How to Persuade People to Support Your Ideas (Ep. 113)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Brandon T. Adams talks about his experience with entrepreneurship as a college student, setting up a giant convention with huge speakers, and crowdfunding. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Brandon's podcast Keys to the Crowd The Freedom Journal John Lee Dumas' podcast Young Entrepreneur Convention Jedi Council podcast episode Think and Grow Rich ArcticStick Ambitious.com Ambitious Adventures Kickstarter splash page Brandon's website Brandon's Twitter Brandon's Instagram Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey what's up everybody and welcome to the college and
0:41.0	info geek podcast.
0:42.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:46.4	And today we are getting back into interviews.
0:49.1	I've got an interview with a good friend of mine, and his name is Brandon Adams. Now Brandon is a guy who about a year and a half
0:55.8	ago told me that he wanted to create an entrepreneur event for young entrepreneurs for
1:00.8	millennials, people in college, people in their early 20s,
1:03.6	in our kind of small city of Des Moines, Iowa, and he told me I want to have 10,000 people
1:08.6	there and I want to have nationally recognized speakers and we're going to raise a ton of money
1:11.9	on Kickstarter. And I was like was like dude we are kind of just out of college this seems a
1:16.8	little bit crazy but hey go for it and lo and behold just a few months ago
1:22.1	he put the event on he had nationally recognized speakers on it like Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank
1:27.0	He had Ken Shamrock was a famous UFC fighter and the event went amazingly they had a pitch competition,
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