Second instalment of the special edition we shot at DirtFish Rally School is here. In part two, I share the top 5 reasons to join a CEO group to help grow and scale your SaaS business.
*Watch till the end* – I share a video of me rally car racing!
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Imagine you’re 27, you’ve read 100 business books and just want to move on to the next step in your career… what do you do?
Well, when I was 27, I was lucky enough to participate in a 3-year CEO program with my brother. He spent $35K on a coaching program because he was determined to invest in his development as an entrepreneur.
And the best part, I got to join him as his +1!
You might be thinking, that’s a lot of money for someone just starting his entrepreneurial journey (that was almost all of my brother’s $$ at the time)… but trust me when I say this, IT WAS WORTH IT.
Thanks to this program my little bro ended up developing one of the fastest growing home building companies in Atlantic Canada… and I gained the knowledge, tools, and confidence to move to Silicon Valley and start and exit two tech startups back to back.
So in today’s video, I got over the top 5 reasons to join a CEO group.
Here’s the top 5 list:
1. Compress decades into days
2. Positive peer pressure
3. Time away to focus on a higher level
4. Pull you up when you’re feeling down
5. Do cool stuff
Even though these 5 reasons should make you want to jump out of your chair and find a group to join, I still feel positive peer pressure is what makes CEO groups so special.
There is something about being among all these ambitious and committed entrepreneurs that elevates your thinking to the next level.
It goes back to the old saying, “If you’re the smartest guy in the room, you need to find another room.”
I remember a few years back when I was invited at an event in Switzerland… I met this guy Bryan. As we were driving through the swerving road, I asked him, “So Bryan, what do you do?”
“Oh, I started a company called Braintree.”
I had heard of them because PayPal just acquired it for $800 mil… CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? And I was riding in the van with the guy who built it from the ground up!
That’s the magnitude of inspiration that only CEO groups can get you.
Be sure to catch the whole ep here, and drop me a comment letting me know any questions or additions you have about this top 5 list.
Dan “Not the smartest guy in the room” Martell
Don’t forget to share this entrepreneurial advice with your friends, so they can learn too: https://youtu.be/0FN2aiYH05k
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ABOUT DAN MARTELL
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“You can only keep what you give away.” That’s the mantra that’s shaped Dan Martell from a struggling 20-something business owner in the Canadian Maritimes (which is waaay out east) to a successful startup founder who’s raised more than $3 million in venture funding and exited not one… not two… but three tech businesses: Clarity.fm, Spheric and Flowtown.
You can only keep what you give away. That philosophy has led Dan to invest in 33+ early stage startups such as Udemy, Intercom, Unbounce and Foodspotting. It’s also helped him shape the future of Hootsuite as an advisor to the social media tour de force.
An activator, a tech geek, an adrenaline junkie and, yes, a romantic (ask his wife Renee), Dan has recently turned his attention to teaching startups a fundamental, little-discussed lesson that directly impacts their growth: how to scale. You’ll find not only incredible insights in every moment of every talk Dan gives – but also highly actionable takeaways that will propel your business forward. Because Dan gives freely of all that he knows. After all, you can only keep what you give away.
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