The Tropical MBA

6-Figure Deals, Crazy for Manila, and How We Got Started in the Product Business

I've been SUPER busy trying to orient my actions on revenue-focused activities. Sean, Ian, and myself often use that sentence as a rubric for planning our days out. "Are these activities revenue-focused?" While part of me would prefer to be reading blogs, writing comments, and screwing around around on twitter, a lot of my non-revenue activties this month have involved banking, offices, personnel, and condos.

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I’m Sick of Being a Traveler, I’m taking on Luxury Lifestyle Overhead

I spent the day visiting an impressively ambitious internet startup here in Manila. I found myself missing my office days-- a little. It was tons of fun to see office comraderie, leather couches, power lunches, killer work stations, and big LCD screens. I realized my longing is well-timed with a few other rumblings in my behavior. Let's call them"entrepreneurial nesting instincts."

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How Are You Going to Double Your Profits This Year?

I'm here in Ao Nang beach with my business partner Ian. We've been doing a lot of brainstorming for all of our businesses. We've decided that on the Lifestyle Business Podcast and here at the Tropical MBA we are going to focus primarily on how to build successful businesses.

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Annoucing the Winner of the Tropical MBA Paid Internship for Digital Nomads

During the course of my corporate career, I've made the final call in over 20 full time personnel decisions. All high dollar employees, all in-depth hiring processes. I have never, in the course of 5 years, seen such high quality applicants for a position. To me this is striking, and definitely a strong entrepreneurial lesson.

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Final Call

We are still alive and kicking and will be accepting applications until the last hour of November 30th. Thanks to everyone who has applied, we’ve received some incredible applications. We’ll be reviewing them in full December 1st. Cheers from the Philippines, Dan

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Introduction

Things get kick started December 1st. Stay tuned until then!

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