Greg Isenberg
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The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
The next idea, Shopify for X. I think Shopify is an $80 billion company. And when you have an $80 billion company, there's just opportunities to unbundle it. So what's Dani's idea? So she says, there are all these no-code tools. They're either too limited or too complex. What you need is a product-specific tool. Shopify is no-code e-commerce. Then you would also build no-code marketplaces.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So I don't think... The point is, I don't think the reason why HQ Trivia...
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
died is because the format didn't work and i think someone my prediction is someone's going to bring back the hq trivia format and apply it to a new niche maybe it's dating and it's going to work in 2024 25 25 2026 so hq dating you know i i think that live dating like this is interesting to so many people uh i love this idea uh And yeah, you've got to come up with a catchy name.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
You've got to make it interesting. I think you start in Los Angeles or New York. It has to feel almost like a reality TV show because you have to want to get to know the characters. But I think this idea, HQ dating, is a great idea. And I think the bigger idea of HQ trivia for X is a trend that I'm certainly paying attention to. And that's about it. That's about it.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So those are some of the more interesting ideas on the list. I'll include the list in the YouTube bio. Sorry, in the YouTube description. These are a few ideas that are just really, really good. Danny, like I said, Danny knows what... She knows... She's got that juice. She's got that juice. So if you enjoyed that, like this YouTube video, comment on the YouTube video, I read every single comment.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
Some of these ideas, I might be like, you know what? I wouldn't Maybe it's a good idea, but it's one of those ideas I wouldn't do. Too much work. So without further ado, let's go into Danny Grant's 139 ideas. Let's pick the most interesting ones or the ones that just speak to me. And let's go through this together and see what we got.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
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I'm going to go and open up a Figma and just start jamming on some of these ideas. So have a good one and I'll see you on the next one. Later.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
All right, so this idea, idea number one, is there a product doc format just for writing product specs? So you can create Jira's inline, you can have common threads inline, et cetera. This is pretty darn good idea. There is Google Docs, of course, but there's nothing specific for product specs.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So I can imagine a Google Docs for product specs for PMs that people would be willing to pay $20 a month for. So I actually think that there's something here. I really like this idea. It's not the simplest idea to do. You have to create software. I don't think really anything like this exists.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
I mean, of course you have product templates, but you don't really have a whole experience dedicated to writing product specs. How would I actually go and build something like this? Well, I'd build the MVP, probably outsource it to an agency to get the MVP up. And I'd partner with a creator. I mean, Lenny Richitsky would be the dream.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So Lenny Richitsky, I think at this point, has the biggest podcast and newsletter for product managers. But who are the aspiring Lenny Richitskys? So I'd make a list. I'd go to perplexity.ai. And I'd say, who are the up and coming 20 Lenny Richitskys? And... And I would go and reach out to them. So I think this is a good idea. Pretty straightforward. Software. Catchy name.
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I probably wouldn't do this idea if I didn't have the buy-in from... two to three or four creators. So I would create the name, I'd create the mock-up first, and then I would actually go and see if I want to build it. All right, so that's idea number one. Idea number two, developer portfolio sites. So she says, help every developer create their own Danny Town.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
I assume Danny Town is her own portfolio website. So there's a company called format.com. And what they do is they're the portfolio builder for creative professionals. So basically what Danny's suggesting is build the format dot com, but for developers. Now, I know someone's listening to this and being like, well, that's GitHub. GitHub already exists. Yes, but it's not as beautiful as a format.
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This is such a good idea. This is such a good idea. Something like this needs to exist, should exist, will exist. How would I actually go and build something like this? Well, I'd build that. Okay, so a few weeks ago, I had Dani Grant on the podcast. She's someone who I really respect.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And I do think that there's an opportunity to build that for developers. And Format's actually massive. They've got 50,000 plus people who pay to use it. And what do they pay to use it? Pricing was pulled up. They pay $11 a month annually or $24 a month monthly. So this is a huge business. If you assume that the average is, let's say, $15 a month, that's huge. We're talking $750,000 a month.
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in monthly recurring revenue for something that doesn't cost a lot of money. And why I love websites, website builders, is once you build it, chances are you are not going to churn. So these are beautiful businesses that don't churn very well. I think Danny's onto something with developer portfolio sites. I do think it makes sense.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And you can probably take, again, you can take that Lenny Richitsky strategy, creator-led There are a bunch of developers who have a lot of followers and I'd work with them to create something that would be really cool. So I think the way I would actually build something like this is I would start by building one really awesome developer portfolio site.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So I would reach out to some of these developers and say, hey, I'm a designer. I'd really love to design you your own developer portfolio site. And and create something unique, interesting, that they've hopefully never seen before. Get them super stoked about it. And once you refine that, maybe you do it for a few people, then that's when you have the product.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And then that's when you get some of these influencer developers on board. And that's when you can actually go and build out an MVP, Minimal Viable Product, and start charging for this. So I really love this idea. These are one of the great cash flow ideas. I remember meeting the founder of Card, C-A-R-R-D.co, I think. He had a great business. They're one-page websites. He charges very little.
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I think it's like nine bucks a year or something. But he had a great business. He bootstrapped it. One guy, One guy living in Tennessee, developer, and millions of people use this. It's crazy. So website builders, I know you must be thinking like, oh my God, that's so 1999. But it works. It really works. And it works really well for different niches. So really good idea on that one.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. So the next idea she has is a blog and a newsletter in a box. So help everyone set up their own AVC.com. So if you don't know AVC.com, it's a blog slash newsletter by Fred Wilson, who's a VC in New York City. He's been doing this for like at least 15, 20 years. It's super, super simple.
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I think originally his blog was on Tumblr. I'm not sure where it is today. But yeah, the idea around, does someone want to blog in a newsletter in a box? I mean, there is Substack, but Substack feels very newsletter first. I do think that there's probably an opportunity to build something like this and make it easy for people. Maybe the idea is just like you're an agency and you work on top of
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
all these different services and you just set it up for them. You use existing services. But I'm not a big fan of like, okay, let's go and create the next sub stack, but make it more blog first. Because I think that's really hard and you're competing against people who've raised tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So don't like that idea, but do like the idea around we work with Beehive, we work with Substack, we work with WordPress. We charge a very small one-time fee to help you get set up for it. And you probably do... cold outbound to get people to do this. This is definitely a cold outbound, cold email, cold DM to get people and say, hey, notice that you don't have
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
a blog set up, I noticed you don't have a newsletter, you're missing out. I think you talk about, you use a lot of social, social credibility around, you know, so-and-so Lenny Richitsky didn't have a blog and newsletter and now he's making $5 million a year with his blog and newsletter. And he does it running on a, you know, a free substack and you can do the same.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So I think the way to do it is you do a mix of the cold DM and then you use your content. You build an audience and you talk about these stories and then you funnel them to a really cheap offer. One-time offer. Why one-time over monthly for something like this? I just think that it's going to be a no-brainer for people. This is a business that... you might be able to start on your side.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
Sometimes you meet someone or you're listening to someone's podcast or you're watching them and you just know that this person's got it. They've got the sauce. They know where the world is going. And she had a few ideas that she shared. But afterwards, she sent me a list of 139 different startup ideas. And we never got a chance to go through them.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
The starting costs are quite small. So cheers, Danny, for giving us this idea. All right, let's talk about some ideas I don't really love. So virtual workspace, compete with Tandem. Tandem is a virtual... Let's check Tandem real quick. So I just checked out Tandem. I'm pretty sure Tandem was one of those apps that you can see other teammates in a third space.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And it seems like they pivoted to more of a Slack plus video conferencing. So it's hard. To build what Danny is suggesting is quite hard. you know, a social app, basically making Slack more social. Um, first of all, you have to like build Slack. Um, so that's step one. And then, so you, you know, step one is building all the primitives, what people are used to.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And then step two is like, okay, now I got to figure out how can I make this different and, and interesting in a social experience. So this is, this is one of those ideas where I think, you know, they call it a tar pit idea. It's an idea that seems good on paper, but like once you actually go and, uh, go into it.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
It's actually a bad idea because there's so much investment that you need to put into something like this. And then you have to get people off Slack. You have to get people off Microsoft Teams. So don't love this idea at all. Other idea, whole world is a silent disco. The problems with Turntable FM is it was too early. Turntable FM was...
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
was an idea where people create these virtual rooms and you play music and you can chat with other people who are in these virtual rooms. You had your own avatar. It almost felt like a game. So she says, now everyone is walking around listening to music everywhere and someone is going to build a network DJ station where the whole world is one big silent disco. I just think this is a cool idea.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
It's a really cool idea. I hope someone does something like this. I actually don't think it's that hard to do something like this. But getting people... It's not hard to build the thing. Getting the whole world to get off their current platforms is hard. And getting people to pay for it and dealing with the licenses of the music industry, not so easy. So cool idea, hard to execute.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
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Okay, another technical idea, JSFiddle meets Twitter. So JSFiddle is basically, you can write code online, JavaScript, pulls in different libraries, and you can run it. all online. It's on IDE or anything like that. So it's very popular. Millions of people use it. But when you look at it, it's really focused just on developers to compile their code. It's not social at all.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And you're starting to see a common denominator with a lot of Dani's ideas to be technical and social. And she ended up building something in that space, jam.dev. which is around bug tracking that's social and hundreds of thousands of people, I think, use it. But there's an opportunity here to basically take JS Fiddle and make it more like Twitter.
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So it's half writing code and half memeing and remixing. I think that there's something here. I think developers love memes. They love remixing. So I think the idea around compiling code and having a place where people can talk, meme, and remix some of that software is very compelling. The next idea, Shopify for X. I think Shopify is an $80 billion company.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
So I figured I'd hop on here real quick, go through some of these ideas. Some of them are kind of big venture-backed ideas. Some of them are profitable startups. And some of them will just get your creative juices flowing. And I'll tell you how I feel about these ideas. What would I do? How would I start them? And if I just think that they're plain garbage.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
And when you have an $80 billion company, there's just opportunities to unbundle it. So what's Dani's idea? So she says, Shopify for making an Airbnb-style marketplace. Shopify for making a messaging app. Shopify for making an Instagram-like app. There are all these no-code tools. They're either too limited or too complex. What you need is a product-specific tool.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
Like Shopify is no-code e-commerce. Then you would also build no-code marketplaces, no-code messaging app, no-code Instagram. This is such a good idea. This is such a good idea.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
This idea around marketplace for no-code apps, that if you listen to this idea on this podcast or one of these ideas, you can just go to the marketplace, duplicate the idea, and then just pay, let's say, a monthly fee or a one-time fee for a license to it. I love that. Now, I think Bubble is doing pieces of that. So maybe you just build on top of Bubble.
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Startup ideas brainstorm (steal this $130k/month idea)
But something like this needs to exist, should exist, will exist. So I think this is definitely the direction things are going. Okay, next idea. HQ Trivia for Dating. Live dating show, mobile HQ style. HQ Trivia, I think it was like 2018, 2019. Literally everyone was playing it. If you don't remember it, it was this guy, Steve Ratajkowski, I think.
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Every single day, you'd get a push notification and he would do live trivia and they'd give away money. And millions of people played it daily. It was an incredible experience. And it ended up crashing and burning. in a large part because of... It was like a crazy story, actually. The founder unfortunately died, and they had growing pains too, and there were drugs involved. It was just crazy.
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Like what makes this business really great for other people who want to create businesses with tiny teams is number one, you lock people into an ecosystem. Number two, the customer service is just exceptional. Number three, family business. Number four, it's niche. It's not for everyone. And they went after like the Tony Robbins of the world. And then last but not least, it's a dope name.
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This is beautiful. I'm obsessed with this. The cover art is just absolutely stunning. It's like one of those things where You want to buy it and just frame it and put it on your walls. It's absolutely amazing. And it's actually one per customer. So it says, due to demand, it is not possible to order multiple of the same item in one transaction. So I just love the scarcity of it, too.
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It does feel very community-oriented. This is a really, really good one. I wonder how much revenue they're bringing in for something like this.
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It doesn't even matter. It doesn't matter because the impact that this is making. It's so cool. It's so cool. This is so cool.
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Yeah. This is too cool. This is too cool.
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All right. That was a good one. All right. I got, I got, I got, I got another one. When are we stopping? Like, is it, is it just like, we're stopping when, when it feels like we should stop.
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You're talking to the wrong guy.
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All right. So my second Tiny Team Award goes to AJ, the founder of Card, C-A-R-R-D. Are you familiar with Card?
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So if you go to C-A-R-R-D.co, it's basically these simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything. So a card is I got to know AJ through Ryan Hoover from Product Hunt. So he launched on Product Hunt. He was just like, I just need a way to create a one page card, one page website in a really simple way. And I think other people probably want that.
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He launched on Product Hunt and went viral within that community. All of a sudden, as a one man developer, he's doing I think at least a million, a million and a half of ARR. Wow. And you know the cost with something like that. I mean, not very much. And what ended up happening is a lot of causes, like social causes, started using it.
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And a lot of, for whatever reason, like K-pop stars started using it. So it's just like cool because number one, it's cool because he's a tiny team. It's him. And I think one other person, it's cool because it got popular. Like he didn't really do any marketing. It kind of just like blew up from the Product Hunt community and then spread to, you know, communities that needed it most.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
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You think they're bigger than they are, but they're smaller.
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This solopreneur made $300M so we gave him an award for it
I think the Black Lives Matter community used it a lot and that spread to other causes. And then K-pop stars started using it and that spread to other people who listen to K-pop. And I just thought it was cool that it's just some developer who created a one page. I think website builders are just cool too.
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It's one of those categories where it's like people have been building website builders since the 90s. It's like, do we need another website builder? I guess we do.
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So firstly, go onto Twitter and just put in card and search and sort by latest. What you'll see is like every second people are tweeting about their card websites. And I think one of the reasons why this works is it's a status symbol within certain communities to have a card. Yeah. So it'll say like when you create a card, it'll be... It'll be gregeisenberg.car.co.
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Yeah. And it blows your mind and you just, you can't believe it. You're like, what? How is that even possible? Yeah.
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This solopreneur made $300M so we gave him an award for it
And within certain communities, like I mentioned, K-pop and causes, it's kind of like a flex.
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This solopreneur made $300M so we gave him an award for it
I honestly think that it was organically cultivated. It wasn't like AJ... you know, I think he lives in like rural Tennessee. So I don't think he has the most amount of K-pop connections, you know? So it just, from that Product Hunt launch, I don't know, it just sort of spread and they saw the product and it felt cool and interesting and they liked the name.
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I also think that their business model is one of the reasons why it works. So most people, most website builders will charge $10, $20, $30, sometimes $50 a month for access to it. Guess what car it charges?
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No, not that tiny.
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Oh, actually, you're right. It is free. You can create for free. But if you want the pro features, like multiple sites, no branding, widgets, embeds, Google Analytics, forms, if you want to connect it to Beehive or ConvertKit, something like that. you do have to pay for the advanced features. And it's only, yes, only $19 per year.
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Yeah. I mean, that's, what is that?
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It's a tiny amount of dollars per year.
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This solopreneur made $300M so we gave him an award for it
$19 is like half an espresso.
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This solopreneur made $300M so we gave him an award for it
Yeah. Yeah. I'm happy you started talking about that because the comment section is going to be like so upset. And people get so upset about the prices of things.
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It's like for Dasani water. It's about $19.
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totally don't like don't say it's a joke and just keep doing that until people think we're viciously out of touch totally i like this i like that a lot yeah i mean 3800 dollars to be completely disconnected from reality and for the price of a coffee it's a no-brainer
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Or just lovers. Just some lovers.
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Yeah. It's in the ballpark, right? With tip, it's around $3,800.
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Yeah. I mean, I think they know we're... Well, are you wearing... What are you wearing underneath there?
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I mean, I was thinking about putting on pants, but then I was just like, what is the point?
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Yeah. What is happening behind there?
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Yes. I give the tiny business award to card.co. Congrats.
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All right. Let's dig in.
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Yay! Okay, but I don't know that business at all.
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That is so good. That is so cool. So cool. That fires me up.
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That fires me up.
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And we make a magazine out of it.
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This solopreneur made $300M so we gave him an award for it
All right, I'm going to refrain from...
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one upping you with another tiny team award i think dude no no i can't i can't i want i want you to have the last word on this one and we'll do another one of these yeah um here listen i think what you should do is maybe someone on your team should make a not shitty looking version one of these and like we send it to the to the people who want it as like a cute thing totally or we just send them
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yeah my team tiny yeah exactly i'm six foot three okay i'm huge do you know how large my flip chart is yeah all right well jc this has been fun uh thank you and uh any any parting words um i'm so sweaty yeah the thing with suits is they really traps in the heat
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Yeah. Well, they say higher quality of life in Europe, but no AC. I don't know. Hard to deal with that one.
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Totally. Did you see my tweet to Daniel Ek?
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No, he's like really hard to track down.
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Yeah, he'll have no choice but to come on. Yeah, come on.
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All right, man. It's been real. I'll catch you later. Thanks, everyone.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
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Okay, and a flip chart, flip chart meaning one of those things where you're just kind of like a whiteboard?
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And how well do you think these guys are doing?
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So I'm looking right now, they charge for the King flip chart exclusive set. It's 13, 15 euros plus taxes. And that includes the foldable and portable flip chart. I think it probably includes a few refills and stuff like that. But I didn't realize it would be that expensive.
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The end. I also recommend people go to, when you go to their website, if you go to the Team of King flip chart, and we'll put this on the YouTube video, it's just a picture of um, T Ziana and Sandro, just like looking deep into your soul. Yes. And it's, it's perfect.
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And they just talk about like you, you start reading about the team and you really get a sense of like who these people are, why they, why they're doing what they're doing. It just feels so family business. And I feel like the trend around like the Amazonification of the internet. This is like the anti-trend around just like, this feels like you wanna support this business. Quick ad break.
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Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO. And that's why I use boringmarketing.com. And that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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So there's something different about us today. We are wearing suits. Why are we wearing suits?
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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They deserve this prestigious, very prestigious award.
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That's right. Exactly. So congratulations. I know you've been wanting this from the day you've been born, Tiziana and Sandro. So congratulations. And just from a framework perspective, I'm trying to think, so what makes this business really great for other people who want to create businesses with tiny teams is number one, you lock people into an ecosystem.
