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Oct 2023
51m 35s

MI Rewind: You Don't Have to Go Big w/ A...

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Robert Leonard chats with Andrew Gazdecki about what Microacquire is, how he built it, what his goal is with this company, 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.

06:47 - Why having a great product is not enough in today’s world and why relying on this is a losing strategy.

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

33:57 - How someone with a faulty sales process can fix it.

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

And much, much more!


*Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences.


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