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This is Anika Jackson and I am so thrilled to have somebody who's coming to us from across the world, Norek Bardanian, the CEO of pre-launch.com and many other ventures.

I'm really excited to dive into this conversation because I have an inkling that what you do is exactly what every

business owner needs when they're trying to start out and figure out

who their audience is is a product that's viable in the market so I'm just

teasing a little bit out of the conversation but thank you for being here.

There any God thanks for having me. Yeah so let's talk about your background. Right now you're in Armenia, you also are in the states quite often. You went to school in Texas and in Armenia.

So talk about this intersection of different cultures, different countries, how that

occurred and then how that has helped shape your career.

Yeah, that's a really great question. So you're right, this intersection of

culture really helps because you know there are like different nuances in both areas

you know Armenia is a small country but with a like rich history and a very

diverse network so we love to help each other when we're around like you know we have a

really big diaspora so

really helpful really supportive so it's really helpful I would say that both

cultures impacted a lot to wartime now yeah did you come to the states originally for university to what I am now. Yeah.

Did you come to the states originally for university?

I come to states pretty often mostly for business I would say.

So it's all started with the business trips, then different conferences, then expos, then learning,

universities, etc. But the first it started with the business trips.

Huh. Okay. So what was that first business that brought you to the United States because you worked in a few different

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