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The Entrepreneur Next Door 🏡
My name is Zev Asch; welcome to The Entrepreneur Next Door Podcast. I've spent my entire career in what I call "the trenches of small business and entrepreneurship." I spent three decades as a successful corporate marketing executive in small and family-owned businesses, an academic career as a Graduate Marketing Professor and director of Entrepreneurship and leadership at Touro University Graduate School of Business, and over a decade as a business transformation coach.
As an avid podcast listener, I've always craved one that features unknown, grounded non-celebrities and entrepreneurs who can be my next-door neighbors.
Join me for intimate, unfiltered conversations with everyday people who took a leap into entrepreneurship and openly share their journey from failure to success. I spend hours preparing for each interview and asking intimate and challenging questions; one insight can make a profound difference in your business or life.
Finally, I promise that my podcast will never be used as a platform for me or my guests to self-promote. I strictly prohibit it and ensure each guest understands before being featured on my show.
My goal is to ensure that every episode delivers at least one insight that can help you improve your business or one aspect of your personal life.
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The Entrepreneur Next Door 🏡
[30] Dominick Miserandino. "If you have an opportunity to change things, why wouldn't you?"
At 12, Dominick cleaned his neighbor's backyard to save money to buy one $30 share of Disney, unlike what the average boy his age would be doing. Growing up in Brooklyn and watching everyone around him struggle financially motivated him to "change" things.
Next came starting a nonprofit for the homeless as an Eagle Scout.
Entrepreneurship was like jumping into the pool and saying, "wow, the water is cold."
In 1995, way ahead of its time, Dominick started an online blogging news site called the Celebrity Cafe (similar to today's Buzzfeed). At its peak, it had over 30 million readers and impressive revenue from paid advertising.
Celebrity Cafe was jumping into the pool of entrepreneurship, learning how to code (Content Management System, CMS), and realizing he was now responsible for employees.
Spoiler alert! While building the Celebrity Cafe, Dominick gets a full-time job on Wall Street, an education on hustling, and learning how to use technology to improve and make money.
Listen to Dominick's success story and how he openly reflects on his life and accomplishments, especially the definition of success.
You can connect with Dominick here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/miserandino/