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Number two, the customer service is just exceptional. Number three, family business is Number four, it's niche. It's not for everyone. And they went after like the Tony Robbins of the world. So then you look it in, you're like, I want to be a king too. You know, I don't, I want to be a king. Tony Robbins is a king. And then last but not least, it's a dope name.
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And what's that award?
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Yep. I love it. I love it. I just love it. I love it. So that's award number one. I've got a tiny team award I want to give out.
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so for the second tiny team award ever to be given sip to that uh stardew valley oh my god what a fucking great i don't know if you want to beat that up but what we didn't know which ones we were going to bring to each other that is such a great one do you know about the story of stardew valley
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So Stardew Valley is a farming game started by a guy by the name of Eric not try to pronounce it, Eric Barone or Eric Barone. I don't know if he's Italian. Maybe it's just the Italian flip chart got to me.
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It's the son of the flip chart dynasty.
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So for the purpose of this award, we're going to call him Eric Barone. He's the one man developer behind $300 million of earnings of Stardew Valley. So Stardew Valley started, I think he started building it in 2011. So it took a few years, but basically it's this farming game. And he was the sole developer for the game. And not only was he the sole developer, he was the sole designer.
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And what does that mean?
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He even crafted the music for the game. that not many people know that. And it was this really cool concept where, you know, so many games, the trends were first person shooters, MMOs, killing people, fighting games. He did the complete opposite and created this like calming farming game. And he, what I love about the whole story, besides that he's a tiny team and he did it,
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I mean, amazing that he created $300 million of value by himself, is the fact that, well, he just basically went against all best practices and all trends and just said, this is going to be a really cool game. I want to go and put this out here. And people said that it should be $60. He started charging $15. And you can even get Stardew Valley now for as cheap as $4.99.
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Maybe once per lifetime.
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So his, his, you know, I just, I love people who have a POV and it's just like, this needs to exist. Plus I'm a tiny team chef's kiss. So congratulations, Eric.
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No, I have not.
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My take on this is that every person has a ignorance tax that they have to pay down. So no matter what your goals are, there's a price that you have to pay to learn to get to your goals quicker. And by living in San Francisco, New York, some of these places, yes, it might be two times more expensive to live, but you will, just by osmosis, pay down your ignorance debt way, way, way faster.
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I'm just trying to think. Okay, so what... job titles need this the most and i think if you if you think about some of these positions like teachers or dentists or even doctors even yeah doctors like they spend they basically decide that they want to be these people at age like architects architects hate their lives usually often
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I just take a sip and I'm back where I need to be.
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So they might, you know, in their mind, like, you know, their parents or, you know, they had an uncle who was a who was a dentist. So they become a dentist. And then by the time they're, you know, in their mid 20s or late 20s or early 30s, they're like, whoa. I don't like being a therapist. It's horrible. People are just telling me their problems.
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So I think a lot of job titles where there's a lot of studying and prep and long hours, that's what I'd go after.
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I don't even know if civil engineering...
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Well, it's The Power of Mimemic Desire. Do you ever read that book? I've never read that book. I think it's a book.
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Yeah, it's called Wanting, The Power of Mimemic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgess. It basically says that even if we don't realize it, we do things to try to mimic other people in our lives. And how we don't have as much, like we think that we're doing things, we're independent, we're human beings.
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No, Zin is the rage in America. It's basically like a, it looks like a piece of gum and people put it like on their lip. It's just like, it's a nicotine thing.
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If we want to be a doctor, it's because we want to be a doctor, but we don't realize that it's 99% our environment and just us trying to fit in as people.
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Yeah. I mean, the way you were describing being in the middle of nowhere is exactly where I am now. I'm in like literally looking at it, you know, 95 acres of mountains and there's no one around here. I'm in the, I'm in Canada. And so I like to live my life from extremes. Miami is like, you're in it. And here I'm like, you're not in it.
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And sometimes I find it really helpful to dip in and out of the extremes.
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So for you, you're going to come to San Francisco. You're going to get this dose or injection of...
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silicon valley into your veins and but you know you're going to be taking your flight home and on your flight you're going to be wow should i raise venture capital and you're a guy who's never thought about raising venture capital in your life and that's because if you spend enough time in san francisco you will think about raising around because that's what everyone does there for sure um so you know then then you're going to go down to la and
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And, you know, on your flight leaving L.A., you're going to be like, oh, you know, I've always been thinking I should really get into vlogging. Because everyone wants to be famous in L.A. So I think the hack is you have to write your goals. Like, what are your goals? Personal, career. And then cities can help you get to your goals. But too much of one city could also...
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you know, kind of hurt personal goals or hurt other career goals. So I think that you should treat a city as just like a utility in a way, right? Like you get something out of it. And but I want to say one quick thing, which is I also don't think you should be one of those people that are constantly on a flight because if you don't have a home base, you don't have like a community.
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That's also just like a terrible way to live.
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No, no, this is great. My take on this is that every person has a ignorance tax that they have to pay down. So no matter what your goals are, there's a price that you have to pay to learn to get to your goals quicker. And by living in San Francisco, New York, some of these places, yes, it might be two times more expensive to live, but you will, just by osmosis,
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pay down your ignorance tax, ignorance debt way, way, way faster. And the question for you is, or the person listening really is, at this stage in your life and with the amount of money that you have saved up, is it worth spending an extra $1,500 a month or whatever it is for the premium to potentially get an extra client a month or learn about how VCs work or XYZ. That's what it is.
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Yeah, I think you could move out to the suburbs or live off the grid if... you build a big audience. Because then, what is an audience? An audience just puts you at the center of digital gravity. And then it's all good because you don't need to be in New York, you don't need to be in San Francisco. You're tweeting and you're getting a million views.
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So if you're starting out or you just want to accelerate your career, I think you want to do both things. You want to do the digital gravity thing and you want to build an audience. Uh, and that's kind of your insurance. And also with your fallback plan for when you do, you know, you've been in New York and you hit 30 and you're like, I'm tired of this. I need to help. Totally.
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Yeah. Who doesn't want that insurance?
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Well, that's what we do. That's what we do. We burrow. We burrow. You know, that's our style.
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I'm, I'm in, I'm in Miami, call it seven to eight months a year, eight months a year probably. And then three, three months summertime here and then maybe a month during the winter. So that's the other thing I like about here is it's got the craziest seasons of all time. It gets to like minus 45 degrees and like snows like 10, 10 feet. Um,
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And Miami is like, you know, like the complete opposite of that. And it's like hurricane season right now. So I don't know. I, I like, I like, again, I like the diversity. I like, uh, I find that I work, I'm actually more productive up here. Uh, it's a great place to write. Like think I'm in like a cabin in the woods basically. Right. So it's like so good for writing. So good for creativity.
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Um, and, uh, that's also just helpful. Like if I have like,
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I think we can end it here. I got to ask people to like on YouTube if you enjoyed this. Apparently liking for the algorithm is a thing. Please like it. Please like it and subscribe and then leave us a review on Spotify and Apple if you're listening there.
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And have a good one, everyone. Later. Should we sip it out? Let's sip it out.
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Hey everyone, if you're anything like me, you've got a ton of design work that you need.
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websites landing pages emails social assets you name it but you don't just want beautiful landing pages or beautiful websites you want the stuff that's going to convert you want the stuff that's going to actually drive value that's where designscientist.com comes in it's an agency that for one monthly price will do all your design work all your copy work all your engineering
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and do stuff that actually scales your revenue. You don't need a designer. You need a design scientist. Let's go design scientist.com. I liked it so much. I invested in the business. So what you're saying is there's a bunch of careers that, I mean, most careers, honestly, people don't like. There's a subsection of people who don't like what they're doing.
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And there's an opportunity to get those people to create content to attract those people and then sell coaching and other services to help them transition from what they're doing. To what they want to be doing. That's what you're saying.
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Time to sip. You haven't been on the show in like three weeks, so you're just like super, super electric about it.
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It's a career coach on Zin, exactly. That's a good one-liner.
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You wouldn't be helping the kids who are in the schools, but you definitely would be helping... You want to fix the education system, dude? You're not exactly fixing the education system. But yeah, I hear you. I will say... Okay, check this out. So one of the first things that I do whenever I come up with an idea... is I go to Reddit.
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And I noticed that there's a subreddit called... I was on this exact subreddit today. You would be. You would be. Teachers in Transition. Okay. So it's pretty massive. It's 34,000 members. It's actually a perfect size. Top 3% rank by size. And one of the things I like to do is I go check the top posts. So this month, the top post...
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is a post that says, in case anyone questions why 50% of teachers leave in their first five years. And it's basically these text messages of parents just following up around report cards. It's so bad. It's like, I'm curious as to the interpretation of the grading rubric, right? And then there's 213 comments of other teachers being like,
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one of the top comments, I don't care about grades, quote unquote, and proceeds to rant about grades. So I think the way to build this is the way I would build this teachers in transition or whatever in transition is I would actually go and build the subreddit if it doesn't exist. Like go and build a subreddit, moderate the subreddit. I would try to collect as many memes as possible.
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And the memes is how you attract the audience. You just end up sharing memes for teachers, nurses, dentists,
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um that sort of thing get a bunch of you know thousands of followers and from there then that's when you create your high ticket offer and that's when you you know you sell them stuff and teaching was just an example because just there's a lot of people in my life who've quit teaching and found it very stressful and and the
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Yeah, and basically gossip, you know? But it's, you know, if you're a teacher and you're in the subreddit, you read a post and it's kind of like real recognize real, you know? Like I see you other teacher, like I've been there, we've all been there. And if you can get that feeling, that's basically the feeling that you want to reverse engineer.
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No, nothing. My brain is never slow and is never stupid. It just hasn't happened ever yet.
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That being said, I think that whatever, if 10% of Gen Z reads now, I think in the next five years, 20% reads. And I think it's because it's the shift around anti-tech. But I do think that the vast majority of them are just going to be like, I grew up in a Call of Duty world. It's just hard for me to sit down and be in an analog world.
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So what is the math on these books? Just because I don't know.
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Yeah. You know why it's called ideas and not startup ideas? Because when I have an idea for a startup, I need the least amount of time. The time between coming up with the idea and writing it down needs to be as quick as possible. So when I first came up with that note, I was like, I'm not writing startup ideas. It's going to take twice as long. Minimal number of friction.
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So what is the math on these books? Just because I don't know.
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And how long does that last? Is that just like, you know, for four months, it's 100 grand or 200 grand or?
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How many authors actually look at data first and then decide to write a book based on data?
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I was just on the phone with an operator.
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I'll tell you why. Because I was like, yeah, I'm looking to hire an operator. They have this idea for this business. And it's a great idea. And here's why it's going to work. And it's like a shoe in. And he goes, by the way, just so you know, no operator likes being called an operator. You know, like we're never call an operator operator. an operator. We're entrepreneurs. We build the business.
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An operator- It sounds like a cop. He's like, it sounds like I'm operating a crane. Like I'm operating a crane.
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But yeah, I think that not enough people take their ideas and find, we'll create basically a mini idea lab where they're like, okay, instead of investing, let's say, let's say you have a couple hundred grand of, of cash, which is like Ehrlich Bachman is the only example from Silicon Valley of like the ideas guy.
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Exactly. So you take instead of investing, you know, into the S&P, you you find an operator and you use data to inform some of these bets. And you like this is a perfect bet where it's like, OK, if I'm going to invest five, four grand a month, three grand a month. share the upside, but this thing could potentially pay back 20 X and there's like IP in it. Yes.
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Do you know what the multiples are on publishing houses?
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So it, let's just say it's seven X.
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Let's make it difficult. Let's say it's 7.28x. Perfect. Perfect number. You know what makes it 17.28x? Is if you have technology. Also true. So if you're like, hey, you know, Penguin, we're this like up and coming publishing house that uses our own technology that scrapes
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Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just need to keep going. Okay.
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And later on, the deals that you have with creators and streamers... Could also do. Right. That, you know, for the next five years, you could license their name for all these books. Mm hmm.
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We just promised startup ideas. That's why you need to... talk with your friends about startup ideas, right? And put it on the internet. And put it on the internet so you get feedback, right? Now we went down that rabbit hole. We know it's probably not a good idea. But it might be.
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Honestly, like that was pretty damn good. I like it. Yeah. I mean a lot there.
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I also think that, yes, I do feel that way. But I also think that you got me thinking that there's a whole variety of competitive analysis tools that are probably great businesses to build. But the thing is you don't sell it. You use it for your own advantage. So you have things like Jungle Scout for Amazon, right? You have things, there's a tool I use called Gummy Search for Reddit.
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There's all these tools in a bunch of different platforms. First of all, there's a whole, like here's a prompt for people listening. Like what are competitive analysis tools for platforms that are up and coming?
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that haven't been built yet and then go build them and then just use it for yourself and train yourself and think about ideas for yourself like for example there's another one I was using called Etsy Hunt it just goes on Etsy it's basically Jungle Scout which tells you like how- You pay for those? You pay for them.
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Yeah, people pay a monthly fee, but it's one of those things where the price discrimination is completely wrong. Like I don't remember exactly what Etsy hunt charges, but it's probably like less than 50 bucks a month. But if you create a killer, like there's some Etsy sellers who make millions of dollars a year.
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Exactly.
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I think it's a good question to ask. Like whenever you, especially people like us who are on the internet and like write and do podcasting and stuff like that, like you have to, it's important to have like a theme. Like it would be pretty random if I created an OnlyFans competitor, for example.
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Or account. Both of those would be out of your ballpark. You'd be like, I don't, you know, I don't, I don't get it, but I hope you're okay, Greg. You know, like... I'd be getting a text saying like, you good or something like that. You good bro. Yeah. So, you know, one exercise I do just for myself is like, I have like, this is my, this is kind of like my mission.
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This is my MO and this is like my lane or my two lanes I want to be in. And here's the portfolio businesses that support that, that mission. And I think everyone should have that. You have that with like writing and start writing and that like that category. But that's one of the reasons why I started this podcast, which is the comment section of this.
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Maybe we might find someone who's like, yeah, I actually am passionate about lit RPG. I'm one of those people. If you want to do that, DM me. Yeah, DM him. There's probably someone screaming at their podcast listener right now and being like, these idiots. Yeah. Why am I still listening? There's hundreds of thousands. Lit RPG is like the biggest thing ever.
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And that's where I think having these, spinning up these like small idea lab teams make a lot of sense where it's not you, but you're advising and you're accelerating them.
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It's kind of like trends. We actually, we added a, so we have like a paid membership. It's $149 a month. And one of the things that people get a lot of value is this monthly, we go like, Hey, we were on Google trends and we were on Reddit and we found like these trends and here's like a couple of business ideas. That's cool. And it's a monthly email.
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And like some people have said like just that email alone, it's kind of like a show.
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That's a great idea. You totally should. And you know what the beauty about all this is, is it puts you- at the focal point of an industry. So all of a sudden, even with Community Empire, I just see people building these types of businesses now. And then all of a sudden, I can invest in them. We can acquire them. Trends for X. It's one of the reasons why I actually event businesses.
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So B2B events... is interesting because the host of the event ends up meeting everyone.
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Yeah, no, I just like the idea.
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I'm not saying I'm doing it, but one of the best parts about the event business is that the host gets to know everyone in a particular industry. And there's a lot of value in being the gravity in a particular industry. And when you end up creating... What you would be doing here, which is really cool, is you're giving people an unfair advantage, basically.
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And whenever you give someone an unfair advantage... That's really good.
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We can do it for you too. That's one of the reasons why I built a bunch of agencies is because now my agencies are my idea labs. I have a design agency when I need designs. I have an SEO agency when I need SEO. I have an ad agency when I need ads. I have a community team when I need community stuff.
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I literally have everything and that's also one of the benefits of owning agencies but keeping, not growing agencies for the sake of growing it, keeping it like
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And it's okay even if it breaks even. We talked about that a bit with the ghostwriting side. Even if it breaks even, even if your agency breaks even, it's not the end of the world because... you've compiled an amazing team who have this, who are gelling so well together. And then no agency works at 100% productivity. Good agencies work at 70% productivity at best.
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So realistically, if you're at 40 or 50%, you can use that 20, 30, 40, 50% on your own projects and you don't have to pay for it.
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Yeah. Thanks for, thanks for jamming. Oh, these are great. Yeah. And, um, where could people find you on the internet? I don't know. On the internet. Yeah.
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We'll, we'll link it in the, in the, in the show notes. So people just click there and.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, this was a lot of fun. All right. Thanks for coming on later. Boom. See everyone. It's the pod.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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So that's exactly where my head went to, which was how do you build a SaaS tool that does that, except you don't want to sell that SaaS tool because you want to build the publishing houses yourself. So you build an internal tool.
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Okay, I want to riff on this idea a little bit. So, first of all, lit RPG.
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I'd read it.
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Dude, that's what this is. Well, you know what it is. It's analog Twitch. Exactly. It's analog Twitch. Yes. So... Here's what I would do. I would partner with the top hundred Twitch streamers and be like, I'm going to create... Oh, that's smart.
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Because what's going to happen is people are going to notice, people are using this tool and they're going to notice, okay, lit RPG, search volume is going up, demand and supply mismatch. There's going to be the AI rush to create... you know, people are going to create these books with AI and stuff like that. And it's going to be like low to medium quality.
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And it's like, what's going to separate you from them? Well, yes, it could be like a nice cover and actually doing it well with writing, but having a name in the audience. Yeah, exactly. The name in the audience and just be like, listen, um, you know, streamer, I'll give you 50% of the revenue and, um,
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All right, should we begin? Sure. Let's do it. Where do you want to start? Do you have any ideas for me? You got ideas?
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That's too many Tuckers for me, by the way. No, I haven't seen.
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No, no. I mean, whenever I talk to you guys, I always leave just like rejuvenated with ideas.
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And okay, question, is Gen Z reading books? Are they reading books?
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Yeah.
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It was also acquired by a South Korean company. So I imagine a bunch of the readers are.
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Yeah, from Asia. That's a thesis, I don't know.
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If we did, it would be concerning. Right. You could take us to prison right away.
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That's the, yeah, old person, young person test right there. So my thesis, no data to support this. I don't, just prefacing it. As most good theses are. My thesis is most of Gen Z haven't read a book, have not read a book, and... It's a great question. And, actually not and, but... I think that's going to change. There's now this new trend around like. Anti-tech. Anti-tech.
