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Today's show I'm really excited about.

And I want to tell you why before I get to the actual show.

You know, in my everyday life, I see so many stories, like the one you were about to hear,

yet I've always struggled to bring them onto the show and onto the blog. I'm not going to talk

about the details of why it's difficult to document these stories of success. You know, generally on the podcast, we just interview people who are successful and that's pretty good. But today we want to try something different. I want to try to bring you the story and how these things actually play out for people that are changing their lives through building businesses on the ground.

All right.

So I'm not going to give away too much of the story.

We're just going to start at square one.

Today we're going to dig deep into the creation of a company called Splitley and the characters

who started it.

Splitly offers a SaaS or software as a service product to Amazon sellers.

To me, this story is really about what's possible

when you put yourself amongst people who can inspire and support you, but also hold you

accountable. And I'd like to hear what you think about it. We're going to be posting the show notes

at tropicalmba.com slash splitly.

Okay, so here's where the story begins with a guy named James Andrews, who is a member of our private network, the DC.

I first met James in the Philippines a few years back when he was working on his first business, which is called Iclan.

So Iclan was a product

which basically allowed gamers to manage their clans and communities. Kind of like a private

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