Welcome back to Run the Numbers. Now that I’m full time, I promised that I’d let you all in on the Business of Mostly Metrics. And chapter of that story is the my own failed startup - Bubba Booking.

On this episode we’ll cover ten lessons I learned, how I lost over $200K, and what came of this face plant.

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