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And books are going to be this like. I'm reading this paper thing. Exactly. You're not going to believe it. It's counterculture. Yeah. Interesting. I mean, the reality is a book is super hard to compete with, you know, a video game where a video game Call of Duty is like optimized, like literally for.
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Yeah, I know.
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I mean, you know this. You were a professional World of Warcraft person. These video games hijack your brain and you just get immersed in these worlds. Now, you can make the same argument that, well, a book could immerse you in these worlds. Yes, but it's just a lot more work. A lot more people don't go to the gym than go to the gym.
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Dude, I would pay $13,000 a month for the ability to have a YouTube channel because I'm attracting people interested in the same things I'm interested in. And I could create products that I can sell them and services and stuff like that. I don't have to live in New York City or live in San Francisco because I have a YouTube channel now and I have a podcast.
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Totally. You sent me a text. You're on. And you sent me a text with a bunch of, I think, nine really amazing ideas. So I want you just to get right into it. Let's go.
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be more productive using AI. And the biggest lesson we learned is people were asking for AI, but what did they really want? Automation. So I think that in the SMB space, there's huge demand for automation because what is automation? Automation is cost savings. And everyone wants to save costs. So it's an easy sell. So I think from a pricing perspective, what you need to do is
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just figure out, okay, if I'm going to save these guys $200,000, how much can I realistically charge them? And that's like the mental model that you need to come up with.
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Yeah, that's the number, right? I mean, that's the way to think about it. And we're actually launching something in July in this space. And the beauty is we have this
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Totally. And I think it's also... Spend time on figuring out what's your tone, what's your voice, what's your personality, what's your style, what's your structure, what's your format of the content, and then how are you going to basically bring a pipeline of ideas, of content ideas in, and then use that system to help you create a lot of that content. That's what the game is.
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Think of yourself as more of a... An editor than a writer. A curator. You're a conductor of the orchestra. You're not playing the flute.
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I mean, it doesn't exist yet. I think they're going to be going, I mean, they're going in that direction. Canva recently did, did you watch any of their, they did like a massive event where No, I didn't see it. No one on tech Twitter was talking about it. And that's the event. Forget WWDC. The Canva event actually had so much that if you're trying to create profitable startups, go watch it.
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Go watch what they announced. Dude, some of these titles are insane. Yeah. It's wild. So they're definitely going into AI territory. And I could see them doing some of this. But I think that even if they do it, it doesn't matter. There's always going to be demand for, hey, I need this asset ASAP. And I'm worse than... I'm worse... Even if I'm good at Canva... I'm not the best at Canva.
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Do you know Design Pickle? Totally. Yeah. I mean, they're OG. Design... OG. Been around for, I don't know, 10, 15 years. They probably do... you know, 30 million a year in revenue. And from what I've seen, they generate a ton of customers from meta ads. I'm constantly seeing their ads on Instagram and they charge about $499, I believe, $499 a month. So it's very, very cheap to get in there.
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I think that if you're going to go build this, the way to do it is it's like $99 a month.
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Cool. I like this one. I do think that the pricing undercutting Design Pickle. Design Pickle, my guess is they have a ton of offshore talent. So the reason they're able to charge so cheap is it's offshore. But my guess is they're not going to create a $99 a month plan. They rode the offshoring wave. You can ride the AI wave. And there's a business here. A hundred percent.
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He's got a good name with it too. What is it?
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Yeah, I like this idea for a few reasons. One is founders are going to look at this as ROAS. They're going to be like, okay, I'm going to pay you $100,000 a year, but... the lifetime value of a customer to me is worth $25,000. So I just need four of these to work. So I love that. And I think that's a new trend, just looking at audience as ROAS, return on audience spend. So that's number one.
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And number two, everyone knows that being dependent on any of these one platforms is a bad idea. So everyone's trying to get off these platforms into email or text. So this is just selling schmuck insurance.
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This is selling schmuck insurance. Don't be a schmuck. Have an email list is like the tagline.
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Oh no. Did you hear about Roger? Oh, what happened to Roger? Oh, Roger got, Roger got, I thought it was a real person. Exactly. Roger's gone, dude.
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I like how when I was, first of all, are you even friends with a person named Roger? Do you even know any Rogers? I know a Roger. I hate him. I've never met a Roger I like. I don't know about you. Yeah, that's true, actually. I don't know what it is about Rogers, but they're polarizing. Put it that way. They're like olives. They're like olives. That's right. Rogers are like olives.
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But yeah, I was like, did you hear what happened to Roger? And I saw your heart drop. Dude, immediately. I was like, wait, who? Is it somebody we know? And I saw your heart drop because you're basically not wearing a shirt right now.
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A hundred percent. They're dirty, but not calloused. Exactly. That's right. All right. I like that idea. Very straightforward. Idea number five. What's idea number six? Okay. Six.
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And is he using AI to create the designs? Uh,
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So when I post to YouTube, me and my producer come up with a few title and thumbnail ideas. And then we kind of just... We pray for the best. That's basically it, right? So I think that there's an opportunity to, first of all, not just do only thumbnails, combine it with titles because titles are equally as important. And then putting data behind, oh, this title is... Yeah, and I knew you were.
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I knew you were about to go there. This speaks to you, right? This idea around, okay, there's a 75% probability that if you use this title, it's going to generate 25% more traffic because the search volume, the this, the that. And you can even, like I use vidIQ. and vidIQ has a ton of really good data.
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And this may be something that you like pitch to vidIQ or I don't know if they have an API or anything, but the data is available. Totally, 100%.
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Yeah. I like this. I also like, you know, it's just one of those things where more and more people just, and you said it yourself, they want to be creators. They want to be YouTubers. And it's interesting because now it's bleeding in bleeding into like the B2B space. There's so many founders I talk to now that are like secretly like
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In the last 30 days on my YouTube, 263,000 views. And that's like long form. Insane. 31,000 hours of time. What's the ad revenue for that to give people perspective? I'm going to give it at the end. I'm not just going to give it to people. That's not how this works. That's not how YouTube works, bro. I thought you wanted to be a YouTuber. And then I added 6,300 subscribers in the last 28 days.
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And I made an estimated revenue of $3,000. Totally. $36,000 a year. Totally.
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I mean, that's a bonus business idea right there. You make a list of all the VC firms. And specifically, I mean, you start with enterprise B2B ones, and then you make the pitch that their founders need to be media companies and their businesses need to be media companies. And you try to sell it to them as a value add to their portfolio. Hey, we come in and we'll, we'll, we'll create content.
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We'll create videos. We'll, you know, do thumbnails. We'll do titles, like all the stuff that we talked about on this pod, but it's going to cost and your customer isn't the founder. It's, it's the people who raise a hundred million dollar fund. Yeah.
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I actually think of a better idea is your idea, like selling, selling to them and because they... They could easily write that off as an expense because it's deal flow, right? They're in the business of getting the best possible deals and they need attention and audience to do that. That's why people forget.
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But in tech Twitter, in the beginning, the people who had the most amount of followers weren't the entrepreneurs. It was the VCs. Totally. Like the Fred Wilsons and all those guys.
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Totally. Charging $3.99 a month, $3.99 a month. There's no real cost associated with it. His costs are his meta ads that he's doing. So this is a beautiful business. And I think just for people listening, don't just listen. Go take notes and actually do the thing. Because people are doing it. They're listening to this pod and they're cash flowing $10,000 to $100,000 a month sometimes.
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I love it. All right, man. What else you got for us? I think we're at idea number... I mean, I'm not even going to count those bonus ideas, but I think we're at idea number seven, right?
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Yeah. So I was thinking the same thing. You get to 20K a month and then what you do is then you take like 20K of your profit and you spend it on PR and you just get into like TechCrunch and all these places. And that's when you reach out to Canva and you're like, here's all these articles about us. We're doing 20K a month. We love what you're doing. We want to be a part of the mission.
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Is there an opportunity to talk about M&A? And then you sell it to them. Totally. And that's what you do. And that's the playbook for that one. So I like that idea. It's one of those sneaky small ones that could be big.
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Here's what I would do in this space because I think you're onto something. You're right that Scott's Cheap Flights has no soul anymore. In fact, it was rebranded to going.com, which come on, that's like, There's no soul to that name versus Scott's Cheap Flights. Like I connect with that.
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So I was doing a little bit of research and I found out that there's a Canadian version of Scott's Cheap Flights. What's it called? I'll share my screen real quick. It's called... So the holding company... is called, I think, YDeals.
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And so what they do, which is really smart, is they own, for all the different Canadian cities, they have, so the airport in Montreal is YUL, so they own YULDeals.com. And Toronto is YYZ, so they own YYZDeals.com. Super smart. But if you look at the website, like 1998 vibes, and the guy claims that there's millions of Canadians that are subscribed.
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So there's an opportunity to reach out to someone like this and be like, how much? Because it doesn't feel like he's... I mean, literally, there's images of Travel 2000 and just... Toronto to Iceland.
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It totally has Craigslist vibes. It's Craigslist vibes. And whenever you see Craigslist vibes... You know they're printing money. You know it. You know it. They don't need to change anything. They've got something that's working. And there's probably an opportunity there. And if there isn't an opportunity to buy it, I think you can just clone a similar version and just bring it into 2024.
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Absolutely. And then you can, you know, if you have these lists, 20,000, 50,000, 75,000, you can also do like, okay, now we're going to do a weekly, here's what's happening in my city newsletter. You know, you can create different newsletters off that foundational newsletter. So it's like come for the deals and stay for like local news. So I think there's a lot of opportunity here.
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I think it's a sneaky big idea too. And then, yeah, it's about getting the right domains. Like, I don't know, LGA, LaGuardia, LaGuardiaDeals.com or something like that. And also, even if those are taken in the US and Canada, there's also other countries. Think more globally. And so there's a lot of opportunity in this one. I like it a lot.
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All right, we promised people nine official ideas, but you actually had eight on your list. I'm going to give... Not that I feel bad, by the way, because we gave a bonus like three or four. But I'm going to give one more. I have a notes file with all my ideas. And I add, I don't know, two or three ideas per week that just come to me.
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And I just pulled it up and I'm going to bring up the latest idea. And I'm curious. I'll just give it away. Screw it. So did you see this? Finaloop? No. What is it?
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so finna loop just raised 35 million dollars in series a funding which i didn't even know like series a funding 35 million no that's like yeah you know a typical series a is like five to ten million so it's it's a massive something is working um and basically what it is is uh E-commerce accounting software and service that never slows you down.
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So it's real-time bookkeeping for D2C, multi-channel, and wholesale.
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Totally. So you saw that. That fired you up. And then you came up with nine ideas just from that. And here you are. What's idea number one?
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So they've taken something, which is basically QuickBooks, which we've talked about in the past. Oh, my God. And they've niched it down to D2C and e-com. I love it. And I think the old... So Late Checkout uses a service called Bench.
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Bench.co. This is the old way of creating a startup. It's kind of like, we're cloud bookkeeping and it's going to be like 300 bucks a month and it's going to be great. But it doesn't speak to anyone, right? It doesn't speak to SaaS. It doesn't speak to crypto startups. It doesn't speak to... It's too broad. It's too broad. So here's my idea. My idea is... Okay, the idea is QuickBooks for X.
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Now, what are those different categories? I don't know. They're probably something like QuickBooks for SaaS, QuickBooks for agencies. Real estate. Real estate.
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My hunch is that for internet businesses, there's probably a lot of competition. So I would probably go towards like non... I wouldn't start with SaaS. I bet you there's something maybe a little bit similar. Nonprofits, this is what you do.
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How I'd start this is I'd list out... I think your QuickBooks idea is really smart. Just look at the extensions. I think I would write in a list what are all the different categories based on that and by prompting ChatGBT. And then I would go look for competition. I would say, what is the competition? I'd put that in my Google Sheet.
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And then I'd say, I'm not going after something with a lot of competition. I'm just not interested. At this stage in my life, I'm just not interested in going after companies that have raised hundreds or if not billions of dollars. Totally. And then I'd pick one based on, is it a growing trend? Does it have low competition?
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That's it, man. That's it. That's a wrap. Plus a bunch of bonus ideas. Cody Schneider, how are you feeling about this episode? Dude, I feel good.
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yeah cool so on YouTube comment if if you want to see that from Cody I know you want to see it and don't forget to subscribe on YouTube and also to follow what if you're listening on Spotify or you're listening on Apple podcast don't forget to follow because then then you'll know when Cody comes back on so appreciate it Cody thank you so much people can find you on Twitter and
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Yeah, I love when you get just so excited about an idea like halfway through and I just see your brain just like, it's like you're a kid getting really exciting. Totally. Yeah. You love it.
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Totally. Yeah, I think it's like a few frameworks. It's like, okay, this idea works. How do we bring it to another geography? Exactly. Okay, this is a trend here that's underserved. And that's why I love going through a bunch of ideas is because you're hearing, okay, it's starting to get into you. Okay, this is how I would approach the problem. It's not this specific idea that I want to take.
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Totally. And you don't need that many followers for it to be super impactful. Like I know guys, girls, whatever, who have five, 10,000 followers are making millions of dollars a year from that, uh, from that group. It's just the right amount of followers with, it's, it's not the right amount of followers. It's, it's the right followers. It's about attracting the right people and it opens doors.
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Um, you know, the way we met is kind of funny. which is you probably had like five or 10,000 followers on Twitter. And I was following you because you were, you were a real one. You were actually putting out, this is how I'd grow this thing. And I was like, oh man, in a world where, where Twitter is just like so sterile and manufactured, it felt so amazing to see what you were putting out there.
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And I would basically feature you in my newsletter with like, has, you know, 75,000 subs every single week. So funny. Right.
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I mean, it also, you know, I think a bunch of people listen to this podcast and just it's entertainment for them. It's like watching Shark Tank. Totally. I think there's that. But I also think that there is a group of people who listen to this podcast, like the SVG Collections guy, who are like, wow, I never thought of that. I'm going to go and do this thing. And it's going to be a success.
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And when it's a success, he's going to reach out. I mean, he reached out to us already, but... He's going to reach out to us and he's going to be like, thank you, Cody. Like you changed my life and I won't forget that. And then he's going to start his own podcast and he's going to, you know, pay it back. And so it does, you know, that's also just a cool part about doing this.
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So, and, and one, one thing that I've learned is be yourself. You know, when I, when I first started podcasting, I wasn't myself really. And it was only recently where I was like, you know, I'm just going to, how has that changed? Just, I'll give you an example. People always, you know, people say that, uh, I talk slowly or I have a calm voice. So what I would do is I'd counteract that.
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And that would be, Like I try to put my Gary Vee hat on, you know, and try to get super, and it's just, it's not me. They're like, this guy, have you seen that meme?
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I was someone who, you know, I really wasn't. And the reason I did that is because I was like, oh, these are best practices. Therefore, I need to do it. As soon as I started being myself and also another part of that is talking about what I want to talk about, which is startup ideas, even though the best people in the world told me that's too niche. The best podcast is... This is insane to me.
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When I pitched this idea originally, they were like, it's too niche. And as soon as they said that, I was like, I'm going to be on to something. And you know what? There are people who are listening to this who are going to be like, I wish you would talk faster. I wish you did have more energy. I wish you did these... And it's like, okay, well... You're listening to me.
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You're listening to Cody because you like us, presumably. Or they just hate listening.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
It's an hour plus deep. And it's like, why are you listening to us? A thousand percent.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
And you know what's exhausting? Being someone who you're not is exhausting.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
So I'm guessing we got to run. We got to run. This has been great. Cody, thanks again for coming on. You also need a shave. We're doing a live stream, man. What was it? So we're going to get, we're going to give you a mullet. Is that what's happening?
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
Oh, I'll do anything for, for Cody Schneider mullet. So we'll figure it out. All right, dude. Later.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
So- Hey everyone, if you're anything like me, you've got a ton of design work that you need. Websites, landing pages, emails, social assets, you name it. But you don't just want beautiful landing pages or beautiful websites. You want the stuff that's going to convert. You want the stuff that's going to actually drive value. That's where DesignScientist.com comes in.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
It's an agency that for one monthly price will do all your design work, all your copy work, all your engineering and do stuff that actually scales your revenue. You don't need a designer. You need a design scientist. Let's go design scientist dot com. I liked it so much I invested in the business. A lot of people ask me, oh, how did how did I get such a big Twitter audience?
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
And I got a big Twitter audience when Two things happen. Threads, the ability to create a thread. That wasn't a feature and became a feature on Twitter. And then number two, the feed was latest and it moved to algorithmic. So all of a sudden your content was getting recommended to new followers. My content game didn't change. It was just the platform change. So what you're saying is really smart.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
You're saying that the platform LinkedIn is changing and there's going to be a bunch of B2B creators that are going to take advantage of it, but they're going to need sort of a middleman to facilitate it, right?
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
Yeah, to me, there's the entry level pricing, which is probably like $2,500 a month, which is just exactly what you said. But then for like $5,000 to $8,000 a month, you can do lead magnets as a service. So it's like every month we'll create a lead magnet for you.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
because like a drip email course totally exactly totally yeah totally yeah and then the third thing is probably just design help so it's like we'll do your you know your band your your banner your cover art we'll go and create you know beautiful infographics so you put that together you target founders and that's the idea how do you actually get to founders though
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
With arms wide open, Cody Schneider. He's back on the pod, Startup Ideas pod. One of your YouTube videos on the pod has like 40 or 50,000 views. I'm hyped, man. It's insane.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
Yeah, absolutely. Here's how I would do the community aspect. So I would get the domain founders going viral on LinkedIn.com. And I'd create a free community where every week I'd give one tip on how to go viral on LinkedIn, like what's working. And then one breaking down another founder and why it's working. So it's like this person, Cody Schneider just got a thousand likes on this post.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
Let me break down why that matters. You do a monthly call where you... uh, you know, everyone kind of comes in and it's like a peer to peer group. And at the end, you just say like, Hey, you know, we've got this service. If you want the done for you service, it's going to cost X, Y, Z. Totally.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
Someone in the comment section is going to be like, but, you know, LinkedIn isn't going to be video first forever. And then in 12 months, you're going to have to shift your business. And it's like, well, even if that is the case, at least now you have a 1 million ARR business with a bunch of founders and you'll just sell them another service to help them grow on LinkedIn.
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9 Startup ideas to make $1M+ in 2024
All right. My appetite is, is wet. You know, I had some, some bread and I'm ready for idea number two. Hell yeah.
