How a pivot resulted in 19 million in venture funding with Steven Cox

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 28 August 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Steven is the Founder and CEO of TakeLessons.com, one of the nation's largest online marketplaces for finding and booking an online or in-person instructor for tutoring, languages, music, sports, and a lot more.

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0:00.0	Entrepreneur on fire 1,041.
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1:10.5	What's shaken fire nation? Jolly Dumas here and I am fired up to bring you our featured
1:16.8	guest today. Steven Cox. Steven, are you prepared to ignite? Oh yeah, let's do this.
1:24.2	Steven is the founder and CEO of take lessons.com. One of the nation's largest online
1:30.9	marketplaces for finding and booking an online or in person instructor for tutoring,
1:36.3	languages, music, sports, and a whole lot more. Steven, take a minute.
1:41.3	Fill in some blanks and some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse into your
1:45.2	personal life. Sure. So I can just give you a little bit of background. I have done a couple
1:51.2	start-offs, a couple start-ups rather and born in the Good Midwest in Dayton, Ohio,
1:58.4	went to school in Kentucky and then ventured out out west to do a couple start-ups out here and
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