Paul Blair is a military veteran turned entrepreneur. Over 20 years of experience in leadership and high-pressure situations in the military served as a great and unique background to start a business. As an entrepreneur, he has launched, grown, and sold businesses in the property, financial services, and pet product sectors. Today he’s still involved in several businesses, but his main focus is on ArcX, a SportTech and Digital Health startup that's developing a game-changing smart ring for sports enthusiasts.

In this episode, we talk about:

- Lessons learned from 20 years in the military

- Military vs entrepreneurship

- The most difficult moments in Afghanistan

- Starting a pet product brand

- Paul’s funny experience with Dragon’s Den

- The challenges of building a hardware startup

- Hardware startup financing

- How to effectively handle being involved in multiple businesses

- The #1 course that most impacted Paul’s career

- Paul’s strategies for constantly improving himself

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RESOURCES

- ArcX: https://arcx.fit/

- Paul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-blair-dso-6446a315/

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