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Learn how to win on the internet in 28 min [tiktok shop, trends, building cult brands]
I interviewed Oren Meets World. This guy has worked with everyone from Red Bull to Ciroc, you name it, but that's not why he's interesting. He's interesting because he has nailed TikTok and he has nailed how to create content that spreads to millions of people. TikTok shop, I didn't know much about it. He taught me and he's going to teach you. Enjoy this episode.
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Insane that that exists. Because, you know, I did a tweet the other day about, you know, if you were going to create the YC of today in a world where software is commoditized, it's all about distribution. What does the YC for creators look like? And I feel like it's kind of this, right? Yeah.
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Just to finish up on the TikTok thing, what else do people need to know about building on TikTok, starting a business on TikTok?
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Dude, once you hit like, I don't know, late 20s, early 30s, you're just like, I can't do it anymore.
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Damn, dude. I do feel, and maybe other people listening, the whole supply chain just feels like a black box. I don't even know where to start.
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Yeah, in terms of making a product.
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Exactly. So the idea is, how can you make the case a little more fun? And... Like a lot of us, you know, I'm into collectibles and I was thinking, oh, wouldn't it be cool if you can have a case and in the back of the case, there'd be like a holographic Charizard. So it's basically marrying a collectible with the case.
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What sort of software tools do you use to come up with ideas, figure out supply chain, competitive analysis? What's your content creation? What are the things that people probably need to look into?
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money-back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. And so we've talked a lot about TikTok, but YouTube, do you do any sort of... competitive analysis on YouTube or you just don't really touch it?
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And you're able to make a premium on it because obviously, let's say you're buying, okay, Charizard is probably a bad example because there's some Charizards that go for like $30,000. But there are like, I don't know, maybe it's a Squirtle or something like that, which you can put in, buy it for $20. It costs you $5 to make the case and you sell it for $75. What do you think?
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Wow, that's a hot take, dude.
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Yeah, that's a really hot take. I mean, first of all, the interesting thing is you don't even mention long form.
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And before we leave, I have to ask you, because you're the goat at this, besides format, if you're trying to create a TikTok audience, you're trying to create content that's going to land with people, how do you do it? Yeah.
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Beautiful. I appreciate it, my man. Where can people get to know the internet's creative director more?
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Anytime, my man. Come back soon.
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So my initial reaction to that is, well, if you're building a luxury product, which this is, do you need to have utility? That was my initial reaction. And then you started talking about the colognes, which, by the way, I had no idea that cologne is like, you know, popular right now.
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Exactly. We can unpack that later in the video. So what you're kind of saying is, you know, utility doesn't need to be like your standard utility around just covering the phone, but it could mean like, how do you put utility and marry that to what's happening in the cultural zeitgeist? Is that what you're saying? Exactly.
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Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions. And I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses. They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. Compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast.
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All right, new character unlocked. Oren, the internet's creative director. Welcome.
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But the main thing is most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut. Just click below to get access. Your next cash flowing business is waiting for you. Well, you know what's cool about this idea is When you think of... Okay, what's that brand? It's a men's cologne.
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I almost bought it and then I looked at the price and it was like $250 for a cologne. There's one... I think it starts with a C. Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm not sure. What's the... Cree or...
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I got it. I got it. I was close. I called it Cree, but it was really Creed. And I just like the first link that came up is it's a 12 Creed, $1,260 for, I don't know, like 12 hours.
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Yeah, exactly. So listen, if you're going to, I don't care how wealthy you are. If you're taking one spritz of that Creed, you're hoping that someone's like, wait, is that a, is that a Odo, you know, Aventus? You know, that's, but that's the problem with cologne is there's no easy way to share the status of your cologne.
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Okay, I want to run. This is a Startup Ideas podcast, so I'm going to run an idea by you. Anyone can take it. You can take it for all I care. And I want to workshop it and just get into your brain to see how you would take this idea and turn it into a cult brand. You with me? Let's roll. So here's the idea. I have a iPhone case. It's kind of actually kind of falling apart. It's just black.
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How do you look at a TikTok shop and see how much revenue they are doing?
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And so your buddy, you know... I don't know if you can say, but like what ballpark is he doing in revenue?
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And who else is... Because I'm fascinated, and I think a lot of people are fascinated with TikTok Shop. So how do you build a business on TikTok Shop? And who's doing it well? What... Are you following Goalie at all? No. Tell me about it.
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It's not that interesting. I will say I used to just have no iPhone case and I would crack it and crack it and crack it. So I've given up, you know, for the people in the comment section who are going to be like, oh, you know, I can't believe he has an iPhone case. Can't believe he's one of those people like I've given up on it. You know, it's so interesting. You feel me on that?
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Dude, I actually love you. I... We have to unpack all of that. Cause I feel like there's to you, that's completely, uh, of course this is happening, you know, in my world, I'm like in the software world. So I don't like think about these things. You mentioned something at discord. I think you called it, uh,
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And then brands go and recruit in there. Explain exactly what it is.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
If you don't know what a faceless YouTube channel is, it's a YouTube channel where there's no creator, you don't see any person, and it's somebody doing a voiceover. And what's interesting about these, I didn't know these were basically businesses, and they're just pumping out this content.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
That seems to be the vibe, right?
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Should we do almost like, you know what I'd love to do actually at some time would be a video. Maybe this could be online or it could be live or whatever it is, but I'd love to do a video with you where we start on a Friday and we have to make X amount of dollars by like 72 hours later.
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Or we are just absolutely shitty entrepreneurs. But I'd love to also watch videos like that. I see people posting, oh, I helped a guy make blah, blah, blah in 72 hours. But whenever I watch the video, they don't actually make money. They always just ask their friends to give the money. But I'd want to have a video, me and you, where we actually try an idea like this.
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And the idea would be to make... $10,000 from strangers. And it has to also not fall apart. Like the second the video ends, you know, it should run for a little bit, but just to prove the, prove the point. So you would, so I, I don't know most of these tools and that's a different, so the cool thing about this is like, For me, the idea and the concept part would be super exciting.
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The actual execution, that's where I would want to have the actual execution and someone going in and doing these things. That's where I would probably pull someone from Fiverr to actually pull these tools together and give me the end result. How long do you think it would take from the idea to having a video on YouTube?
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Yeah. I think that, so choosing the niche, you would use this gummy search for it, or like, would you have a product in mind first that you would want to have at the end of the niche? Like, for example, I don't know this brick, we talked about it, the brick that bricks your phone, having a channel all about digital detox. And would you start with the product in mind or start with the niche in mind?
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Without my phone. Dude, I do get that phone anxiety. When I go climbing, like bouldering, I leave my phone in like a locker. And this sounds really weird. So I was taking my Apple Watch with me. So that if somebody calls me, they can get through to my Apple Watch. Now I don't. But I basically tell everyone, hey, call this climbing hall if you need me. And then I feel calm.
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But yeah, there is something brain damaging about getting obsessive about always being contactable. I even got... a dumb phone for my apartment so that everybody who knows me can get through to me if my iPhone is just like somewhere in the apartment where I can't find it. So I feel more calm. It's a problem.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
No one's ever called, obviously. Yeah, they're like, hey, can you find a tall, skinny guy with glasses? Literally every other climber looks like that.
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So I, I ran with that and I found One or two things that I think could be pretty interesting. One, again, like a lot of the things that I find are not because I'm researching for this podcast. It's because I'm researching it for myself. And one of the things that, you know, I have a YouTube channel. Our YouTube channel is one of the best ways for us to get qualified leads for our business.
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Yeah. I'm going to do. Yeah. But, but totally separate, uh, totally separate topic. So you would start with a lifestyle. So like how you would write this out is I am targeting people who do this thing or people who are interested in this thing. How, like, how would you phrase it?
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Of the climbing community.
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another niche that I find really interesting so obviously I'm very into the video game niche I just want to give you another example just to also show you that they're not all the bros if you go to the channel and again I don't know anything about these people they might they might have videos that are like inappropriate or something I don't know but Zvoke Z-E-E-V-O-K-E he's like an Elden Ring lore content channel faceless again um
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And dude, I watch this channel. And now I'm also realizing I watch a lot of faceless channels, especially around specific niches. I mean, video gaming is an entire niche, but Elden Ring is a niche by itself.
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Which is big enough for most individuals to take care of just one video game.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Um... something has happened in my brain where I'm like, now I'm kind of, now it all makes sense, I guess. But I personally, so for me, I think the faceless videos that are acceptable
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when the person really writes the script themselves, when it's content that they're not stealing from other people, where they're actually coming up with their own interpretation of the thing, like when someone's talking about Elden Ring lore, and of course they're reading through the wikis and they're reading through the lore in the game, but they're giving their own take on it.
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But I'm always looking to like, what else can you do at YouTube? And I stumbled across this notion board and I sent it to you. It's called Six Figure Channel List. And it's a notion board full of different channels on YouTube. And they're kind of ordered by six figure channels and seven figure channels.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
I'm not a fan of the purely AI generated voices and scripts that people are just using to pump out as much revenue as possible. But yeah, like the channels that I watch, I wouldn't have labeled them as faceless YouTube channels. I wasn't even thinking about it.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
I wasn't thinking about this. I didn't know about this niche at all.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Exactly. Yeah. I mean, the faceless thing is like I went to my my girlfriend's YouTube like on her TV. I opened up YouTube and like the almost every video that's recommend to her recommended to her. She likes, you know, she's into personal development, learning about consciousness, all of that kind of stuff. And I was like, wow, every one of these thumbnails is AI generated.
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And when I click into it, it's always like some very distant voice. Oh, my God, I found a really good one as well. This sorry, I mean, I don't know how your team wants to edit this, but I want to show you an example of an amazing one. It has minimal personality, but really great kind of infographics, even though very, very simple. It's the guy, he does like one video a year.
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I don't know if you know, he did this Pentagon puzzle thing. This is it, cracking the uncrackable code. What's it called? Jim Sanborn. I'm just realizing now that this is a faceless. Oh yeah, the channel is called Lemino, L-E-M-M-I-N-O. Check that channel out. So this is like the definition of a good faceless YouTube channel.
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And I recently watched this one called The Unbreakable Cryptos Code has 4.1 million views. Kennedy Assassinations, 11 million views. his videos are great. I would never have put like a generic stamp on it saying, Oh yeah, this is just some crap to make money. Um, and he's, I guess making money with a combination of Patreon and YouTube, but yeah.
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I don't know if it's lame. I mean, it's still like, I know your audience is here to make millions, but if I was making like 25 K a month from being able to make like videos that I think people will enjoy, like, I would be okay with that.
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I would be okay with having it as... If you're saying, especially if some people are still working at a company, having a side hustle like that, I think is pretty cool. But of course, I also didn't know about this until this week. So you're so much more integrated into it. And the product approach is probably more... But if you're not good at selling stuff... It's not about selling stuff.
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And the idea here, or what's special about these channels, is that they're called faceless YouTube channels. And I want to give credit to facelesschannelacademy.com. Actually, it was a guy. Who's the guy? He looks like Cody Schneider a little bit.
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Oh my God, Internet Historian is also a faceless YouTube channel.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
They're just taking also world events like, here's what happens to your body while you're having sex. Here's how the SEAL team took down Osama bin Laden minute by minute. How they caught Ted Bundy. What happens when you die, which is a seven minute video, which has 26 million views. The worst punishment in the history of mankind. The worst torture. What happens to your body when you smoke weed?
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Evil punishments designed to be worse than death. I do want to watch that, actually. Oh, yeah. America's strangest serial killer. Man. Could two people repopulate the earth? I guess you're just looking at also Quora questions that get a lot of heat and just making a video of it.
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Yeah, it's not going to work. I mean, obviously, a lot of people know about this kind of thing. So you need some creativity. You need some level of intelligence or something to make it work. You can't just be like, it's not like you could just say, hey, chat GTP, make me a faceless YouTube channel and make it successful. It's not going to work.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
I want to give credit to Cody Schneider, even though it isn't him. It's like the video, whatever the guy who runs the business faceless.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
All right. That was my, I mean, I don't know if it's a startup idea, but I'm thinking of adding elements of this to my, like, I do want to do a video game channel. I don't want to be the face of it. People in the comments are going to be like, yeah, Jonathan, you said that 10 times in this episode already. I don't want to be the face of it. I honestly could do an entire Elden Ring channel.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
I could do an entire Elden Ring or general video game art channel. I want to kind of do that.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Because I didn't know about this fucking shit. And now I do. Now I actually might.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Don't do it, guys. Can we not post it? Don't do it. Let's not air this episode because I actually want to do it now. That's true. That is so true. Let's use a really crappy thumbnail and title so no one watches it.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
It's worth the experiment anyway.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Whatever his name is. So I came across his video. Then he had this whole notion board. And by the way, I'll give you my first impression of faceless YouTube channels. If you don't know what a faceless YouTube channel is, it's a YouTube channel where there's no creator, you don't see any person, and it's somebody doing a voiceover. The most famous ones that you know are Daily Dose of Internet.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Yeah, that is the worst case.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
I'm deeply appealed by this idea. I, there's a lot of appeal.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Yeah, the downside of starting a real YouTube channel is that you then have to deal with... Like, with your own face on it is that you have to learn to deal with trolls, like, talking about you and all that kind of stuff. Whereas the downside of starting a faceless YouTube channel is... I like that I could be a bit more... uh, personally detached from the outcome.
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And then I could just say, okay, this episode didn't work well. Okay. Like for example, when an episode of this podcast that I am on doesn't work out well, I'm like, fuck, like I didn't do a good job. And my, my, I am here doing like, it's me. Right. And in your comments, someone will write, don't put this guy on your podcast again.
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And no matter how long I've been making content, I still don't like that. Right. And it's It's like you're putting yourself out there and you know someone's going to shit on you no matter what. But I enjoy the art of making content. And so it feels like a more personally separate way where I can just think about it as an art project and as something that I'm building, like designing a website.
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There's something more mechanical about it that I actually enjoy.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
Totally. You know what I mean? Or like my accent or all these things. I've been on the internet for so many years. I'm still not used to it. I still don't like it. And so that's what would hold me personally back from making more content online. But yeah, there are so many things I want to talk about. I just don't want to be there having to film myself.
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I want to be able to do it in a more nerdy way, like making the visuals like, you know, I like to go into like a more nerdy, smelly mode to make things sometimes. That sounds perfect to me. But yeah, maybe we've dragged this on too long, but hopefully people. I don't think so.
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How to build a profitable Faceless YouTube Channel in 72 Hours
First time you've heard of it, Greg. I messaged Greg. This is just some behind the scenes. I do want to bring something interesting to the podcast. And I messaged Greg this stuff. And I was like, please tell me you don't know about this already. But he did, of course. Greg already knows about all this stuff. There's no way to surprise him.
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Everyone, hello, this is your, what is it? Hello, welcome to your daily dose of internet. That guy, you know that guy?
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I have another idea.
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Totally separate to this.
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Um, or do you have an idea you want to put in or do you, or do you think we should just end it with this focused idea?
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I think one topic is pretty good. I think one topic is pretty good. Yeah. That's cool, dude. I'm I let us know in the comments, if you're thinking of starting one of these, I really hope one thing I do want to say at the end is I really hope people, what people do not take away from this is,
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I hope the lesson they do not take away is I'm going to fill up YouTube with absolute dog shit content, copy other people's stuff and just flood it with even with more crap and like hack the system and hack the SEO. And it's just all low quality stuff. I think there's.
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That could work in the short term, but I think the long-term winners here are going to be the people who put a lot of love into it. And even though you're not in the videos and even though you're getting help, maybe with script writers and doing the visuals, I do think that people who can come up with really interesting concepts, find a really interesting niche and then write well.
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And then I almost feel like it's just a replacement for writing blog articles. It's like people want to watch blog articles now. You are not maybe a videographer. You're maybe not a good presenter. And so instead of you now writing, what you're doing is making this type of faceless video work.
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What does he say? Is it that?
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welcome to your daily dose of internet. Uh, so that, then there's Kurzgesagt, the, I think German channel, uh, which does animations. And then there's a ton of fucking absolute dog shit, uh, out there, but they, in between, there's also like some like interesting ones like charisma on command. Um, You've seen tons of them.
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Did you notice?
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We deeply love you. Deeply. Hey, look out for that Elden Ring channel. I'm going to do an Elden Ring channel, a Jet Set Radio channel, a Shenmue channel, a Choo Choo Rocket channel, a Crazy Taxi channel. It's going to be too much.
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I love Crazy Taxi. So good. I was obsessively addicted to Crazy Taxi.
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Probably when I was 14. Yeah. You know there's a remake or there's a new version. An open world, massively multiplayer online version of Crazy Taxi is coming out.
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If they don't have the Offspring and Bad Religions music in there, I'm not playing it.
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You got to race me. You got to race me to making that channel guys. All right.
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If you go to this Notion board, I don't know if you'll share it, you're going to notice a lot of these. And what's interesting about these, I never even paid attention. I didn't even know what these things were. And I am obsessed with YouTube. I didn't know these were basically businesses where people are using people from Fiverr to write scripts, AI to write scripts, narrators from Fiverr.
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So it's not even the same person narrating all the time. and they're just pumping out this content. Charisma on Command is a very good example. Not necessarily saying this person is using AI or anything, but it's just like, okay, here's a thing that people want to know about charisma and human interaction. Here's a celebrity interaction that we can break down.
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And I'm going to narrate this celebrity interaction that gets unbelievable amounts of views. And of course, then it makes money. Charisma on Command in particular makes seven figures apparently per year. But there's a lot of other very niche things in there, like, for example, survival, how to survive. Yeah, there's just so many different things in there. It's really interesting.
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History seems to be a big thing, like talking about the Black Plague, or I just watched one about the White Death, which is tuberculosis. There's daily dose of football. There's so many different things. There's body cam channels. You've probably come across them, but you might not have realized that they're part of this movement on YouTube called faceless YouTube channels.
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Now, why I find this interesting, again, there's tons of crap out there, and I don't like the idea of polluting YouTube with absolute dog shit, like crappy, stupid AI generated scripts that are useless. But a couple of these are actually interesting to watch. A couple of these are entertaining. A couple of these are actually kind of cool. And those are the ones that stand out.
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And those are the ones that get the most views. And what I love about it is I really think a lot of people would love to make content. So for example, I'd love to make some video game content, but I don't personally want to be in the content. Like I don't want to be, you know, trolled. I don't like actually to be a personality on the internet. I do it almost as like a...
