82: eCommerce Startup with Nathan Hirsch
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Starting & growing an eCommerce business with Nathan Hirsch. He is the founder and CEO of FreeeUp.com, which helps small business owners with outsourcing to remote workers online. He shares his entrepreneur journey, from starting his first business in college to launching his current company. He explains some of the keys to his success in life and business, including partnering to compliment what you are good at. "I don't try to make my weaknesses my strengths."
Henry Lopez is the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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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. Welcome to this episode of the How of Business. This is |
| 0:35.2 | Henry Lopez and my guest. Today is Nathan Hirsch. |
| 0:38.9 | Nathan, welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.5 | Henry, thank you so much for having me. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh, pleasure to have you. |
| 0:43.3 | So Nathan is the CEO of FreeUp.com and the CEO of Portlight. |
| 0:50.3 | Nathan has been an entrepreneur in the e-commerce industry since way back in 2009, and I don't say that, just jokingly, that's a long time in this industry, and has grown into a leading expert in the field with experience managing multi-million dollar businesses. |
| 1:05.8 | FreeUp.com, which we're going to dive into, his latest venture, is an online agency that specializes |
| 1:12.3 | in placing online workers into e-commerce businesses. |
| 1:16.5 | And he'll share with us what exactly that means. |
| 1:19.2 | Before founding Free Up, though, he found that and built a drop ship Amazon business to |
| 1:24.3 | over $7 million in sales with 60 full-time workers. I'm excited to learn about |
| 1:29.8 | that and how he went through that process. So in today's episode, Nathan's going to share his |
| 1:34.5 | entrepreneur journey, his business startup experience, and of course just general tips and |
| 1:39.4 | advice for small business owners. Nathan lives in Winter Park, Florida, which is just outside of Orlando. |
| 1:46.0 | And so once again, Nathan Hirsch, welcome to the show. |
| 1:49.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:50.7 | Anything there I missed in your background or were you at today? We're going to get into your |
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