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Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle

Episode 292: TMBA292: Are the Days of Having to Be a Starving Artist Over?

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 April 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

http://www.tropicalmba.com/art/ Is it possible to build a business and monetize your art? This is a question we get asked a lot. One of our listeners got in touch with us this week and challenged us to speak about how we would apply some of our entrepreneurial principles to a career in art or music. If you are an artist of any kind, this is the episode for you. We'll be talk about what we believe it means to be an artist, how to support your art through a job or business, and how you can leverage 1,000 true fans to build a career doing what you love.

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0:00.0

You ever been to Subway? Yes. You order a sandwich? Somebody put that together for you, dude.

0:05.5

That's art. So, hell of the artist.

0:09.8

Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today,

0:14.6

right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe

0:19.4

seeking to grow better, more profitable

0:21.8

location independent businesses. If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download

0:26.8

our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com.

0:43.0

This week on the podcast, we asked the question, can you make a living with your art?

0:45.2

Okay, I misspoke a little bit.

0:47.2

It's actually Nate asked the question.

0:49.3

So I'm just going to let him do that.

0:51.0

Hey, Dan and Ian.

0:53.4

This is Nate from the D.C.

0:58.2

And I've recently pretty much celebrated my one-year anniversary as a member of the D.C. And when I think back to a year ago, the progress I've made in terms of both

1:04.3

business and mindset is pretty much immeasurable. It's apples and oranges. So I wanted to thank you

1:09.9

guys for that. My niche and my

1:12.2

background is something that people ask me a lot about. And as you may know, I am a musician. And Dan,

1:18.6

I'm pretty sure you're a musician or a former musician as well. So I am still part of the music

1:25.2

community here in New York. And one question people ask me a lot

1:29.0

is, I'm moving to New York, or I just graduated from music school, I want to support myself

1:35.9

while I make music, what should I do?

1:39.6

And I thought this would be a super interesting question to get you guys' thoughts on.

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