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Andy say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with what's up fire nation I'm so stoked to be here today.

I think the easy answer to that is something that's close to home for me and that is that you need a college degree to be successful.

I was one of those people both my parents are engineers both my parents graduated from college they both have masters degrees and so growing up that's what I thought I thought you know I had to go to college I had to get a degree I had to get a masters degree to achieve that level you know of success that my parents and other people like that have achieved but you know I've learned that through entrepreneurship that you can really achieve that same level of success that you don't need a college degree obviously there's better.

I'm not going to bash on college at all but anyone can be successful it really just takes determination and you know the kind of cliche answers of consistency and patience to get there college was the for most fun years of my life like there's not even a close seconds of a four year stretch it was such a blast I have so many fun memories and I will tell you right now in 20

21 I look at those four years not my four years that I spent because the world was a different place back then this is even pre dot com bubble let alone anything else but man four years now in 2021 is such a waste of time to be spent in college is such a waste of money to be spent in college for entrepreneurs for people who have an entrepreneurial driver people that don't the want to be engineers doctors lawyers

go off and conquer your four year degree go do your thing go acquire a ton of debt you'll probably spend the rest of your life digging yourself out of

but man if I was 18 years old right now and you're going to tell me to go spend four years of my life taking intro to literature and a philosophy course by St Thomas Aquinas and whatever else I had to do in college to get this degree not only

but I'm not necessarily bashing college for everybody just for the entrepreneurial minded types so we're going to refocus and talk Andy about how you sold over a million dollars of a triangle piece of fabric and under two years how the heck did you come up with a business idea

of selling a triangle piece of fabric what does that even mean yeah that's kind of a click baited title right there but it's true

the way that we came up with this business idea is something that's important that I kind of want to you know discuss a little bit today with you guys listening it's because we came up with our business idea

based around a personal interest and personal experience I know a lot of people who are starting online businesses try to you know chase the hot thing or you know they're looking for the grass is always greener what's the what's the new business like what's the hot business that's going to make me a ton of money versus actually going after business models that you actually have an interest in or personal experience in because I think that makes a huge difference so for us

we have a dog we have a mini golden doodle her name is remy and we got her let's see she's about to turn for this month so September 27th she's going to turn four years old and when we got her she was wearing a bandana around her neck like that's kind of how we picked her up and we thought she looked so cute with her little bandana on and so my wife kind of fell in love with that and so she started making our dog

her own bandanas to go around her neck so my wife would you know go to Joanne's fabric look for cute fabrics and make these dog bandanas and they were different than like the standard bandanas that you'd see at a store online where it wasn't just a square piece of fabric that you fold and have

into the little spinny thing and tied around how the traditional bandanas where it was a custom shape so it's a really unique custom design shape that looked a lot cleaner around the dogs neck and everything and it was more comfortable and stylish.

So my wife was making those by hand for our own dog and obviously posting photos on Instagram and we started getting you know request from friends on Instagram saying hey I love those bandanas where did you get them.

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