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a necessity, basically, because making content is a cool way to get clients and to sell products. But I love the idea of being able to make channels that are purely based on other footage, maybe animation, maybe just taking interviews from other people and commenting on them. And I've been spending the last four or five days looking at these channels and thinking, how can I apply this to myself?
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And Yeah, I think there's a way to wade through the absolute bullshit of the 90% of these channels and make actually good versions of them. So yeah, that's my first idea is looking into this idea of faceless YouTube channels. And now that I've started going down the rabbit hole, my entire...
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YouTube recommendations is full of different content creators talking about how to make faceless YouTube channels. So it's a super, yeah, super interesting concept. Didn't know about it.
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It's so cool. Yeah. And again, like I see the DTC bro kind of thing and I'm not interested in being that. But for example, I've always wanted to start a video game channel. Again, I want to do this nostalgia hacking thing. I want to talk about Halo. I want to talk about Jet Set Radio. I want to talk about the Dreamcast.
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I want to talk about Shenmue, but I've always been, what's really helped me back is being a personality is like, People get very attached to internet personalities and get very weird about that. I have no interest in that.
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And now that I've learned about this faceless YouTube channel thing and found a couple of gaming faceless channels, I'm like, yeah, this would actually be a viable route for me to build a media empire around nostalgic gaming without having to be the face of it. maybe not even having to be the voice of it, just writing the scripts and coming up with the concepts and having someone else voice it.
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I honestly just never thought about it, but it's so obvious now.
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Using an AI Joe Rogan's voice?
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I'm back. I can't get rid of you.
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I always come back. Yeah. You know, I've been watching the episodes of this podcast that do well. And you've also been messaging me. And generally people just want ideas. And as the name of the podcast is called, Podcast Ideas Podcast. What seems to do pretty well is things that one person can do that can make potentially a lot of money and doesn't require a whole team to set up.
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And there's some really interesting faceless channels that I've come across as well. This week, I came across a channel. I don't know if you know it called Wormwood. And they're doing something like what you were just talking about, except in the art space. It's like an absurdist art project thing almost, basically. Bee Jocko is the one that I just laugh my ass off.
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It's a video that has 285,000 views. The voice is AI. I do think the script is a mixture of AI and written by the person. I don't know anything about this person, but the... Everything about it is just like mind bending and super interesting and super cool. And again, when I was looking at these things, I was like, yeah, I would never have put the label.
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We on this podcast, me and you now are saying that this thing is called a faceless YouTube channel. The general public doesn't know anything about this stuff. I didn't know about it until like a couple of days ago. And I think there again, I don't think you should be joining the bros on a race to the bottom.
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I think that if you have interesting concepts and especially if you can write, which is like a crazy thing, if you can write, then you can make a YouTube channel now because more and more people are expecting to not have to see the person who's actually talking. So I think writers are going to have a killer advantage here.
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Um, the people who don't have to use AI to, to create, to generate the scripts. Um, but if you just have like great concepts and interesting ideas, take a look at that Wyrmwood channel, take a look at the Bijaco video. It's hilarious. It's really funny. It's really cool. And it's totally demented and insane. And it's in a completely different direction.
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It couldn't be less like the crypto bro guys you're talking about. It's a completely different world.
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So I've never found this. I've never seen this before.
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I'm looking at this now.
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Why are all AI websites purple? Is it just me or are all of them purple? I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying, why is everything purple?
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It sounds like you're doing a very manual process in terms of responding to influencers, reaching out to influencers. There's probably a lot of ways that you can automate a lot of it. Especially with AI, you can just feed a list of, here's my niche and here's the 100 influencers and hit them up every week with
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or every two weeks with an email saying, hey, are you willing to, your price is X, we're willing to pay you half X. Here's one more idea. There's one more idea. I mean, every idea births another idea is the issue, is my constant issues. I'm constantly having, when I come up with an idea, I'm like, oh, that's a good idea, or that's a bad idea, but you know, Oh, what if we change this?
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And Oh, that could do this, you know? So there's, that's the idea maze. That's why they call it the maze. And yeah, I'm definitely always in it. But yeah, I love that. I think a lot of people go towards ads as a, they're just, it's just the easiest way, you know, it's so simple to set up an ad campaign and,
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But I do think that the micro-influencers, particularly when you're reaching out to them, there's a lot of alpha there. Not sure how long that alpha is going to last, that arbitrage is going to last, because as more and more marketplaces come up, the prices, I'd imagine, end up becoming more visible. It's kind of like how real estate was.
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in real, you know, today in real estate, you know, you have the MLS. So you have basically a database of all the different, at least in North America. Um, I don't know how it works in Turkey, but, um, In North America, you have this system and it's basically, you can set up alerts and you can see everything that's in the system.
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But back in the day, when things weren't online, you might have seen a building for sale and they listed it at 200,000 and it was really worth 600,000. But because they didn't have access to the data... It was wildly underpriced. It was a mispriced asset. And I think you're starting to see the same thing with that kind of concept. We're in that era with influencers right now.
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Not everything is available. Actually, we're in that area specifically with micro-influencers. In influencers, mega-influencers, I feel like there's very little mispriced attention. But when it comes to smaller creators and smaller accounts, there is a ton of opportunity to get something that's worth $1,000 for $200. Yeah. I mean, I was just...
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Yeah. Yeah, I think that's right. I think the supply of... creators and influencers is going up and up. And especially with faceless YouTube channels and faceless accounts in general, meme pages, if the ability to create content becomes a lot easier, then more content exists, meaning more competition for eyeballs, which means that the monopoly that creators have become smaller and smaller.
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That's why I think right now is such a beautiful time to be creating products. And I don't know, like I said, I don't know how long this lasts, but it's beautiful because, as you said, number one, it's cheaper than ever to create. There's a mispriced influencer and creator opportunities. And number three, there's the ability to use
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AI to enhance support and systematize and automate a lot of content. So you have these three things and it's just a beautiful time to be building. I want to segue to your and talk about ideas around directories, because when I think of directories, to me, you're like the directory king.
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And I just want you to talk about why are you building directories, and do you have any specific ideas that you can give away around directories?
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Yeah. So people are bought in. I mean, I don't know how you listen to that and aren't bought in. I think the idea around people, there's so much... and so much content that people just want a trusted source makes sense to, I think, a lot of people. And we talk about directories like, oh yeah, it's been around for the last few years.
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But the reality is, since the internet existed, directories have been a thing. Organizing information. From the first day. It's not the first day. And you have publicly traded companies Angie, which was formerly called Angie's List, does billion three in revenue. So big businesses that basically are just databases of curated content trusted people and people are willing to pay for it.
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So that's what I like about directories too. I mean, it's proven, it's trusted. And you said the magic words, which is, it started to get uncool. If something started to get uncool, what does that mean if you're listening to this? It means if it's uncool, there's arbitrage. There's opportunity to come in and find something that's mispriced and do something. So yes. Now, We're bought in.
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What directory ideas do you have for us?
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So is the idea there that, I'm going to go find validated English directories and then I'm just going to apply, let's say French, I'm going to apply my language, French, to it and then localize it to, for example, France and Canada and Senegal and French-speaking countries. Is that the idea? Yeah.
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Yeah. I mean, you're talking to a guy. I mean, I'm literally sitting in a place where 94% of the people here where I'm sitting speak French as their first language. So, you know, there are... The American POV is always focused on America. It's such a big market. And it's true in a lot of ways. It is such a big market and it's an amazing market.
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But that doesn't mean that with what's happening around the ease to create directories and creating new tools, and we talked about audiences and stuff like that, why not just take something that's working and apply it to a local market? I think it makes a lot of sense. And again, this is not something that we're reinventing. Do you remember Rocket Internet? Yeah.
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yeah yeah exactly yeah right those those guys in germany that basically would look at popular silicon valley startups that raised a ton of money and be like okay great ebay is popping off in the US. Let's go create the eBay for North Africa. It was a brilliant idea. I think their downfall a little bit was that they went public. But the idea of rocket internet, cash flowing makes a lot of sense.
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I think that's a huge idea. So this is a really, John, I hope you know, you're given a really good idea over here.
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Absolutely. So you were saying before I got really excited about that idea that you had a second idea around directories. What was that?
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Yeah, and people will pay for growth is the other thing that people don't talk about, which is if you're able to generate customers for a startup, people are willing to basically share in the revenues. It's a revenue split, basically. So I think that what sort of prompt could you give to people in terms of... You know, how do you come up with an idea for, you know, in the space?
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So what would be an example prompt that you'd use with ChatGPT?
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Well, I think what it is, is great entrepreneurs bet heavily when the odds are stacked in their favor. So what you're doing, the process that you're mentioning is pretty methodical. There's a lot of steps associated with it. So it's less creative in that sense. It's less, I'm taking a blank canvas and I'm drawing something beautiful and putting it out into the world.
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And it's more like a science experiment. But what it does is when you use things like Google Keyword Planner is it reduces your risk and allows you to build something when the odds are stacked in your favor. You know that with a certain percentage
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of probability that this is going to hit some level of success and of course it's going to be a numbers game so just like you know betting it's just you have to i don't think and correct me if i'm wrong i don't think that you're going to hit chat chat gpt what are high search terms uh directory stuff and then you pick the first one and it happens to you know
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I think this is something that you have to apply a portfolio approach. Try multiple of them. But I think the key is you're reducing risk along the way. John, we're going to end it here because there's too much. There's too much goodness. I want people to check out John at his ex-account. He just posts every single day what he's learning in real time. building his 20 businesses is at JohnRushX.
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And he's also got a list of all his many projects, JohnRush.me. Check it out. And it's inspiring because I think the model that you're applying is really the future of building startups. So thank you for sharing it with us.
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Of course. Later. Thanks, everyone.
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You were telling me about a startup idea you had around wait lists. Can you talk more about that?
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If you're anything like me, you've got a ton of design work that you need. Websites, landing pages, emails, social assets, you name it. But you don't just want beautiful landing pages or beautiful websites. You want the stuff that's going to convert. You want the stuff that's going to actually drive value. That's where design scientist dot com comes in.
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it's an agency that for one monthly price will do all your design work all your copy work all your engineering and do stuff that actually scales your revenue you don't need a designer you need a design scientist let's go designscientist.com i liked it so much i invested in the business
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John Rush, Startup Ideas podcast. He's finally on. He's a fellow idea junkie. This guy is pushing out. I mean, what, you have 20 businesses now?
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Yeah, so this is a really smart idea because no one's doing it, you know? Yeah, yeah. No one is doing it. And of course there's marketplaces for startups like Acquire.com and Flippa, but also there's no marketplace for what you're describing, which is basically... What you're describing is... is let us do all the work for validating a startup idea. Let us get you your first 100,000 customers.
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Yeah. You've got, John has 20 businesses that he's running, $2 million ARR, 10 million users that are B2B to see, 100,000 plus users on B2B. Come on, this guy is one of us. Welcome, John. Welcome, my friend. Good to have you.
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And then once the uncertainty is taken away, a lot of the uncertainty, we are going to hand that over to you, but you are going to pay us a premium for that. It's a win-win situation because the person who's inheriting that new product, they didn't have to go through all that hassle of going through the idea maze, finding those customers. As you said, finding customers isn't easy.
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Now all of a sudden, they can buy something for cheap because if they would have went on one of the startup marketplaces or buy a startup, you know, that's established, that's going to be already too expensive. So this is like a cheaper version of that.
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And that's way too expensive. So you glossed over something that I think is really important that I want to unpack a little bit. So you said... You prefer influencers right now over ads and you're seeing rates like $300 for $100,000 views. Could you walk us through how you think about, how do you acquire these or how do you do these deals with these influencers? How do you reach out to them?
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What is your process to do this?
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All right, so what is on your mind right now? What sort of ideas and trends would you be willing to share with our audience?
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I would say one thing you can do is get all the data around competition. Seeing where you sit in competition I think is really helpful. So make a list of all the data points around what people are selling it for. Take that data, go into Claude, let's say, and do a prompt. Be like, hey, I need you to help me price this. You're my pricing partner. Pretend like you're
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the best pricing expert on the planet. I always say, pretend you work at Walmart or you're the head of pricing at Walmart and the best in the world and you get paid a million dollars a year to do this. And here's the data. I want to price this product. What do you think I should be priced at and why?
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And that, if you're like a solo indie hacker type person, just going back and forth with AI will help refine what your first price should be. Yeah, it's crazy good though. Yeah. And then the other thing to note about pricing, and by the way, comment on YouTube if you want us to do or you're interested in a pricing episode.
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You're here, man. You're here. And you came prepared too, which I love. So you've got a list of a bunch of ideas. And I take your ideas very seriously because you've been able to build a pretty big audience on YouTube. You've made money. in revenue, millions of dollars at this point. So which one of these ideas do you want to start with? Because they're all pretty interesting.
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I don't know if people are down for that, but I think you can always change your price too, right? Yeah. Yes.
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Who do you think does pricing well? What are examples of people who do pricing well? Before we move on to the next startup idea, I just have to ask selfishly. Examples from indie hikers or any company? Could be anything, any company.
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I'm interested in it because I'm just interested in companies that do pricing well, because I think there's this shift happening right now to your point, which is like people are getting sick of monthly subscriptions. And so I'm just interested on who's innovating or who's doing interesting things in pricing. Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in.
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It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google.
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the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and ai that could help you outrank your competition so for my own businesses i wanted that i didn't want to have to rely on mark zuckerberg i didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses i wanted to rank high in google that's why i like seo and that's why i use boringmarketing.com and that's why i invested in it
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They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money-back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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Yeah, I think that's like the pay-per-usage model, which is the more you use it, the more... In theory, you're happy because, oh, you're making all this money there and you're happy to give them a cut. And if you're not making a lot of money, then you don't give them a cut. But the reality is it would be great if it was a sliding scale, meaning maybe it's 2.9%, let's say 3%.
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I don't know what Stripe fees are, but let's just say for the sake of this conversation, that's 3%. up until 100,000 of sales. And then for 100,000 to a million, it's 2%. And then a million and more, it's 1%. Man, yeah.
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That is really smart. That is really smart. Like no one's doing that. Yeah. Yeah. That makes me want to ship something and just try it just to see. That's amazing. Okay. Um, moving on to your next idea and idea number two, what do you, what do you got? All right.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
So you would have to... So I buy the thesis, which is gamification helps people do things and create streaks and results. So, but how would you like, which vertical is most interesting? You know, would you, I think sleep is really interesting. Um, but by the way, sleep, like I'll show you right now, like I use eight sleep, the mattress and it's like a smart mattress.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
And the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is I check my sleep fitness score. There you go. And so I slept well last night, 99%. Um, And then you can see like your REM sleep and your deep sleep. So you can see that I like, you know, it's gamified. Like this is gamified. Yeah, yeah. You're not wearing any ring or anything. Is it the mattress tell you that?
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Just the mattress tells me that. I don't know how it does it. I don't ask questions.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Yeah, and it's funny because sometimes the bad ideas end up being the good ideas.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Wait, so Pokemon Sleep is making $100 million a year? Did I hear that correctly? Yeah.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
It's pretty insane. Okay, wow. I'm just reading this now. This is absolutely bonkers. They have... They made $100 million on 9.8 million downloads. So... That's pretty crazy.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Okay, so here's the unlock. Here's the idea. The idea is this. The idea is we all know the things that people want to do. Sleep better, eat better, all the things. You can ask Claude, you can ask whoever, you can ask your mom. These things don't change. Human beings don't change.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
We all know that gamification, leaderboard, status, badges, streaks is a product design tool that helps people achieve their goal. It sounds like, what is the unlock that Pokemon Sleep has done? Well, they've licensed... the intellectual property of Pokemon, and they've added that to this whole concept of gamification, et cetera.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
So the question is, the way I'm thinking about this, and I'm like really excited about this, as you can see, is what is an opportunity to license a brand and just basically, the idea is this, it's Pokemon Sleep for Axe. You license the IP. And by the way, someone's going to be listening to this and say, well, yeah, easy for them. They probably paid so much money for Pokemon.
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Yeah, exactly. And sometimes you just got to put it out there and make it ugly and just see what happens. And it strikes a chord and you're like, wow, I actually can't believe how bad of an idea this is, but it's actually... interesting to people.
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And you'd be surprised... like how cheap some of these licenses are to, uh, to get, to get, um, maybe not Pokemon, but like to get amazing licenses for nostalgic intellectual property, you'd be surprised how cheap they are. I don't want to, uh, I don't want to say who it is cause it's, it's someone everyone knows, but there's someone who I know who got the license, like went to, um,
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Basically, what do they call it? Like a French, not a franchise. It's like an intellectual property conference, licensing conference in Las Vegas. He got a Star Wars for some apparel. He basically bought the Star Wars license for some apparel line. And he thought it was going to cost, he's like, Star Wars is huge, right? And he's like, oh my God, it's going to cost millions of dollars a year.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
And it ended up costing $50,000 for the first two years. and some percentage of sale. I think it was like two or three percentage. But now all of a sudden you can do Facebook ads with Star Wars on it. So, huge. Yeah, that's crazy.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Dude, you need to build that idea because that idea is so smart. Think about. During the Web3 craze, there was an app called Sweatcoin. I don't know if you saw this, but it was basically based on the amount of steps that you took, they would give you this coin. So it gamified walking. Think about credit card points.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
The more you use your credit card, the more... I think credit card points meets GitHub... commit idea is a massive idea. If you could be the place that people, like the more I commit, the more points I get. And yes, there's a leaderboard, but it also allows me to redeem for something. I think that's the idea that you should do. There you go, man. That is my way.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
There's a financial incentive, yeah.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
I need a notepad right here. That's a successful Startup Ideas podcast when you have to pull out your notepad and you're like, okay, let me just take a note on that.
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Cool. We have time for one last idea. Can I pick one? Okay. Because there's one I'm curious about that I've thought about for many years. I almost don't want to bring it up, but we'll bring it up because I said it already. Legal for entrepreneurs. What do you mean by that? Oh, okay. I thought it was your idea. No.
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I've been exploring this in the space for a few years now, but I haven't built anything in this space. So I'm curious what you mean by legal for entrepreneurs.
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I think so too. I use Stripe Atlas to set up my companies. It's just integrated with Stripe, obviously. It makes it pretty easy. But I wish there was someone I could talk to at Stripe Atlas too. Sometimes I'm like, I don't know if I should start an LLC versus S Corp. You know what I mean? It feels like there's an opportunity to make it a little more educational and have a more premium version.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
I guess the idea I have here is more of a premium version of Stripe Atlas.
