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About This Week’s Guest

Trajan King

Trajan has worked and lived in 6 countries, speaks a handful of languages, and works for clients worldwide. He’s consulted for Apple, Adobe, Yahoo!, eBay, IBM, and others.  He currently runs a membership community for entrepreneurs, InvincibleStartup.com. After starting over 15 companies, running a couple of multi-million dollar companies, working on both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, he helps companies worldwide grow and earn more money.

He’s consulted for Apple, Adobe, Yahoo!, eBay, IBM, and others. He currently runs a membership community for entrepreneurs, InvincibleStartup.com. After starting over 15 companies, running a couple of multi-million dollar companies, working on both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, he helps companies worldwide grow and earn more money.

He currently runs a membership community for entrepreneurs, InvincibleStartup.com.After starting over 15 companies, running a couple of multi-million dollar companies, working on both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, he helps companies worldwide grow and earn more money.

After starting over 15 companies, running a couple of multi-million dollar companies, working on both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, he helps companies worldwide grow and earn more money.

His three tips to become more culturally competent are:

1. Meet people from different cultures and take an interest in them. See what you can learn from them first.
2. Don’t just watch the news and make your judgment from this. Watch different sources of news, watch a YouTube video on the culture, open an English newspaper site from that specific country.
3. Learn a bit of the language. It shows respect and even if you get it wrong people will appreciate you for it.

Interview Links

Links that are mentioned in this episode:

• Twitter: @trajanking
• Website: http://inviciblestartup.com
• Do’s and Don’ts in International business
• Six things that can go wrong in international business

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Chris Smit

Chris is passionate about Cultural Differences. He has been helping organizations save time and money when they work Internationally for the last 20+ years. While doing this he had the fortunate opportunity to hold lectures, workshops, and consulting projects on this subject World Wide. It has made him understand his own culture much better and appreciate the differences around the world.
His education is in Organisational Psychology and he has lived in the USA, the Netherlands, and currently lives in Belgium.

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