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The Charm, Danger, and Thrill of Entrepreneurship

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September 19, 2016

Marinate in the Problem Space, with Chris Lema

September 12, 2016

Be Humble Enough to Ask

September 8, 2016

Should You Trust Your Gut or Follow Your Mentors?

September 1, 2016

Focus on What Needs to Happen

July 19, 2016

Prioritizing and Getting Things Done

July 14, 2016

Achieving Entrepreneurial Maturity

July 12, 2016

Looking Back on 35+ Years Working Project-to-Project, with Kevin Kelly

July 7, 2016

Building Something Out of Nothing

June 23, 2016

Driven to Create

June 20, 2016

Work Like You Are Going to Lose It All

June 16, 2016

Why You Need to Do Work That Matters

June 14, 2016

Money is the Outcome of Success (Not the Cause)

June 13, 2016

The Scientific Process of Building a Business

June 7, 2016

Why You Need to Touch the Entrepreneurial Fire

June 1, 2016

The Power of Constructive Impatience

May 31, 2016

The Curse of Specialization

May 26, 2016

Business is a Team Sport

May 25, 2016

The Reluctant Path to Becoming an Entrepreneur

May 24, 2016

Learning How to Make Things Better

May 19, 2016

The Natural Evolution of an Entrepreneur

May 17, 2016

Why You Can’t Say Yes to Everything

May 16, 2016

Entrepreneurship: It’s Never About the Money

May 12, 2016

The Transformation from Musician to Entrepreneur

May 10, 2016

The Value of Working in Systems and Processes

May 5, 2016

The Power of Unlimited Thinking

May 3, 2016

Learning to Lean Into the Competition

May 2, 2016

Why You Should Stop Waiting to Do Work That Matters

April 28, 2016

The Compounding Effect of Daily Improvement

April 25, 2016

How to Expand Your Thinking

April 21, 2016

Understanding the True Value of Playing the Long Game

April 19, 2016

Leaving the Known for the Unknown

April 18, 2016

How to Become a ‘10% Entrepreneur’

April 14, 2016

Becoming a Student in the Game of Entrepreneurship

April 12, 2016

How to View Entrepreneurship as a Microcosm of Life

April 11, 2016

Developing the Mindset of Constant Improvement

April 7, 2016

How to Stop Being Your Business (And Start Running It)

April 5, 2016

How to Find Your Focus

April 4, 2016

Business is Like a Rubik’s Cube (But You Need to Earn Your Next Move)

March 31, 2016

The 7 Essential Steps to Getting From Idea to Product

March 29, 2016

Why You Should Set Goals That Scare You

March 24, 2016

Why You Should Go ‘All In’ On Your Next Project

March 22, 2016

We All Start As Employees, with Brian Tracy

March 17, 2016

A Two-Year Journey From $0 – $500k

March 15, 2016

How to Ask Better Questions

March 10, 2016

Learning To Fly By the Seat of Your Pants

March 8, 2016

Building Authority In Your Market

March 3, 2016

Hug Your Haters, with Jay Baer

March 1, 2016

Why You Should Strive to Become a Category of One

February 25, 2016

Walking the Unexpected Path to Full-Time Food Blogger

February 23, 2016

How to Learn from a Mentor

February 18, 2016

Have an Entrepreneurial Vision and Make It a Reality

February 16, 2016

Learning to Fulfill an Unmet Need, with Liz Picarazzi

February 11, 2016

Why You Need to Have an Incredible Sense of Urgency, with Michael Port

February 9, 2016

Start the Company that You Wish Existed

February 4, 2016

Understanding Business As a Human-to-Human Interaction

February 2, 2016

From Public Radio to a Groundbreaking Media Startup, with Alex Blumberg

January 28, 2016

How to Independently Earn a Living (Using Only Your Wits)

