Description

Diana Goodwin is the founder of Aqua Mobile, which is an on-demand at home swim school service, the largest of its kind in North America today.

Diana is an accomplished entrepreneur and a thought leader on boot strapping businesses to seven figures.

She has been featured in a ton of publications including Forbes, Success Magazine, The Huffington Post, Tech Five, Mashable, among many others.

In this episode we discuss why Diana decided to quit her day job and start her own business. She shares why she prefers to bootstrap rather than raise capital. Diana discusses her experience on the Dragon’s Den TV show.

It’s an enlightening conversation about failure, triumph, getting out of your comfort zone, focusing your ideas and leading a balanced life.

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Key Points From This Episode:

• Find out why Diana quit her job and decided to start her own business.
• How Diana used her MBA to propel her business.
• The toughest part about bootstrapping a startup business.
• What is the Aqua Mobile business model?
• How Diana overcame her first Dragon’s Den rejection.
• How Dragon’s Den helped Diana to leverage her business.
• The most painful things about being an entrepreneur.
• Finding grant money; what is the best approach?
• How to break the 9-5 rut and make time for your own ideas!
• Diana’s advice for brand new entrepreneurs.
• And much more!

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