{"id":667,"date":"2008-09-12T17:42:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T09:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/?p=667"},"modified":"2008-09-12T17:42:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T09:42:03","slug":"friday-podcast-business-building-tips-from-mike-peters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/podcasts\/friday-podcast-business-building-tips-from-mike-peters\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Podcast: Business Building Tips From Mike Peters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0809\/Mike-Peters.png\" alt=\"mike peters\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>I met Mike Peters in person at Affiliate Summit West last year, having talked to him a number of times before that.<\/p>\n<p>With a colorful lifetime of experience, Mike:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Was born and raised in Israel<\/li>\n<li>Started his first company at 14<\/li>\n<li>Made more money than his dad at 15<\/li>\n<li>Dropped out of school at 16<\/li>\n<li>Said no to Microsoft&#8217;s offer of a 6-figure income job because he wanted to run his own businesses<\/li>\n<li>Started 4 companies, closed them down or had them fail, accumulated $150,000 in credit card debt before hitting it big<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now serves as Florida General Manager for <a title=\"software projects\" href=\"http:\/\/www.softwareprojects.com\" target=\"_blank\">Software Projects<\/a>, a full service internet marketing and web development firm.<\/p>\n<p>In our discussion, we talked about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How you can get started on planning and building your internet business<\/li>\n<li>How you can effectively deal with challenges and failure in your business<\/li>\n<li>Lessons Mike learned, especially with raising $6 million in funding for one of his businesses which ultimately failed<\/li>\n<li>Which billionaire business owner Mike recommends as a role model to learn from<\/li>\n<li>The truth and reality checks about owning your own business<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check out the Friday Podcast:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met Mike Peters in person at Affiliate Summit West last year, having talked to him a number of times before that. With a colorful lifetime of experience, Mike: Was born and raised in Israel Started his first company at 14 Made more money than his dad at 15 Dropped out of school at 16 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[88],"tags":[95,1798,94,1766,1453,1454],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}