January 21, 2016

The Charm, Danger, and Thrill of Entrepreneurship

January 19, 2016

How to Level Up Your Life, with Steve Kamb

January 14, 2016

How to Use S.M.A.R.T. Goals to Accomplish Big Things, with John Lee Dumas

January 12, 2016

Why Being Passionate About Your Business Is Absolutely Essential

December 10, 2015

Understanding the World as One Global Business Community, with Belinda Coker

December 7, 2015

How to Become a Bulletproof Entrepreneur with Dave Asprey

December 3, 2015

Entrepreneurship as a Cause for Change with Corbett Barr

November 30, 2015

Be the Best Teammate You Can Be with NFL Quarterback Mike Kafka

November 24, 2015

I’m Always Happy, But I’m Never Content

November 23, 2015

Starting a Record Label in the Era of Digital Media

November 16, 2015

I’d Rather Fail as a Writer Than Succeed as a Lawyer with Gretchen Rubin

November 12, 2015

How Your ‘Pain Index’ Can Determine Your Success as an Entrepreneur

November 10, 2015

How to Determine What Works (and What Doesn’t) with Laura Roeder

November 9, 2015

Why It’s Not Always About the Money

November 3, 2015

Why You Need to Start Before You’re Ready

October 26, 2015

Brian Gardner on ‘Hitting the Wall’ and Pushing Through

October 22, 2015

Heather Armstrong (Dooce) on the Art of Dealing with Online Criticism

October 20, 2015

How to See Business Opportunities Everywhere

October 19, 2015

How to Determine the Lifetime Value of Your Idea (Before You Start)

October 15, 2015

How to Decide Which Ideas to Follow (and Which to Ignore)

October 13, 2015

How to Find Your Unfair Advantage with Derek Sivers

October 8, 2015

The Key to Finding Your Company’s Highest Value Processes

October 6, 2015

How to Accidentally Start (then Scale) a Business

September 29, 2015

The Extraordinary Value of Sharing and Being a Connector

September 28, 2015

The Easiest Way to Know if Your Has Project Failed

September 24, 2015

The Entrepreneur’s Path to Building a Real Business

September 22, 2015

How to Market Almost Anything Online: A Conversation with Neil Patel

September 21, 2015

How to Overcome Shiny Object Syndrome

September 17, 2015

How to Maintain Well-Being While Building Your Business

September 15, 2015

Why Content is King (and Promotion is Key)

September 14, 2015

Mentorships, Delegation, and the Difference Between Managing and Leading: A Conversation with Chris Ducker

September 10, 2015

How to Consistently Take Action (and Allow Your Business to Emerge)

September 8, 2015

How a ‘Scatterbrain Creative’ Became a Full-Time Blogger

September 7, 2015

How to Take Extraordinary Action (on Ordinary Things)

September 3, 2015

A Crash Course in Entrepreneurial Self-Awareness

September 1, 2015

How to Become an Expert in Your Field and Love What You Do

August 31, 2015

How to Map Out the Business That You Want to Build

August 27, 2015

The Real Value of Creating Value

August 25, 2015

One Product Does Not a Business Make

August 24, 2015

The Value of Crafting an Entrepreneurial Vision (and Sticking to It)

August 20, 2015

The Evolutionary Process of an Entrepreneur

August 18, 2015

How to Get Great Advice

August 17, 2015

How to Ditch Your Perfectionist Mindset

August 13, 2015

How to Scratch Your Own Itch and Build a Successful Business

August 11, 2015

How to Eliminate Options and Find Opportunities

August 10, 2015

Benji Rogers on Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

August 6, 2015

Uncover an Idea, Find a Co-founder, Build a Business

August 3, 2015

How to Find Your High-Leverage Outputs, Build Products, and Choose Your Own Path

July 30, 2015

How to Find and Tap into Unmet Demands

July 29, 2015

How to Let Your Business Thrive (By Getting Out of Its Way)

July 27, 2015

Guy Kawasaki on Understanding the Math of Success

July 23, 2015

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Investing in Yourself

July 20, 2015

Valuing Your Connections and Optimizing Towards Happiness

July 16, 2015

Sol Orwell on Being Relentless and Not Giving Up

July 13, 2015

How to Build a Business That Lets You Live The Life You Want

July 9, 2015

Here’s the Key to Turning Your Failures into Opportunities …

July 7, 2015

How To Be a Terrible Employee, Build an Audience, and Travel the World

June 29, 2015

How to Determine if Your Business Idea Sucks

June 25, 2015

What it Takes to Leave the Corporate World (and Not Look Back)

