Side Hustle School
Ep. 1653 - Real Estate Agent Profits from Bulk Mail BizA real estate agent builds a side business processing bulk direct-mail (snail mail) campaigns, which frees her from financial stress. The…
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My First Million
How to Build a Unicorn Around the NCAA Reg Changes | My First Million #198Sam and Shaan discuss opportunities created by NCAA rule changes, healthy eating on the go, inflections, Stanwith.me, an internal company…
Side Hustle School#1651 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: “They promised the boat would be ready… but it wasn’t.”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1651 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: “They promised the boat would be ready… but it wasn’t.”An Australian who runs small-ship Mediterranean tours commissioned a new vessel from a local shipbuilder, and the project turned into a…
Indie Hackers#216 – The "Hardcore Year" Approach to $10k/Month in Revenue with Andrey Azimov of Sheet2SiteSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#216 – The "Hardcore Year" Approach to $10k/Month in Revenue with Andrey Azimov of Sheet2SiteAndrey Azimov of Sheet2Site describes moving to Bali on $3K and launching a "Hardcore Year" of shipping multiple tiny products until one -…
My First Million
Frameworks to Become a Billionaire with HubSpot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah | My First Million #197Sam and Shaan interview billionaire HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah about the thinking behind buying The Hustle, his framework on…
Side Hustle School
#1648 - Digital Marketer’s Playlist Skills Pay OffA tech-savvy marketer in Charleston, South Carolina expanded her existing music bingo hosting side gig. The episode covers how she scaled…
Side Hustle School
#1646 - “Side Hustle Bread” Insta Account Sells $100,000As a joke, a baking hobbyist started an Instagram account selling bread, and it snowballed into a real business doing more than $100,000 in…
Side Hustle School#1644 - Failure Friday: Antiracism Interest Grows, But What Do Clients Want?SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1644 - Failure Friday: Antiracism Interest Grows, But What Do Clients Want?The founder of a workplace inclusion and antiracism agency saw major growth during the past year but ran into clients who weren't sure what…
My First Million
Who Really Created Bitcoin & Other Crypto Startup Ideas | My First Million #196Dan Held on Satoshi Nakamoto's identity, the Genesis block, Bitcoin history, ideas for crypto startups, a new kind of private wealth…
Indie Hackers#215 – Why You Don't Have To Be "A Business Person" To Succeed - with Dan Cederholm of DribbbleSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#215 – Why You Don't Have To Be "A Business Person" To Succeed - with Dan Cederholm of DribbbleDan Cederholm of Dribbble reflects on his reluctant path from designer to founder of a design-community SaaS, covering how creators can…
My First Million
A Discussion on Sam & Shaan's Recent Investments | My First Million #195Sam and Shaan walk through seven recent personal investments: AbstractOps (back-office ops), Jar (gold savings), Ruumr (?), 1Build…
Side Hustle School#1641 - Social Studies Teacher Gains 1.5 Million TikTok FollowersSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1641 - Social Studies Teacher Gains 1.5 Million TikTok FollowersA social studies teacher started a TikTok account during lockdown to stay connected with her students and ended up building 1.5 million…
Side Hustle School
BONUS: The Post-Pandemic EconomyChris Guillebeau interviews Tim Welsh, Vice Chair of Consumer and Business Banking at U.S. Bank, about how small businesses are driving the…
Side Hustle School
#1639: Graduate Uses Equestrian Art to Canter Out of DebtA psychology graduate carrying $65,000 in student debt turned an equestrian art hobby into a scalable business. The episode covers how she…
My First Million
How to launch a $100M DTC brand | My First Million #194Justin Mares (Kettle & Fire, Perfect Keto, Surely Wines) breaks down four side-hustle archetypes (buy an asset, launch on a marketplace…
Side Hustle School#1637 - Failure Friday: “It took me way too long to bounce back…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1637 - Failure Friday: “It took me way too long to bounce back…”A personal finance blogger launched a coaching program with zero response from his audience and spent two years recovering financially and…
My First Million
How a $25 Million a Year Sweepstakes Business Works | My First Million #193Sam and Shaan go deep on the $25M/year sweepstakes industry: how Sam would have used sweepstakes to grow The Hustle, plus Oasis (a positive…
Indie Hackers#214 – Getting A Big Exit By Being A Small Player In A Small Pond with Chris Bakke of InterviewedSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#214 – Getting A Big Exit By Being A Small Player In A Small Pond with Chris Bakke of InterviewedChris Bakke describes how he intentionally picked a small niche (interviewing / one-way video screening), built Interviewed into $2M ARR,…
Side Hustle School
#1634 - Peace Corps Alum Tutors U.S. Military RecruitsA Peace Corps alumnus used his teaching background to help a friend prep for a military entrance test and discovered that many recruits pay…
Side Hustle School
#1632 - Food Scientist Cooks Up Juicy ProfitsInstead of staying in R&D or academia, a PhD food scientist pivoted to freelance writing specialized in food science topics. The episode…
My First Million
Making Billions with Greeting Cards & Rich People (not) Paying Taxes | My First Million #192Sam and Shaan break down greeting cards, digital card subscriptions, birthdayalarm.com making millions for decades, social gifting through…
Side Hustle School#1630 - Failure Friday: “Pitching to executives felt like an awful first date…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#1630 - Failure Friday: “Pitching to executives felt like an awful first date…”A military spouse sells punny greeting cards and gets the chance to pitch her business to executives at an incubator. She tries to wing the…
Indie Hackers
#213 – An Indie Hacker's Process to Reach $10K MRRMolly Wolchansky of The Agent Nest explains how seven years running a real-estate marketing agency led her to productize the workflow into…
My First Million
4 Big Trends and $0 to $1 Billion Startup Idea Frameworks | My First Million #191Shaan and Sam talk with seed investor Mike Maples about four major inflections, cloud offices, centralization and decentralization,…