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Yeah, I mean, so the example I'll use is we set up an LLC for one of our businesses in the States. And it started making a bunch of money. And we didn't realize that we should have converted it to an escort. Which is another type of corporation. And that cost us hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars of taxes. And we would have set it up probably as an escort from the beginning.
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Um, but we didn't know because we were just on Tribe Atlas. Um, so I wonder, so if you think about like legal, there's as a spectrum, right? On one end of the spectrum, you have, um, calling your, like calling my Manhattan name.
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lawyer paying my manhattan lawyer eleven hundred dollars an hour to set up a company which is something we've done before you know which sucks like take it's painful literally so painful that you know just it hurts my soul that that's one end of the spectrum and the other end of the spectrum you have self-serve striped atlas type products that for like a couple hundred bucks get you all set up it feels like there's something in the middle
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And you're American. I mean, you're from Canada, so... I'm a green card holder. So I live in the US now, mostly. But I'm still... It's, it's basically, I'm like an American. Yeah.
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Yeah. I pay taxes in the U S I don't pay taxes to Canada. Okay.
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That's interesting. That's interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even consider opening a company outside Canada or the US. To me, it was like, that's where I would open a company because that's all I know. But you're right. There are probably other places that I should have considered for a bunch of reasons.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Like it's number one question. So I guess Stripe Atlas for indie hackers with maybe a little more support is probably an interesting idea. Yeah.
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I'm going to go there and boom. I like it. There's something here. Someone in the comment section is going to be like, I'm going to do something. So I'm happy you flagged it and I appreciate it. Marc, merci. I appreciate you coming on and spending time with us. Where could people get to know you and your products a little bit more?
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Beautiful. Check it out. I'm a big fan and hopefully you come on the pod again sometime. Cheers, man. It was nice having you. All right. Take care.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
So yeah, you're right. Everyone knows something, but how do you know, just because you know something doesn't mean the thing that you know is what someone wants to buy necessarily. So for example, It might be way easier to sell someone how to build a SaaS online than it is to sell someone how to make ceramics or pottery or cups.
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
Maybe there's a big market for that, but I just know that the customer value for... how to build SaaS maybe is bigger than maybe the ceramics. So the question to you is, how do you think about the customer here and how much they're willing to pay? Or does it matter?
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Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions. And I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses. They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. Compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast.
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You need to build that idea because that idea is so smart. I'll build that with you. I need a notepad right here. That's a successful Startup Ideas podcast and you have to pull out your notepad and you're like, okay, let me just take a note on that. All right. I am so excited to have you, Mark, on the show, on the Startup Ideas podcast.
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But the main thing is, most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut. Just click below to get access. Your next cash flowing business is waiting for you. So that's really interesting.
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So when you were saying, you know, everyone knows something, basically package it up and you can sell it. I was thinking more of like a hobby or something like that. But what you're saying is actually, no, you might just know something about life. Meaning you might know... just some life hack, basically, like how to sleep better.
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And if you write out, like as a prompt, what are the 10 life hacks that you've learned in your life? Maybe it's how to get to the gym consistently. And then what you're saying is, okay, write down all the life hacks and Write a PDF. You can even use tools like gamma.app, which is kind of a really, it's like a tool to really make lead magnets quite easily that I've been using. Have you seen it?
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Yeah. Yeah, I've been obsessed with it recently. If you go to their website, it doesn't say, like, we make lead magnets. But I use it for lead magnets. And I use it for just making beautiful websites out of content.
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Yeah, I think the counter argument that someone makes when they hear something like this is they go, okay, great. How to sleep better. Like I'm going to go make, maybe I can make $50,000 a year with this. But I think what you're saying is, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what you're saying is that could just be the starting place. Meaning once you put out this PDF around how to sleep,
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
You might have an idea for a sleep supplement or, I don't know, like an eye mask business, right?
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How to become a solopreneur (3 $1M+ startup ideas)
If you were, let's just say you were creating a digital product around how to sleep better, what are your next steps? Like, okay, you have the idea and then, you know, how do you name it? How do you, you know, what, how do you generate traffic to it? Like, how do you think about growing a digital product like that?
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Okay, so if we're talking about something very simple, like creating an ebook to sleep better,
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Yeah, and I want to say one quick thing on this. So, dude, I... and I applaud you for doing this, but I was, I was for a while, I was recording the direct to camera videos where I'd be like, here's the 10 ways to do X, Y, Z. And I, and I, you know, would do these videos and I hated it. I hated it, man. Like I, I really, really, it felt really unnatural to me. And, um,
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Whereas on Twitter and writing and even doing these long-form podcasts, it feels very natural to me. But writing a script and staring into the camera made me feel very weird. And sometimes feeling weird is... It's not really feeling weird, actually. Uncomfortable. Sometimes feeling uncomfortable is the necessary evil you need to go through in order to do something great.
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But at a certain point, I was just unhappy and I hated doing it. So I think the question for people, if they're going to document their path, you have to ask yourself, which format is good for you?
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Yeah. And I think about format a lot too. So what you mean by format is. Like saying I did that today and not you should do that. Right. And, and, and how do you like, so a lot of people are going to agree with you. Yeah. A format, but how do you, How do you develop your own format?
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On my Mount Rushmore of indie hackers, I've got Peter Levels, I've got Danny Postma, and I definitely have Mark Liu. So I finally got you to come on. I agree to come on the pod. You're here and welcome.
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There's a lot of content around developing your own voice, but developing your own voice is very different than developing a format that is going to work and get shared by people. How do you think about that?
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it's almost like you should create your own creator Mount Rushmore for your formats meaning pick three or four people who you really look up to and then write down what is the one or two things that you take away from their content that you want to implement into yours and then from that go and experiment with different formats exactly that cool All right. And then, okay.
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So then you start creating content and how do you, you know, how do you sell the PDF? How do you think about pricing it? Um, or ebook?
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And you might not be able to afford this $3,500 eight-sleep mattress today. But in... six months, if that's your goal, then you can, you can save up for it. And what I like about it is it, it, it makes the merchant, like they can use this as a marketing thing. So you're getting them and it's at the point of sale. So they have the traffic. So you're swimming downstream, swimming downstream.
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So that's my, my question for you, which is like, how do you make, how do you make a business like this more, more swimming downstream versus swimming upstream? Yeah.
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You know, what the idea is, why you think it's interesting, how you'd start them, how you'd grow them. Just give people all that sauce. And let's run.
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So... Or even worse, like luxury goods, right? Like you just bought, you know, a Louis Vuitton purse for $12,000, but it really cost, you know, $28. Yeah. So... yeah, I think, uh, you're circling around something that I think, uh, could be really a really good business idea. I think going back to your Apple pay, uh, idea, I think that's really smart.
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I think if I was trying to create a business idea around that, I would probably call it something like angel or devil, like an angel or a devil, you know, uh, an angel or devil decision. And it's like, you just, you just, you know, it's one in the morning and you get an Uber, an Uber Eats, you know, pay, Apple Pay notification. And then you get like a DM from,
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from, you know, angel or devil saying like, you probably shouldn't have done that. And I think the bigger idea is it's like a financial coach in your pocket that could be, that's just a lot more casual and does help you hit your goals and does know your goals. And, you know, this is like an AI coach basically.
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But it's a bit more whimsical and it's a bit more fun to help you actually like reach your goals and stuff like that. So I think that, that's something that could be a good business. Um, because I think, again, it's like one of those things that could go viral, has that viral moment. Um, and, uh,
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And I do think that you're tapping into this macro trend around people are really stressed right now around costs of any items, products, services, anything. Inflation is like top of mind. I don't even think people knew what the word inflation meant five years ago. Literally, you know, there's like, oh, inflation.
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Yeah, I think I remember, you know, that like, isn't that, you know, isn't that like an economics term? Like, what does that even mean? Now it's like people can't afford their lives, period. Yeah. And so I think that there's a ton of opportunities to create a set of products around that. So there's something here. I'm just not sure it's exactly the anti-spend app. What's your next idea?
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So I love this idea. There has been a lot of I'll give an analogy here. to this app. One of the most popular apps on the App Store is the Xero app, which is tracking your intermittent fasting. They literally have 500,000 five-star reviews on the App Store. People love it. They took a trend, intermittent fasting, And they just made it way more fun to see how many calories you're burning.
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When did your fast start? When did it end? Seeing your results. Just did an incredible job. And I think that the zerofication of all these things just... create a beautiful app, make it purpose-built, add game dynamics, add a social element. It's just going to work in so many categories.
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And the word of mouth of these businesses is so great because how many people do you go, and I don't know about you, but at least myself, a lot of people, I just hear people telling me, oh, I'm intermittent fasting, I'm intermittent fasting. It's like the cold plunge community, right? They love talking about hi, my name is Greg and I cold plunge. That's the first thing they're talking about.
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So with vaping, which has become a real problem and people are addicted to, I know one person in particular, a friend of mine, he tries to get off it and he really struggles. So I think that I like this idea. I wonder if you can add a financial element to it. So what if... I could donate to Nir's anti... If Nir hits 100 days without vaping, I'll give them $50.
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And maybe companies could also support people as well. And so there's that additional incentive there and peer pressure to continue the streak. So that's just one idea for you. And so I do like this idea and... I think that with the model of Xero, all you really need is just the name, which actually this name is really good. A catchy name. Some beautiful designs.
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And then you can just go on an Upwork or something like that and just be like, hey, I'm trying to build this. I'm trying to build an MVP. Try to build something pretty cheap. Get some micro-influencers to start promoting it. And then you're probably going to want to add some paid features where, you know, for more power features, you'll charge a monthly fee for it.
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People are going to want to spend money and support this app because Again, you're helping them get off something that's very deadly. So I do really like this app for a lot of reasons.
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Well, it's the Octalysis framework. Have you heard of that framework?
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Okay, so Octalysis framework is for anyone who's thinking about creating a product that feels like a game. And so it's really just a checklist of all the things that you need to do. And I find it super helpful and I use it in most of the products I create. So number one is epic meaning and calling. So the drive to become part of something bigger than ourselves.
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Number two, development and accomplishment, the drive to level up, improve, and achieve mastery. Number three, empowerment of creativity and feedback, the drive to use one's creativity and adjusting through feedback. Number four, ownership and possession, the drive to collect, accumulate, and organize.
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Number five, social influence and relatedness, the drive to collaborate, compete, and express social appreciation. Number six, scarcity and impatience, the drive to obsess over what we see but cannot have. Number seven, unpredictability and curiosity, the drive to crave what is unpredictable and new.
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And lastly, number eight, loss and avoidance, the drive to avoid what is undesirable or changing one's behavior. So this like, this octalysis framework, it's by a guy named Yuku Chu, is just a really helpful kind of like shorthand checklist of if you're creating something like this, like the zero app for X, it'll just, okay, I need, you know, call it epic meaning calling.
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So, and I think there's probably a thousand startup ideas that you can do just by looking at what's trending on TikTok in terms of challenges and making it easier for those people to do those challenges.
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Like what, you know, how can I make this feel bigger than themselves? Or I need to, you know, you know, social influence the drive to collaborate and compete. So it just gives you these little reminders. And it works like it just works. So, Yeah, you know, I think that, yeah, it works.
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Yeah. What's your next idea?
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What you're talking about is the Starbucks app for kids. Yeah. That's what you're talking about.
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I have a Starbucks app. This podcast is called the Startup Ideas Podcast. A lot of our listeners like to call it SIP. SIP, S-I-P. I've been sipping on a lot of nitro cold brew recently. I've been earning stars.
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Literally stars. So for people listening, I'm showing my Starbucks app, which I know makes me sound super basic, but the nitro cold brew takes you to outer space and gets you in the zone. And it's basically, you know, you've got your star balances. It makes you feel good. There's basically a leaderboard of things that you can get. There's different offers.
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And you can just have a similar thing for kids. It's the same concept, but for kids. The way the Starbucks app works is you go and let's say you order a nitro cold brew and it's $5.00. you know, they scan the barcode, which is essentially your payment. And then you get the stars. And you can have a similar thing where it's like a QR code for scanning, like for completion and stuff like that.
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Yeah, it's a thing. From what I understand, it's a lot less popular today than it was 20 years ago. Um, yeah, but it's still a thing.
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And yeah, man, I think this is like a really cool idea. I actually think that you can create, like the future phone for kids is called the star phone. And it's like built around this whole concept.
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So I think it's a cool idea. I think like, okay, tactically, like, you know, you don't want to start with the, you know, building a phone because that costs a lot of money. But I do think that, you know, building an app, make it super simple, let people like, you know, set what they're trying to incentivize, make it fun.
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Where it's different than a Starbucks app is like, when I opened the Starbucks app, it's like this green, it kind of feels sterile. Like, how do you make it feel super fun? Make it feel like a video game.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like we're coming, like one of the themes in a lot of your ideas is pick something that's, you know, people don't want to do, that's boring, that's hard to do, that requires effort and make it fun. Tie a financial incentive a lot of the times, not in this case with kids, but there is some incentive there.
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um, for the kids to complete it and, and then come up with a catchy name. Like that's, that's your, that's your thesis. It sounds, you know, am I, am I missing anything?
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Yeah, I mean, the thesis is algorithm breaking products.
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That's the stuff that's going to get shared and it's stuff that's going to, you know, really works now. So I do like that thesis. We have time for two more ideas.
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This is probably my favorite idea that you dropped today just because it has the least amount of risk and it's the easiest to start. And I've actually talked about this before that scientific papers have all so much good data in it, but it's just hard to break through. So if you could, to your point, own the format. And I do really like the idea around there's some input from you
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your own history, that sort of thing. I think that personalization piece is going to get open rates up, click-through rates up, more engagement. Going back to monetization, who's spending the most amount of money right now? It's people who are trying to live forever. The Brian Johnson community is who you want to target. The don't die community. I think there's Uh, this is really similar.
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I think this is a trend, like this is a great trend to be building in and, uh, I like it.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Do we want a weird idea or do we want... If you were trying to make a million dollars in the next 12 months, which idea would you pick?
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
No, I thought you were just having like a stroke over there. I thought you were having like a Joe Biden moment, you know, at the debate.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
So, yeah, it's like, why would you even try to build the product, you know, at first? I mean, isn't the move just to do the research for...
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Well, that's why I think having a personal brand is probably helpful there, that you're not just some random person from the internet reaching out. So maybe if you don't have a personal brand, you haven't done this, you haven't done that, at least partner with someone who has that. So you can say like, hey, my co-founder is this person. She has 100,000 followers in this space.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
We love your product. I think white labeling...
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
probably makes more sense than acquiring first because acquiring is just you don't know if it's going to work it's going to require more capital so I'd love the idea of white labeling and I guess at the very worst you can go to them and be like hey listen I'll buy your products wholesale so you're just you know you're they're making money and if they're like no we won't buy it wholesale it's like okay I'll buy your products retail and with all the brand work you're going to do and all the influencer work that you're going to do you'll be able to
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
you know, charge a lot for it. Um, so I think it's interesting. I, I'm always wary of physical products. Um, but, uh, it's, it would probably be a fun, like, this is something like a fun week, two weeks just to like explore and see if you're able to find these products, reach out to them. And, uh, yeah, it doesn't take up too much capital, right? You just need like a, uh,
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
a really dope brand, color palette, positioning, and you're off to the races.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
And that's where we're going to end it because I totally agree. Nir... I had high hopes for this podcast and you obviously over-delivered. I love these ideas. You're criminally under-followed. I think you have like 5,000 X followers. So where could people find you and get more of you?
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
I love it. Keep doing it. And if you made it this far... Comment on YouTube. We'll be in the comments replying, looking around. Like on YouTube and share this with a friend. Share these ideas with a friend. You might find a co-founder or they might tell you that these ideas are dumb. And that's a whole, you know, that's maybe what you need to hear. So thank you, Nir.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
This has been real and I'll catch you later. Thanks.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Yeah. I mean, the thesis is algorithm breaking products. That's the stuff that's going to get shared and it's stuff that's going to, you know, really works now. So I do like that thesis. Okay. New character unlocked. Near. I had to... I stalked you on the internet because I saw that you posted some banger ideas. Verified bangers. And I was like, I need to get this guy on the pod sharing the ideas.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
future parents actually share the link like is this during their wedding is this during like hey you know we're thinking of having a kid um fund it is this like my wife's pregnant, you know, we're pregnant. And you know, when, when is the right time?
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
or one of those event platforms, but for baby showers or gender reveals. So this is really smart because you create the utility for that moment. So you essentially create like a SaaS product. Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world.
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They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition. So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Then once you have them hooked, it's like, oh, you know, hey, now we have this like widget that is basically like the donate widget. And I think the way to do it and like the viral moment is let's say you give $100. you don't show that it's a hundred dollars. You show that it's, you know, $10,000 in 2055. Yes, exactly.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Yeah, totally. Yeah.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Yeah. So that's what you do. So, and then you allow those people to share that moment. So let's say I donate a hundred, a hundred dollars. I'm not, you know, the share widget isn't, I donate a hundred dollars. No, of course not. It's the, I donated the $15,000 and then in small writing in 2056.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Assuming this level of return with the S&P 500. Yeah, exactly.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Yeah, exactly. And I think that's the way, sort of a framework for people to think about how do you come up with startup ideas. One is thinking about life moments, milestones. Then think about how you create a utility around that life moment or milestone. That could be consumer or B2B. And then it's what is the... viral moment that you can reverse engineer so that you just increase.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
All right, tell me more about it.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
So here's what I like about this idea. I like the idea that you looked at TikTok and challenges and said, how can I unbundle this challenge into an app? So, and I think there's probably a thousand startup ideas that you can do just by looking at what's trending on TikTok in terms of challenges and making it easier for those people to do those challenges.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
Give the people what they want. And you said okay. Thank you. Thank you for coming. So all I know from you are those ideas that you shared. And... They are some of the most interesting ideas that I have seen in a long time. And I see a lot of startup ideas. So I was hoping you could just take us through some of them.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
What I don't love about this app is I'm kind of like, okay, if I actually were going to go and create this app, I have to get people, as you said, pressing that button on Uber Eats for 20 pounds and getting that pizza is like, at that moment, it feels like life or death. It is so important to you. And it's almost instinctive and primal to actually go and press that button.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
This is a completely new habit that isn't fun to do. I really like business ideas that are swimming downstream instead of swimming upstream. I think that's the best way to describe it. And for me, you're getting someone to download an app, which is upstream. And then you're getting people to save, which is upstream. And then you're getting people to input their goals, which is upstream.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
I think there's a business that our agency, LCA, actually worked with. I don't know if you've seen it. It's called Accrue. Have you seen this? So they have an interesting model going after, I think, a little bit of this business.
