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Part 1 of 2 with Daniel Cronauer on starting a service business: power washing as the case study, his journey from gym teacher to…

Chris and Nik dissect Frank Kern's internet marketing playbook, including his 8-step sales process from value overload to scarcity, and how…

Part monologue, part interview: Chris explains why he loves home service businesses — binary outcomes, recurring revenue, recession…

Guest Jordan Gal explains how he built Hey Rosie, an AI voice answering service for small businesses, as a GPT-wrapper alternative to…

Darryl Knight of Front Porch Flora runs a seasonal porch flower subscription, swapping pre-assembled planter inserts for customers each…

Chris and Nik analyze five viral Instagram business ideas in their 'IGenius' segment: a coffee shop with a sandbox, a kids' play area with…

Chris stress-tests ChatGPT's $200/month Operator plan by running 10 browser agents simultaneously: finding underpriced items on…

Part two with James Camp, who has built and sold multiple internet businesses. Ideas include a subsidized addiction-rehab model using…

A clip from a firewood-business episode focused on using Facebook Marketplace and Facebook Groups for competitive research, listing…

Chris pays for the $200/month ChatGPT Operator Pro plan and screenshares it building an end-to-end Facebook Marketplace reselling workflow,…

Guest James Camp (multiple built-and-sold internet businesses) on identifying untapped niches, leveraging AI to streamline ops, managed…

HoldCo Bros brainstorm AI-agent businesses: restaurant reservation agents, wedding-planning agents that gather vendor quotes, voice agents…

Q&A episode covering: scraping commercial real estate for grant leads, selling custom spreadsheets on Etsy (with a path to $5K/month),…

Chris recounts building LCD Cycle, an iPhone parts business he ran for seven years, growing from a small repair shop into a…

Solo episode on starting a firewood business with almost $0: sourcing free wood from tree trimming companies, splitting and seasoning it,…

Part 2 with Sam Thompson, riffing on business ideas: a tree-trimming service with recurring insurance-style inspection add-ons, a home…

A Q&A episode covering: a private jet photo studio idea, starting tree trimming while employed, when to form an LLC, why buying e-commerce…

Chris and Nik pitch four seasonal and recurring ideas: a Christmas tree rental service with delivery and pickup (including acquiring tree…

HoldCo Bros 2024 year-in-review: going from cringe content to over a million followers, short-form video as a cheap lottery ticket,…

Solo 2024 year-in-review: launching the podcast and tree-business bootcamp, the Blue Metric partnership, a percentage-based net-worth…

Solo episode on building niche-specific SaaS by white-labeling GoHighLevel: marketing automation, client retention and subscription…

Sam Thompson and Chris riff on prosumer software (creators, real estate agents), viral referral marketing à la Robinhood/Dropbox, box-truck…

HoldCo Bros on three ideas: college-tuition negotiation as a paid service, a concierge for college parents offering insider knowledge, and…

Guest Connor Gross round-up of four ideas: refurbishing and flipping used golf sets, high-ticket custom aquascapes, the cruise industry as…