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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Nick Gray (@NickGrayNews), we had the first face-to-face interview as we talk about what it’s like to be an entrepreneur in their 30s, and shared some tips on publishing a book and hosting events!

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Show Notes:
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:44) - Our sponsor is DMBridge
(02:20) - Let’s look at how Nick started! 
(08:00) - How did Museum Tours start and help create connections with people?
(11:21) - Can entrepreneurship be taught in college?
(12:37) - How to run an entrepreneurship class?
(14:23) - Is it cool to start as an entrepreneur in your 30s?
(22:48) - How to start writing and sharing?
(23:38) - What’s that one piece of advice for anybody looking to publish a book?
(26:12) - What is an important detail that you might overlook when hosting events?
(28:36) - What’s with the name tag?
(33:08) - Why is a Friend Newsletter such a good idea?
(37:27) - VA: Should you hire one?
(43:15) - How do VAs understand their clients? 
(47:10) - How to use calendly like a boss?

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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by James Camp (@JamesonCamp), who grew up in New York City and is a Jack of All Trades, especially on marketing strategy, monetization, and website flipping. We talk about how he lost $100,000 trying to acquire a firm, the downside of financial touts, and stock buying schemes he's encountered.
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Show Notes:
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:48) - Our sponsor is DMBridge
(03:22) - Why did you team up with a prop trader whom you met in a nightclub?
(05:29) - How are cohort-based courses different from the asynchronous version?
(13:46) - What does being a nightclub promoter teach you about business?
(14:49) - Tell us more about the Psychology of sales. What are trust building and its techniques?
(22:48) - What is the right way for families to support young entrepreneurs?
(25:26) - How do you perceive the finance industry?
(32:14) - Can solopreneurs actually scale?
(35:36) - How’s the growth once fallen into solo entrepreneur concepts?
(38:59) - Tell us the story about Jimmy!
(40:00) - How I got scammed out of $100k
(44:09) - How is it like being a holistic digital marketer?
(46:24) - What is the dark side of offering stock buying advice?
(50:59) - How did talking on Twitter become a superpower?
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#37 Eric Jorgenson - GP of Rolling Fun - Information Dealer Extraordinaire
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#24 The recruiter of choice: How JobMobz helps Silicon Valley companies grow so quickly
#13 The Hard Money Lending Business - Matthew Weidert of Longleaf Lending

Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Dave Kline (@dklineii), from Bridgewater & Moodys Analytics and a Management Accelerator, we talk about management and leadership. We went through a bunch of topics and shared different insights on human nature, human nature, how to work yourself into being a new manager, the shift in hiring overseas, and more!
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Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show!Follow us on Twitter @GirdleyShow Find success in small business investing and entrepreneurship.-----
Show Notes:
 (00:00) - Introduction
(01:03) - Our sponsor is DMBridge
(04:07) - How did Dave end up in Bridgewater?
(06:11) - Leaving a high-paying corporate job to be an entrepreneur?
(08:28) - Should you know everything before buying businesses?
(09:33) - Did you know about the massive shift in power and access to Education?
(10:40) - Is education disruption only accessible in the US? How is it being pushed overseas?
(13:08) - Is it necessary to have college credentials as a quality guarantee to hiring managers?
(14:17) -  Why do hiring managers in Flyover America care less about people with outstanding talent?
(15:09) - How can we uncover alpha in the talent market as in investments?
(18:00) - Understanding the “whys” of Assumptions, thought processes, and decision making!
(24:20) - How does working at Bridgewater change how you think about management?
(28:00) - Is it necessary to have a list of “Worst Managers”?
(32:12) -The positive network effect on getting top-of-the-line professionals to participate in your community
(34:10) - How to adapt to Management Roles?
(38:06) - Cohort-based course vs. Full-service course?
(51:24) - Hiring vs. recruiting for an operator?
(57:31) - When and why do some people like getting directions? 
(59:51) - How to have 10+ companies?
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Joe Wilson (@_joewilson), a Deep Tech Investor who runs a VC Fund in LA, we talk about a lot of interesting things like the works under deep tech and bioscience investing, how Joe acted to the COVID Pandemic 2020 as a scientist and also went through defining what a shady business is or not.
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Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show!Follow us on Twitter @GirdleyShow Find success in small business investing and entrepreneurship.-----
Show Notes:
(0:00) - Introduction
(1:00) - Our sponsor is DMBridge
(2:15) - Get to know Joe Wilson
(6:28) - You went both to MIT and Duke, what can you share from both experiences? 
(7:43) - How do you perceive the network power of going through University?
(9:06) - In what way does the standard or  IT SAS kind of VC vary from healthcare or biotech?
(11:58) - Research in deep tech investing: What should you think about Due Diligence?
(13:13) - How do companies practice diligence considering the red flags from founders & spending time with people?
(14:40) - Start-up seed & pre-seed stages: Mission driven founders & profitability
(17:50) -  Why is actual fraud rampant in start-ups? 
(19:56) - What are the dynamics for deep tech or healthcare companies? Why do they consider not hurting people as one?
(21:51) - What would we consider a shady business? What is the Front Page Test rubric?:
(25:00) - Where do you stand when it comes to elemental power generation? 
(26:35) - How to find an investment thesis and focus areas? 
(29:23) - Shifting gears, how do you break into Venture Capital?
(32:50) - What kind of VC do you want to be?
(38:49) - What is the response from a Scientist’s perspective to COVID? How did you plan for success when initiating the COVID response team?
(44:36) -The main benefit of doing something really hard
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Links: 
https://www.joewilson.co/about-----
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Linda Lebrun (@Substacklinda) to talk about her work at Substack: Focusing on emerging creators in the finance space. We also go about free and paid newsletters that are sent by email, who makes money doing what, advantages and disadvantages & compare these as a consumption tool to other platforms like YouTube and TikTok. 
Linda provided a lot of excellent suggestions about being unconventional in your content creation and how it may benefit you in your day-to-day activities.
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Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show!Follow us on Twitter @GirdleyShow Find success in small business investing and entrepreneurship.-----
Show Notes:
(0:00) - Intro
(1:08) - Our sponsor is DMBridge
(2:10) - Linda, Substack & her journey so far
(4:50) - Long-form content: Is it better to narrow down a niche or not?
(7:00) - What are Power laws for content creators?
(10:45) - What advice do you have for starters?
(14:48) - How do the platforms work for them and how go around it?
(20:00) - How is Substack part of a protocol and not a platform?
(21:37) - What are the problems of not owning the audience? 
(30:20) - Information Diets: How to understand content consumption?
(36:10) - Traditional media vs content creator dynamics: The fundamental differences
(47:20) - Tactic-based advice: Does it work?
(52:45) - What’s the difference between Substack's comment section compared to other platforms?
(54:15) - What are the trends for content platforms in the future?
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Links:
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Michael Girdley (@Girdley) is joined by Tai Rattigan (@XOptimiser), we talk about two major topics of interest. We talk about how partnerships work (Which is something that's a total black box domain that Tai extensively covered during the hour. Then the second thing we talked about was making money at paid communities. He operates a paid community for partnership professionals that work at startups, and it was awesome to talk through how he got it started and how it works.
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Do you love The Michael Girdley Show and want to see our smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.Do you enjoy our content? Rate our show!Follow us on Twitter @GirdleyShow Find success in small business investing and entrepreneurship.-----
Show Notes:
(0:00) - Introduction
(0:56) - Our sponsor is DMBridge
(2:00) - Who is Tai Rattigan?
(5:25) - Why are partnerships so hard? How should you think about a customer-centric approach?
(8:43) - What is a Solutions-based Selling? How is it different from Values-based selling?
(12:04) - Partnerships can leverage your Saas business income 10x
(12:45) - When should you establish partnerships in the service industry? How do you make it work?
(16:00) - How to generate measurable KPIs in partnerships?
(21:04) - What is one recommendation for anyone starting a service business?
(27:00) - On an entrepreneur’s side, how would you be able to identify an opportunity early on?
(31:30) - On the partner side, what are some partnership strategies?
(35:11) - As a vendor partner, how do I keep myself from getting screwed over?
(42:04) - What is Partnership Leaders? How to convince your boss to go to Vegas?
(47:04) - What are the keys to building a successful community?
(51:31) - Where do you think that the pattern is?
(58:16) - Community pricing: How do you foresee the rising prices and reinvesting into the business?
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#24 The recruiter of choice: How JobMobz helps Silicon Valley companies grow so quickly
#13 The Hard Money Lending Business - Matthew Weidert of Longleaf Lending