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I can't believe he gave away these $1M+/year startup ideas
this market where they said, okay, there's all these buy now, pay later services and it's kind of like making the world a worse place because people are buying things that they can't afford. So, What they did is they integrated into these point of sales. And instead of buying now and paying later, it's like set your account goal. And it's like this wallet where you can add funds to it.
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Yeah. Yeah. Dude, this is actually a good idea. You want to build that? Yeah, kind of. I do think I like it because it's one of those ideas that you can see how you'd connect the dots. You start with the Twitter account that is just showcasing who's sponsoring who and what sort of click-through rates you're probably getting and how much money they're making. And you tell those stories on Twitter.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
Maybe you do also. then you convert those people to the lead magnets, really, to the tools, to the databases. You get them to... Well, you just segment them between brands and creators. So you essentially create two different lists. And then your goal is to nurture both sides of the list. Then you create a simple product for them to connect them. So I like this idea.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
Was SEO a part of your strategy for Tapio and Tweet Hunter? It was...
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Yeah, that's a common thing I hear is like using content to attract initially and always doing that in the background and then using SEO and ads to supercharge as you scale. So that's, yeah.
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Right, yeah. And for people who don't know, Tapio is an AI-assisted or an AI tool to help you schedule and manage your LinkedIn. So... Like that makes a lot of sense, right? The people that are downloading videos are the people that are creating content.
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So you just have to figure out, like the prompt for people is, whatever it is you're building, you have to say, what is a free tool that I can go and create that is going to generate a lot of top of the funnel? And it's a natural for them to use the tool and then use your tool.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
Totally. You just gave away a gem. Someone's going to listen to that and it's going to spend the next 12 months of their lives just building mini tools.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
It's okay. I mean, there's room for everyone. And I think like everyone has a perspective on it.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
I also think that my prediction is tools will be embedded within a lot of these platforms. So... Right now, when you use Perplexity or use ChatGPT, really what you're getting back is mostly text. Sometimes you're getting some links or some images. And over time, what you're going to see is it's going to be more and more rich media from these platforms, images, videos, and stuff like that.
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But I think you're really going to start to see tools. So you're going to go on to ChatGPT and say, hey, I'm thinking about taking out a 30-year mortgage at 7%. My down payment is $150,000. Do you think I should do this? Or here's my net worth. What do you think I should do? Today that response is just going to be mostly text.
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Tomorrow what that response is going to be is some text, some image, some video, and a calculator that Tebow's created. And then it's going to link back to whatever startup Tebow's created, thus getting him more traffic, and then also introducing that person to Tebow's brand.
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What do you think? I think it's really, I hear what you're saying. I mean, what have we learned from ChatGPT and Perplexity is that they scrape a lot of information. Like LLM scrape a lot of information. If we assume that they are scraping information, I got to think that they're going to scrape tools in the future. If... And I don't know how they do it.
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And when I say tomorrow this is going to happen, I don't really mean tomorrow. But I do mean within the next five years. I think where search engines generally go is where the best possible experience is.
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And I just happen to think that if you embed a tool within a search engine experience, if you search for something, if you have something that you want, you have a question that you want an answer for, It only makes the experience way better if there's a tool to help you figure out the answer to your question.
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Yeah, in the past, Google... was fat, rich, and happy just doing status quo. But things have changed, and now it is a game of user experience. So I think knowing that, why does this matter to the people that are listening and to me and you, is just that, okay, well, if we know that they're going to try to increase user experience, what are the things that we need to create such that we get ranked?
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And one of those things is tools. So I think that's a big insight.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
I do, but tell people what passion fruit is.
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Sushi restaurant in Paris. Yeah.
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Yeah. And the mistake I think a lot of people make is they use AI 100% to answer those questions. And yeah, Going back to user experience, that's probably not the best experience because you've seen some of these comments. You can tell right now, at least, if a comment is AI-generated or not. I think the ones that have stories associated with it. I walked into this...
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
The sushi restaurant in the, you know, Bastille neighborhood in Paris. And, you know, at first, like the smell was like horrible. And I was like, what have I gotten myself into? But then I sat down and someone approached me and her name was Jenny. And we had this long talk about how, you know, I was in Naoshima and there was another sushi restaurant.
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And then I had, you know, this Toro that was sent to me and it was incredible and it was mouthwatering. The human experience in creating content, I think, is undervalued right now. That doesn't mean you have to be 100% human generated. It just means that combining AI with humans, I think, is going to be the path forward. And I do agree that answering questions is... is underrated.
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So it'll always be a cat and mouse game between the LLMs and content.
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I mean, there's the average person. If the average person did that, there would probably be a lot of mistakes or a good amount of mistakes. Peter Levels, probably not. I mean, there's this one guy who has a well-known podcast who was an executive at one of the biggest tech companies in the world. And he replies to all my LinkedIn or a lot of my LinkedIn posts and Twitter posts.
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And it's 100% AI generated. And I've been meaning, I've been thinking about, I've been like, should I reach out to this guy? Like I've met him twice, but should I reach out to this guy and be like, hey dude, like it is so obvious that you're using some AI tool and it's like really, really hurting your brand. Like you are an executive of like a multi hundred billion dollar company.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
I think in the B2B space, just don't do it. I don't think so. I don't think it's worth it being 100%. Going back to what I was saying, cat and mouse, number one. Number two is, if it's cat and mouse and text becomes so good that it's almost indistinguishable, then photos and videos are going to be...
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valued highly so not only will you have to create text about that sushi sushi restaurant experience but you'll have to actually take a photo of that toro and they're going to be able to tell is that a photo taken from an iphone at this point 20 an iphone 20 and and were you actually sitting there um or was it you know created with dolly 8 at this point
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It's going to be fun to watch. I think where we're going with it, we'll move on to your next idea, but I think it's just like you kind of want to... The upside of you doing... Sorry, go ahead.
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Yeah. I mean, Scott Belsky, the chief product officer of Adobe, once told me that... Just this idea around when you walk into a grocery store, you see labels and on the labels, you could see what's in the product, right? You can see if there's seed oils, you can see if there's water, you can see how much sugar there is, all these things.
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And when it comes to social products and digital products, we don't really have nutrition labels. And when it comes to content, we definitely don't have nutrition labels. We just see the content. Now, Instagram is doing, and TikTok are doing, you know, this video was made by, with this filter. So there is a little bit of, you can see this video was made by this filter.
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So there's starting to be like the nutrition label, but it's very just tip of the iceberg. The idea that you're talking about, which is like essentially organic content, just like how we have organic food and non-organic content, which is AI generated, is really compelling. I just don't know how you create a business out of it.
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I think one of the reasons why we saw Be Real hit 20 million daily views or whatever it was, was because you were seeing the rise of filters and AI content And that product ended up not really working out. But the reason why I think it took off is there was this collective feeling that we all had that we were getting sick and tired of filters and AI content.
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So that insight, I think, is really good. How that manifests into a business, I think there's probably a social app idea. There's probably... another version of a social network that exists that just encapsulates everything that we hate about social networks today, which is AI generated filters, uh, negative places.
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So just, you know, when I go, I was just on Twitter right before this and it was just like, I'm seeing like video, like horrible videos of war and, and, and people arguing about politics. Um, and 100% organic content, I think, would be the answer. So I think that there's... The ideas I have for this is you either create a social network... hard to do, have to raise money, so good luck.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
Or you build services businesses that help companies create organic content, subscription-based content type of ideas for people. Off the top of my head, that's all I got.
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Yeah, totally. Anti-AI positioning, that's a key insight. I got to think more about that one. I think you are right on that. I don't know. I think so. I got a good feeling about it because... Like I said, people are thinking about it and there are benefits to going anti-AI. Just like there's benefits going AI, right? I'm not saying going AI is bad.
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I'm just saying there's some places that it makes sense and some places it doesn't. And there's so much competition in the AI-assisted, AI-led landscape that there's probably a lot of opportunity in the human stuff. Yeah.
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Exactly. You know where you're not having 10 competitors in anti-AI human stuff. That's for sure. So that's where the arbitrage is. Always look for the arbitrage. Always look where there's opportunity. So I like that.
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Totally. Yeah. I'm following them. And I do think they're really good at sniffing out how people are feeling. Yeah.
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Yeah. Anti-positioning. It's so underrated. Yeah. So underrated because when you're posting something on Twitter, if everything looks the same, you're not going to stop and you're just going to keep scrolling. But when you see something that... in the zeitgeist and just feels, smells, tastes different, then you're stopping, you're sharing, you're replying, you're engaging.
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So that's where the arbitrage is. Thibaut, this has been really fun. You're a legend. Where could people find more about you and your products?
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Cool. Yeah. Check it out. Uh, Obviously, you know what time it is. Go to YouTube, like this video, comment on videos so people hear more about Thibaut and his great ideas. Hope this has been fun. And Thibaut, good seeing you. And hopefully next time in France or here in Quebec. I would love to welcome you here. Thank you, Greg. It was very awesome. Later.
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Yeah. I'll be real with you too. So I thought that the space was saturated too. There is like 100 of these marketplace startups. I think what was interesting about Passionfruit is they focused on creators like me and you. So like the B2B type creators. And the other thing that they did was they allowed creators who had newsletters to create almost like a link tree, but for sponsorships.
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So it was like a really easy way to create a profile where it's like, okay, gregisenberg.com is a newsletter. There's 75,000 people. A sponsorship costs X amount of dollars. And it was just like a beautiful webpage. So I think the question I have here is, okay, I buy the point. I agree that sometimes you can look at a space and it's overloading with startups.
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He gave me 3 creator tool ideas that will print money
You just gave away a gem. Someone someone's going to listen to that and it's going to it's going to spend the next 12 months of their lives just building mini tools. Yeah, I'm excited to have this conversation. I've been following you for a long time. And when you sold Tweet Hunter and you sold Tapio for $10 million, I was like, okay, this guy is legit.
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And that's the creator space right now. But what would you build if you can build anything in this space?
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30 day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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So that's really interesting. So something happened to me for the first time ever recently where I had a brand reach out to me I'm just going to pull up the email. So Logitech reached out to me. And they're launching this new product. And they wanted to send it to me. And then they were like, we want a text-based post and a YouTube video.
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Obviously I didn't do it because I don't use any Logitech products. And it's not really my model. My model is to give a lot of value away for free. And in the future, hopefully that pays back to me somehow. But... I think it's really interesting that you have brands. What are brands doing?
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They're either going to marketplaces or they're going to agencies to find these creators and deals or they're just cold DMing people. They're just saying, hey, you're an interesting YouTube channel. So I think what you're suggesting is to flip the model on its head. What you're saying is Logitech should actually create a page and say, we're really interested to do this. Is that what you're saying?
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Yeah, I think obviously what a lot of marketplaces do is they charge for access. But you can't charge if you're just beginning. You can't go to L'Oreal or Logitech and be like, hey, it's going to be $500 a month for access to this. And we're going to take a cut of whatever the transaction is going to be. Because when you're starting out, you are no one. Like that's the reality.
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And that's the thing that a lot of people don't say is you're starting off with like no credibility or very little credibility. Your goal right now is to prove that you can create value. So I think what you do is initially you just prove out that you can actually do this thing. So get the brands on board. Don't charge anything.
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Once you get the brands on board, you're going to get the creators on board, which is beautiful, right? And then eventually you can take a cut. Eventually you can take a 10 to 20% cut. And some of these brand deals, like I think Logitech wanted to pay me like 10 grand for like a text post, you know, it's like.
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And just seeing your process of how you come up with an idea, how you name it, how you come up with unconventional ways to grow it. how you care about design and copy, I was like, I need to get this guy on the podcast. So thank you for coming on. That's pretty cool. Thank you. So what is on your mind these days?
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And how would you, how would you go about getting the brands? Like, how do you go from having no brands to 25 brands?
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Yeah, I think... Use a couple of those tools. I think that's great. One of the things I was thinking about is you do really need to niche down a little bit. You can't be the creator network for everyone. So I think I'd probably start, if I was building this, in the B2B space. So I'd probably look at Passionfruit. I'd probably go on Passionfruit and say, who's...
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you know, who, who are the top creators and on passion fruit, they actually like list the top creators. Um, they list like, you know, you've got Ali Abdaal, you've got Eastlow, the notion guy, you've got, you know, Dan goes a high performance coach. Um, all these people, um,
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So I'd reach out to them and then I would see, I'd make a air table or Google sheet of who are the, over the last 12 months, who has sponsored an Ali Abdaal newsletter or YouTube video. And you create this list and this create this database, which by the way, you later use as a lead magnet, right? Super cool. Yeah. So once you scrape all of passion fruit,
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And sorry, Passion Fruit, if you're listening to this and you're like, that's against my terms of service. I don't know if it's against the terms of service, but let's just say you can go and do that. Then you create this database and then you say to people like, hey, do you want to see who's sponsoring the world's largest newsletters? You put some Twitter ads behind that.
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All of a sudden, you're getting leads at $0.50 to $1.50 a lead.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
You said you had something to talk to me about.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
And maybe you do game nights with entrepreneurs like Halo for entrepreneurs, Halo for designers, Halo for XYZ. And then you move on to other games. And then you can eventually charge for it.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
I am the multiplayer gamer. My favorite part about gaming is... like what Internet Vin was talking about, five versus five and being on a team and playing in a team sport and coming up with strategies. Do you still do it?
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
Not nearly enough because I... I have a Mac and Counter-Strike 2, which is the latest Counter-Strike, I can't play because it's on a Mac. And I just can't... I don't know. I don't want to set up a separate rig just for Counter-Strike.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
It's more of just like... Yeah, honestly, you're right. I should.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
The other tangential idea I have to your insight is... How do you take something like a nostalgic product, like let's say the Game Boy Color, and create high-end expensive art out of it? So that's what, this is like the prompt for people listening, which is go think about what was meaningful to you as a 14-year-old. Because if it was meaningful to you,
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There's probably other people it was meaningful to. It could be as silly as poutine. It could be as fun as a dreamcast, and everything in between. And then go think, okay, how do I create a really expensive object that's somehow a piece of art that I can sell on the internet?
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
And then talking tactics, then you either build niche websites, get a lot of SEO traffic, and then convert them to the high-end products, or you just
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
Oh, 100%. People who are listening to this podcast.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
And seeing us hang out at this particular time, and it's going to be like 2042 and they're going to be listening and they're going to be like, oh, I remember when, you know, it was 10pm and Jonathan... was like hanging on a couch and he was eating this USB drive.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, isn't there a quote there? You don't step into a river twice. No man steps into a river twice.
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No, but sort of. It's related to a river. It's related to... This is a great explanation. The river changes. It's a flowing river, right? So it's changing over time. So if you step in it in 2024 and you step in it in 2025, it's a different river. It's seeing different things.
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Here's the quote. No man ever steps into the same river twice.
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Yeah. Oh, smart quote there, Greg.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
It is a really good quote because the whole point is that nothing is the same. Nothing is the same. No. Before we head out, nostalgia, if you wanted to create a high-end collectible company based on nostalgia, how do you come up with the idea? And actually, how do you get started? Do you create a landing page? Do you use SEO, paid ads?
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Walk us through a bit of your framework for thinking about how to start one of these businesses.
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I would really, really niche down. So I would be like that channel for
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Mario Brothers you know just really really niche niche down and just talk about that video first 100% yeah short form probably first and then you really just need like one or two of those clips to go viral to get you know I was talking to a friend of mine this morning he just had one of he's like in the entrepreneur space and he had one of his clips get 10 to
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10 or 12 million views and he got like 30,000 or 20,000 subs from it.
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And you, so you just need like one of those to go viral and then you have your base. And then from there you can create other channels and just start using your Mario channel to, to push to, uh, your Zelda channel. And I would think about what our games, I think the silent Hill, uh, example is really smart because now all of a sudden people are like, oh, I forgot about Silent Hill.
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But there's a group of people who are not going to buy Silent Hill 2, but who would buy Silent Hill 1 nostalgic items. So that's where it comes, it all comes back to searching on Reddit and seeing where there's growth areas in certain games and picking the ones strategically that I think also is something what I would be doing.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
Remember the good old days?
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First of all, that means quite literally nothing to me.
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No, I was a Nintendo guy and a PC gamer.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
ocarina of time man yeah all right can i tell you about a business related to nostalgia that i think you're gonna like and i think it probably does at least five million dollars a year yes all right it is called grid studio.cc do you know about this business i don't i'm looking it up now So it's brilliant.
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It's basically doing something similar to what I was talking about, where you take nostalgia and you make high-end art pieces of it. Although I actually don't think it's as high-end as I would do it. So what do they do? They get original parts from original Game Boys, iPhones.
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I knew you'd love this. I knew you'd love this. And they take the original parts and even newer-ish things like the Apple Watch, but first generation, and they put it in a art frame and they just kind of...
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annotate it and it's just a beautiful piece of art like so they'll take out a game boy and you can see all the inner workings on on a beautiful art piece and it's just it's a beautiful homage to the device
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I don't, but on their website, I think what's really interesting is their influencer program is at the bottom. And I bet that a lot of their revenue comes from... I mean, if you're like a YouTuber, creator type person, like you just want to talk about this, you know?
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So that's really cool. I think they're doing really well. And I also, I found out about them because I saw their paid ads absolutely everywhere for a long period of time.
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Yeah. I feel like I'm going to bankrupt you. This just bankrupted you.
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Oh, no, not again.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
So I was eating, okay, so I'm in Montreal right now, and the dish here that people eat is poutine, which is fries. You know it. You know it.
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Yeah, horrible URL. Gridstudio.cc. I would love to acquire this business, rebrand it, add some higher-end art pieces to it. So their stuff looks amazing. But imagine if it was in... The frame to me looks kind of Ikea cheap. But I think that there's some collectors that would spend thousands of dollars for some of these.
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And if they were numbered and there was rarity associated with it, this is a mega, mega business. So I'm really interested in that.
