785: You Can’t Know What’s Going to Happen, but If You’re Moving Opportunities Are Going to Find You, so Don’t Stop Moving with Skyler Hallgren & Zach Miller Co-founders and Co-owners of the Earthquake Bag

Skyler Hallgren & Zach Miller have been building lean startups together for over a decade. They’ve seen huge success, total failure, and everything in-between. Their styles can be vastly different, but their core philosophy on entrepreneurship is the same – think big, stay lean, focus on action, and never stop learning.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Richard Branson
• Elon Musk

When business started difficulties overcame:

“Breaking that mental cycle to make that jump and also living in San Francisco which is one of the most expensive cities in the world also having the student loan debt and everything on top of that, there’s just certain bills that need to be paid so it wasn’t like we could just flip the switch and say okay let’s just work on a company right away, it was okay let’s make some sacrifices to our personal lives and let’s work late”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

• The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich Book by Timothy Ferriss
• Influence: Science and Practice Book by Robert Cialdini

Favourite Quote:

• “Fortune favours the bold”
• “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to ones courage”

Recommended Online Resources:

• Shopify – are not just an ecommerce software, Shopify is an ecommerce platform that has everything you need to sell online, on social media, or in person
• Upwork – Find freelancers and freelance jobs on Upwork the world s largest online workplace where savvy businesses and professional freelancers go to work!
• Fiverr – is the world s largest freelance services marketplace for lean entrepreneurs to focus on growth create a successful business at affordable costs
• Canva – Create beautiful designs with your team Use Canva s drag and drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Regardless of how much time you’re putting in just get started. You got to have motion you got to have movement and right now there are so little barriers to entry to starting a business, to getting your idea off the ground if you start with the MVP mentality of just like lets just see if we can get something going, it might just take like 3 hours a week, maybe that’s all you have, 3 hours a week but if you take those 3 hours and you make the most of them, you’d be surprised at what you can accomplish if you have consistency, doing it every single week so that you can earn more of your time to be able to do it, don’t let the little excuses of not having enough time prevent you from not getting the ball rolling”…[Listen for More]

More About Skyler Hallgren & Zach Miller:

The Earthquake Bag

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.” Peter Abrahams

Other Quotes From the Chat with Skyler Hallgren & Zach Miller:

• “You can’t know what’s going to happen but if you’re moving opportunities are going to find you so don’t stop moving”
• “Don’t give up when the first idea doesn’t work because most likely you’re not going to strike gold on your very first idea”
• “Success if available to everyone”

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