MI Rewind: You Don't Have to Go Big w/ Andrew Gazdecki

In this MI Rewind Episode, Robert Leonard chats with Andrew Gazdecki about what Microacquire is, how he built it, and what his goal is with this company; how he thinks about smaller, bootstrapped companies versus large, venture-backed ones that are trying to be worth a billion dollars; why VC-backed companies generally get all the news coverage and what Andrew is doing to change this, and much, much more!

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro

02:29 - What the first steps are to getting a new business off the ground.

32:04 - Why having a great product is not enough in today’s world and why relying on this is a losing strategy.

32:04 - How someone with a faulty sales process can fix it.

32:04 - How to focus on one thing as an entrepreneur and how to determine what that one thing should be.

52:15 - What it means to “build in public” and why Andrew has chosen to go this route.

And much, much more!

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• Pat Flynn’s book Will It Fly?.
• Chris Guillebeau’s book Born for This.
• The Shark’s book Shark Tank Jump Start Your Business.
• Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here.

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