TMBA485: Mastering the Art of Entrepreneurial Kung Fu
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Ian have talked a lot about business strategy on this show, but there are some business techniques that are so powerful, you have to learn them from a true master.
Jason Cohen, the founder of WP Engine, recently wrote a piece on his blog ASmartBear.com titled Kung Fu.
In that blog, Jason proposes that all entrepreneurs are essentially fighters. We are fighting to make a living, fighting to survive, and fighting to change marketplaces.
Any good fighter needs to have a plan, and in that blog post, Jason shared his own "secret moves" for running a business.
On today's episode, we are talking about some of Jason's secret business moves, and sharing a few of our own as well.
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| 0:04.6 | is what I deserve, and this is how I'm going to get it. And then they get upset when the results |
| 0:10.3 | don't roll in. |
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| 0:47.0 | Hey, oh, welcome back to the TMBA podcast. |
| 0:50.8 | Lovely to have you on this fine Thursday morning. |
| 0:57.0 | Bossman has phoned in from Austin, Texas, and I'm here in my final week in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Heading your way, boss man. Looking forward to it, man. Thank God. You got me |
| 1:01.8 | staying up late. I don't know how much more of this I can take. This is like when we were kids, |
| 1:06.1 | we did this. It is rough. Ian, today, we are going to talk about fighting. |
| 1:17.5 | Oh, oh, oh. |
| 1:22.3 | We are going to use fighting as a metaphor for the difficulties, the struggle, the process of building a |
| 1:32.8 | business. There's a famous Mike Tyson quote that says everybody's got a plan until they get |
| 1:37.3 | punched in the mouth. Like we're all getting punched in the mouth, that's the point. |
| 1:42.3 | But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have a plan. |
| 1:45.5 | And there's this great Jason Cohn article over at A-smartBear.com, and it's called Kung Fu. |
| 1:54.7 | Everybody was Kung Fu fighting. |
| 1:59.6 | Those kids were fastest lightning. Now, Jason Cohn is the founder of WP Engine. |
| 2:05.6 | He's been on this podcast before. |
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