Dickie Bush
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The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Dude, if you heard a girl's voice in like Call of Duty, in the lobby, you'd be like, ah!
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Here's another one. I don't think about that all the time.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I can tell you with 100 percent certainty there's no one doing that. So there's no competition, which is always a good thing.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Yeah. It's an interesting experiment in leverage. Yeah. because you have this idea and something we talk about is, I think Hormozy's got a great definition of power, the ability to go from idea in your head to thing in the real world. So you have this idea, how many different steps are there between you executing it? If you had all the resources possible, it would be being tested tomorrow.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
And then it's a nice, okay, why can't I do that? What would I need to do that? And how could I set myself up in five, 10 years to operate that way? Or I can be testing these ideas that come to my head because you just said it. What is actually required? It's a couple grand. It's a writer. It's the tool to do the development or do the research.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Theoretically, you should have one person who can hear that idea from you and go, okay, that is being executed on right now. And I think from a portfolio company perspective, that's where you want to get to. Because right now you go, I'd have to write it. I'd have to do the research. I'd have to, and it's just not worth the upside.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
The risk reward relative to the other opportunities you have is too high. But if you- If someone else is doing it. Exactly. If you can put yourself with incentivized upside on that person, then there's no reason you can't have those ideas and actually execute them.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
You kind of are, man, but you know. I think as someone who, I identify more with operation than I do coming up with ideas like I talked about at the beginning. I love being called an operator. The opposite would be you're an ideas guy and you don't do anything. You know? Hey, don't look at us. Interesting. I think they're a poor operator.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Don't actually name things properly. Just throw it all in ideas. So I say that because I don't necessarily come up with a ton of ideas, but I like hearing other people's and immediately saying if they're good or not. So that's my strength. If you guys have- You're an iterator. Yeah, exactly. I hear something that might not make sense, but this might.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
It's like operating the household founding Aviato.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
So I don't have as many new ideas, but I'm excited to jam on y'alls.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
We talked about this last, on the last episode.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
This goes back to the overlap of reading and OnlyFans.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Right, but OnlyFans is the majority are women. So you're then still convincing men to read. That is true. That is true. It goes back to the same core issue. Yeah, there's a core issue. We have a bigger problem here. It's that most men don't read. Maybe this would bring them into the category.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
If you zoom out, what you just said was identifying opportunities where the supply and demand are mismatched, but specifically in the Kindle Direct publishing market.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
More or less than they're making on OnlyFans. Probably less. But even if it was less, that's more for them, you know? I just, I don't know. This is the writer bias. It's like... I know you got this great business, but a book would kill it.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Let me talk to you about writing. I know you got this thing over here.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I'm just picturing like, you guys seen Elf where they bring in Miles Finch and he like sits down and like, all right, we're bringing her in. We got to pitch her on this book. And she like sits down and calls across the table and was like, you just, you need a, you need a memoir.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
And what I like the most about these exercises is there is a world where all that could happen and it's simply a skill deficiency as to why it hasn't happened. Correct. It's literally, and that is like the both exciting and the frustrating part for me when I hear ideas like that, I'm like, if I was better at this game, I could,
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
align the pieces of leverage to pursue that idea if I thought it was good. But I don't have the leverage. I don't have the hiring skill. I don't have the ability to prioritize. So I hear that and just kind of get frustrated that I'm not good enough to do it. I don't know if y'all feel that way.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I thought you were going to say account.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Have you thought about any writing, almost taking the ideas that are talked about and have someone write up like threads or long form content kind of extrapolating? Here's how I would do this thing as a way to repurpose your content.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Like imagine someone doing a mini deep dive on this market and you just have a team that they hear the startup ideas because V1 is putting the podcast together, hoping someone listens to this exact episode that's interested in lit RPG. V2 is writing it up and distributing that specific thing. So the ideal person might find it.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I think you can build a big SEO thing with that. Cause I don't think necessarily, I don't think you have a subscription model of like, we're just going to send you cool startup idea breakdowns because I wouldn't personally pay for that.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Let's take that and apply it to our niche. How do we make trends of writing businesses? Categories. What is the niche down version of trends for X industry? So you just said- Great point. Same thing. It's if you're a writing-based entrepreneur and you're interested in this world, what is the, I want to see what the Google trends are on this. I want to see what Amazon's doing on this.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
What is all these different publishing platforms on this topic? And the $149 a month, same thing. You can charge higher because it's like generating a legitimate business idea from that. That's an amazing, we should just go do that.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
The more I'm thinking about that. That's the problem with doing a podcast like this, though. We did this last time. It's like I walk out of here... And I sat down this morning and made like a priorities list. And then I have to just figure out where this shiny object slots in. And again, it's a skill issue and a resource.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
It's almost like an in-house, you're financing your team and saying, while you're not working on my ideas, make a little money elsewhere. But if my idea pops up, I'm going to be the one who employs you.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
more stop more i can feel the future energy required to execute on these we had a nice priority list till you showed up craig i'm sorry it's okay i'm just gonna write this as an email send it to myself in six months and say re-listen to this once you've taken care of the priorities
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Start writing online.com. It's typically the best place if you want to start writing online or Twitter on Twitter, Twitter, LinkedIn.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Shoot us ideas. Shoot us DMs if you have ideas.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Happy to jam on them once the priority list gets worked through, but it's a lot of fun.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Okay.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I don't know, man. This is why I love you because I would never in my entire life think about something like this, but now I have a hundred ideas that would go deeper. Let's go. Because.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
This is why I love you because I would never in my entire life think about something like this, but now I have 100 ideas that would go deeper. Let's go. Because if you zoom out, what you just said was... identifying opportunities where the supply and demand are mismatched, but specifically in the literary world, right?
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
So my head goes, how do you find all of the sub genres where there is more demand than current supply? And so you identified that because you have niche expertise, but- almost you mentioned there's a tool of these books doing high amounts of revenue. How do you build something else that goes, okay, here's the search volume.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
And then the number of books in that category where there's a mismatch, that's where you insert the niche publishing house and go, okay, cool. This is underserved. We're going to staff this one and monetize that mismatch until it's, it's like finding arbitrage within the Kindle direct publishing market.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
It's sick.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
If you could do a RuneScape one where I got to relive playing RuneScape for hundreds of hours, probably just get to watch one character.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
So my only thought there is what is the overlap? That's what we don't like to hear on the Startup Ideas podcast show. So I jumped to, what is the overlap of people who watch Twitch and also read books?
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I'm Gen Z for what's worth. I'm on the edge. Are you officially? 28 or 96 is the cutoff. Boy. So I'm not really that much.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
Yeah, exactly. See, I think the cutoff is like, if you actively have a Snapchat, do either of you actively use Snapchat? Like I have not used Snapchat in a long time.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
So, well, first a question, question for you guys. Do you have like a note in your phone that says startup ideas and you just like log it all the time? I have a note that's called book ideas, but not startup ideas. Do you have one that says startup ideas? It's called ideas. Just ideas? Yeah. I do not have that. And I see a lot of people almost say like, oh, here's another startup idea.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I am right on the edge where I have not opened Snapchat in like seven years. Some of my friends do. It's like a 50-50 split. I remember using it a ton in high school. But you are clearly not Gen Z if you don't have one. And if you have one, I think you are like Gen Z slash Zoomer or whatever it is.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I don't know if you can undo the brains, man.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
3 startup ideas using data/trends to get you paid featuring Dickie Bush & Nicolas Cole
I grew up on an iPad. I hated reading it because I played a ton of video games.