Episode 52

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Published on:

4th Sep 2024

Tomorrow Might Be Too Late, with Andrei Mincov

Andrei Mincov, attorney and founder/CEO of Trademark Factory®, reveals his first and favorite client, what had him feeling like Rambo, why Elon Musk definitely is not an idiot, what a trademark is and what it isn’t, which company went from a “lemonade stand with a dream” to a multi-billion dollar valuation, and just what the heck is a Drum Desk?

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Gary Michels:

Welcome to Let's Talk Legacy. I'm your host, Gary

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Michels. And today we have a real special guest. Andrei

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Mincov is the founder and CEO of Trademark Factory. He believes

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people who have created something deserve to not have

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that stolen from them. And hard working entrepreneurs shouldn't

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be taken advantage of. That's why he founded trademark

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factory. And that's why he is passionate about sharing his

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experiences. And to him this is legacy. So welcome to the show,

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my friend.

Andrei Mincov:

Thanks for having me, Gary, great to be here.

Gary Michels:

So your career in this area, I'd really

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interesting start actually beginning in Russia, where you

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bought a radio station, this stole your father's music, talk

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a little bit about that.

Andrei Mincov:

Yeah, I was born in Russia, you can probably hear

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it from my accent. You know, I tried to not use it too much.

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But I was born there. And I went to my first law school there.

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And I really didn't see myself as a lawyer. But one day, my dad

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who was a famous composer there, Mark Minkoff, he saw him on the

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radio. And it wasn't just played as a song, it was played to

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advertise an event by Samsung. Nobody ever asked him if he was

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okay with that nobody ever asked him maybe, you know, he'd like

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to be paid for that. And so he called the radio station and

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said, You guys can take my music and use it as you please. And

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they told them that they were making him even more famous, and

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that he's you should just sit down and shut up. And, you know,

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if you knew my dad, he'd know, very quickly, that this was the

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wrong way for them to handle it. And so he said, Okay, great.

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I'll see you in court. And that was 1996, when Russia has just

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transitioned from the Soviet laws toward more or less free

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market was around IP. And so there weren't really a lot of

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lawyers who knew how this work, there were no case law, there's

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nothing. And so he said, he came to me and said, Can you can you

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take this case, and go against the radio station, like you're

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supposed to know the law, and I used to sing this song with them

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on like, hundreds of concerts when I was a kid growing up,

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right? So it was personal. And I saw what it was doing to him

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because he was pissed. And I knew nothing about copyright. I

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knew nothing about what you do in the courtroom when I said,

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Sure, let's figure it out. And so I took them to court first

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hearing, you know, I'm there with my long hair and a

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ponytail. And there's this other lawyer, and I ripped them apart

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is over, they somehow got the postponement next time that for

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lawyers aside, the judge made the decision that was not in our

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favor. I was sitting in my room reading that decision that made

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zero sense. And my dad came into the room and said, Well, what

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are you going to do now I did all the right things. I said all

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the right words. And I don't know what to do. So well, if

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you're not going to appeal this decision, you should quit your

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law school and find yourself a different profession. And so I

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appealed that velocity appeal. At that point, I figured out

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what to do later. So we appealed it even higher, basically, as

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high as it gets to the second highest court in the nation. And

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we won. And in the process, I got really, really passionate

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about, you know, helping people who created something that only

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exists because they created it, to help them protect what's

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theirs, and ensure that that doesn't get stolen from them. So

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my dad was my first and favorite client, as I like to put it,

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then, you know, I had a big career in Russia as copyright

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lawyer with the biggest international law firm in the

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world doing work for JK Rowling, Apple, my personal dream,

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whatever you can think of a big business, I've probably done

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something for them. And then in oh seven, I realized that I had

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enough of Russia, and I moved to Canada, just to start everything

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from scratch. IP that has a lot more similarities than many

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other areas of wall because so much of it is done in accordance

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with international treaties that allow you know, IP owners to

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protect their stuff in different countries. And so when I went

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back to the to Canadian law school, I said to myself, You

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know what, this is a good opportunity for you to try other

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areas of lawyers and see if you like them. Maybe you fell in

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love with IP, just because of your dad. Maybe there's

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something else. And the only other area of law that I

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enjoyed, you're gonna love it was Insurance Law. Oh, wow.

