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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 268: TMBA268: Getting More Out of Conferences – “Breakfast is a Big Deal”

Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen

Digital Nomad, Business, Ecommerce, Society & Culture, Amazon, Founders, Cash Flow, Places & Travel, Founder, Business Owner, Cashflow, Management, Entrepreneurship, Million, Operator, Operations, Profits, Distributed Team

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2014

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/dcbkk2014/ Bossman and I are in Tokyo this week following our annual DC BKK Conference in Thailand. We are gonna be recapping how the event went, and reminiscing about some of our favorite speakers. We're also going to be talking about what we've learned about throwing events, what we are planning to do in the future and sharing our advice for people that are looking to get the most out of all these upcoming conferences.

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0:00.0

Hey, podcast, listener.

0:05.1

Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds,

0:09.7

you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better,

0:14.8

more profitable, location independent businesses.

0:17.8

If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back

0:22.0

catalog, check out tropical MBA.com.

0:35.7

Yeah, buddy, happy Thursday morning. It is definitely the morning. It's definitely Thursday. It's pre-breakfast. This one's called How to Get the Most Out of Events. Breakfast is a big deal. Breakfast is a big deal, and I haven't had it yet today, buddy. Dying over here. You can find the show notes of this one at tropical MBA.com slash DCBKK 2014.

0:57.6

This is going to be our annual wrap-up of how the event went in Thailand.

1:02.3

What we feel like we learned about throwing events as well.

1:05.3

Our advice to people looking to get the most at all these conferences that are coming up.

1:10.7

And maybe some plans for

1:11.8

what we're going to do at next year's event but first we're in Tokyo yeah what's that all about man

1:17.0

why did you choose this fine location well I thought you might like it what do you think this is my

1:21.2

second time here so we're doing a little touring went to the robot show last night getting ready to

1:25.1

go to mount Fuji in about an hour and a half here what do you think think? That was crazy. Whenever you ask somebody about Japan, an American, they will say the following. Number one, Japan is awesome. Number two, Japan is so weird. And I agree with both of those things. But I have a third thing to add, Japan is a country full of pigeon-toed people. Did you know that? It is.

1:44.3

It's crazy.

1:45.0

That's the first thing I noticed.

1:46.3

If Kelly Starrett came to this place, he'd be crying about all the MCL damage that we're going to have here. We did notice that and then went straight to Reddit and, you know, you just type in, why there's so many pigeon-toed people in Japan? And of course, there's a threat on that. You know, there's this talk of software eating the world.

2:01.1

I read an article the other day about mobile eating the world.

2:04.5

Well, the world.

2:01.1

I read an article the other day about mobile eating the world. Well, the Google is just eating my conversations. I don't even need to talk to anybody anymore because you know what? I'll just go and I'll go to Google and I'll see what they're how to say about this. That's right. So how are you looking at the food here in Japan? What's the difference in vacation in real life for a digital nomad?

2:17.5

Vacation is a time when you can eat ice cream every night.

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