Learn how early failures shaped his approach to automation, risk reduction, and creating courses people want to buy. ============================ Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds. ============================ ON THIS EPISODE David Dang Vu talks about his working-class upbringing in a Vietnamese immigrant household in Southern California and credits his mother as his primary inspiration to become an entrepreneur. He explains his pure-bred entrepreneurial tendencies, selling and flipping products to his classmates going all the way back to middle school, and his decision to drop out of college after one semester to go build businesses. David shares his initial business failures before building his first multi-million dollar company selling t-shirts. He explains that innovation and creating a unique user experience is what helped his t-shirt company land celebrity clients like Taylor Swift and LMFAO. He explains his decision to sell his interest and how he moved on to build a $3 million gift card company. David then talks about how he discovered the ability to dropship on Ebay and built that into a business which now nets him over $300K/year. He then documented exactly how he did it in a course that he sold on the Udemy platform, which became the bestselling Business course on Udemy in both 2016 and 2017. He then shares his latest business venture doing AirBNB Arbitrage (renting an apartment on a long-term lease and then subletting it out for short-term rental rates on AirBNB) which now nets him over $300K/Year. He talks about how he selects the location, mitigates downside risks, creates systems and automates the business. He explains how he then made another successful Udemy course about the AirBNB arbitrage business. Having now sold over $1 million in courses on Udemy, David also shares his tips on creating and selling a successful online course. He concludes by telling the story of how he met his wife while traveling the world as a digital nomad. → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here. ============================ FIND YOUR NEXT EPISODE Explore The Maverick Show Starter Packs — some of my favorite conversations curated by theme so you can easily find the episodes that match your interests. ============================ FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU See my Top 10 Travel Apps See my Top 10 Books that Shaped the Way I Travel See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual) Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use) ============================ ENJOYING THE SHOW? Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally Support the show by buying me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes!

Netting 300K/Year from AirBNB Rental Arbitrage and Selling over $1 Million in Courses on Udemy with David Dang Vu ((Ep 16))

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Learn how early failures shaped his approach to automation, risk reduction, and creating courses people want to buy.  ============================  Get the Monday Minute my weekly email with 3 personal recs for travel, culture, and living beyond borders you can read in 60 seconds.  ============================  ON THIS EPISODE  David Dang Vu talks about his working-class upbringing in a Vietnamese immigrant household in Southern California and credits his mother as his primary inspiration to become an entrepreneur. He explains his pure-bred entrepreneurial tendencies, selling and flipping products to his classmates going all the way back to middle school, and his decision to drop out of college after one semester to go build businesses. David shares his initial business failures before building his first multi-million dollar company selling t-shirts. He explains that innovation and creating a unique user experience is what helped his t-shirt company land celebrity clients like Taylor Swift and LMFAO. He explains his decision to sell his interest and how he moved on to build a $3 million gift card company. David then talks about how he discovered the ability to dropship on Ebay and built that into a business which now nets him over $300K/year. He then documented exactly how he did it in a course that he sold on the Udemy platform, which became the bestselling Business course on Udemy in both 2016 and 2017. He then shares his latest business venture doing AirBNB Arbitrage (renting an apartment on a long-term lease and then subletting it out for short-term rental rates on AirBNB) which now nets him over $300K/Year. He talks about how he selects the location, mitigates downside risks, creates systems and automates the business. He explains how he then made another successful Udemy course about the AirBNB arbitrage business. Having now sold over $1 million in courses on Udemy, David also shares his tips on creating and selling a successful online course. He concludes by telling the story of how he met his wife while traveling the world as a digital nomad.  → Full show notes with direct links to everything discussed are available here.  ============================  FIND YOUR NEXT EPISODE  Explore The Maverick Show Starter Packs — some of my favorite conversations curated by theme so you can easily find the episodes that match your interests.  ============================  FREE RESOURCES FOR YOU  See my Top 10 Travel Apps  See my Top 10 Books that Shaped the Way I Travel  See my 7 Keys For Building A Remote Business (Even in a space that’s not traditionally virtual)  Watch my Video Training on Stylish Minimalist Packing so you can join #TeamCarryOn  See the Travel Gear I Use and Recommend  See How I Produce The Maverick Show Podcast (The equipment, services & vendors I use)  ============================  ENJOYING THE SHOW?  Follow The Maverick Show on Instagram and DM Matt to continue the conversation  Please leave a rating and review — it really helps the show and I read each one personally  Support the show by buying me a coffee — espressos help me produce significantly better podcast episodes!

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