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A.J. and his team chat with David Schottenstein, founder of Privé Revaux, an affordable, high quality sunglasses and eyeglasses brand. Approached by Jamie Foxx, Schottenstein took his idea and turned it into a 9-figure business. Acquired by Sofilo in 2020, Privé Revaux continues to sell affordable, quality products.
Listen how Schottenstein grew and sold his businesses by using consumer accessibility and celebrity influence.
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A.J. and his team chat with Diane Prince, founder and entrepreneurial coach, who has 25 years of experience creating and scaling businesses. Now building a business to help founders make the journey easier, Prince shares how she grew and sold her company within 6 years, what made her decide to start coaching and why people should know their “why” when it comes to starting businesses and scaling them.
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8 Figures with Matthew Korban from protecting his house with a rifle in Lebanon to an award winning business
From protecting his home in Beirut with a rifle to winning multiple awards & international success.
Today you’ll find Matthew coaching and helping entrepreneurs to restore balance to their lives without compromising their career. His journey to 8 figure success was anything but an easy ride. From protecting his home in Beirut with a rifle to winning multiple awards & international success then to almost die of health complications, Matthew Korban has been through a lot.
Matthew was born in Lebanon, Beirut, but on the move his entire life. Planning since childhood to leave Lebanon, he eventually settled in the USA, and chose Ohio to raise his kids. He enjoyed success in the corporate world; but realizing that his knowledge of languages and cultures of the middle east was a great opportunity to set himself apart in a crowded entrepreneurial world; he jumped headfirst into building his consulting business to 8 figures. A near death experience and a wake up call of having 5 months to live gave him the incentive to pivot; from the high stress business consulting business, into the wellness industry.
In this episode, Steve, Mary, Richard, and Matthew discuss:
Key Takeaways:
Best Advice I Ever Received: Trust your feelings, trust yourself, you always have your own best unconditional interests
Best Advice I’d Give To Someone Who Wants To Build A $10m+ Business: Ask for help. It takes real courage and overcoming your own pride to do so.
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Website: MatthewKorban.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matthewkorban
Instagram: @matthew_korban
LinkedIn: Matthew Korban
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$321 Million Dollar Exit From Restaurant Delivery, Will Moore CEO of Moore Momentum
$321 Million Dollar Exit, Will Moore | Restaurant Delivery | Moore Momentum
$321 million exit: doorstep delivery. Imagine having WIll Moore’s ”nothing can stop me” attitude, and wondering what kind of problems do people have right now, that need to be solved. But it wasn’t always that way, rewind to college where he described himself as having a typical victim attitude until a serendipitous event changed his life forever. Now he’s the guy known for catching sight of and observing trends, in a big way.
Rolling back a few years; he had graduated from Rollins College and was enjoying success in real estate. Looking for trends and problems that needed solving. The answer flashed, the need for quality college-friendly housing. Arise Rollins Rentals, the solution for his alma mater and the momentum for his financial success.
Business was booming. Like many, he was working long hours and ordering a lot of take out. Takeout wasn’t new but a variety of choices were, making ordering in food a little bit sweet and a little bit sour. Tiring of Pizza or Chinese food options spawned his next venture, the restaurant industry’s first doorway delivery company.
Growth was hydrated with influxing franchise dollars and gobbling up small town USA delivery businesses. Fast food forward a decade to cash out at $321Million!
Will’s latest message is ripe today. When the current climate is one where, the rubber meets the road. Whether you’re speaking your truth, taking the moral high ground or worried about alienating people, you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t. But it makes us who we are, and it’s part of our core.
What he knows for sure? Money is not the secret to happiness. In fact, Will believes our greatest entrepreneurial business is one’s life. Balancing mindset, emotional and physical health, building relationships and giving back to the world. Spending time with people you love and building momentum in all 5-core areas of your life.
After exiting Doorway Delivery, WIll’s purpose is to Shine his spotlight and expertise into the latest trend of self awareness. Will has discovered financial and career makes up only ⅕ of our happiness quotient. Real happiness requires us to fire on all cylinders in the 5-core areas of life. The first part is building momentum; and he offers a gamified experience that helps one stop the failure habits in each of the five core areas of their life, replacing them with success habits. The second: teaches how to use your five cores so you too, can fire on all cylinders.
