MBA744 Guest Teacher: John Pope- Lessons Learned From Bootstrapping a Business

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Building a business is hard, but building a business from nothing? That's a special kind of challenge. Today's guest teacher, John Pope, knows a little something about that. As a founder of Jive, he built a $100 million company with zero industry experience or outside funding. He came by to share the lessons he's learned along the way and explain how the "bootstrapping" mindset is just as valuable once success is established. Click play!

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100. show only the real practical lessons that you can use
0:15.8	every single day with our daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.
0:20.3	I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar's in home. I'm also the co-founder of the $100
0:26.6	MBA, a complete business training and community online over at 100 MBABA.net.
0:32.8	And today's lesson is a guest teacher lesson.
0:35.5	We have a very special guest teacher on today.
0:38.0	It's John Pope from jive.com.
0:41.1	John and
0:51.0	his team are an inspiration they bootstrap their business with no funding from the ground up and now there are a hundred million dollar revenue business And in today's lesson John Pope is going to share with you the lessons he learned while
0:55.6	bootstrapping his business, what to look out for, what are some of the challenges you're going to face,
1:00.1	and what is some of the glory and reward that you can expect from bootstrapping your business.
1:04.8	This lesson is downright practical and I can't wait to get into it.
1:08.3	If you're on the fence on whether to get investors, to seek funding, or to do it on your own bootstrapped.
1:14.5	Then you need to listen to this one today.
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