TMBA530: Don't Be a Victim of Your Own Success
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Entrepreneurship is something of a gamble, and perhaps very few people understand that better than today's guest.
Mike Jackness is a widely respected figure among the eCommerce community and is the host of a brilliant podcast called ECommCrew.
Mike has owned and exited several successful businesses, the most popular of which being ColorIt, which manufactured and sold coloring books aimed at adults.
On today's podcast, Mike joins us to talk about the highs and lows of his entrepreneurial career.
You'll hear how an obsession with poker turned into Mike's first major foray into entrepreneurship, how he founded and eventually sold ColorIt, and some of the biggest pitfalls that entrepreneurs face in the eCommerce space today.
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| 0:00.0 | He beat me. |
| 0:02.8 | Straight up. |
| 0:04.8 | Pay him. |
| 0:06.9 | Pay that man his money. |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 0:13.6 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe |
| 0:21.7 | seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:26.3 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:31.5 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:40.7 | Hey, yo, welcome. |
| 0:42.1 | Back to the pod. |
| 0:43.3 | Today I invite you into my living room where I got the chance to sit down with Mike |
| 0:47.6 | Jackness, who is enormously well respected in the world of e-commerce. |
| 0:52.1 | And he's also the host of a wonderful podcast called the e-com |
| 0:55.0 | crew podcast, which is nearly 300 episodes of no BS inside info. You know, it's sometimes tough |
| 1:04.1 | to tell in the e-commerce world who's just talking to sell you courses and who's telling you |
| 1:08.5 | genuine stories of people who are making money online. And |
| 1:11.2 | Mike is definitely part of the latter group. So what's coming up? Well, in this episode, |
| 1:17.3 | Mike and I dive into how an obsession with poker and those of you who are into poker and movies |
| 1:24.2 | may have gotten the hint by that clip at the top of the show, how that turned |
| 1:27.7 | into his first major foray into entrepreneurship. |
| 1:31.3 | And we'll also discuss that moment that he knew he just had to get out of that game. |
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