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Dino Dogan Chats About the Opportunities That Exist In Today’s World

Dino Dogan was the CEO and cofounder of Triberr, an ad-tech startup which he launched in 2011 and was acquired in 2015. He is a builder of software, designer of experiences, architect of ideas, tamer of complexities, and a collector of rare books.

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3 Key Points:

  1. Technology has changed entrepreneurship and opened possibilities that did not exist before.
  2. Witnessing, firsthand, the kind of problems businesses face is a valuable opportunity to learn.
  3. Be that entrepreneur who wants to solve an unseen problem for a very specific niche, then scale from there.

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Time Stamped Show Notes

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  • [01:10] – Dino realized he’s been an entrepreneur for 10 years
  • [01:28] – “It’s been tremendous growth”
  • [02:39] – Co-founding Triberr was a 5-year journey
    • [02:48] – When Dino and Dan Cristo, his co-founder, started Triberr, they were both clueless
    • [02:56] – The business was built in 3 days and it was “half-baked”
    • [03:13] – “We got some traction”
    • [03:29] – Finding their “money button” was insane so they switched strategies
    • [03:59] – In 2015, they received a couple of offers and took one
  • [05:35] – Dino pulled back after they sold Triberr
  • [05:48] – What he saw in 2016 was insane – Zika Virus, election issues, etc.
  • [06:49] – When Dino and Dan were working on Triberr, they started off as two, three, then five on the team
  • [07:34] – In 2016, after Triberr was sold, Dino saw how technology had advanced
  • [07:49] – 3 years ago, it wasn’t feasible to create a clickable prototype
  • [08:22] – Now, clickable prototypes can validate businesses without spending a million dollars
  • [09:13] – MVP’s can be created by just 1 person in 2 months with $20K
  • [10:41] – Technology is just one part of the answer
  • [11:22] – The other big trends are described by a handful of people:
  • [14:54] – Dino was on Episode 597 of EOFire
  • [16:03] – Last year, Dino had the opportunity to work with people in Austin
  • [16:30] – By November, he was doing 6 different projects
  • [16:59] – Dino was able to witness, firsthand, the difficulties that businesses were facing and he noticed the inefficiencies
  • [17:24] – He started exploring and discovering everything that was already out there
  • [18:51] – “No startup guy wants to do a service business”
  • [19:08] – Dino talked to Charlie Poznek about his reluctance to do a service business
  • [19:40] – Charlie reminded him of Accenture’s model
  • [19:56] – Dino thought of Amazon
  • [21:24] – One problem with building a tech business is trust
  • [22:08] – All of Dino’s efforts are now concentrated in NYC
  • [22:30] – “It’s not an easy process”
  • [23:03] – Entrepreneurs must be willing to do things that don’t scale and find out along the way what they can scale
  • [23:41] – Check out Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder

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