In this episode, Steve, Mary, Richard, and Will discuss
Key Takeaways:
Best Advice I Ever Received:
Stop talking about and do it. Fail beautifully and improve every single day.
Connect with Will:
Twitter: @mooremomentum1
Website: http://www.mooremomentum.com
Email: [email protected]
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBBnybi_zZquxqB9rZIP6Zw
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mooremomentum
Instagram: @mooremomentum and @5scorelife
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$300M+ Houston Curtis, The Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist
$300M+ Houston Curtis, The Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist | Kardsharp Media & Creator of Many Multi – Million Dollar Entertainment Brands
Do what you love and the money will come
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Houston Curtis joins the crew on Beyond 8 Figures, he has some great stories of life as a Former MTV network executive and Creator of niche-driven multi-million dollar entertainment brands, Houston Curtis has been called a “Visionary” and “trail-blazer” by his peers. Houston brings with him over 20 years of success and experience as a Producer, EP, Show-runner, Direct Marketing expert, independent Label President, writer, speaker, and entertainment consultant. Houston has built multi million dollar after multi million dollar business all in the entertainment space.
One of Houstons stories was about how he had created backyard wrestling, pre youtube, how he had to get people to mail him VHS tapes of the crazy backyard stunts, even MTV deemed these too much for TV. If Houston looked back now he says he would have put all his content on Youtube as soon as it launched and waited for a revenue model to be created.
Houston Curtis’s Founder and CEO positions have included start-ups Backyard Wrestling Inc., Xtreme Entertainment Group, Big Vision Entertainment and Legend Group Studios. Collectively, these companies have grossed over 100 million dollars in revenues from exploitation of all content rights since their 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2014 inception.
Houston has created and executive produced shows, films and a variety of television programming for FOX, MTV, CBS, A&E, GSN, G4, DirecTV, Warner Brothers, Sony Studios, and Twentieth Television among others.
Most notable Houston co-founded of the largest private poker game in Hollywood history along side actor Tobey Maguire. As they engineer behind the events that inspired the book and film Molly’s Game, Curtis new book Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, tells the true rise and fall story of this now legendary poker game, and how when it all came crashing down, Curtis crashed hardest.
In this episode, Steve, Richard, and Houston discuss:
Key Takeaways:
Best Advice I Ever Received:
“Do what you love and the money will come”
Best Advice I’d Give To Someone Who Wants To Build A $10m+ Business:
“I’ve always taken an aim for the stars, land on the moon approach to growing a company. If you want to build a 10 million dollar business, set out to build a billion dollar business instead”
Connect with Houston:
Twitter: @Houston_Curtis
Website: https://www.kardsharp.com
Email: [email protected]
YouTube: youtube.com/user/buildmybusiness
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/houstoncurtis
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kardsharp89
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Joining us today is Marek Zmyslowski, a private investor, top 10 person in tech, and co-founder of Jumia Travel. In this episode, Marek shares his insights on the importance of having your hands in many things. He also discusses why you should explore various opportunities and diversify your ventures.
Get ready for an enlightening discussion that will inspire you to embrace a multi-faceted approach to business to unlock success.
About Marek Zmyslowski:
Marek Zmyslowski is a successful entrepreneur and co-founder of Jumia Travel and HotelOnline.co, Africa's largest hotel booking portals. Recognized as one of the Ten Most Important People in Tech by IT News Africa Magazine, Marek serves as a Lead Mentor at Google's Launchpad and the World Bank's XL Africa Program. His hiring approach values individuals raised in challenging environments or those with a resilient spirit from overcoming adversity. Marek thrives in the early stages of business, focusing on ventures with exponential growth potential and continuously seeking the "unfair advantage."
Marek shares his captivating journey of entrepreneurship and adventure in his memoir, "Chasing Black Unicorns", where he offers valuable insights into the challenges and triumphs of building a groundbreaking business in Africa, making it a must-read for business owners seeking inspiration from an extraordinary journey.
For a comprehensive book review, check out this page.
