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# Trendster Mike Stemple on Business Ideas, Overcoming Hardship, and Affinity Marketing

[ by Aja Frost @ajavuu ](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/author/aja-frost-ajavuu)

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In June, 2020, we wrote about an emerging opportunity in custom decorative skins for video game consoles. [In that article](https://trends.co/signal/gamers-are-switching-up-the-look-of-their-nintendo-switches/), we mentioned one major player in the space, [Skinit](https://www.skinit.com/).

We were quickly surprised to learn that the original founder of Skinit, Mike Stemple, was actually a member of the Trends community.

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Stemple, who has had 5 successful exits, and is Director-Emeritus at [The Founder Institute](https://fi.co/) and a mentor at [Techstars](https://www.techstars.com/), met with us to talk about his time starting and running Skinit, and offered up the following advice to founders looking to get into any industry:

## 1. Pay Attention to “I Wish”

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