One Question Friday: To Raise or Not To Raise?

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) answer one listener question. On this episode, Matt from North Carolina asks whether he should raise money to grow his business.

To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner.

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How to Interact with Famous People, The In-Person Event Playbook, and More

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about their interactions with famous people and how to leave a good impression, how in-person events make money (and why they’re only getting bigger), and much more.

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Links:

* https://maven.com/samparr/ideation-bootcamp?ss=true

* https://www.marathonranch.com

* https://blippi.com/

* https://www.vstarentertainment.com/

* https://unreasonablegroup.com/

* The Bill Simmons Podcast

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Show Notes:

(04:50) – How to interact with famous people

(08:50) – Blippi

(12:40) – Vstar Entertainment

(25:15) – Building to sell

(33:40) – Business Idea: Milo Again

(39:40) – Drunk Idea 2: Waiting room experience for Zoom

(42:15) – Drunk Idea 3: Give me a personality

(46:35) – Drunk Idea 4: Discord property managers

(50:10) – Drunk Idea 5: Fit furniture

(52:15) – Drunk Idea 6: Bulletin board material

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and Mor

How to Get Famous on Twitter and Other Listener Questions

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) answer your Twitter questions about how they found success.

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Links:

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Show Notes:

(04:40) – Question #1 – Starting again from zero

(16:15) – Question #2 – What do look for in business partners

(22:45) – Question #3 – How to get Twitter famous

(30:45) – Question #4 – Buying a business vs starting one

(39:15) – Question #5 – Biggest regrets

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

*#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

EMERGENCY POD: ELON BUYING TWITTER – Our Reaction and Explanation (Hilarious)

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) react to Elon Musk’s attempted hostile takeover of Twitter. They analyze why he’s doing it, whether they think he’ll be successful, and more.

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Links:

* Elon’s letter: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001494730/000110465922045641/tm2212748d1_sc13da.htm

* Punk6529 Twitter: https://twitter.com/punk6529?s=20&t=_z6Y7oL3z9JfPiYx0AqImw

* Video of Elon’s plan B: https://twitter.com/heydave7/status/1514675952802017282

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan’s newsletter.

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

From Coder to Cartel Boss – The Jeff Bezos of Organized Crime

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about Paul Le Roux and his possible connection to Bitcoin, Peter Thiel’s recent crypto speech, the power of knowing exactly what you want, and much more.

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Links:

* https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/

* https://www.thielfellowship.org

* https://mopoints.com

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan’s newsletter.

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Show Notes:

(03:35) – Le Roux and Satoshi

(26:20) – Peter Thiel at Bitcoin conference

(45:35) – Why knowing exactly what you want is a super power

(53:30) – Business ides: Copy My Trip

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Getting Rich Quick Sucks – Andrew Wilkinson Teaches You How to Get Rich Slow

Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) joins Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) to talk about why getting rich slow is better than getting rich quick. They also talk about the five pillars of happiness, how to identify winners, and much more.

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Links:

* https://www.tinycapital.com/

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan’s newsletter.

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Show Notes:

(00:30) – Sam helps a famous hockey player go viral

(07:30) – How Andrew built his social media following

(12:00) – Podcast downloads update

(14:15) – Getting rich quick vs. getting rich slow

(57:20) – How to identify a winner

(01:07:30) – The five pillars of happiness

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Announcement: Marketing Against the Grain

The HubSpot Podcast Network is proud to announce our latest podcast: Marketing Against the Grain.

Listen here: https://link.chtbl.com/eASRByGO

About Marketing Against the Grain: If you want to know what’s happening now in marketing, what’s ahead, and how you can lead the way, this is your podcast! In this weekly show, HubSpot’s CMO and SVP of Marketing, Kipp Bodnar and Kieran Flanagan, share their marketing expertise – unfiltered in the details, the truth, and like nobody tells it to you. Tune in for high-level perspective, conversation, and the occasional argument as they serve up an honest-to-goodness sense of how you can move your business forward!

Writing Your Way to Millions with Neville Medhora

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Ben Wilson (@BenWilsonTweets) sit down with copywriter and entrepreneur Neville Medhora (@NevMed) to talk about copywriting,

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Links:

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan’s newsletter.

* https://ahrefs.com/

* https://www.nevblog.com/

* https://copywritingcourse.com/

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Show Notes:

(01:30) – Introduction to Neville

(05:00) – When copywriting first started to click

(09:45) – Biggest mistakes in copywriting

(19:00) – Neville’s decision to die at 85

(28:30) – Are people born creative?

(50:45) – Living next door to your best friend

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

5 Big Ideas for a Business with Greg Isenberg

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) sit down with entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Greg Isenberg (@gregisenberg), to talk about big ideas for a new business and much more.

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Links:

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan’s newsletter.

* Will Smith slap: https://youtu.be/z4t1CC7-UFE

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Show Notes:

(02:30) – Reaction to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock

(15:10) – Business Idea #1

(25:50) – Business Idea #2

(27:50) – Business Idea #3

(33:20) – Business Idea #4

(37:20) – Business Idea #5

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Courses That Are Making 7 Digits with Amy Porterfield

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sit down with Amy Porterfield (@AmyPorterfield) to talk about the courses business, her background working with Tony Robbins, and much more.

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Links:

* Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel.

* Want more insights like MFM? Check out Shaan’s newsletter.

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Show Notes:

(04:00) – What it’s like working with Tony Robbins

(07:40) – What Amy has learned from other great marketers

(10:45) – People who are making a shocking amount from online courses

(19:30) – What podcast metrics to pay attention to

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek – How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk – Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan – Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 – How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert’s Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• ​​​​#218 – Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, “How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?”, and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More