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My First Million
How to Make Millions by Unbundling Etsy | My First Million #207Sam and Shaan break down a multi-million-dollar opportunity to 'unbundle' Etsy ($24B market cap) into vertical-specific marketplaces:…
My First Million
How Venture Capitalists Make Money with Brianne Kimmel | My First Million #206Solo capitalist Brianne Kimmel on how she got into investing, her crazy schedule, how VCs make money, hot spaces she sees, whether college…
Indie Hackers#220 – Be Brave, Not Cool, with Michael Seibel of Y CombinatorSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#220 – Be Brave, Not Cool, with Michael Seibel of Y CombinatorMichael Seibel, partner at Y Combinator, discusses what he sees working and not working across roughly 2,000 startups reviewed per year.…
Side Hustle School
#1676 - Former Lego Instructor Makes Real Play MoneyAfter COVID deconstructs his Lego educator job, a positive psychology practitioner builds playful corporate team-building workshops. The…
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#1674 - Think Inside the Subscription BoxA North Carolina web agency owner launches a subscription box for female entrepreneurs hoping it becomes a referral tool for her agency; it…
My First Million
How to Stop Your Tech Addiction | My First Million #205NCAA NIL money and a predicted next sports agent, the AngelList scout program, the mugshot-posting-and-removal industry, an app to fight…
Side Hustle School#1672 - Failure Friday: Weighted Blankets Get Weighed Down in CustomsSOURCE CONVERSATION
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#1672 - Failure Friday: Weighted Blankets Get Weighed Down in CustomsFailure Friday: a Canadian weighted-blanket seller scales to thousands of customers but has a disastrous holiday season when overseas…
My First Million
Behind-the-Scenes of Shaan's Power Writing Course | My First Million #204Shaan opens the books on his Power Writing course numbers and walk-through, with side topics on short squeezes, the programming language…
Indie Hackers#219 – How to Make Your Business Model a Win-Win-Win - with Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez of EverySOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#219 – How to Make Your Business Model a Win-Win-Win - with Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez of EveryDan Shipper and Nathan Baschez run Every, a bundle of paid business newsletters operated as a 'collective' where writers retain ownership…
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#1669 - Seattle Couple Creates New “Income LiveStream”A married couple's wedding logistics problems push them to build a live-stream service so other engaged pandemic couples can include remote…
Side Hustle School#1667 - Tumultuous Relationship Leads to Togetherness BlogSOURCE CONVERSATION
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#1667 - Tumultuous Relationship Leads to Togetherness BlogA young couple figures out what improves their relationship and packages it into a blog and online course for other couples. The episode…
My First Million
Why Dunder Mifflin Should Be a Real Company & A Look Inside MicroAcquire | My First Million #203Two-parter: ideas on building brands around pop culture (Dunder Mifflin as a real company), private space race drama, 'Bill's lemonade…
Side Hustle School#1665 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: Tea Supply Chain Meets Its MatchaSOURCE CONVERSATION
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#1665 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: Tea Supply Chain Meets Its MatchaFailure Friday: Luciana Torous, founder of 3 Leaf Tea, loses her long-time Japanese tea supplier mid-pandemic and her supply chain…
Indie Hackers#218 – Making Money and Being Happy with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri of My First MillionSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#218 – Making Money and Being Happy with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri of My First MillionSam Parr (The Hustle, sold) and Shaan Puri (sold his prior companies) reflect on life after exiting and discuss the kinds of businesses…
My First Million
A Breakdown of Trendy New Businesses & Boring 9 Figure Businesses | My First Million #202Trend-spotting episode: Sam and Shaan walk through stretching-gym studios, semi-permanent tattoos, the billion-dollar class-ring business,…
Side Hustle School#1662 - Warehouse Manager Sells Twitter-Threads-As-a-ServiceSOURCE CONVERSATION
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#1662 - Warehouse Manager Sells Twitter-Threads-As-a-ServiceA warehouse manager discovers Twitter threads as an audience-building tactic, then builds a 'Twitter Threads As A Service' offering for…
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#1660 - Summer Job Reselling Silver Brings in $10,000A college student sees his roommate make $2,000 in a weekend flipping silver, learns about precious metals, and earns $10,000 his first…
My First Million
Why You Should Spend 5x Your Budget on an Engagement Ring | My First Million #201Brainstorm on iOS privacy and advertising, Ghost.org (open-source newsletter platform vs. Substack/WordPress), IKEA Hacking, the $400M…
Side Hustle School#1658 - Failure Friday: “They refused to listen to my big pitch…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
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#1658 - Failure Friday: “They refused to listen to my big pitch…”Failure Friday: the inventor of the peeLUX pitches her product to the Spanx founder, only to be shut down by the company's lawyers. The…
My First Million
When to Go All In on an Idea & the Crypto Exchange That Could Have Been | My First Million #200Sam and Shaan on performance vs brand advertising, Shaan's $15M house, the 8-figure crypto-media business (Milk Road), a Bitcoin community…
Indie Hackers#217 – How a Near-Death Experience Turned a VC-Backed Founder into a Bootstrapper with Kyle Gawley of GravitySOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#217 – How a Near-Death Experience Turned a VC-Backed Founder into a Bootstrapper with Kyle Gawley of GravityKyle Gawley of Gravity explains how a hospital scare after running a VC-backed company pushed him to bootstrap a new SaaS using Gravity's…
My First Million
The Secret to Being Great | My First Million #199Sam and Shaan recap recent content they consumed: Naval's tweetstorm on getting rich without getting lucky, The Almanac of Naval Ravikant,…
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#1655 - Cheese Connoisseur Makes Legen-dairy CreationsA remote worker trying to thank healthcare staff discovers an untapped market for custom charcuterie and cheese boards, which she turns…