Taking A Failed Idea To Millions

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David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Education, Business

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Introducing Spikeball Creator Chris Ruder Chris Ruder is the CEO and Founder of Spikeball Inc a new and fun sport that looks like its going to be big everywhere. The Jonas Brothers, Drake, Julianne Hough, Ryan Seacrest, 21 Pilots, Casey Neistat, and numerous pro sport teams and players have expressed their love for Spikeball. Spikeball's appearance on Shark Tank was voted as one of the best episodes of all time. ESPN went as far as to say Spikeball is mainstream. Now our guest today started the business 2008 and ran it as a night job for 5 years while keeping his day job as an Advertising Executive. 5 years after its founding, Spike ball hit $1 million in annual sales with zero full-time employees. How The Dots Joined Up For Spike Ball At that time, Chris quit his day job and went full-time. That was one of the best days of his life and Spikeball's mission is to the create the next great global sport, with tournaments appearing on ESPN whilst taking place all over the world. Chris lives in Chicago with his 3 great kids and fantastic wife. He is on the board of I Grow Chicago and the company has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to help address gun violence, the environment and education. So did he need to spend those five years as a side hustle business, or was it simply a leap into the unknown that scared him. And how do you know that you have a great product on your hands before you ever invest your own money into the business? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Chris Ruder Show Highlights During the show we discussed such deep subjects with Chris Ruder such as: Chris shares how Spikeball wasn't his idea at first, but he took an original product that in many ways had failed and made it much better. Why it is such an amazing idea to provide free parts for life to customers as they become your marketing department for free. Chris allows us a glimpse into the starting process of getting his customers to fall in love with SpikeBall. And lastly........... The Spikeball founder talks openly about his appearance on Dragons Den, and what the show truly brings a new business.

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.0	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features
0:10.3	amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:22.8	Yes, of course it's me, friends.
0:27.8	It's Joining Up Dogs.
0:28.6	I'm not going to hand this show over to anybody else to host, am I?
0:31.5	So yes, it's David Ralph and thank you so much for
0:33.7	joining us today's guest on the show he's the founder of a company called
0:38.4	Spike Ball which is a new and fun sport that looks like it's going to be big everywhere.
0:43.5	In fact, I've already crunched the numbers and it sort of blew me away.
0:46.5	135,000 people a month, Google Spike Ball, so he's got a hit product on his hands,
0:52.2	go him. Now the Jonas brothers Drake Ryan Seacrest and a load of other sort of numerous pro sport teams and players have expressed their love for spikeball and its appearance on Shark Tank was voted as one
1:05.0	of the best episodes of all time.
1:06.8	E-P-N went as far to say Spike Ball is mainstream and they know a few things. Our guest today started a business in 2008 and
1:15.5	ran it as a night job for five years while keeping his day job as an advertising
1:20.3	executive. Now five years after its founding, Spike Ball hit 1 million in annual
1:25.8	sales with zero, yes zero, full-time employees. At that time our guest
1:31.0	quit his day job and went full time.
1:33.2	I bet his wife was saying, yeah, come on, we're getting the money, just doing.
1:37.2	That was one of the best days of his life and Spyball's mission is to create the next global sport with tournaments appearing on ESPN whilst taking place
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