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Best of Bootstrapping: How Under30Experiences Bootstrapped to $5 Million | Sramana Mitra

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Best Of Bootstrapping: How Under30Experiences Bootstrapped To $5 Million | Sramana Mitra
Under30Experiences CEO Matt Wilson has built a fan business using content marketing to sell travel experiences to a millennial demographic. Very cool! Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where did you grow up and in what kind of background? Matt Wilson: I grew up in upstate New York. I grew up in a little tiny town called Stormville, New York. It's about 60 minutes outside of New York City. It's not really that close to the city, but it wasn't extremely rural. I just started being an enterprising young man whether it was by mowing lawns or picking golf balls out of the local ponds. Selling the golf balls on eBay was my first online business. That really ignited the passion for entrepreneurship. Baseball cards would probably be the other thing that I was really passionate about when I was younger. Sramana Mitra: How did that lead to where we are today? Matt Wilson: I went to business school. I sold my landscaping business before I went
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