Evan Brandoff: Co-founder and CEO of LeagueSide | #ThePlaybook 231

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Evan Brandoff, Co-founder and CEO of LeagueSide, shares his thoughts on the early stages of building a business and the precise steps he took to scale LeagueSide nationwide. From his ‘ah-ha’ moment to his experiences with accelerator programs, Brandoff elaborates on how he and his co-founder cultivated their idea and the most valuable lessons he has learned along the way. Brandoff and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about a range of topics including what really differentiates an innovator and entrepreneur, the high risk tolerance it takes to rapidly scale a business, and why ignorance or naivety can occasionally benefit entrepreneurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the Playbook I have Evan Brandoff, co-founder and CEO of League Side
0:06.4	and we're going to help you realize that the best thing you can have is when you have
0:10.7	nothing to lose. Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.
0:15.0	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook,
0:18.0	where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities,
0:22.0	and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional
0:25.9	playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.
0:32.0	I'm your host David Melzer.
0:34.0	This is Dave Melzer with Entrepreneurs The Playbook
0:36.0	and I have a true entrepreneur here.
0:38.0	Evan Brandoff, he is the co-founder and CEO of League Side.
0:43.2	And I wanted to start in the most,
0:46.2	I think, interesting part of what you do
0:48.6	is so many people I have aha moments in entrepreneurship and 0.001% of them actually do anything
0:56.2	and another 0.001% that do something actually are successful at it.
1:02.0	What was your aha moment in starting League Side? So about six years
1:07.9	ago I had recently graduated from the University of Texas and I was doing a fellowship program called in Detroit
1:14.8	it was part of the Venture for America Fellowship Program if you're familiar.
1:19.0	Yeah. And I was working for a tech company in downtown Detroit. I was one of the 12 people that was living in downtown Detroit at the time
1:25.9	before Gilbert bought it all and turned it around.
1:27.9	Exactly and now it's incredible. Yeah incredible. And I used to love volunteering at youth sporting events.
1:34.0	One weekend in particular, I was volunteering at a basketball tournament.
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