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​Hello everyone! Rocket Mixer is back with another exciting event, and this time we're teaming up with Oracle NetSuite Accelerator for the Autumn edition of our signature networking + pitch competition. Unlike your typical tech events, we put a high value on entertainment, so get ready—we have plenty of surprises lined up!

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Rocket Mixer, is a unique community for startup founders that operates like an exclusive club where members contribute not with payments but by offering assistance to their peers. Unlike traditional networking gatherings, our evening is designed for both enjoyment and purpose. Experience delightful catering, a thrilling pitch competition with $40K worth of valuable services at stake, an open mic for sharing with the audience, and an opportunity for companies to showcase services through dedicated desks.

Date: November 7 at 5:00 PM EDT 

Address: 415 Madison Avenue, New York

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Are you an entrepreneur with a budding idea but unsure of where to start? Or maybe you’ve already begun your journey and need fresh insights to validate your concept. Join us at Founders Date Night, an evening designed to bring together entrepreneurs and idea-makers in a relaxed, collaborative environment.

Whether you’re tackling startup challenges, seeking advice to refine your vision, or looking for validation and feedback, this event is a supportive space to discuss your pain points, explore new possibilities, and connect with fellow founders. It’s an opportunity to share your ideas, gain valuable insights, and take actionable steps forward.

Come for the connections, stay for the inspiration—and leave with the clarity you need to take your next big leap.

Our Speaker: Boon Chew

Join us to hear from an expert who has advised and invested in over 50 startups, served as interim CTO, and helped launch breakthrough apps like the award-winning Hiki (the world's first friendship and dating app for Autistic people) and YellowHeart (the first NFT ticketing platform). With experience working with top companies like iHeartMedia, WeWork, and Walmart, he'll share insights on how to take your app from concept to market success.

Tue, Nov 12 · 6:30 PM EST

Location 611 W 56th St · New York, NY

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How To Not Give Up In The Online Business Game

I have a confession to make.

I’ve never had a job.

I don’t know how a paystub works, how to pour ICE over water, or any other of the common experiences of “employed” people.

I always, paid for things, through my hustle - and I could never bring myself to take a job.

Chris Hanson - Well Known Businessman and connoisseur of the Arts

There have been a few close calls, but I doubt things will change significantly.

But, I’m not like most people…

The GIVEUP, The Get-up

I have run a viral entrepreneurship community, and before that, I worked with predominantly startups in my 6 year long marketing agency journey.

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Among my family and friends - I am the go-to resource when somebody is becoming or wants to, go into business for themselves.

Very often - I come across stories of people who had succesful careers, and leveraged their career “networked” connections, into a new business.

But equally as often - I meet people who quit (or are fired) from their job, pursue consulting/freelancing on the side or a company - and give up pretty damn quickly.

If you’re like most of our entrepreneurs - you have a BIG dream.

You’ve watched countless Alex Hormozi, Gary Vee, Patrick Bet David videos- and you believe working hard, and believing in something - is the key to earning financial and true freedom and self-value in your life

As much as you convince yourself otherwise - if you give up on your dream, it will be devastating - on your deathbed, you will regret never trying what you knew you were capable of.

And if you give up now - you probably won’t try again - years will be lost.

The Problem

I am working on a product (an app) that will drastically influence IF NOT guarantee success in online business - the wet dream of many an internet marketer.

But what actually causes people to GIVE UP?

The answer folks, is all in the simoleons.

MONEY

You need money to run a business. Actually, you need money to run a life - and if you are more advanced in life (i.e have a family) you generally need more money.

But at whatever point you are - you are constantly reminded that you need money. This is no more true than in business - when you are constantly pitched, asked to pay people, or invest in yourself.

In someone who has always had stable employment and conditioning of a job - these pressures lead to a chain of negative events and cognitions.

and the net effect of these interactions between your mind and your environment - often SLOWLY eat away at your commitment, your visions - and those “dreams” you had a few months ago when you started.

Those “optimistic” and encouraging sales calls, with peers about your vision - are replaced by the grim reality -and you announce your return to the corporate world.

Your peers cheer you on, your family is happy for you, everyone can relax and you feel good like you made the SMART decision. You can pursue your business later on, the timing wasn’t right.

But make no mistake - your dream is dead.

You on your deathbed wondering what could have been

AND MAYBE that’s okay for you - and you don’t really want it. But if you do- you need to set yourself up for success and to AVOID this highly likely outcome.

