Dan Martell has been making waves and taking risks since he was a teenager. We discussed his stories of failure (learning experiences), succes, and what led to the founding of the amazing tool Clarity.fm. Dan shared some great tips on starting your own business/start-up, getting financing (if you even need it), and how he got started as an entrepreneur. Short bio on Dan: I've been an entrepreneur most of my life – having started at 18 – failing twice (Maritime Vacation, NBHost) – before finally figuring it out. When I was 24 I bootstrapped Spheric Technologies, a social enterprise consulting and applications company. The company grew by 150%+ each year, raked in many business awards, employing 30+ before I sold it in May of 2008. After that, I took some time off, but eventually decided to move to San Francisco. After a few months, I co-founded Flowtown, a social marketing application, which raised venture funding and eventually got acquired by Demandforce.com (NASDAQ: INTU) in 2011. In January of 2012 I started Clarity, a platform that helps entrepreneurs find, schedule and pay for great advice over the phone to grow their business. We've raised $1.6M in funding from some amazing investors and are currently growing 30% each month. It's a problem I'm passionate about solving and believe it has the potential to positively affect a billion people over the next 10 years.
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