Successful Dropout

Kylon invites his wife on the show to talk about the big mistake they both made regarding her education and what they learned from it. Beware not to do the same! 

Omar is the co-founder of the $100 MBA, one of the largest alternative business education platforms online. He's also the host of the iTunes Best of 2014 podcast The $100 MBA Show. The $100 MBA show has delivered 700 lessons and counting to over 50,000 daily listeners. Omar is also the co-founder of WebinarNinja, an all-inclusive, easy to use webinar platform that allows you to create a webinar in 10 seconds flat. He also loves 80s music and high-fives. 

This week on Fast Advice Fridays we take a look at Rob Galvin's up and coming Digital Entrepreneur Career Fair where you will have access to over 40 successful online entrepreneurs and learn what it takes to build a career online. No, you don't have to graduate college and work a 9 to 5 office job. You can make a great living online, working from anywhere, setting your own hours, and being your own boss. Let the people who are already doing it teach you how! Get your free ticket at degreefreecareers.com 

Shane's entrepreneurial journey started in 2006 when he dropped out out of university. He went from offline business in the hardware market, to e-commerce, to affiliate niche sites, and from hungry and desperate, to well fed and successful. Now, he created and sells software and information products for a living. He's sold thousands of copies of his products and he's built up a business from absolute scratch to 7-figures and beyond. 

Kylon discusses just-in-time learning, what it is, what it isn't, and why it's valuable for you if you want to succeed without a degree.

Jonathan is the COO and co-founder of Jebbit, a digital marketing platform focused on post click engagement allowing marketers to create mobile interactive content. He was also the youngest person on the Forbes 30 under 30 2015 list. He has been a guest speaker at numurous events and conferences including Ad Week Europe and North America, Digi Day's Agency Summit, the NAB Digital Futures Summit, and 4A's Transfromational Summit. In his spare time, Jonathan is also a frequent marathon runner. 

In this episode of Fast Advice Fridays Kylon explains the meaning behind the phrase "stay hungry, stay foolish", and why he believes it is essential to being a Successful Dropout.

Daniel is an entrepreneur dedicated to creating and building success through e-commerce. His focus and expertise is selling on the Amazon platform. Together him and his business partner Ryan have built a massive e-commerce empire focused on selling their own brands through Amazon. They also created a website; ryananddaniel.com in order to inpsire and coach other entrepreneurs who are interested in getting into the e-commerce space. Daniel and his business partner have been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Pat Flyn's Smart Passive Income. 

Kylon shares valuable advice about the four things you should do before you drop out of college to work on your businesses or idea. If you can check these four off, you will have more confidence, less stress, and a better chance of success. 

Joshua overcame 8 failed startups by reading over 120 books about marketing, business, psychology, and philosophy...all in ONE YEAR! The following nine months he published his writing in over 16 publications, wrote a best seller about Facebook marketing, and helped run several successful Kickstarter campaigns and facilitated hundreds of relationships as the President of San Diego Digital Marketing Experts. He is now managing growth at UpOut which is a subscription service for live events and he's the organizer of San Francisco Growth Marketers.