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Because it was so technical and so logical, and really was less

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about emotion, but more about how can we do what's right, but

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I never went into insurance law I kept with IP because I

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realized that, you know, it's the one thing that I'm really

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passionate about. And so I finished my Canadian law school,

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the top of my class got exactly zero offers from Canadian law

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schools. It felt a little bit like you remember Rambo one when

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he's uh, he is at the store. And he says, back in Vietnam, they

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trusted me with million dollar equipment. And in here I can

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find a job parking cars. That's pretty much how I felt with my

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years of experience my PhD in law, my top of the class thing

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and like nobody would trust me to review a $500 contract. And

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so I started my company, still the only firm in the world that

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offers trademark registration services with a guaranteed

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result for guaranteed budget. Really what we do now is we help

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entrepreneurs whether they're zero figure entrepreneurs are

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there 5, 6, 7, 8 figures protect what they think will become

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their legacy. That's really what big brands are, you're building

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something that goes beyond you, the founder, and you build a

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brand that if you're lucky, 1000s and millions of people are

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going to law remember and love and trust to me, really

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trademarks. Yeah, there's there's some money part to it,

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that the increases your valuation does believe different

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things. But it also builds that legacy that that allows you to

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build something that you'll be remembered.

Gary Michels:

So we're talking about trademarks here. And so we

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have a pretty educated audience here on Let's Talk Legacy. But

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tell us briefly what exactly is a trademark and what isn't a

Gary Michels:

trademark.

Andrei Mincov:

I'm gonna give you a definition that you will

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find in the books. But I'm going to give you a definition that I

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think makes sense. A trademark is the legal right for you to

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stop someone else from using a brand similar to yours to

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compete with. So a brand really could be your name could be a

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logo could be your tagline could be whatever you feel will

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identify you from the crowd of competitors who do the exact

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same thing or something similar to you. But that word phrase or

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image that you want to be your brand does not really become

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your brand, until you can legally stop others from popping

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you right. And the only way to do that is by getting that

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trademark. If you get a LLC or corporation registered, that

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doesn't protect your brand, if you set up a website or get a

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domain name that doesn't do that, if you set up a social

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media profile that doesn't do it. If you put a TM symbol next

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to your brand, all it does is it tells the well I wanted this as

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my brand. But really you can't do very much with it. Once you

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file the trademark once it goes through, that's when you have

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that legal paper that says that's my and that's really what

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a trademark is what it's not, it doesn't protect the idea of your

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business, or even copy my business model. But the name the

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Logos, the tagline is daswell trademarks protect.

Gary Michels:

What's the difference in a trademark and

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copyright?

Andrei Mincov:

Well, copyright is more about content, like

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books, videos, music, right that that song that the radio station

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stole that was copyright infringement. Software,

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copyright cannot protect brands, which is why sometimes students

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say, Well, you know what, you can just send yourself a letter

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with your name, and not open it. And that's going to protect you.

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But it's not because death now what copyright is about, really,

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there's a reason they came up with the trademark law. Because

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when the businesses were starting hundreds of years ago,

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I was hard for people to do. And so initially they have this

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what's called Common Law, right? So fastening off when if you are

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making shoes, and you would put a brand on them, and someone

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would copy you do you have some recourse to go to court and

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prove this guy is trying to copy. But then when we went

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through industrialization, we started getting those factories

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and became progressively easier for people to to build something

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similar. They realized we need a more robust way for people who

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invest and spend money building that brand to protect it. And so

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they came up with, let's make it easy for our people who care

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about their brands protect them. And so let's allow them to

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register it in some registry. That's going to have a list of

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active trademarks, they're gonna say who owns them get on now,

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today, things are getting even harder for brand owners because

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competition is fierce. What used to take years for you to build

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as a brand presence can now take days and you can set a website

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in a matter of days, you can have AI, populate all those

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pages. And you're out there. The question is, how do you make

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sure that what you came up with stays yours? So and that's what

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trademarks are all about.

