The Mike Effect with Mike Lee

The Scalability Podcast with Anthony Olvera

English - February 11, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB
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Planning to start a business but can’t figure out your niche? Mike Lee (CEO of Manticore Sign Solutions) visited us today to talk about how he began building his network in San Jose State and organized an event as a Co-founder of HVN. Later on, he advises on how to network with intent effectively and how he uses the Shotgun effect to his advantage.

Timestamps:
(1:12) The Organized Chaos and straight chaos
(2:24) Mike as a businessman
(4:45) Mike's background
(6:05) Figuring out your niche
(8:25) The moment you realize that you don't vibe with the crowd
(9:35) Mike as the board of a Nonprofit Organization for young professionals
(12:15) Organizing events
(14:21) Success happens when you do things imperfectly
(14:55) HVN's founders and their roles
(15:45) How they see it differently than most people think it's ABCD
(17:20) Got his full scholarship at San Jose State
(19:35) Anthony's Weaknesses and strength
(20:45) Simplify your Ideas
(22:50) Develop your accent to Intimidate
(25:00) The Bay stigma
(27:10) Mike attends a 90% White people Highschool
(28:50) Mike's insane recommendation letter from Tom Hanks, Barack Obama, and George Bush
(31:00) Choosing San Jose State over other state schools
(33:00) The Mike Effect
(34:27) Mike's shotgun method and Sniper method
(36:15) Networking and Dating are two different thing
(37:55) Smart and successful women
(39:35) Network with Intent
(42:20) Unsolicited pieces of advice from successful people over dinner
(43:40) Acquire years of knowledge in the span of 8hrs
(45:45) Monetizing from 1.4k followers on Instagram
(46:38) Fifty Cent as an Entrepreneur
(50:55) Do not let your fears hinder you from doing things
(52:40) Mike's mystery business Idea
(53:45) Message of encouragement
(56:55) The pride and joy of "The Mayor"
(58:25) Relationships shouldn't be gender biased
(58:58) Make an effort to keep a deep, genuine, meaningful relationship.

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