Scaling for Good

Hosted ByMike Beckham

From Simple Modern and CEO Mike Beckham, welcome to Scaling for Good. Mike and special guests share the playbook to start, build, grow AND give generously. Here you’ll get to hang with, Mike Beckham, who started and built a 9-figure insulated drinkware company, Simple Modern… with one simple goal: to give generously. In each episode, Mike breaks down simple principles learned from his journey that can revolutionize your business, organization or just about anything you’re building.

Scaling For Good Podcast | 2: Innovation + Differentiation: Do what’s already working…. Just do it better.

Scaling for Good
Scaling for Good
Scaling For Good Podcast | 2: Innovation + Differentiation: Do what’s already working…. Just do it better.
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We’re diving into innovation and differentiation. The secret to success is finding the white space. Do what’s already working . . . Just do it differently and better. Hear how Mike and his co-founders landed on drinkware as their product to sell.

Learn: 

  • The trap many entrepreneurs get stuck 
  • Step-by-step instructions to differentiate from competitors 
  • Finding the white space 
  • Experimentation & iteration

Episode Highlights

  • Tone setting + creating something that has value (1:00)
  • How Simple Modern saw the white space in an already saturated market (4:00)
  • Where the white space lives (6:00)
  •  Three things to look for when trying to start something new (8:30)
  • Questions to ask yourself today (10:00)
  • Advice for entrepreneurs experiencing self doubt or intimidation by competition (13:00)
  • What kind of decisions Mike and the team have made strategically as they’ve looked at competitors (16:00)
  • Is there a time you’re ever you should ever not be experimenting? (18:00)
  • Mike Drop Moment: In any industry, there is room for a really well run executed company. (23:00)

CONNECT WITH MIKE
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CONNECT WITH SIMPLE MODERN

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