Gary Michels:

Got it. What are some of the most common mistakes

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you see people making around trademarks, mistakes of people

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that didn't get the trademark and wish they would have?

Andrei Mincov:

Well the second type is unfortunately more

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common people way too long before they realize hey, my

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brand might actually be worth something. So with trademark

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factory first thing we do when someone becomes a client is we

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do a comprehensive search To confirm that, whether whether

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this brand is trade markable or not, oftentimes we have to tell

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them, You know what great brand, that's not yours really should

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someone else's, you can't have it anymore. And it's usually,

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you know, it's it's pretty dramatic because nobody wants to

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hear that. They say, Well, I did my search, and I found nothing.

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Well, because you don't know how to do search. It's what we do.

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And so we found this. And so the most painful is when we tell

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them, You know what you said, You've been running this

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business for three years, this other trademark, then we found

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these guys just filed it six months ago. And they're like, so

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if I filed my trademark seven months ago, I would have

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haven't. Yep, that is really the most painful news to deliver.

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Because it's a self inflicted one. They just waited too long.

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They they made their brand known to too many people. And at some

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point, like imagine this, imagine if Elon Musk was an

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idiot. And for whatever reason he chose to not trademark Tesla.

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And anyone, you or me could just go up there and follow that

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trademark and own it. Can you imagine how much money URI would

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make but just by saying, you know, when Tesla, I own it, now

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you can't make cars and call them Tesla. Or you can just buy

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this trademark off of me.

Gary Michels:

So you're saying somebody creates, I'll just use,

Gary Michels:

for example, an amazing lemonade in town. It's local and at the

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restaurant, and it's like really catching, somebody else sees it,

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say I know what they're doing. I'm gonna go trademark that

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lemonade, even though I didn't make it, think of it or

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anything, they can go ahead and do that and get approved for

Gary Michels:

that?

Andrei Mincov:

Yeah, because trademarks office doesn't care

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about anything outside of our own system. So if you haven't

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filed your trademark, they're going to approve unless the the

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person who came up with a lemonade what's called opposes

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the mark, so they have to go and it's almost like a lawsuit

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within the USPTO system. And if they can prove that their brand

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was made known to a significant number of people across the

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states, they can win, it's going to cost them a lot of money,

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it's going to cost them a lot of time, they could have easily

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prevented by just filing firms, but they also have to somehow

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find out about you. And here's the bigger problem. If it's a

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lemonade stand, if it's not federal, usually what it's going

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to mean is that a certain ourselves is gonna say, You know

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what, great, where are you selling your stuff? I don't

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know. Austin, Texas. Okay. So what is going to be in is that

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this guy who copied you will have coverage all across the US

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as a federal trademark. But you will have a license to continue

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selling your lemonade in Austin? Oh, geez. Right. And so really,

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like I said, the whole idea of trademark was to give brand

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owners who care about their brands, an easy way to protect

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them. And the assumption is, if you didn't do it, you probably

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don't care about it very much. Because it's so easy to do use

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the tools that we gave you course, are not very sympathetic

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to entrepreneurs, who suddenly remember that their brand is

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worth something once someone else made a lot of money using

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it.

Gary Michels:

You say that trademarking is all about

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building and protecting a legacy for the business that that

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obviously makes sense. And you cite Coca Cola as a really

Gary Michels:

famous example, tell us the coke story. And if there's a few

Gary Michels:

other good examples that people would recognize.

