Dan Guerra - SDMCentral

Most entrepreneurs share a few common traits.  They strive for success, growth and always pursue what is next.  They also have a million ideas for other businesses and need to quell that urge to start the next big thing.

That last part is a blessing and a curse.  It makes it easy, well, easier to pivot.  It also can be a distraction.

Listen as Dan Guerra shares his entrepreneurial journey from the business of computer repair to website creation to software in the health care field, he has a diverse background of business experience.

Dan shares the good, bad and less than great about his business journey.

Enjoy!

Visit Dan at: AltusCampus.com

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Today we are welcoming/preparing to learn

from Dan Guerra, the CEO of SDM Central.

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So, Dan, how are things going today?

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Hey, every day is a great day.

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Every day is a great day.

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That's the mindset I hear of a lot

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of entrepreneurs are just like, it's

awesome, everything's great.

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You always get that when you talk

to somebody who's a real estate agent.

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You ask them, how's the market?

Best market ever.

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You couldn't ask for a better market.

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I'm like, did we wake

up in the same space?

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No.

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2008.

Everything's on fire.

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It's great.

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Like networking events and happy hours.

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How's real estate?

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Best market ever.

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Good guy, man, flying off the shelf.

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Can't keep up with the underwriting.

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I just heard about a financial crisis, man

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Isn't the world on fire?

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Yeah.

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So to your point yes.

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I think entrepreneurs are

default optimistic people.

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If you weren't, it'd be really hard to get

out of bed after getting

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life pummeled out of you the day before

because you had a series of failures.

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Yeah.

Or you'd have murdered employees.

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Yeah.

I mean, I would never say that, but

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I think that you bring up a really

important thing, which is resilience.

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And

I think that's something that you and I

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share as entrepreneurs,

as being generally resilient people where

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we get a lot of no's and we

get more no's than we do

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yes's.

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Except our yes when we get there are

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really big and it allows us

to move the agenda forward.