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With your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 161 with Patrick McInnes.

Patrick has some brilliance when it comes to what he calls being a 10% entrepreneur developing skills without quitting your day job and

maybe just launching something while you're at it.

It's funny I get a pitch just about every week for multiple entrepreneurs, often it's serial,

entrepreneur and digital nomad shows you how to escape the rat race and live your legend. And just like that just isn't a fit here but

Patrick's got a brilliant approach that is well worth investigating so you're

gonna learn one why you should consider big and 10% entrepreneur, two strategies to determine

where you should really focus your time and energy, and three, tried and tested ways to see if your big idea will work out.

So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcripts or the links to items that we reference here,

it's over at awesome at your job.com slash Epp 161. Now here's Patrick's story Patrick J

McInnis is a venture capitalist and private equity investor who founded

Deregoe Advisors after decade on Wall Street to provide strategic advice to investors,

entrepreneurs, and fast-growing businesses. In this capacity he has worked in a range of

settings from building startups

from the ground up in Silicon Valley

to acting as an expert consultant

to the World Bank in Latin America, Africa,

and the Middle East.

He's also the author of the book,

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