Andrei Mincov:

Yeah, Coca Cola is another one of my favorite

Andrei Mincov:

examples, like I will remember it. Why? Why are you waking me

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up in the middle of the night, I'll tell you, they trademark

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their brand back in 1892, which is incidentally, the year when

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they just set up a company. And when they were selling nine

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drinks a day, I call it a lemonade stand with a dream

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because they all they had is this idea that, hey, if we are

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going to spend any time, money and effort try to build those

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into a brand and national brand, we might as well own it. And

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trademarks is the only type of intellectual property that you

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can own forever in theory that copyrights expire, patents

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expire. Design, patents, everything expired. Trademarks,

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you can renew and renew it renew. So they've been renewing

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that same trademark since 1892. And I can bet that there was a

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lot of people out there who looked at them, and said, Why

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are you bothering spending money on lawyers to trademark this

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stuff? It's just a drink. Now this brand is worth $80 billion,

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just the brand itself, not their factories, not their trucks, not

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their bottles, not their recipe, just the brand itself and

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whatever they paid their lawyers back in 1892. It's probably the

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best return on investment they've had ever. Right. Sure.

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The more recent one, which really highlights the value of

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getting it done right. An early there's this startup called

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Bird, the electric scooters. Right you see the map freeware,

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they were back in 2021, recognized as the fastest

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company to grow to a billion dollar valuation. They knew a

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thing or two about building a successful business. So what

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they did is they started the company, and 13 days later,

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after their they started the company, they filed their

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trademark before they launched before they had their first

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cooter made before they like I don't know if they had an office

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back in the day or not 13 This again, because they asked

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themselves the question, will the brand be important to us if

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we are to become successful? And the answer to that was, of

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course, because if anyone can put his scooter and put the same

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brand on it, we can't have a viable business model, because

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people are going to be confused, and they can't operate like

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this. So they said, Yeah, brand is going to be important. We

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want to build it into something that will become big. And so

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they that they went on trademark, and now it's part of

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the billion dollar valuation.

Gary Michels:

Is there more cost to a certain type of trademark

Gary Michels:

than another cost? Or does everybody file a trademark just

Gary Michels:

same way?

Andrei Mincov:

So there are extreme cases, when you file

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what's called an unconventional trademark, like if you want to

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trademark a smell, or if you want to trademark a sound. So

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there's significantly more that goes into those. But those are

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like a fraction of a fraction of 1%. Whether it's name logo or

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tagline, the normal ones with with the trademark factory, it's

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the same thing. And really, that's where the name trademark

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factory, a wildlife was born. Because I asked myself a

Andrei Mincov:

question, if Bill Gates goes to McDonald's and wants to water

Andrei Mincov:

the Big Mac, are they going to charge him 10 times more just

Andrei Mincov:

because he has more money? No. Right? They're going to charge

Andrei Mincov:

them the exact same thing. And I realized, for business owners

Andrei Mincov:

for entrepreneurs, a trademark is a trademark, you don't care

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how difficult that is for me to give it to you. All you care is

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did you get one? Or did you not?

Gary Michels:

Aside from the incident where you help defend

Gary Michels:

your father, what else drew you to the area of law, but what

Gary Michels:

caught your attention to even go in that direction?

Andrei Mincov:

That's a funny story. So in Russia back in the

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day, if you didn't join a university, if you didn't go to

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university, you had to join the army. I'm a short guy, not

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tremendously, you know, big muscle. I didn't want to join

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the frickin army. And so I realized I got to go to a

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university, I got to study something. And I had no idea

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what I wanted to do live is zero, then I remember that when

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I was growing up, I would always come up with some some arguments

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to get what I wanted to get from my parents, like, I would

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structure structure it in a way that they felt compelled to give

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me what I want. And they would say, hey, gotta be a lawyer.

