Ever since I can remember growing up in Camarillo California, I always had an curious and adventurous mind. I never liked to stay stagnate too long. My brother and I were always looking for new tree houses to build or learn the newest skateboard and BMX trick. I thought this mentality might had been a phase but it has never gone away.

Throughout high school and in college I found myself in many leadership roles. I was the captain of my high school baseball team and learned many valuable lessons on encouraging and motivating my teammates. While in college I took the president role of my fraternity. This was one of the most stressful times in my life as well as a time that I really grew and gained an understanding of my positive attributes as well as my negative ones. I have always been fascinated with the internet ever since my family downloaded our first two week trial of AOL back in 1992.

The internet is the new global market place and I got a small tasted of that during my sophomore year in college. I guess I owe all my internet affiliation to fellow masterminder James Wedmore when he told me about his successful Ebay business. The summer of my sophomore year, I wanted to raise some money for the fraternity so I decided to mirror what James was doing. I was thrilled when I raised around $900 dollars at the end of that summer.

The following summer I decided to continue with Ebay for my own monetary growth. The first item I bought at a garage sale was a used surfboard. I bought it for $80 and had no idea how much it would go for on Ebay. To my surprise, the board sold for $600. From that point on I knew I had a lucrative demographic of surfboard owners in Southern California. The one problem I had, was going to garage sales to find used surfboards was time consuming and I was not finding all the boards I needed. I then turned to back to the web to solve my problem. This is when I found Craig’s List.

There were about 20 boards posted a day on this site for sale. From then on I bought the boards from a small demographic for a low price on Craig’s List and then resold them for a higher price to a large demographic on
Ebay. It was a great summer job making me some fantastic money at the time.

Name: Matt Floryan
Age: 23
Location: Ivine, Ca
Education: BA in Business Finance and BS in Film Production from Chapman
University 2008
6 month goal: $5,000, the number 2 visited site about flair bar
tending online.
Hobbies/interests: golf, working out, photography, watching movies
Favorite Quotes:
” Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you
are.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why Mastermind: I feel this is a great opportunity to be surrounded by smart individuals who are dedicated to a goal. With the help of everyone I am confident I will be able to gain a strong grasp of online marketing and running a successful internet business.

5 Years From Now: Running multiple online businesses as well as own a restaurant. Have purchased an apartment complex.

One word Description: PROBLEM SOLVER
Best Attribute: Reliable
Worst Attribute: Create confrontations when it is not necessary

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