Andrew Weinreich is a serial entrepreneur and social networking pioneer. To date, he’s founded 7 startups and has been awarded 2 software patents. Since 2013, he has sold 2 businesses while advising 5 tech startups. He  is currently the co-founder and Chairman of Indicative and the founder of Andrew’s Roadmaps.

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Resources Mentioned:

• Your Big Idea: Successful Entrepreneurs have One Big Idea. Follow JLD’s FREE training & you’ll discover Your Big Idea in less than an hour!
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• Thread Across the Ocean – Andrew’s top business book
• Andrew’s Roadmaps and Indicative – Andrew’s websites
• Free Goals Course: Learn how to set and accomplish your biggest goals in 8 days!
• The Mastery Journal – Master productivity, discipline and focus in 100 days!

3 Key Points:

1. Companies fail to raise capital because they fail to contextualize what they’re doing.
2. Turn around to see greener pastures.
3. Dream big and don’t let your fears constrain you.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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• [01:23] – Andrew has an active and vibrant community in New York
• [01:53] – Value Bomb Drop: Practice vision thinking—don’t talk about yourself, talk about space generally
• [05:32] – Worst Entrepreneurial Moment: When we had to down-scale dramatically (fire a number of people)
• [07:18] – We were fortunate when the market began to come back
• [08:45] – “I had enough confidence not to panic”
• [09:10] – Have a sense of what you’re doing and the opportunities
• [10:05] – Entrepreneurial AH-HA Moment: Changing the dating experience with MeetMoi with building up another company for a proximity locations app
• [12:14] – There are greener pastures when you pivot
• [13:00] – What is the one thing you are most FIRED up about today? Indicative
• [14:15] – The Lightning Round
  • What was holding you back from becoming an entrepreneur? – Fear
  • What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? – Make a list of all the things you want to accomplish in life and be true to that list
  • What’s a personal habit that contributes to your success? – Getting excited about a vertical – I don’t feel constrained
  • If you could recommend one book to our listeners, what would it be and why? – Thread Across the Ocean – it was failure after failure to success
• [19:22] – Connect with Andrew on his website
• [19:38] – Dream big and try to imagine not just what you can do, but where any space is going into the future

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