Episode 284: TMBA284: Why Entrepreneurs are Flocking to Spain this Summer
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/spain/ Not all of us came out of the womb wanting to start a business. Some of us were attracted to the personal agency and the freedom of being an entrepreneur. This week's guests all have a few things in common. They all had this similar dream of the freedom that comes from quitting their jobs and starting their own businesses, and all three of them have chosen Spain as their home for that journey this summer. Barcelona has recently become kind of a hotbed for the entrepreneurial community. I reached out to Chris Reynolds, Cristina Ansbjerg and Robert Brandl to get some insider info about what it's like to live in the city and why they have all fallen in love with it.
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| 0:00.0 | One thing I want to mention before I play the intro music is that this episode is there's so many |
| 0:05.2 | loops opened. There's so many random topics talked about from starting a business in Spain to |
| 0:10.5 | getting a visa in Spain to lifestyle business versus startup businesses that, you know, you're |
| 0:16.0 | probably going to have more questions than answers at the end of it. So if you want to join the |
| 0:19.4 | discussion, all the people who have been interviewed are willing to answer your questions, you can find |
| 0:24.8 | the links plus the discussion at tropical MBA.com slash Spain. |
| 0:33.6 | Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, |
| 0:38.4 | right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe |
| 0:43.2 | seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:47.7 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:52.9 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome to the podcast where we talk about lifestyle businesses. |
| 1:06.9 | A term, I think, often misunderstood and a little unfairly treated in the blogosphere, |
| 1:12.0 | lifestyle businesses, they don't necessarily need to be small. |
| 1:15.0 | It just means that the owner, that's you and me, gets to set the tone for what goes down |
| 1:21.0 | in the business. |
| 1:21.8 | That means the business can serve you too and not the other way around. |
| 1:26.0 | So I've met lifestyle business owners that have |
| 1:28.3 | $10 million in sales a year, right? They don't have investors. They don't have anybody that they |
| 1:32.8 | need to answer to except for their own clients. And those are the clients and customers that |
| 1:36.9 | they've chosen. And they're not necessarily maximizing just for money. You know, maybe they could |
| 1:42.8 | improve the amount of profit that they were making if they opened up another business that does the same thing in Europe or in Asia. And they're just like, you know what? I'm okay with my $10 million in sales a year. That's good for me. That's good for my family. That's what I want to do. That's a lifestyle business. That's what we talk about on this show. However, this week, we're going to talk a little bit more about lifestyle. So if you need your business fix this week, I recommend that you listen to a |
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