919: Testing and Validating Your Products or Services with Thanh Pham Founder and Owner of Asian Efficiency LLC

Thanh Pham is founder and CEO of Asian Efficiency – the world’s leading company for productivity training. He helps people achieve their goals in record times.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Thanh’s uncle
• John D Rockefeller

When business started difficulties overcame:

“My upbringing, especially if you come from an Asian family the thing that you’re being told every single day is hey you need to get an education, you need to go to high school you need to go to college you need to get a degree you need to become a doctor or a lawyer, that’s it, those are the 2 things you should do, maybe even a dentist. I was growing up with that mindset”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It… and Why the Rest Don’t Book by Verne Harnish

Favourite Quote:

“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”

Recommended Online Resources:

Clarity FM – Make faster better decisions to grow your business Clarity is your lifeline that instantly connects you with battle tested advice from entrepreneurs

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“If you’re just starting out and you want to start a business or grow a business the best thing you can do in my opinion is to test and validate as much as you can because you won’t have a good foundation until you’ve tested and validated your products or services, I’ve talked about validating stuff before and I can’t harp around that enough because it’s so important”…[Listen for More]

More About Thanh Pham:

Asian Efficiency

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.” Malcolm Boyd

Other Quotes From the Chat with Thanh Pham:

• “If I had a challenge I would try to find a book then read the book and figure it out whereas I find that if I can just talk to someone for 30 minutes who is an expert in that particular area I usually get the same answers and solutions for much faster results”
• “Success can mean a lot of different things”
• “The more you’re excited about the process the more success you will find”

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