Episode 343: TMBA343: A Look Inside Boutique Japan
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/boutiquejapan/ Last week Dan and Ian talked about how they hosted a couple hundred entrepreneurs in Barcelona for the DCBCN conference. A lot of those entrepreneurs shared their stories on stage, which is an intimidating task.
Andres Zuleta of Boutique Japan was one of those people. Andres started a business that sells boutique travel packages to people who want to visit Japan. He called in to this podcast and left a voicemail not too long ago and today Boutique Japan is on target to make $1.3 million in revenue. We invited him on to the show this week to talk about how telling his story has helped him make sense of the ride that he has been on.
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| 0:00.0 | I always call myself a reluctant entrepreneur. I feel like I backed into entrepreneurship because |
| 0:05.6 | all the other options were not appealing. It's really in your face when your partner might die. |
| 0:12.1 | You're like, man, if we don't do this now, then what the hell are we waiting for? |
| 0:19.6 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:21.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:25.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:30.8 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:33.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:48.1 | So, Bossman, we're still here in Barcelona. |
| 0:50.8 | I've invited you to the couch of my podcast studio. |
| 0:53.9 | Very nice. I got two 27 inch |
| 0:56.0 | monitors in the background with the TNBA logo on them. I got my shoes off. I'm on your couch. |
| 1:01.3 | Welcome to the podcast. So today's guest is Ian Shone, aka the boss man, aka the co-host of the |
| 1:07.1 | Tropical NBA podcast. Howdy. Let's get rolling. By the way, I had to get rid of my |
| 1:11.8 | Texas accent real quick when I got here. It's like all cool when you're in Texas and then you get |
| 1:16.7 | to Barcelona, very international. You just picked up a Texas accent? Well, you know, I've been living in the |
| 1:21.1 | South for a while now. All right, so we're in Barcelona now. Last week we talked about how |
| 1:27.3 | a couple hundred entrepreneurs came to town. Many of those entrepreneurs shared their stories on stage, which is a daunting task. At a conference we through. And they did a freaking excellent job. Great job. Today's guest in particular mentioned how going through the work and sometimes the pain of creating a presentation |
| 1:46.0 | helped him to make sense of the incredible ride he's on. |
| 1:50.0 | So before we talk too much about him, I think it probably makes sense to let today's |
| 1:53.4 | guest introduce himself. |
| 1:55.0 | My name is Andres Zuleta. |
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