Startup Advice Stay Humble & Curious for Success

David Dorfman, a serial entrepreneur, discusses his experience growing a dental software company to an eight-figure exit and his new venture in recovering.

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David Dorfman, a serial entrepreneur, discusses his experience growing a dental software company to an eight-figure exit and his new venture in recovering unclaimed funds. He also shares advice on staying humble and curious for success.

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What would be that one piece of advice that you would give to your younger selves, given everything you know now? Before launching a company. So, now let's say I um put you into a time machine and I bring you back to that moment where you know, you're coming out of that dinner with uh your sister, your dad, um 2008, you know, you're thinking about uh this new idea that you guys just had and let's say you're able to show up in that dinner, you know, right now. You're able to bring yourself back in time, you know, butterfly effect, and sit down at that table. What would be that one piece of advice that you would give to your younger selves, given everything you know now? Before launching a company. >> Honestly, probably stay humble and stay stay curious. I think a lot of people, you know, miss a lot of information and and opportunities in their life because they think something is

perfect. And something as simple as unclaimed property, right? And I think, you know, when you stay curious, you get to hear people's vulnerable opportunities or vulnerable like vulnerable situations in their lives. That allows you to have an opportunity to help them. And staying curious allows you to create solutions that you would have never thought you would have been able to create, right? So, when we first started Yappy, we would have never thought that we would have been building, you know, COVID solutions um for for tele- telehealth. Um When we first started, you know, Blue Navy, we never thought that we would have a platform that people can come on to and search for them and their and their loved ones. So, really it's it's stay open, stay humble, and and stay curious.

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