Matthew Yahes helps entrepreneurs grow their business by getting out of the grind. He built his past two companies with a 100% remote workforce and now helps others do the same. In his spare time he snowboards well, kiteboards poorly, and enjoys life with his incredibly patient wife.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Matthew’s friend
When business started difficulties overcame:
“when I acquired my e-commerce portfolio it was just me. The biggest difficulty I had to overcome is I did not know or understand frankly what e-commerce was at scale where you are doing thousands of orders a month… Everyone has to pay tuition. And I had to pay tuition by really just getting punched in the face multiple times on a regular basis where I made large monetary errors because I didn’t know any better”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How successful people become even more successful Book by Marshall GoldsmithFavourite Quote:
- “The team, the team, the team” Bo Schembechler
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” Steve Jobs
Recommended Online Resources:
AppSumo – Learn How to Make Money Online Fast. AppSumo is the #1 software deal site for entrepreneurs to make money online. Enjoy lifetime software deals, discounts on small business tools, free resources
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Failure is okay. Pick yourself back up and stick with it. You don’t know everything, it’s impossible. You are going to fail, that’s okay. But if you stick with it learn and don’t get your ego bruised and just realise that everyone has to pay tuition and this is just your time period to pay tuition. You will eventually figure it out and be successful”…[Listen for More]
More About Matthew Yahes:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The hard days are what make you stronger.” Aly Raisman
Other Quotes From the Chat with Matthew Yahes:
- “perseverance is the key to a lot of success”
- “I think it’s just about jumping into something that you know nothing about and you are putting a lot of money on the line. You have to have humility and understand you are going to make a lot of errors. And I don’t think I truly understood how many errors I would make.”
- “I talk to my clients a lot about firing yourself from a business every 3 to 6 months… I wish I’d lived that and taken the advice… You have to look at everything that you do every six months and determine if it’s a ‘you’ task or someone else. A ‘you’ task is something strategic that really requires domain expertise. A other person task or strategic and tactical task is things like your email, drafting your proposal, anything that is more operational focused”
- “perseverance… That is what got me into trouble when I didn’t call it quits in my e-commerce business or I didn’t pivot. But perseverance is so important. You’ve just got to stick with it and you have to learn. Running a business is a skill like anything else most people did not learn and I certainly didn’t… So just perseverance, recognition of making mistakes and a lot of humility”
- “whatever made you successful up to this point is not going to make you successful to get to the next level… We all need to recognise that we need different skills to move on throughout life. And you have to be open to it and you have to work at it”
- “We win together. It’s not about I about us. And how I lived that is I try to create best possible working environment for my team to be successful. And through that I believe we will be successful as a company”
- “it’s the 10-year overnight success. It takes time, you are going to fail. And in failure you are going to find success but it takes time”
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