32: Entrepreneurship with Matt Miller
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
From Air Force Pilot to Franchise Business Owner – Matt Miller shares his entrepreneurial journey. He became his own boss after being frustrated by unrealistic expectations at his last sales position. He started his small business on the side, and bootstrapped and grew it into School Spirit Vending – a franchise business on the cutting edge of both the vending and school fundraising industries. Matt believes in taking decisive action and growing his business through relatively low risk investments. Visit the Show
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business. |
| 0:10.3 | The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way. |
| 0:18.6 | This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues, |
| 0:22.6 | challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of |
| 0:27.7 | the how of business, David and Henry. Well, welcome to this episode of the how of business. |
| 0:36.6 | It's Henry Lopez with you here today and my special |
| 0:39.3 | guest, Matt Miller. Hi, Matt. Hey, Henry. Thanks for having me on, man. Oh, it's my great pleasure. |
| 0:44.8 | Let me give you the audience a bit of background on Matt and then I'll have him add to it. But Matt |
| 0:50.3 | spent his first nine years of his career as an Air Force pilot and then went into the |
| 0:56.3 | private sector where he worked both for medical advice and in the advertising industries, |
| 1:01.5 | did sales of various things in his corporate background there. |
| 1:05.7 | And while he was a top performer in the corporate world, his long-term desire was to always be his own boss. |
| 1:12.5 | And one day, a good friend of his mentioned the gumball machines, plural, that he and his |
| 1:17.8 | young daughters owned. And that conversation began a 10-year business quest that has brought |
| 1:22.9 | Matt's to his current company, a school spirit vending. We're going to talk about that today. |
| 1:29.3 | School Spirit Vending, who is on the cutting edge of both vending and school fundraising |
| 1:33.6 | industries. |
| 1:34.9 | So today, School Spirit Vending offers a franchising program that provides a proven and |
| 1:40.9 | profitable business system for busy professionals and their families looking |
| 1:45.1 | to develop secondary income streams and a limited time commitment. We're going to dive into that part |
| 1:51.4 | of it specifically. So once again, Matt, welcome to the show. If you could just add briefly to that |
| 1:55.4 | background, a bit more about yourself and about school spirit bending. Yeah, Henry, so I grew up in the Chicago area. I was |
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