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title: Trendster Mike Stemple on Business Ideas, Overcoming Hardship, and Affinity Marketing | Trends by The Hustle
description: Trends Member, Mike Stemple, who has had 5 successful exits, and is Director-Emeritus at The Founder Institute and a mentor at Techstars, 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:
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# [Trendster Mike Stemple on Business Ideas, Overcoming Hardship, and Affinity Marketing | Trends by The Hustle](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/ebook/articles/trendster-mike-stemple-on-business-ideas-overcoming-hardship-and-affinity-marketing)

 Written by [Aja Frost @ajavuu](https://www.nlopchantamang.com/trends/ebook/author/aja-frost-ajavuu) | Jun 25, 2020 8:54:04 AM

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.

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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