TMBA495: Going All In on a Side Project
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On today's podcast, Dan and Ian are following up with the subject of one of the most popular episodes in recent years.
Tommy Griffith is the founder of ClickMinded, an online SEO training course that he started while he was working at Paypal.
Tommy joined us two and a half years ago to talk about how he started that business as a Saturday Morning Side Hustle.
When we last spoke with Tommy in 2017, he was about to quit one of the best jobs in the world as the head of SEO at AirBNB to travel the world and focus on Clickminded full-time.
It didn't go quite as planned, as you'll find out on this week's episode. Tommy returns to the podcast today to talk about what went wrong, and why he decided almost eight years into growing his business that it was time to take on a co-founder.
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| 0:00.0 | It is 100% up to me now. |
| 0:02.5 | Like, there's no more excuses. |
| 0:04.5 | There's no obligations. |
| 0:07.2 | I have a plan and it's either going to work or it's not. |
| 0:11.3 | But, like, it's not up to anyone else. |
| 0:13.2 | It's only on me. |
| 0:17.6 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 0:19.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:23.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:28.8 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:31.3 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:37.0 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:43.7 | You know, it's funny, like we've been doing this like almost 500 episodes and I still have a |
| 0:50.8 | hard time figuring out how to start. I know. You're like, you're ready? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, I'm ready. And then you're like, you're ready. And then I just put down the microphone. I was like, let me know when you're ready, man. I remember the first time we did a podcast together. I had to remember it the other day. Do you remember it? I remember it because I'm talking about it right now, actually, with Jane Jane because we're working on a special episode. |
| 1:12.0 | It's interesting. |
| 1:17.8 | At the end of one of the early episodes, we were like, our goal with this podcast is to pull together like the premier community of people like building these legit style of businesses. |
| 1:22.7 | Crazy, right? |
| 1:23.8 | Like 10 years ago, we were like, this has got to happen because we cannot be sitting here |
| 1:29.1 | being the only people we know that are doing this. |
| 1:33.2 | And I think that was pretty much true at the time. |
| 1:35.3 | And we might have known, I think less than a handful of people we had ever met that |
| 1:40.9 | were doing this, like the topic of this podcast. |
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