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Right? When I was four or five years old, right? Maybe I should

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become a lawyer. And, and the other part of that was, it was

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1992, when I had to make the decision to go to university,

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that's when Russia was just collapsing. And even though my

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father was a famous composer, he was barely making enough money

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for us to eat. We were all used to a very good standard of

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living before that. And I saw how unreliable that was, even if

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you were asked, talented as he was. And so before then I was

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studying music and still loved music. But I realized I didn't

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want to be in a position when I wouldn't be making any money. So

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like, what can I learn that that is an easy path to comfortable

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living law. And so I went to law school, really, for the first

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couple of years, all I cared about was girls, alcohol and

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parties and music rock'n'roll, but then my dad heard his music

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and that like changed everything so very quickly for me. So the

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the overall success rate with trademarks filed in the US just

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51.7% means half of the trademarks filed, never make it

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with trademark factories. 99.3. So we do something different

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from everyone else. And there was this other category of

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websites out there that you know, I'm sure your listeners

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have come across, you know, those $69 offers Whoa, we got to

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trademark your brand in five minutes. They're not even follow

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through a lawyer because they've duped a lot of entrepreneurs

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into using them and some train must go through even through

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them. But their model is also the same and we're going to file

Andrei Mincov:

your trademark and if it doesn't go through Well, too bad so sad.

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I wanted to do something different. I want to give them

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the the the assurance that there's someone on their side

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who actually gives a damn, and who wants to give them the same

Andrei Mincov:

result.

Gary Michels:

Absolutely. So as you know, our show is called

Gary Michels:

Let's Talk Legacy. And I'm curious, what does legacy mean

Gary Michels:

to you both on the business side and then in your personal

Gary Michels:

family?

Andrei Mincov:

On the business side? It's it's easy really.

Andrei Mincov:

It's building something that you transcends Do you something that

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you want to be remembered. And it's really we build businesses,

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a lot of reason, of course, is to live a comfortable life.

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That's great. But the only way we get rich, the only way we

Andrei Mincov:

make that money is when we give the world something then the

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world wants, the more of it we do, the better trace, we leave.

Andrei Mincov:

And that's what to me legacy is about. Like with brands, we're

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going to, I'm going to challenge you try thinking of one

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successful business without thinking of its brand, you

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can't, because the brand is what we think about when we think of

Andrei Mincov:

a successful brand. The brand is the thing is it it is the thing

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we remember the business for. And that's, that's, that's the

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legacy part on the personal side, I just want to be

Andrei Mincov:

remembered for being a happy, happy father, happy husband and

Andrei Mincov:

a happy guy who played the drums. And it was a little crazy

Andrei Mincov:

just to, to move from Russia, to Canada, from Canada to Dubai.

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And I don't know what else is gonna lie ahead of me, but who

Andrei Mincov:

lived a happy life. And that's something that's worth

Andrei Mincov:

remembering you by.

Gary Michels:

Awesome. So before we let you go, you've got to

Gary Michels:

tell us about your drum desk, I'm sure people would get a kick

Gary Michels:

out of this. What in the heck is the drum desk?

Andrei Mincov:

It's something that I drempt up maybe 12, 15

Andrei Mincov:

years, I can't remember but a lot of years ago, and the idea

Andrei Mincov:

was how do I combine an office desk, where I will do boring

Andrei Mincov:

work with something that's that's going to give me the

Andrei Mincov:

energy of something that's going to make me excited about being

Andrei Mincov:

here. And I love drums, like from from my from my high school

Andrei Mincov:

days. I love drumming. I remember to this day like you

Andrei Mincov:

were in a classroom. And me and my friend, were listening to

Andrei Mincov:

wasps, I want to be somebody. And then there's a section in

Andrei Mincov:

the brain where the deputy put up do, we were just using

Andrei Mincov:

pencils and rulers just playing that. And the one day we're

Andrei Mincov:

like, hey, why don't we go and learn to play verticals? And so

Andrei Mincov:

it became my big passion and like, How can I combine a disc

Andrei Mincov:

with a drum set? And I had some ideas about this. And, and then

Andrei Mincov:

one day, I'm like, You know what, I actually made enough

Andrei Mincov:

money that I can make this dream a reality. I put together my

Andrei Mincov:

thinking cap. And I'm not much of an engineer. I'm not, you

Andrei Mincov:

know, I don't understand physics all that well. But I wanted to

Andrei Mincov:

figure out how can I make it work so that the surface that

Andrei Mincov:

you write on or that you type on doesn't prevent you from using

Andrei Mincov:

the surface of the drums. And so it has this thing that moves

Andrei Mincov:

moves away. And you know, my biggest concern was, how do you

Andrei Mincov:

make sure it doesn't topple over, I figured out how to do

Andrei Mincov:

it. And so he has a fully functional double bass kit.

