TMBA532: The Middle Game
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We often talk about the "1,000 Day Principle" or the idea that it will take about 1,000 days to get a new business off the ground before it replaces the income from your 9-to-5.
But what happens after those 1,000 Days?
Chris Cage's 1,000 Day Journey has been well-documented on previous episodes of this podcast.
Chris is the founder of Greenbelly, a company that manufactures high-quality meal bars for hikers. Greenbelly is now over 5 years old, and Chris is facing a whole new set of challenges.
Chris joins us this week to talk about how he has handled the "Middle Game" of entrepreneurship. You'll hear about his first full-time hire, how he has created a repeatable process for getting clients, why he is taking time away from the business, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | It's an interesting position to be in where I say, I don't have to be behind my desk every day for, you know, sales to come in. |
| 0:06.5 | So what is my role now? |
| 0:12.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:13.4 | 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 |
| 0:21.2 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:26.1 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:31.2 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome back to the TMBA pod. |
| 0:50.6 | We are here to grow better lifestyle businesses, businesses that provide you with a great deal of personal and financial freedom. |
| 0:52.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:53.6 | First, a productivity tip. If you want to get a ton done this week, |
| 0:55.7 | how about you book an international flight within seven days? Tell me that's not better than |
| 1:00.5 | getting things done or the next hot productivity app. This is the ultimate productivity app. |
| 1:07.0 | Even sort of scheduling things to do on that flight. |
| 1:14.7 | Certainly this week's going to be a busy one for me because I'm making my way back in the direction of Austin, Texas for our first big Dynamite Circle event of the year, |
| 1:19.8 | D.C. Austin in early April. |
| 1:21.7 | Looks like it's going to be our biggest and most dynamic event in America yet. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm super excited about that. |
| 1:26.9 | In fact, it looks like I'll be able to make it to a handful of dynamite circle events |
| 1:31.2 | in 2020. |
| 1:33.4 | And it's part of being able to meet so many of you, the folks listening to this podcast, |
| 1:39.1 | that allows us to examine a business and a guest like today is someone who's managed |
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