Sold 5 Companies Before Age of 30, Now Side Stream Income is $500k/Year with Lane Campbell EP 218

Published: April 2, 2016, 6:23 p.m.

Listen as Lane Campbell shares his insight on the importance of partnerships for rapid growth, the challenges of finding quality technical talent, and his plans for the future.

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Famous 5
Favorite Book? \u2013 The Hard Thing About Hard Things
What CEO do you follow?\u2014 Mark Zuckerberg
What is your favorite online tool?\u2014 Slack
Do you get 8 hours of sleep?\u2014 No
If you could let your 20 year old self know one thing, what would it be?\u2014Leave college early.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:
01:06 \u2013 Nathan\u2019s introduction
01:28 \u2013 Welcoming Lane to the show
01:33 \u2013 The 5 companies Lane sold before he was 30
02:20 \u2013 Lifetime value of exits was south of $10M
02:45 \u2013 Lane\u2019s current projects
03:51 \u2013 His #1 focus right now is TBD
04:44 \u2013 Lane\u2019s #1 income stream is Create.ly
05:39 -- $20-$40K is Lane\u2019s consulting fee
07:25 \u2013 Use partnerships and incentives to grow rapidly
08:18 \u2013 Even if you\u2019re a name brand you can still decline in revenue year of year
09:05 \u2013 Create.ly did roughly $500K in 2015
09:52 \u2013 The challenge of attracting top technical talent
11:26 \u2013 The cost of hiring an $80K salaried employee in the U.S. is $26K
13:43 \u2013 www.LaneCambell.com

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3 Key Points:
Take advantage of partnerships and incentivize your offerings to grow quickly.
Just because you\u2019re a household name/brand doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re infallible.
Top technical talent is hard to find and harder to lock up\u2014if you find it put a vice on it.

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Resources Mentioned:
Edgar \u2013 Nathan uses Edgar instead of other scheduling tools\xa0for Twitter because Edgar cycles through content over and over (buffer/others you have to re-input content over and over \u2013 time consuming). In the last several months, Edgar has driven Nathan over 3728 clicks that he didn\u2019t have to work or pay for.
Host Gator - Powerful web hosting made easy and affordable.
Create.Ly \u2013 Lane\u2019s current income generator

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The Top is FOR YOU if you are:

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A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)

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STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)

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An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)

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The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).

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Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.

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Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at http://NathanLatka.com/TheTop