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• Growing a company from $300k to $2.5 million
• Launching from a basement with no team
• When to bring investors onto your team

Zak Normandin started an organic baby food company a few years back and grew to $300,000 in revenue in 2011. Little Duck Organics is now on track for $2,500,000 in sales for 2012.

In 2009, Zak started with an idea and launched the business in 2010. He pursued funding and received an investment in June, 2011. shortly after he hired an amazing team to take the company to where it is now.

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• Saving lives by washing hands (and doing business)
• Partnering to create a global business

5,000 children die every day by diseases that can be prevented by washing their hands. Bridget Hilton and Ben Richardson are out to change that with their company, Jack’s Soap.

Their soap is organic certified and PETA approved. When you buy a bar, they also buy a bar in a foreign country (to help the local economy) and donate the soap. They also partner to teach disease prevention instead of just donating soap and walking away.

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• Worldwide business business from North Dakota
• Partnering to make a business stronger
• Content marketing for a web design firm

Garrett Moon and Justin Walsh have partnered together to build a web design firm in…Bismarck, ND.

Garrett is a designer and Justin is a developer so they compliment each other well. They met in the old school world of advertising and decided to start a business.

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• Building a community that shares
• Quitting a job to build a business that hasn’t made any money
• Creating a list of epic quests

Steve Kamb created a community for nerds, desk jockeys, and weekend warriors to level up their lives.

Out of college, Steve got a corporate job that was unfulfilling. He connected with the 4 Hour Workweek, which blew his mind with possibilities.

Steve didn’t know where to start, so he just wrote. After 20 articles a month for five months, he had 90 subscribers to his blog.

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• Turning abandoned shipping containers into medial offices
• Creating a global company while still in college
• Finding people and resources to launch and grow a company

G3Box team members Gabby Palmero, Susanna Young, and Clay Tyler join me to talk about their new business: turning abandoned shipping containers into medical offices.

The team began working together at Arizona State University and the project was kicked off in the Spring of 2012. They’ve had many ups and downs since then, but have surrounded themselves with many people who have helped them launch their ideas into the world.

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• A challenge to do impossible things
• How to stop living a normal life
• The importance of professional photos for your website

Joel Runyon is challenging you to do impossible things, and join him as he travels and does the same.

Joel was tired of living the “normal life” so he decided to do something about it. He create the impossible list, then set out to do it.

Joel graduated, couldn’t find a job, then settled for working at UPS. Fast forward to today, he recently quit his job and has no idea what he’s going to do next. Sound fun?

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• Adding humor and yourself to a professional website
• Putting it on the line and hosting a big conference
• Creating a membership site for revenue
• Creating a business while continuing to work full time

Bryan Allain is a blog coach who ads a splash of humor. Not afraid to add a bit of his true self into his work, he does it all from from his home in Lancaster county, PA.

Bryan starting blogging in 2001, when it was much harder to update a site like today’s current blogs. His blog started with personal, family stuff, and has grown into a side business.

I first ran into Bryan when he released a book called 31 Days to Finding Your Blogging Mojo at the end of 2011. Since then, he’s been working on building and launching things like Killer Tribes, a site for his 1-on-1 and group coaching, and My Killer Tribe, a community of people learning how to blog and relying on each other for help.

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• Idea to funding
• Teams in different cities (and other parts of the world)
• Designing and manufacturing a new clothing line
• Kickstarter success

Kristin Glen (Denver, CO) and Shannon Whitehead (Austin, TX) created Revolution Apparel a few years ago in Sydney, Australia. They wanted to create a business that combined adventure, passion, and purpose. The outcome was a women’s clothing line that’s eco-friendly.

Kristin and Shannon went through a process of designing a new piece of clothing called The Versalette.

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