Peer Pressure 101

There is a reason y-combinator makes you move to another location, and be around people 24/7 who are business-focused.

You need to spend as much time as possible with people who are as equally committed to their vision (or your vision - your team) as you are.

When we hide, with our hobbies/personal life - it is super easy, to forget about the initial dream or spark.

The more time you spent in a “work-positive environment” the safer you are - ideally this is a community like the One Network that has constant (7 day a week) interaction, and an in-person component.

But if we are being real - this is only one part of it - because you can easily not engage/play along as a yes man.

Surround Yourself with The Right People

The people you surround yourself with, need an incentive to keep you accountable and on your vision, and not allow you to get up. In our network - its a crowd accelerator.

Everyone pools connections and helps each other. So if you quit - it hurts everyone.

You need your group, to exert pressure on you - to not be a b%7ch and go back on your word.

This part of the reason why we charge a small fee monthly even though it doesn’t cost us any money to operate cause of the barter system - when you have “skin” in the game, most people take things more seriously, make it worth - do more and explore more.

Do HARD Things

You can spend months in analysis paralysis and not make a single ounce of progress. I have fallen victim to this, and know many people lost in this trap - often times for years.

We download “task templates” - basically a life plan, from more successful entrepreneurs - of where in your niche they spent their time (ex outreach, sales or development) and how much they did to get where they were, how much was based purely on their network.

One of our mentors than meets with you and ensures you do the HARD STUFF.

When you do the hard stuff, you build confidence - true confidence - in yourself. which makes it MUCH HARDER to give up.

I think with these 3 items - you give yourself much better a chance of not following victim to the “give up” trap.

Until next time!!!

We’ve got a STACKED schedule of entrepreneur meetings + q and as with successful, real online businesses to NETWORK and inspire yourself.

You can find the FREE meetings HERE.

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How to Have Faith In Your Vision

I have seen myself through both sides of the lens - as a successful, late-stage entrepreneur without the burden of “making a budget” for the next month - and a fledgling, wanna-be entrepreneur - with 0 material success and no “physical evidence” of my ability to make it.

One of the things I notice on almost every entrepreneurship forum online is rampant self-doubt.

First-time entrepreneurs are highly consumed with wondering whether they will make it -

or not.

Whether the “sun-kissed” carefree nights, in your boat in the Bahamas - will be reality, or merely an illusion.

On a more basic level - whether you will be able to keep pursing that dream of self-employment, or whether you will have to swallow your dreams, and head back into the job world.

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Because when you are taking the risk - no one knows if you will actually succeed.

Whether it’s you quitting your job, investing in your new venture, or merely pronouncing to your network you are going into business yourself.

For most people - it’s an uncomfortable feeling. For most entrepreneurs I talked to, it’s something that is the first and last thought, every day- and the lingering questions, after every positive or negative development that happens within your business.

Detach from the Outcome

Like most seasoned entrepreneurs, I often look back on the early days of my business quite fondly. The naivete, the thrill of each “firsts” - but I realize that I had a pretty unique, mentality - even back then - and that allowed me to reach the heights I eventually did. 6 Years In My Journey

6 Months In My Journey You see - when I started my first company, in my dorm room - I was rather naive. But that naivety, to a certain extent - enabled my success in a way a later-stage “adult” may need to evaluate and emulate by design.

I wasn’t necessarily overly optimistic - but in those first few months of being an entrepreneur, I was 100% committed to it.

Most of my peers were interviewing for jobs - this never even crossed my mind. I was willing to literally, sleep on a couch if my dreams were delayed.

But if I’m being honest with you - I never even really had that anxiety. Because I was seriously convinced, that my ideas, commitment, and focus were special. When I walked home at 3 am in the morning after sitting on the computer for 12 hours in our shared office, I “glimmered” with the knowledge that I was doing something, that most other people - weren’t.

An intelligent observant at the time might look at this and wonder

• how crazy is this person?

• Is this person obsessed?

• What mental issue are they struggling with? clearly, this is delusional.

But now looking back on it, and comparing my 10-year trajectory vs other people who were involved in my first company but quit - I can see it clearly.

Entrepreneurial DELUSION - A Prerequisite for Success

I interviewed a few weeks ago, a guy of similar age to me - who got started later, and had a must faster and momentous come up (6 months to $100k MRR) than I did.