June 22, 2015

The Art of Working Between Your Comfort Zone and Your Panic Zone

June 18, 2015

Building a Business at the Intersection of Art and Commerce

June 15, 2015

How to Make Your Business a Painkiller, Not a Vitamin

June 11, 2015

Carl Smith on Hiring the Best People and Creating a Better Business Story

June 8, 2015

Making the Leap from School Teacher to Full-Time Food Blogger with Lindsay Ostrom

June 1, 2015

Yanik Silver on the Transformation to Maverick Entrepreneur

May 29, 2015

The Journey From Travelling Poet to Online Entrepreneur

May 26, 2015

Josh Pigford on Shipping, Hiring Smart People, and Not Being Epically Wrong

May 21, 2015

How to Learn From High-Quality Failures

May 18, 2015

How to Take Action Before Knowing All the Steps

May 7, 2015

Ruben Gamez on Staying Focused and Shipping Your Product

May 5, 2015

The Compounding Effect of Daily Content Creation with Stephanie Halligan

April 30, 2015

Greg Hickman on Working Backwards and the Journey to $20,000 Per Month

April 28, 2015

How to Avoid the ‘Idea of Entrepreneurship’

April 23, 2015

One Simple Step to Attracting More Business Opportunities

April 21, 2015

Jeff Goins on Creating Amidst Chaos

April 16, 2015

How to Find a Multiplier Effect For Your Income

April 14, 2015

Starting Small, Thinking Big, and Becoming Unemployable

April 13, 2015

Immaturity, Impulsiveness, and the Art of Becoming an Entrepreneur

April 9, 2015

Building a Business Around Your Passions

April 7, 2015

How to Find Your Entrepreneurial Creative Essence

April 6, 2015

Seth Godin on the Difference Between Failure and Your Struggle With Failure

April 2, 2015

How to Turn What You Know Into a Business

March 31, 2015

How To Use Your Fears To Grow Your Business

March 30, 2015

Here’s How Pat Flynn Grew an Audience of Raving Fans

March 26, 2015

How a Bus Commute Helped Build a Speaking Career

March 24, 2015

Making Time For Your Online Business in the Fringe Hours

March 23, 2015

Brian Kurtz on Avoiding “The Entrepreneurial Gap”

March 19, 2015

Most Things in Business and Life Fail (And Why That’s OK)

March 17, 2015

Scott Oldford on Becoming Transparent and Finding Authenticity

March 16, 2015

How to Find and Follow Your Inner Voice

March 9, 2015

Brian Clark on Partnerships and the Creativity of Limitations

February 27, 2015

Get Over Yourself and Get Things Done with Steven Aitchison

January 21, 2016

The Charm, Danger, and Thrill of Entrepreneurship

He is the youngest person ever to receive venture capital funding. At the age of 18, he had already graduated from the University of British Columbia and launched his first company.

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Today, he is co-founder and CEO of Kiip, a mobile app platform that allows brands to offer real-life rewards for in-game achievements. To date, Kiip has raised over $15 million in funding and is completely redefining mobile advertising.

My visionary guest has received a whole bunch of awards, including Forbes’ 30 Under 30 and is one of Canada’s Top 20 Under 20.

Now let’s hack …

Brian Wong.

In this 30-minute episode Brian Wong and I discuss:

  • Blind perseverance and the ability to take “no” for an answer
  • How to find your superpower!
  • Why your goal is not to direct, it is to enable
  • Look for obvious and universal problem (then solve them)
  • Entrepreneurs should be in a constant state of learning

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The Show Notes

  • Kiip.com
  • Brian’s Bio
  • Brian on LinkedIn
  • Kiip on Twitter
  • Brian on Twitter
  • Jon on Twitter
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