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Episode 741: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the most common mistakes founders make and how to fix them PLUS old school businesses that are making a comeback.

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Show Notes:

(0:00) Business Traps

(21:21) The Onion selling print papers again

(31:36) Oberweis milk delivery

(39:31) Joe Lemandt and Alpha School

(1:00:05) Grind Academy home schooling facility

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Links:

• Mobile Emissions - http://mobileemissions.com/

• Purple Cow - https://tinyurl.com/mdbfksx8

• Train Hard, Win Easy - https://tinyurl.com/2raksmas

• The Triple Package - https://tinyurl.com/yebnt9nx

• The Onion - https://theonion.com/

• Colossus - https://joincolossus.com/

• Oberweis - https://www.oberweis.com/

• Mentava - https://www.mentava.com/

• The Grind Academy - https://www.grindlv.com/

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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com

• Visit https://www.somewhere.com/mfm to hire worldwide talent like Shaan and get $500 off for being an MFM listener. Hire developers, assistants, marketing pros, sales teams and more for 80% less than US equivalents.

• Mercury - Need a bank for your company? Go check out Mercury (mercury.com). Shaan uses it for all of his companies!

Mercury is a financial technology company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column, N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/

• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/

• Copy That - https://copythat.com

• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth

• Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/

My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano