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My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Want to start your business the right way (with less than $1k)? Get the guide: https://clickhubspot.com/wsu Episode 741: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the most common mistakes founders make and how to fix them PLUS old school businesses that are making a comeback. — Show Notes: (0:00) Business Traps (21:21) The Onion selling print papers again (31:36) Oberweis milk delivery (39:31) Joe Lemandt and Alpha School (1:00:05) Grind Academy home schooling facility — Links: • Mobile Emissions - http://mobileemissions.com/ • Purple Cow - https://tinyurl.com/mdbfksx8 • Train Hard, Win Easy - https://tinyurl.com/2raksmas • The Triple Package - https://tinyurl.com/yebnt9nx • The Onion - https://theonion.com/ • Colossus - https://joincolossus.com/ • Oberweis - https://www.oberweis.com/ • Mentava - https://www.mentava.com/ • The Grind Academy - https://www.grindlv.com/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com • Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents. • Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies! Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	And so it's like, damn, you have written off the most obvious growth channel with this internal
0:05.4	narrative of, we tried that, it didn't work.
0:07.9	It didn't work is a sentence I'm very skeptical of now.
0:10.8	I feel like I can rule the world.
0:13.0	I know I could be what I want to.
0:15.8	I put my all in it like no days off on a road.
0:19.0	Let's travel.
0:19.7	Never took you back. I have a story about two kind of like blue
0:25.9	collar founders who just got their business off the ground and I met up with them. And they asked me
0:32.8	these questions and it was like it was a set of mistakes that I think everybody makes and so I think
0:38.6	it's worth talking about. So I want to talk about what the three things these guys said. And then I
0:42.7	want to tell you about this business that's really fascinating. So that's a small business.
0:47.1	Then there's a huge business that's fascinating me right now. It's so new and interesting that like
0:53.4	I just kind of want to talk about it with you.
0:55.0	And the last is I have like a marketing principle, a little framework that I saw, a great example that I saw and I want to share that as well.
1:03.5	So I got three things for you.
1:04.6	All right. I have a couple things for you as well.
1:06.9	Maybe we'll go back and forth.
1:07.9	Do you want to start with your favorite one?
1:10.0	Yeah.
1:10.3	All right.
1:10.6	So I went to Utah last week to do a podcast with this guy, Ryan Smith. He owns the Utah Jazz, and he's like, he started Qualtrix.
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