Gary Michels:

For those of you listening today, he literally

Gary Michels:

is...we're looking at each other face to face. Here he is playing

Gary Michels:

the drum like you would see a normal drum player playing.

Gary Michels:

That's awesome.

Andrei Mincov:

If you go to YouTube, you can search for

Andrei Mincov:

Andrei's dream drum desk, it will show you the whole thing it

Andrei Mincov:

will show you how I play it. It's a little video that I had

Andrei Mincov:

been shot and that will give you...

Gary Michels:

You probably just got to several more views on

Gary Michels:

your YouTube my friend, hahaha. If someone wanted to get in

Gary Michels:

touch with you talk to you about trademarking and getting their

Gary Michels:

company trimmer, how would they reach you?

Andrei Mincov:

So trademarkfactory.com is the

Andrei Mincov:

easiest way there's a big button that says Book a free call with

Andrei Mincov:

one of our strategy advisors flicked up bottom, you fill out

Andrei Mincov:

a little form. And you get on a call and they're they're going

Andrei Mincov:

to answer all your questions. They're going to help you

Andrei Mincov:

prioritize what to start with where, what, and if you feel

Andrei Mincov:

that it's a good fit, they're going to help you get started.

Andrei Mincov:

And if not, then you get free advice. Because one thing and if

Andrei Mincov:

you want to learn more about trademarks, I've posted close to

Andrei Mincov:

1000 videos on that YouTube channel. I know there's a

Andrei Mincov:

question about trade, which I'll probably answered more than

Andrei Mincov:

once. So that's another way to kind of get to know us a little

Andrei Mincov:

better. And once once you realize that, hey, there's a

Andrei Mincov:

reason I came up with a brand for my business. Right? This is

Andrei Mincov:

the stock that kills me right? And that's that's to your point

Andrei Mincov:

about mistakes. There is a reason you came up with some

Andrei Mincov:

name, like you didn't go with just a random number or random

Andrei Mincov:

sequence of letters. There was something going through your

Andrei Mincov:

head there was something going through your heart and like I

Andrei Mincov:

want this business have this name. It means it meant

Andrei Mincov:

something to you. There's one message that I want to finish on

Andrei Mincov:

is that your brand, even if you haven't built it into

Andrei Mincov:

something's huge, it's not worthless, it's worth something

Andrei Mincov:

and if you are planning if you're hoping that one day

Andrei Mincov:

you're going to build it into something successful something

Andrei Mincov:

worth remembering you buy, go and get a trademark today

Andrei Mincov:

because tomorrow might be too late. Yeah, when you booked that

Andrei Mincov:

call with a strategy advisor mentioned you came from the

Andrei Mincov:

show, we're going to do something special for you.

Andrei Mincov:

Because, you know, to me legacy means a lot. And I really

Andrei Mincov:

appreciate you having me on the show. So as thank you to you,

Andrei Mincov:

we're gonna pass that thank you to everyone who's gone shunned

Andrei Mincov:

from the show, just tell your strategy advisor, were here from

Andrei Mincov:

let's talk legacy, and they're going to do something special

Andrei Mincov:

for you.

Gary Michels:

That's awesome. But gosh, thank you so much,

Gary Michels:

Andrei. It's really been thought provoking for me and I know our

Gary Michels:

listeners are going to love it.

Andrei Mincov:

Thank you.

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Let's Talk Legacy
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What does it mean to build and maintain a legacy, either in business, or for your loved ones? What tools and resources are available to help? Join the discussion as host Gary Michels, along with exciting guests and real listeners just like you, tackle the answers to these questions, and learn how to grow today, for a better tomorrow.



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