Having observed this company’s rise on social media from the outside, I was curious to find out what was different in his story - than mine, where he could compress a “glow up” that took me several years, into such a short period of time.

Historically - I actually have a message from them, years before they blew up and dominated Twitter with their company.

So - I was able to piece together, a little of that psychology - prior to running the interview with the two cofounders (Christian and Andre)

My podcast with Andre led me to uncover three interesting factors

• His parents were successful entrepreneurs.

• His cofounders were also entrepreneurially driven in the “delusion”.

• He had a strong basis in faith.

I look back on my business psychology - and I remember:

• My parents were NOT entrepreneurs, and no one in my family believed it possible.

• My cofounders were NOT all in entrepreneurs, or believers.

• Faith was not a core part of my (initial) journey

And I realized - that although I had a persistent, self-belief in my own abilities - my entrepreneurial “delusion” was more costly to maintain - than some other people. While self-preserving, I had to constantly, work myself up and motivate my own self-belief to see it happen.

Your Obstacle Is Your Own Belief

With this model and assumption inherent, I truly believe that creating a fanatical belief in your own business success is critical to the speed of that success.

If you don’t have this already - it can be achieved through

• Relentless Hard Work

• Meditation on the purpose/visualization of the possibilities

• educating yourself on other entrepreneurial success states are relating yourself to it - building a NEW peer group and community

  
  Now running an investment fund and accelerator for early-stage businesses, being able to evaluate people’s likelihood of success and speed of success is of utmost importance.

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Getting Started Is Hard - Even for Seasoned Entrepreneurs

My Story

A year ago, my once rapid-growth agency - had cratered and plateaued to the point I had to sell. I had to part ways with my baby - with I had spent 6 years, nonstop - building tactics, team members, and client relationships. More importantly, I had to face the people who believed in me and tell them I couldn’t take it further.

I spent 6 years, focusing specifically on one skillset of mine (marketing) and dialing in, with clients and connections in that specific niche. I didn’t know anything else - and worse off, the last 3 years (where the majority of growth/heavy revenue was) I was focusing almost exclusively on cold email.

Revenue from Email Marketing Service over Final Year in Business

I wasn’t diversified - and if I wanted to start something new - it was probably going to have to be some type of marketing.

But my core niche - in my estimation - was dead.

So what did I do? I went back to my starting point - websites.

But after years of having layers, and layers of outsourced freelancers and in-person employees working my websites for me - my skills, my efficiency - was weak and absent.

What followed - was 8 or so months of a YouTube prank career, music chasing, and various random ideas and fails.

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The earliest version of my new company - wasn’t even finalized til the end of 2023. And I’m a 10 year seasoned entrepreneur with millions in profit and a massive network!

So I can only imagine - what a struggle it is for a first-time entrepreneur to actually find a niche for business that works, and a skill that they are COMPETENT and CONFIDENT enough in, to charge other people.

My Template

If you're like I once was - you’re probably struggling with

1. Addiction to Media (Instagram, YouTube, Netflix, Videogames)

2. Lack of Employment or Financial Challenges

3. Lack of Confidence of Self-Efficacy

You see entrepreneur types online - and you want to emulate a quick and effective path to KNOCK OUT - all 3 of these problems, in one, massive, enigmatic life change.

In other words - you want to become THE ONE.

But you have no idea what business to start or where to even focus and spend your time.

You spend hours doomscrolling Reddit, to search for the PERFECT business idea or niche.

And then - like dozens of our discord members, you never start.

Freelance FIRST

A job is the most effective way to make money. You show up, you suck up to someone, and you make money. It is VERY rarely tied to performance or tact.

We have an upcoming course on how to reach out to clients - and get clients from your warm network - but i’ll save that for later.

Start Free

Some of you guys are YOUNG - or have some other attribute (selling to people in a different country/language) that SEVERELY impacts your ability to sell vs a guy like me, with an established background.

I have seen this over and over again with our community members in our accelerator.

Essentially what you need to do is get someone that you can do something for. Examples in increasing difficulty:

• Appointment Setting (leadgen - email, DM)

• Closing (be on sales calls)

• Design Work - slides, website, social media

• Video/Camera work or editing

• Social Media Advice

• Advertising Support

• Support in specific technology (my favorite)

• Coding/software development

Ultimately, you can use your free work with this person that you ALREADY know (your “prime” customer) either as case study - or fork them into MRR for yourself.

