Move The Needle

How To Bring Your Crazy Ideas To Life: Part I

Greg and Jason share stories and lessons from the early days of their one-of-a-kind projects "$10 and a Laptop" and "I Wear Your Shirt."

Topics discussed in this episode:

Greg shares the story behind his 3-year, 50-state project "$10 and a Laptop."
Greg explains how he made money traveling around the United States starting with just a $10 bill.
Why Greg chose to share real-time transparent daily updates on how he rebuilt his life through entrepreneurship during the Great Recession rather than write a book afterward.
Greg's early struggles of trying to figure out how to travel around the United States with only $10 and no homebase.
Jason shares how he came up with his $1 million idea, "I Wear Your Shirt."
Why Jason defied the feedback he received from others and took a chance on his idea anyway.
How a conversation with a person on Twitter led to a brilliant pricing strategy for "I Wear Your Shirt."
How Jason's mindset of wanting a goal more than you fear the reality it takes to achieve the goal has led Jason to tackle bold projects.
Why Jason evaluates his business ideas based on possibility rather than probability.
Both Greg and Jason describe how they each made their very first business sale with very small networks and no prospective customers.
Jason shares the pivotal moment when he realized he needed to be proactive versus reactive to get sales for "I Wear Your Shirt."

Thanks for listening!

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