Side Hustle School
#2158 - First $1,000: “From TaskRabbit to $4,000/month…”A handyman grows his part-time business to $4,000/month on TaskRabbit, then transitions off the platform to avoid fees and keep clients…
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Side Hustle School#2155 - Failure Friday: “I never should have borrowed money to invest…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2155 - Failure Friday: “I never should have borrowed money to invest…”A Failure Friday segment about a listener who borrowed money from a friend to invest in a cryptocurrency project, which did not work out.…
My First Million
The 5 Levels Of Building Wealth | How To Climb The Ladder (#389)Five ways to make money, then a grab bag: profitable fan-fiction IP plays, vice businesses (alcohol/cannabis/ gambling-adjacent), Group…
Side Hustle School#2154 - Give Thanks and Eat Pie: Special Thanksgiving EpisodeSOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2154 - Give Thanks and Eat Pie: Special Thanksgiving EpisodeA Thanksgiving special recorded in South Africa where host Chris Guillebeau reflects on five-plus years of running Side Hustle School and…
Indie Hackers#265 – From Full-Time Job to $30k/Month with Damon Chen of TestimonialSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#265 – From Full-Time Job to $30k/Month with Damon Chen of TestimonialDamon Chen of Testimonial covers failed side projects, idea validation, the qualities of a good website testimonial, charging premium…
Greg Isenberg
Building the Right Product, At the Right Time, For the Right People - with Jack ButcherJack Butcher (Visualize Value) explains his pivot from running a design agency to building products for a community he understood: testing…
My First Million
How I Sold My Company To PayPal For $800 Million | Bryan Johnson (#388)Bryan Johnson (Braintree → PayPal) on his background, financial plans, where he puts his money, what Kernel (brain-interface) does, his…
Side Hustle School#2151 - First $1,000: “I made a floor to ceiling chain of bananas…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2151 - First $1,000: “I made a floor to ceiling chain of bananas…”A Texas event planner builds a side business earning at least $2,000/month, with one early event featuring a floor-to-ceiling display of…
Side Hustle School#2148 - Failure Friday: “I invested in a franchise and now I feel stuck…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2148 - Failure Friday: “I invested in a franchise and now I feel stuck…”A Failure Friday story about an investor who bought into a national franchise and realized he had effectively purchased a job. The episode…
My First Million
The Billionaire Framework For Making Hard Decisions (#387)Short mindset episode: the 'billionaire framework for making hard decisions', a 'do the hard thing' principle, and a section on mapping…
Greg Isenberg
Writing, Religion, and Walt Disney with David PerellDavid Perell (Write of Passage founder) joins Greg to discuss building Write of Passage, having a bad 2-year plan but a great 10-year plan,…
My First Million
Ranking The Best And Worst Businesses To Start w/ Billionaire Investor Andrew Wilkinson (#386)Andrew Wilkinson of Tiny talks about his portfolio (Pixel Union, AeroPress, cat furniture via Primitive), ranks businesses from hardest to…
My First Million
How FTX Went From $32 Billion To Bankrupt In 1 Week (#385)Recap of the FTX collapse — what happened, the business background, the SBF / Elon connection, the distrust it created, and Sam and Shaan's…
Side Hustle School#2144 - First $1,000: “Clients don’t want Wordpress, they want a website…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2144 - First $1,000: “Clients don’t want Wordpress, they want a website…”The 'Wordpress Girl' runs a service helping female entrepreneurs get set up with websites, currently rebranding while still earning at…
Side Hustle School#2141 - Failure Friday: “I wish I hadn’t told my friends about my hustle…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2141 - Failure Friday: “I wish I hadn’t told my friends about my hustle…”A Failure Friday segment about a tech employee who launched an after-hours side hustle and came to regret it, reportedly because telling…
My First Million
3 Profitable Business Ideas From A Private Equity Guy | Sahil Bloom (#384)Sahil Bloom (ex-private-equity, creator/investor) on three profitable business ideas he's pitching now, why he left PE to make millions as…
My First Million
Reacting To The Fake Twitter Employees Who Trolled The Media | "Ligma + Johnson"Shaan and Sam react to the fake Twitter employees who trolled media with 'Ligma + Johnson' pranks inside Twitter's HQ during the Elon…
My First Million
How This OnlyFans Model Built A $40 Million Business Empire (#383)Kaitlyn Michelle Siragusa, known as Amouranth, explains how she built a $40M social media business empire, her team, prior career, fame…
Side Hustle School#2137 - First $1,000: “I make $3,000/month with Instagram DMs…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2137 - First $1,000: “I make $3,000/month with Instagram DMs…”A listener uses Instagram DMs as a sales channel to earn up to $4,000 a month without a large personal following. The segment explains the…
Side Hustle School#2134 - Failure Friday: “My Facebook page with 40,000 fans was hacked…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2134 - Failure Friday: “My Facebook page with 40,000 fans was hacked…”A coach builds her business on a Facebook page with 40,000 followers, then clicks a phishing password-reset link and loses the account. The…
My First Million
Kevin Rose: His $100M/Year Watch Blog, Money From Digg.com, & Web3 Business (#382)Sam and Shaan interview Kevin Rose about his roughly $100M/year watch magazine Hodinkee, lessons from selling Digg.com, his Web3 bets and…
My First Million
8 Profitable Side Hustles For The Halloween & Christmas Season (#381)Eight seasonal side hustles teased across the episode: Halloween-spend research, Zombie Pumpkins (custom-carved pumpkins), a VR haunted…
Indie Hackers#264 – Growing a 2-Person Business to $80k/Month with Eric Turner of Japan DevSOURCE CONVERSATION
Indie Hackers
#264 – Growing a 2-Person Business to $80k/Month with Eric Turner of Japan DevEric Turner of Japan Dev talks about living in Japan as a foreigner and visiting as a tourist, picking a lucrative niche, and growing a…
Side Hustle School#2130 - First $1,000: “I earn a thousand dollars a week selling MacBooks…”SOURCE CONVERSATION
Side Hustle School
#2130 - First $1,000: “I earn a thousand dollars a week selling MacBooks…”A college student resells MacBooks part-time and has systematized it to about $1,000 a week in profit. The segment covers sourcing,…