Help Women Have Great Periods Naturally
- Episode 39: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Starting a Revenue Generating Training Business in 3 Weeks
- Episode 38: How Justin Dent Started A Multimillion Dollar Non-Profit While In College
- Episode 37: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Sell Before You Build
- Episode 36: How SoaPen Plans To Save 1 Million Children A Year, With Forbes 30 Under 30 Amanat Anand
- Episode 35: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – The Uber Driver Entrepreneur With A Fleet Of 12 Cars
- Episode 34: How To Tell Your Boss You’re Quitting
- Episode 33: 5 Minute Pick Me Up – Superior Auto Steam (Mack)
- Episode 32: The Secret to Finding Big Opportunities, with Carey Smith of Big Ass Fans
- Episode 31: How To Get Recognized On The Streets Of Philadelphia
- Episode 30: How To Make It In America
- Episode 29: What’s The Point Of An Advisor And How Do You Find One?
- Episode 28: How to Do What You Love in a Communist Country – Part II
- Episode 27: Building a National Food Brand With No Investors, with Michael Levine
- Episode 26: How to Land Major Distributors Like Whole Foods by Hustling Door to Door, with Adam Jones of Peloton
- Episode 25: Turning a Hobby Into a Business, The Wandering Bear Coffee Story
- Episode 24: How Julie Smolyansky of Lifeway Became CEO of a Public Company at 27
- Episode 23: How to Quickly Test Any Business Idea Before You Launch
- Episode 22: How to Do What You Love in a Communist Country – Part I
- Episode 21: How Getting Fired Changed My Life
- Episode 20: The Right Way to Outsource Your App Development, with Murtuza Kutub
- Episode 19: Using Word of Mouth to Build a Million Dollar Shoe Brand, with Twin Sisters Jessica and Emily Leung
- Episode 18: How Sufia Hossain Accidentally Made a Hot Sauce That’s Now Sold All Over NYC
- Episode 17: How Max Altschuler Grew SalesHacker From One Conference to a Media Company Serving Millions
- Episode 16: How Bobby Thakkar Built a 6 Figure Business While in High School
- Episode 15: How to Get the Attention of Important People
- Episode 14: Public Speaking Techniques Used by Billionaires, Actors and Presidents
- Episode 13: How to Start a Successful Coffee Shop in One of The Biggest Cities in The World
- Episode 12: Launching Best Sellers, Going Viral, and Avoiding Burnout with Charlie Hoehn
- Episode 11: How to Network Like a Pickup Artist
- Episode 10: Building a Mission Driven E-commerce Brand and Breaking Into Retail with Mera McGrew
- Episode 9: When Should I Quit My Job?
- Episode 8: Building a $90 Million Business After 50, with Larry Petretti
- Episode 7: Becoming Unstuck – How to Finally Get Started
- Episode 6: Olga Nesterova, from the UN to the NBA Playoffs Halftime Show
- Episode 5: Blockchain & Cryptocurrency, Boris Revsin
- Episode 4: Entrepreneur & Comedian, Sadiq Samani
- Episode 3: Negotiating Equity and Founder Breakups
- Episode 2: Finding a Business Partner
- Episode 1: Coming Up With Good Business Ideas
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