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Today’s Guest – Mony Gueorguiev

Our guest today is Mony Geuorguiev, a Bulgarian who grew up in the US, and the founder of Maidily, a software that helps cleaning companies manage their clients and schedules.

We met a few weeks ago when he responded to my request for entrepreneurs to answer the question “What stopped me from starting my first company?” If you haven’t seen the post yet, his response was a fear of failure, which I found to be a very common answer among those I received responses from. Eventually, he got tired of being in the “rat race”, and he decided to start his own e-commerce business. After building it into seven products across three brands, he sold the business. After that, he started a turnkey, fully automated, cleaning business!

While running the new business, he realised that cleaning business owners needed to use specific scheduling/CRM software to operate, and his current company Maidily was born. I normally do introduction calls with all my guests, and the typical call goes for 30 to 45 minutes, but Mony and I struggled to get off the phone after two hours of talking because we found we had so much in common. For example, we’re non-technical founders running technical companies in the B2B SaaS space and have completely remote teams, and he lives in Atlanta where my brother is, and he was trying to move to Singapore (where my company is) before the virus made it impossible. So today we honour his drive to find and exploit opportunities, and let’s give Mony a warm welcome!

Let’s give a warm welcome to Mony Gueorguiev

LinkedIn: Mony Gueorguiev
Website: Maidily

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You’ll learn about

Being an immigrant in the US
Fitting into life in the US
Being multi-lingual and how it’s beneficial for solving problems
Discovering the American dream isn’t what they said it was
Figuring out how to take advantage of a situation and turn it into a business
Why e-commerce businesses are hard
How to approach any new business

Resources

And remember, Entrepreneurship is a Marathon, not a Sprint, so take care of yourself every day, so that you can live and love, and have the energy and the passion to run your business, and to invest in your team, and to find a way to appreciate those moments of happiness.

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This article was first published on We Live To Build.

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