The Life of a Serial Entrepreneur

Dan Guerra - SDMCentral

Most entrepreneurs share a few common traits.  They strive for success, growth and always pursue what is next.  They also have a million ideas for other businesses and need to quell that urge to start the next big thing.
That last part is a blessing and a curse.  It makes it easy, well, easier to pivot.  It also can be a distraction.
Listen as Dan Guerra shares his entrepreneurial journey from the business of computer repair to website creation to software in the health care field, he has a diverse background of business experience.
Dan shares the good, bad and less than great about his business journey.

Enjoy!

Visit Dan at: AltusCampus.com

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Today we are welcoming/preparing to learn
from Dan Guerra, the CEO of SDM Central.

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So, Dan, how are things going today?

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Hey, every day is a great day.

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Every day is a great day.

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That's the mindset I hear of a lot

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of entrepreneurs are just like, it's
awesome, everything's great.

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You always get that when you talk
to somebody who's a real estate agent.

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You ask them, how's the market?
Best market ever.

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You couldn't ask for a better market.

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I'm like, did we wake
up in the same space?

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No.

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2008.
Everything's on fire.

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It's great.

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Like networking events and happy hours.

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How's real estate?

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Best market ever.

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Good guy, man, flying off the shelf.

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Can't keep up with the underwriting.

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I just heard about a financial crisis, man

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Isn't the world on fire?

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Yeah.

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So to your point yes.

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I think entrepreneurs are
default optimistic people.

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If you weren't, it'd be really hard to get
out of bed after getting

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life pummeled out of you the day before
because you had a series of failures.

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Yeah.
Or you'd have murdered employees.

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Yeah.
I mean, I would never say that, but

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I think that you bring up a really
important thing, which is resilience.

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And
I think that's something that you and I

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share as entrepreneurs,
as being generally resilient people where

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we get a lot of no's and we
get more no's than we do

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yes's.

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Except our yes when we get there are

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really big and it allows us
to move the agenda forward.

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And not just for us, but to your point,
the people that work with us,

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our employers, our contractors,
our customers.

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And so those yes's are huge
yes's.

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One of the things that super inspires me

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is they were just like this Michael Jordan
like,

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quote on numbers, and I'm going to screw
it up, so I'm going to try the numbers.

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But they say for all his awesome shots,
he had 9000 misses.

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And so if he hadn't had all those misses,
he wouldn't have had all the successes.

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And I think that just kind
of inspires us as entrepreneurs.

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Like, we got to get in the game
and we can't be afraid of the no.

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And the yeses that we have are going to be

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hugely beneficial, not just for us,
but the people then around us.

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Yeah.

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Babe Ruth, I think, had the most