You need to repeat this process - infinite (many) times to get to a “life freeing” level you see in the below pictures.

Start Dialing

There is an infamous JORDAN BELFORT quote - from the movie Wolf of Wallstreet - that I blasted everyday to employees on a big screen in my MIAMI office.

Chris Hanson MIAMI HQ

It is a little raw - but ultimately true. Most of you need to start talking to people- really ANYONE and stop worrying about the niche.

The first person who has a problem - that you can solve - IS your first customer. Once you land that person, stop focusing on anything BUT blowing it out of the park for them.

Objections, Folks?

Once you get on the right path with your “prime” client - your biggest problem is going to be sticking to it.

I see people quit EVERY SINGLE DAY.

What you really need is a like-minded group of guys keeping you on track.

Good news? that’s us - and we have EXACTLY what you need, ever day, of every year.

You can stream everyday on the following channels if you’re not ready to contribute yet.

• Youtube

• My Twitter

• LinkedIn

• Twitch

• Rumble

• IG + TikTok + FB COMING SOON!

Obviously, some of you have other issues to address. We can help sort these out

• If you have no idea what to do - you need someone to “get you off your ass” and find reasons to motivate you.

• If you have an idea but are lost in a business - you need my connections to invest in your idea and work on your company.

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Best,

Chris Hanson

CEO, The One Network

If you’re like me, you love the idea of being your own boss.

Since a young age, you’ve been dazzled by the world of money - and freedom. You wonder if you just had that “billion” dollar idea- how life could be so much easier.
You could pursue your dreams and hobbies - show all the people that doubted you in school, that you are better than them. You could prove your worth, finally to your parents. You could repay your friends who supported you. You could FINALLY earn the partner and social life, that you deserve, and that you see online.

So - what do you do? Like any other consumer - you are obligated to spend a large portion of your day on social media. Whether its LinkedIn, to get a job and living - or Instagram - to get dates and see what your friends are up to, every day you are exposed to the lifestyles of others - their dreams, ambitions, successes, and quotes - sometimes - halfway around the world.

Me - One Year Ago in the MAGIC City (Miami)

Andrew Tate - Iman Gadzhi - Tai Lopez - Patrick Bet David - the names themselves, don’t really matter. Each generation has its own “guru” - as a 29-year-old, I’ve seen many different “entrepreneur” influencers, come up - rise and fall - in the internet age. Some, too infamous or non-noble to mention here.
Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I’m a dreamer. And when I see something I want to do - I believe I can do that. You see these young guys hustling - on the jet, the boat, the bottles - and you believe, on some level - it is possible for you too. In your head, you are willing to do whatever it takes to be PBD, or Mark Cuban - and you might even see yourself, imagine yourself in that positon.

If you’re like some of the young impressionable, members of my DISCORD Group - you might have even forked over a few thousand dollars to one of these gurus - for their “niche” system, designed to get you popping bottles and networking with “exclusive” people just like them.

Maybe - like some of my ex-business associates, these influencers have thrown you some side attention - and now you have some followers, and you believe you can easily execute the AI automation, cookie-cutter template that is “so easy” to implement and can earn you $10k recurring MRR in the next month.
Whether you are sitting on your couch, dreaming about what is possible, or you are a “fan” of one of my competitors who is already in the cult - the truth remains the same.

You aren’t living the dream. You’re dreaming it.

And it’s time to wake up.

There is No Matrix

These days, I run a Discord - with my past marketing agencies - I have interacted with people all around the world - in totally different circumstances, than me.

Many of today’s most famous gurus - have some degree of “adversity” in their story - it is what makes them popular, and relatable, to a large segment of the world.

Unlike these people, I grew up pretty privileged. I went to a NYC-area private school, with parents firmly established in the financial world, and I easily scored near-perfect on my SATs, and went to a stellar Ivy League School (University of Pennsylvania) without honestly putting too much time into working, studying, or networking. I was already at that echelon.

My upbringing in NY

Although I was fortunate enough to be raised around people who had their “plans” figured out, I never felt good enough. You see, there were other people, with richer parents than mine - more stuff, more friends, more accolades - and I constantly compared myself to them.
I was an obsessive guy - but my obsessions weren’t doing much other than driving me to typical vices like drinking, online dating, games, and worse.
What Changed?
About 10 years ago - when I was 20 years old - I was introduced to entrepreneurship from Shark Tank and the show “Silicon Valley” - I turned my obsessions OUTWARD - through ingenuity, and creativity - I saw a way where I could actually use my differences to make MONEY.

