Innovating Within a Stagnant Industry with Jay Dillon: An EOFire Classic from 2021
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
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🗓️ 23 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2021. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant.
Jay Dillon is the Co-Founder of Yardbird. Yardbird brings new solutions to a stagnant, 5B dollars plus industry with the first outdoor furniture brand that places quality, sustainability, and affordability at its core.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. Go and do it. Come up with a the best business idea you can. A lot of people have justifiable fear of going into business. Failure is fine. We all experience it.
2. Understand the complexities of working with family members in a business.
3. One of the nice things about having many balls in the air or having a lot of things going on is you don't have a ton of time to sit and think about ideas. You need to make decisions.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom Shake the Room Fire Nation, JLD here and welcome to entrepreneurs on fire. |
| 0:06.7 | Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business |
| 0:10.8 | professionals with great shows like the product boss. |
| 0:14.0 | Today we're pulling a classic episode from the archives and we'll be breaking down how to |
| 0:18.0 | innovate within a stagnant industry. |
| 0:20.5 | To drop these value bonds I brought Jay Dylan intoofire Studios. Jay is a co-founder of Yard Bird. |
| 0:26.0 | Yard Bird brings new solutions to a stagnant 5 billion plus dollar industry with his first outdoor |
| 0:32.0 | furniture brand that places quality |
| 0:33.6 | sustainability and affordability at its core. Fire Nation will be talking about |
| 0:37.8 | going and doing it. Come up with a best business idea you can and go for it. |
| 0:42.8 | Understand the complexities of working with family members in a business and one of the nice things |
| 0:46.0 | about having many balls in the air or having a lot of things going is that you don't have a ton of time |
| 0:50.1 | to sit around and think about ideas. |
| 0:51.5 | You just have to make decisions execute. |
| 0:54.0 | And we talk about a lot more Fire Nation. Thank you to Jay and our sponsors. |
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| 1:21.6 | Ever thought about giving a TEDx talk? |
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