Episode 138: TMBA 138 (LBP121) – How Solving Problems For 500,000 Users Inspired the Idea for SupportBee
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2012
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week Dan is the one hard at work and Ian is asleep on the job. Stranger things have happened…ever seen a tabloid alien story?
Dan took the opportunity to chat up Prateek Dayal, founder of startups like Muziboo and recently SupportBee. Dan and Ian met Prateek as they traveled across Vietnam this summer meeting up with folks from the Dynamite Circle and LBP listeners.
Having started companies from India, Santiago Chile, and now Saigon Vietnam, they knew they had to have him on the show to learn more about his travel adventures and success as a location-free entrepreneur, including:
- How Solving Your Own Problems Can Inspire Your New Business
- The Net Different in Lifestyle and Business: Chile vs. Vietnam
- Cafes, Laptops, and the Sexy Saigon Wi-Fi Scene
- Using Known Quantities in Blogging To Get Hacker News Quality Traffic
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Talk to the mic. |
| 0:02.3 | Talk to the mic. |
| 0:03.4 | Talk to the mic. |
| 0:04.9 | Say yeah, buddy. |
| 0:05.9 | Say yeah, buddy. |
| 0:07.1 | Come on. |
| 0:07.9 | That's not, yeah. |
| 0:08.9 | All these years of expensive education. |
| 0:15.3 | Hey, podcast, listener, even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial pursuit, know that today, right |
| 0:21.5 | now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs all around the globe, seeking |
| 0:26.9 | to do the same thing you are. |
| 0:28.7 | If you want to know more about this program or this podcast, or want to get barraged by a lot |
| 0:33.7 | of annoying pop-ups, check out our website, Lifestyle Business Podcast.com. |
| 0:44.2 | Happy Thursday morning and welcome to the Lifestyle Business Podcast. |
| 0:48.8 | Today I'm joined by my co-hostess with the most. |
| 0:51.2 | It's my captain, the CEO, yeah. |
| 0:53.8 | A man who's pumped on this fine Thursday morning |
| 0:56.7 | because he received a spam solicitation |
| 0:59.0 | from my private jet company. |
| 1:01.3 | True story? |
| 1:02.4 | True story, buddy. |
| 1:03.4 | We have been called on iTunes, Ian, |
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