Episode 416: TMBA416: Entrepreneurship: Don’t Tell Your Parents
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/vincent/ The theme of today's show is navigating the social pressures that so many of us feel from friends, family, and colleagues.
Dan and Ian are certainly familiar with these feelings, and today's guest is no stranger to them either.
Vincent Nguyen is the founder of Growth Ninja, a performance-based Facebook ads company. You may remember Vincent from an episode we published a few years ago about apprenticeships.
Vincent has definitely paid his dues in the world of entrepreneurship, having apprenticed with Empire Flippers before starting Growth Ninja in 2015, all the while hiding the fact that he dropped out of college from his immediate family.
This episode is a conversation about the tough decisions that many entrepreneurs are forced to make, what it means to sacrifice relationships, and what it really takes to get started in the world of entrepreneurship.
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| 0:00.0 | If I were to start Growth Ninja from day one, this kid fresh out of college, let's say I got that degree in marketing, good luck getting clients with no case studies, no testimonials, no results, no, nobody to vouch for me. |
| 0:13.7 | Like, oh my God, that would have been painful. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:25.0 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:30.1 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:32.6 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog. |
| 0:38.3 | Check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:46.9 | The theme of today's show is navigating the social pressure that so many of us feel from friends, family, and colleagues. |
| 0:55.5 | And today's interview about that topic is with a 23-year-old upstart entrepreneur. |
| 1:02.6 | My name is Vincent Nguyen, and I'm the proud founder of Growth Ninja. |
| 1:05.9 | We are a performance-based Facebook ads company, and what that means is we don't take |
| 1:10.2 | retainer fees, |
| 1:11.4 | fix rates. We just do strictly performance. So Ian, you and Vincent covered a lot of ground in this |
| 1:17.7 | interview about sort of that moment of getting started. So as we go through this interview, |
| 1:24.1 | me and you were going to sort of barge back into the conversation here and there to sort of add our old man thoughts, I would say. |
| 1:32.2 | Old man thoughts, yeah. |
| 1:34.2 | I think this conversation should be relevant for those at any stage in entrepreneurship |
| 1:37.3 | because this pressure, it's not like it just goes away when you start your first business, |
| 1:42.7 | right? |
| 1:43.0 | This is something that you have to |
| 1:44.4 | manage throughout your career. So Dan, just to give you a little bit of background in Vincent's story, |
| 1:49.8 | when he graduated high school, he moved out to Arizona to be with another part of his family. |
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