Overcoming Networking Hurdles to Grow Your Small Business with Dylan Chatterjee

In this episode of the Small Business Mentor podcast, Alan Pentz is joined by Dylan Chatterjee, Partner at Onbench. Join them as they discuss challenges and strategies for growing a small business, including how to find new leads when you’ve exhausted your existing network, knowing when to sell and buy, and how to learn from people ahead of you in the journey.

Dylan is a Partner at Onbench, a professional services firm that builds and scales software teams for leading brands, startups, and services companies. Having previously worked in the entertainment industry at Warner Bros, Dylan has established himself as a serial entrepreneur.

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Quotes:

"I know this podcast isn't about convincing people to be small business owners, but like I would say that if you feel like if you're at a job that's not using more than 60-70% of what you have to offer, consider running your own business because it will probably use 110% of what you've got to offer".
"Sometimes I think we can still hit the bull's eye with the current gun we have. I don't want to bring in a bazooka and blow it up because then, man, the cost of being wrong”.
"I think that was one hump that I personally had to get over was feeling inauthentic talking about business. If I didn't have this to talk about, I might not ever reach out to this person. So I actually just kind of was like, Hey, I'm doing this. If it's not interesting to you all good, I would love to catch up, see how you are doing. And I think that there's a personality type for that, too, and I was kind of tapping into that version for me".

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