quit your day job, start your own business, and live happily ever after, with miki agrawal

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@33voices intelligent insights to advance your business and life

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Listen to the full interview at www.33voices.com/miki-agrawal/audio Miki Agrawal is a serial social entrepreneur. She was a recipient of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival's “Disruptive Innovation Award” and named 2013's Forbes' “Top 20 Millienials On a Mission”. She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table, alternative pizza concept called WILD (www.eatdrinkwild.com) in NYC. She has since partnered with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh to open the concept in Downtown Las Vegas. Her next undertaking is THINX (www.shethinx.com), a high-tech, beautiful underwear solution for women during their “time of the month”. She and her partners teamed up with AFRIpads in Uganda to fund 7 reusable cloth pads for every underwear sold to get millions of girls back in school. Miki is also a partner in Super Sprowtz, a children's media company to get kids to eat more vegetables. Most recently, Harper Collins is publishing her book entitled Do Cool Sh*t: Quit Your Day Job, Start Your Own Business, and Live Happily Ever After (www.docoolshit.org) on entrepreneurship and lifestyle design. The book launch date is August 6th, 2013 and can be purchased here.

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@33voices

intelligent insights to advance your business and life

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The following represents 10 highlights from the interview by @MoeAbdou,

founder & host of 33voices®.

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miki agrawalMiki Agrawal is a serial social entre-preneur. She was a recipient of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival’s “Disrup-tive Innovation Award” and named

2013’s Forbes’ “Top 20 Millienials On a Mission”. She is the founder of the acclaimed farm-to-table, alternative

pizza concept called WILD (www.eat-drinkwild.com) in NYC. She has since

partnered with Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh to open the concept in Down-

town Las Vegas.

@TwinMiki

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To win the game, you have to play the game;

to play the game, you have to risk losing.

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If you feel an itch, pay attention to it.

it’s likely an opportunity worth pursuing.

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What you don’t know won’t hurt.

on the job training is an entrepreneur’s best source of knowledge.

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Your first business plan is a working document.

build, learn and continually refine.

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Authenticity is your bridge to mentors. let your excitement turn them into believers.

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It’s impossible to build anything on your own.

at the same time, be extra diligent about the people you hire.

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It’s impossible to build anything on your own.

at the same time, be extra diligent about the people you hire.

33voicesMiki Agrawal - Hiring

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Get really good at asking questions;

it’s how problems become opportunities.

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BE DISRUPTIVE!it’s the only way to grab the attention

of those you crave.

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Embrace leadership, and measure it by the leaders you develop,

not the followers you gain.

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If your success doesn’t bring you

unconditional happiness,then you’re aiming at the wrong target.

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