Steven Pope
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I went down to Target, went to the clearance section, bought some toys, and started reselling it on Amazon.
I didn't make much.
I did, but I didn't make much.
It wasn't necessarily worth the time per se.
I can make $500 in a 30-minute coaching session with somebody.
I can't make $500 doing reselling trips in a day going out to clearance zones.
So I've made a lot of big business mistakes.
I dropped $2.6 million on a software.
I called it hybrid.
I was trying to recreate Asana project management software, CRM, like a HubSpot, as well as a Helium 10 and a PPC automation software, keyword tracker, and more.
Never saw the light of day.
Didn't even sell what I made to somebody else to try and pick up the pieces.
That's how bad it went.
So I've made a lot of big business mistakes.
I have hired some good people and I've hired some bad people.
And there is there is guessing in hiring.
There is knowing in firing.
That's another Gary V quote.
He's got a lot of couple of good ones on that kind of stuff.
One of the other Gary V quotes I like is the action dictates the strategy.