The Wantrepeneur is Born

Most successful entrepreneurs have parents who were business people. I have learned this extensively throughout my podcast where I interview 3 people A DAY!
The rest of us - go through a wantrepreneur phase, usually sparked by some kind of media - that shows us, what our parents didn’t - that you can start and run a business, without ever becoming a W2 employee.
By the way - I’ve never been a W2 Employee. here you can see about $10k of weekly payroll - my W2 employees from my old agency. (more on that later)

Brickell Heights - Miami Florida Condo

But - before I got to the point where I was able to hire people, and support a luxurious lifestyle, about 8 years passed - of incredibly high emotional ups and downs, faith-testing, and pressure- that I can tell you, very few of you have been through.

I can tell you certainly - that I didn’t watch a youtube vid and make it overnight.

In fact - I’ve got no knocks on any “wise guys” that have blown up on social media and gotten to flexing.

The good life.

But these guys - aren’t entrepreneurs. They are entertainers, entertainers and course sellers that specialize on selling you the dream (of luxury) - without really ensuring you how to get there.

Don’t get me wrong - a lot of these guys are well-meaning - Luke Belmar, etc - and they would LOVE to see you rich.

If you pay them, buy all their courses, and subscribe to their way of life.

This guy definitely can help you!

But the facts - don’t lie, and are sometimes unfortunate.

Not only are most of these influencers flexing borrowed or stolen money (from you!) - but they often have zero idea of how to run ANY business - let alone, even their stripped down, zero-employee info-product business that mainly launders money into their expensive, and downright ostentatious, tastes.

You Aren’t Going to Be Rich

People talk a lot about the red pill, black pill this. How politics or society is keeping them down. This is a major selling point for ever manosphere creator.

But the real pill you need to take is the one you fear most.

 You probably will now be rich.

There. I said it. If you are like most of the human beings on this planet, you have some great things to offer - but overall, you’re not that much more special than anyone else.

And the likelihood that you “flipping” a few rental properties or selling copywriting online is going to bring you to the point where you never have to worry about money again - is slim to none.

Whether you are becoming an Indian doctor, a “top notch closer” or online business owner.

The first step to killing the wantrepreneur is accepting this truth.

Until you do this, you have NO HOPE of being successful at your entrepreneurial endeavors.

The Real Entrepreneur

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I have talked to 1000s of real business owners, at depth, around the world over the last 10 years. People who have built incredible things, and who feed their families. There is a lot of honor in being an entrepreneur.

There are a LOT of real, accomplished business people out there - who have overcome tremendous odds. They attend our network’s daily meetings - and interact with people from whom they have NOTHING to gain. They love to give back, to younger entrepreneurs.

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Most of them - haven’t EVER bought a course - or got you into their info product funnel on X. I’m not saying that’s bad (I do the same thing) - but it is just different, then entrepreneurship. IT’s marketing.

You know what some of the things are - that they don’t do?

• Post “thirst-traps” in their leased rolls-royce

• Go out to fancy restaurants, multiple times a week

• Post-travel vlogs

• Share with your their expensive/pretentious joe-rogan esque health habits.

• Post about the merits of religion/hard-work/sobriety/sacrifice - but show the opposite

• smoke cigars on boats

• Beg for comments/shares

I’m not saying these things are bad (I do, and share, a lot of them) but these are not the daily activities of an entrepreneur. They are the daily activities of an influencer.
Most business owners couldn’t be bothered to post their own photos let alone manage the logistics of traveling to fancy restaurants, boats, and “wellness” gyms all the time.
Beyond the obligatory “Macbook” Instagram story - one of the things you almost never see online is people working. And when you do see it, its because they want you to see it.

So do me a favor NOW - and decide for me. Are you willing to

• not sleep for nights at a time

• potentially work hard for years, and lose all of your money in a single bad decision?

• watch your employees go out and have fun, while you can’t pay yourself?

• lose all of your clients/customers- and have to start at ground zero?

• potentially pay someone to build something for you - and have them walk away?

• have your industry, or whole competitive landscape change and take away all your best talent as they search for greener pastures?

If you are willing to do these things, you can be an entrepreneur - and I’d love to work with you.
If you want to rent a boat or have models next month at “$10k MRR” - you should probably study how to get the right angle on your gym photos!

TTYS,
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