In this episode, Steve, Mary, Richard, and Marek discuss:
Key Takeaways:
Best Advice I Ever Received:
“Don’t listen to too much advice”Best Advice I’d Give To Someone Who Wants To Build A $10m+ Business:
In order to get from $1 mIllion to $10 million, you will have to unlearn many things that got you from $0-$1 Million
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$10M+ | Mac Lackey Started, Scaled & Sold 6 Businesses and Raised Over $75 Million in Capital
$10M+ | Mac Lackey Started, Scaled & Sold 6 Businesses and Raised Over $75 Million in Capital
Mac has been an entrepreneur his whole life. He has built, scaled and exited 6 businesses, 5 of them were at an 8 figure exit or 8 figure in revenue so he has touched the 8 figure mark many times in his career. This week on Beyond 8 Figures the crew reminisce with Mac about the dot com crash, the 2008 real estate crash and Steve and Mac both shared that they were stunned at the amount of businesses who were not able to navigate the 30-60 days so far into this current crisis and have had to close.
Mac shares that the real role of a founder is to navigate turbulence and to have the ability to have staying power. What it means to have staying power is the ability to pivot to another way of serving your customers who may not be buying your current product, if you can sell a different product to an existing audience then you have given yourself staying power. Mac shares his experience in his first internet company in the mid 90’s starting it in a space where no one knows they need what you are trying to sell, having to educate a new industry and hire for jobs that don’t exist and then finally selling the “what is possible” vision to exit this company for millions in his 20’s.
Now’s the time, here is the neon sign, go do it and try something new but be careful of the “new” founders mistake don’t try to sell a market, find a product for a market that already wants it says Mac. If you have an idea, test for demand in the market and is that demand in cash? Mac suggests, you raise the capital to turn up the volume on something that is already working not the opposite. So many great nuggets in this interview be sure to tune in to get the rest!
Mac Lackey is an American entrepreneur who has started, scaled and sold six companies. Mac and his companies have been featured on CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business North Carolina, USA Today and The New York Times. Notable ventures include: KYCK (acquired by NBC Sports), Mountain Khakis (acquired by Remington) and Internet Soccer Network (acquired by division of News Corp/Sky).He additionally served as a member of the Board of Directors for Lending Tree (NASDAQ: TREE) for over five years. Mac was a collegiate All-American and played professional soccer before starting his first Internet company in 1995.
[spp-tweet tweet=”Founders, your number one job is to figure out how to manage turbulence” @maclackey
In this episode, Steve, Mary, Richard, and Mac discuss:
Key Takeaways:
Best Advice I Ever Received:
Helping people achieve their goals and dreams is great business.
Best Advice I’d Give To Someone Who Wants To Build A $10m+ Business:
The fastest way to scale is through leveraged distribution. Finding someone who already has the customers you are trying to reach with your product/service.
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lackeymac
Twitter: @MacLackey
Website: http://maclackey.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/maclackey
Email: [email protected]
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maclackey/
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$10M+ 2 Businesses – Susie Carder, CEO | SD Consulting
$10M | Susie Carder, CEO SD Consulting, Single Mom Hairdresser to $10 Million in TWO businesses.
Susie Carder started out as a low paid hairdresser trying to support her 2 little girls but working for someone else became a challenge (to say the least). Susie decided to do whatever it took to create her own business. After much blood sweat and tears (mixed with cheap mascara) according to Susie, she went on to create, not one, but two $10 Million companies!
Cut the fat and make sure you're the meat to your clients
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As a serial entrepreneur, she is no stranger to starting and scaling. Susie has built and sold 9 businesses, two were good learning experiences and expensive hobbies and the other 7 were multiple millions of dollars in revenue and exit. The two $10 Million dollar businesses were her Spa and a Training and Development Company in the Spa Industry. The first person she always hired was an operations person, they are the foundation, how do we create a business that doesn’t rely on the super star or technician? She took Lisa Nichols company from $800,000 as Lisa Nichols to $10 Million as Motivating the Masses and as Lisa Nichols said “Just do for me as you did for yourself” and that is how Susie built that business for her client. Listen in as Susie shares so much great advice for serious entrepreneurs.
In this episode, Steve, Mary, Richard, and Susie discuss:
Key Takeaways:
Best Advice I Ever Received:
Micheal Gerbers eMyth book says build it like you are going to sell it and that is exactly what she did
Best Advice I’d Give To Someone Who Wants To Build A $10m+ Business:
That there is a roadmap to building a 7-8 figure business. 88% of small business fail in the first 5 years, and only 1.7% of the businesses reach 1 million dollars in their business.
Connect with Susie:
Twitter: @SusieCarder
Website: https://www.susiecarder.com
Email: [email protected]
YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/user/bootstrappassion8
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susiecarder
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