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That's my goal. It's to get people to listen to this and stop what you're doing and go do something that you hear on this podcast.
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Yeah, you know it. And it's fries, gravy, and cheese curds. So I'm chowing down on this poutine, and my American friend, who's never seen a poutine in his life, goes, why are you eating that? And I... Never even, they didn't question it, you know, I've been eating it my whole life. And he's like, you know, it's just soggy fries.
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Because people need us to...
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All right. This is big. This is big. This is a really big idea. And it's a big idea because it's a thousand ideas. It's not just one idea. Yeah.
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Yeah. Someone's got to fund your excessive nostalgic collectibles habit.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
Turn your cost center into a profit center.
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
Thanks for bringing this to us. And... If folks liked this episode, you have two little things you could do. One is you can subscribe on YouTube because we're trying to grow that YouTube as much as possible. So go at Greg Eisenberg. Just go and do it. And two... Comment on the YouTube. And we will be in the comments. The last episode with Jai Scream didn't get as much love as it deserved.
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We need to know if you love Jai Scream or not.
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Yes, exactly. And thank you for coming on. It's been real. I'll see you later.
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So I was thinking, do I like this or do I just like it because it reminds me of my childhood?
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It is. Yeah, maybe a bit of both. So I think that I mean, what I want to talk about is why does this matter within the context of startup ideas?
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Nostalgia hacking: my favorite money-making hack of 2024
If you're anything like me, you've got a ton of design work that you need. Websites, landing pages, emails, social assets, you name it. But you don't just want beautiful landing pages or beautiful websites. You want the stuff that's going to convert. You want the stuff that's going to actually drive value. That's where design scientist dot com comes in.
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It's an agency that for one monthly price will do all your design work, all your copy work, all your engineering and do stuff that actually scales your revenue. You don't need a designer. You need a design scientist. Let's go design scientist.com. I liked it so much. I invested in the business.
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Dude, this hits home. This really, really hits home to me. But I want to respond to your idea. I'm going to respond to your idea first.
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I wasn't a console boy. I was a Counter-Strike aficionado. You were a PC gamer. I was a PC gamer. And I took it really, really seriously. And that honestly was what got me onto the internet and really just like meeting... People from all over the world joining teams, competing, competed in the World Cyber Games Tournament, the Worldwide Tournament.
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The Cyber Games. So yeah, I'm a nerd, I'll say it. And it was an incredible experience. So I think the idea of a LAN party is something that is extremely special, but I wouldn't go about it from a Twitch angle. Because there's the secondary trend around IRL happening right now. So I think that there's an opportunity to... If Soho House was creating LAN parties, what would that look like?
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And we are back. Jonathan, Jice Cream, Courtney.
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Yeah. And that, I also think the, yeah, with the other trend around sober, curious people and people becoming sober, uh, board games are becoming more popular. Card games are becoming more popular. You throw in land parties there. Maybe during the day it could be a place where you can kind of, we work, work. Maybe you can, you can work there and, and be creative.
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But at night, that's when maybe there's just organized games. You need someone to organize it. And there needs to be structure. So for example, I saw a friend of mine actually, this is a guy, his Twitter handle is Internet Vin. He's like a... an entrepreneur, and I was actually surprised. He wrote, playing Counter-Strike tomorrow night in North York, which is in Toronto, getting two rooms for 5v5.
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We have eight people, but need two more. Let me know ASAP if you want in. And you're just starting to see little things like that where people are like, yeah, I do want a game. I do want to be in real life. So that's why I like this idea.
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It's literally you.
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Yeah. I'm talking about couches.
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Yeah. Yeah. And I know someone's going to be listening to this and be like, but that's going to cost me $200,000 to open up a space like that. And then I'm going to be on the hook for $10,000 a month of rent. And then my answer to you, listener, is slow down. What does the smallest version of this look like? Well, it looks like just organizing games. It's organizing game nights.
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Exactly. All right, man. We're getting into it. So you are the trend god. I'm just going to call you that. That's what I'm going to do.
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Great movie. Incredible movie. Highly recommend. So that movie, they're in the Park Hyatt in Tokyo. So I was there recently, and I'm having breakfast. And as I'm sitting down for my first breakfast, one of my first breakfasts in Japan... Uh, the chef comes over and he puts down a plate of, uh, Madeline cookies. Um, these like French cookies that he talks about that his mom used to make.
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And now he makes them and he comes from Paris and the whole story. And I'm like melting. I'm quite literally melting. Uh, and, and then I pick up one of the cookies and of course it's like perfectly hot temperature. And he was like, that's the way my mom used to like get that story, like productizing that in this. There you go. You know, huge margin in that.
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You have another idea?
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You might even call yourself the Exploding Topics God.
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Here's how I would name a product like that. So... I get migraines and I used to get embarrassed about getting migraines because like I'd be doing something and then all of a sudden like my vision would get blurry and it really sucked. And I would get this migraine. And then I went to see a neurologist and he told me that. This is when I was young.
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And so I was hoping you can come on and you can share some of the most interesting trends, topics, and ideas. And you're a listener of the pod, so you know what this audience wants. Brian, what do you got for us?
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He was like, you know, he started off the conversation by saying, you know, you know who else had migraines? And I was like, no, who? He was like Julius Caesar. And Julius Caesar did a lot of big things. Granted, I think he probably killed a lot of people because he was like a general and stuff like that.
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But I mean, he was running Rome, you know, like he was able to live a successful life, whatever that meant at that time. I think that with ADHD, how do you find someone like that? So, okay. So if I was creating a migraine brand, I would call it Caesars or Julius. For ADHD, who is someone like that that people look up to and then just call it that?
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Yeah, exactly. Okay, so I buy the thesis, but what's not clear to me is what the actual product is.
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. Who else, like who do you look up to in terms of other brands that have done something similar that they're just amazing at building audience and building brand?
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The one that comes top of mind is a friend of mine and friend of the pod. Her name is Natalie Ellis. It started off as basically a meme page called Girl Boss, I think it was called. And she was sharing memes and quotes and stories around female entrepreneurship, women-led businesses. And it grew to 6.4 or something million followers on Instagram.
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And once she had that, she was like, okay, what are the things that I could sell? Templates, a membership, events. Now she has one of the top podcasts, one of the top business podcasts. So she went from a meme page to a millionaire basically quite quickly. And it started with the brand.
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I mean, my take is, I mean, I was joking a little bit, but my take is it's way easier to sign up with an Instagram account than it is to build a D2C product and figure out logistics and manufacturing and all that sort of thing. So I think that if you're creating a minimal viable product, I always think about it as like the minimal viable product is the social account.
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I like it. You want to give us one last Brian idea?
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Yeah, so Megasip, you know me too well. Oh, nice. I think, yeah. What I'm seeing is there's a bunch of AI tools that are promising that. It's like, give us your content and we'll spit out other formats of it. And I just don't think that the AI tools are probably 100% there yet. So I do think that, oh, so that's one end of the spectrum.
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On the other end of the spectrum is humans creating new content, which is like, well, I don't want new content. I've got all this great stuff. So I agree. I think that there's something in between that is a big opportunity. And I think the way to sell it is you do a cold reach out and you're like, hey, you wrote this post in 2005. I've turned it into this. Do you like it? Yes.
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And then you have to prove yourself on the cold DM basically.
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How big is this idea? How big could this get?
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Cool. All right. There you have it. Those are my ideas. Those are really good ideas.
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I appreciate it. It shows. Thank you for inviting us into your home, uh, on your couch. It's, it's, it's, it's very kind of you.
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Where could people get to know you better?
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Well, we'll find you there. And come back anytime, please. Will do. Thanks for having me. All right. Don't eat any hot dogs, okay?
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What do you think you can charge for something like that?
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like actually starting this? Like, what do you do? Okay, what's next?
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What about charging per update instead of going monthly? There's this monthly subscription fatigue. I feel like a no brainer offer could be like per update. What do you think?
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And have you seen anyone doing this?
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Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions. And I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses. They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. Compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast.
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But the main thing is most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut. Just click below to get access. Your next cash flowing business is waiting for you. I like it. I like it. So dude, this is just, I like it. There's nothing more to say. Yeah. I have literally nothing more to say.
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I'm going to make it weird. I'm just going to try to make it as weird as possible.
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It depends how much cash.
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Hold on. Just tell me how much cash are we talking?
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Wait, wait, no. Millions as in one to two million?
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We're going straight into it. Brian Dean on the podcast. I think this might be the best ever episode of the 150 episodes or whatever I've done on this podcast. You're literally calling me from your couch.
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I had a hot dog the other day in Quebec and the hot dog, it was like, I don't know, 79 cents Canadian, which is like 40, I don't know, 45 cents US. And I'm like halfway through it and I'm like, wait, wait, wait a second. If I'm paying 48 cents for this, they're paying 10 to 15 to 20 cents for this. I probably shouldn't be putting this in my body.
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And I feel like that's kind of, even these meal planning services, even if they say it's dope for you and I just, I don't buy it at 10 bucks.
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And so you warm it up yourself, right? You put it in the oven?
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Or microwave. But no, you wouldn't want a microwave.
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What are you? Come on. You're not a barbarian, Brian.
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So, I mean, I don't know if you need $1 to $2 million to start this idea. Yeah.
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I mean, to test this idea isn't going to take $1 to $2 million. Oh, no, no, no.
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We have a thing on this pod. Do I sip this idea or do I spit this idea? I don't like it. Sip as I like. I sip the test of it, but I don't know at scale if I love this idea. Operating this in 50 cities to me seems like a mess. But I do think that maybe this is just a business where it's in one or two cities and it's not crazy to do a few million bucks per city, is it?
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Totally. Yeah, we wanted to invite you into Brian's home.
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Don't look at me like that, Brian. I saw you look down on me.
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No, you are judging. I see you.
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Yeah. I also, if I was doing this, I think the trend around clean eating, I'm sure you're seeing a lot of that. Everything's clean. People are just using the word clean. It's like clean is the new healthy. In the 80s and 90s, people used to say, oh, that's healthy. Now people say, oh, that's clean. So I think if you ride on that trend, like clean meals, I think that could be really interesting.
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And I also think
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Have you ever seen Lost in Translation, the movie?
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Yeah. I think I think that that's what they say. Nicotine is what is it's like more addictive than heroin or something like that.
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And I mean, of course I get stressed. Like, okay, business, revenue's down 30% month over month. We lost our biggest client. I don't know. Our technology is built on this API and they just shut it off. That's stressful. But being stressed isn't going to help the problem. What helps the problem is figuring out what is your most productive time zone.
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How do you get in the state to get most productive? And then what are the things that you need to do to move the needle the quickest? And go and do that. And that's it. And just do it every day. And I know that sounds really simple. But that's what it is. Everything else is noise and fluff. And this is the system that worked for me.
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I don't know. I don't know because I think when they see me, it's always in a moment of there's something wrong and me being like, you know, ask, I'm also very direct.
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Yeah, I don't think people say that. I mean, I don't know, but I don't think internally people are like, Greg is super chill because it's the same situation. When they see me, I'm generally with a firefighter hat on.
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All right. And it's like you. It's like, yeah, here are all my questions. Let me collect all the data points. Once I have the data points, then it's like, okay, based on this, here's what we need to do. Also, why didn't we do these three things? And the reason why I say that is because I don't want to dress up as a sexy firefighter. You know? Yeah.
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I always said that for you because I know that you'd appreciate that. I love it. I love it. And I don't want to do that because... I'm sorry. You know, I want... to spawn many firefighters within the organizations, right? So as a hold co-entrepreneur, that's what you're trying to do.
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You're trying to build the, you know, the reflexes for the companies within themselves to come and be like, whoa, you know, Michelle is the firefighter because she sees something and she sees revenues down or she hears that, you know,
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Yeah. So I'm ready to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about because I'm in the matrix.
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No, I don't. I can honestly say that doesn't cross my mind.
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Why? That business has generated millions of dollars of profits for you. Why would you go and just decide, hey, it's no longer for me?
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And why don't you just hire a CEO?
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so i did let that one happen although it did work well for two years like brought in a ceo kept the numbers stable it didn't really grow and then it was like um yeah it's but well that's a bad answer because it's a bad answer like okay the hiring okay i've hired a ceo before and it didn't really work out is like is like saying well
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I had a broken heart before, therefore I'm never going to date again. So that's a bad answer.
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The assessment is yes. This is the assessment. If you are having racing thoughts from time to time that you want to sell the business and like, It's only when I'm annoyed with it. How many times per year do you think that thought hits you?
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No, no brainer. If that thought is coming at least once per quarter, then see you later. Life's too short for it. You'll hire someone who actually cares a lot about it more. Now, you have to be okay with the fact that CEO might be worse than you and it might not work out. And it might take three CEOs for it to work out. And that's just the nature of, yeah, I know. And it's crazy.
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Or you might get lucky. But I think that that's just the reality of giving your baby to someone else.
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What do you think a holding company is?
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Dude, this is the same thing as the CEO thing where it's like your heart has been broken by paperwork in the past. I hate it. Yeah.
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Yeah, but why don't you just abstract away the paperwork? So for example, I own a holding company. I'm a co-founder in a holding company, Late Checkout. And there's deals that get signed all the time and paperwork and inked up, but I'm not involved in signing them. I just trust other people to sign them.
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I think that you can still have an easy, simple life if you just abstract away things. And I think what you need to do is figure out how you can abstract away the things that you really don't like.
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You know, it happened once per quarter.
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You need to do, and people listening should do this too, is like just an audit, a straight up audit of all the things you do. Is it necessary? Is it unnecessary? What can you abstract away? What can you not abstract away? And then what's your goal? What is the goal you want to come to? And I think that's, That's it. That's going to help you. That's the framework.
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I don't. Really? Yeah, I don't. I don't let it get to that point. If I'm ever feeling like I'm overwhelmed and too much stuff is going on, I just take a step back. Here's one thing I'll say. I actually work every day, like seven days a week. I'm working some amount of time.
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That's the non-framework framework. So you have some serious thinking you got to do, Jonathan.
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Just the way I want it. This couldn't have gone better. So I have a... financial rate of return that I want to hit in my portfolio, which includes liquid and non-liquid. And I have goals for each of my individual businesses, which, you know, some are financial and some are not, but they're all kind of made up goals. It's just pretty arbitrary. Right.
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But it's just, what isn't measured, what's the expression? What isn't measured doesn't get managed?
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Something like that. That's the basic.
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That's a basic idea. I mean, if you don't, basically, if you don't, if you don't measure.
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if you don't measure you don't manage we did this a few times ago in the pot into the river the river's moving yeah exactly so i'm not good at sayings i'm not good at saying but i'm good at balance you still go for the sayings yeah i still go for it that's the type of guy i am
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I mean, I think it's great. This is like the real life of entrepreneurs, right? This is it. This conversation, everything we're saying is real. And that's what I want to put out there.
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The most painful part about being an entrepreneur to me is the uncertainty, period. So anything could happen. You know, you wake up If you're building a SaaS startup, for example, you wake up every day and you check product hunt and you're like, I hope that if you're competing against Figma, Figma didn't launch something to compete directly against you.
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And I know that's not what you're supposed to do, but I do it because especially in the mornings for me, I noticed that like, I'm really like, I get like one hour of work is like in the morning is like eight hours in the afternoon and night for me. So if I noticed that I'm like getting close to being burnt out, like maybe instead of working two hours every day, uh,
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There's like 800 pound gorillas literally everywhere that could squash you in a moment. And I just think that the uncertainty and the slot machine nature of being an entrepreneur is, Just, it is tough. It is really tough. You have to be at peace with it. If you're not able to be at peace with the uncertainty, then you'll never survive as an entrepreneur at all, at all.
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So that's another reason I like being a holdco entrepreneur or multi-preneur, as I call it, because if you have a bunch of revenue lines and product lines, even if one of them suffers from one of these 800 pound gorillas or an upstart or a black swan event like COVID, it's okay. And because you have other revenue lines that are doing well.
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Like you have people, I feel like you, you might, cause like there's a lot of people listening to podcasts like this and just seeing entrepreneurs out there and they're like, I want that. And then once they take the plunge and their heartbeat goes from 120 to, you know, their resting heartbeat goes from 120 to 180 overnight. Then, uh, they're like, what did I just sign up for? What have I done?
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Dude, I love the podcast. Not one startup idea. By the way, I'm going to give a startup idea at the end of this podcast. Okay, okay, okay. And then talk smack about startup ideas. Yeah.
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You came on the podcast to say execution is everything?
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I mean, obviously, execution is important, right? You can't just come up with ideas. But when I say... Yeah, debate me. Yeah, I'll debate you. I'll debate you.
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Or on a weekend type thing, I'll go to 30 minutes. Or I'll go to zero. So I'm very conscious about the burnout and I just don't get too close to the sun.
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Ideas and execution are really important. You can't do that one.
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The reality is this. If you have really good ideas on a product, a niche, how to grow it, and then who to hire to execute on it, then you're Gucci.
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Yeah. I mean, tomato, tomato. You know what I'm saying? Tomato, tomato.
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I'm here in Canada in a small town and every Saturday there's this farmer's market. And I've noticed that This farmer's market over the years has gotten busier and busier and people are getting just cultish over it. And I've noticed this in when I'm in Miami, the farmer's markets and other places, there's farmer markets.
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And it's just this whole like shop local, shop organic vibe that I think, and I don't know how it is in Europe.
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is a really small town but there's so many people that come during on Saturdays that it's like really good for the town they find out about the town they're coming from all over there's then the you know restaurants are popping up and on all these sorts of things and
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I think that there's an opportunity to basically be the person that manages, organizes farmers markets and then goes to, you know, you can go to cities and be or towns and villages and be like, hey, like we want to set up this farmers market. Give us some space. You curate the merchants.
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The business model could be you either charge rent, essentially, for the merchants, or you just take a percentage of revenue. And you're making the world a better place because shop local, shop organic, all these things. So I just think that there's an opportunity. This is a non-digital idea, but I just think that there's a pretty simple idea where if you...
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if you care about shop local, you can probably convince a lot of these entrepreneurs to set up shop. You don't need that many of them, maybe like six or 10 to start and definitely make, and I think you can make a few thousand dollars a week, just get going.
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And then the last thing I'll say is you can, what I like about this idea is, you know, if it works in this small town, you can bring it to other small towns and replicate the model. So I actually think that this is like a several million dollar a year idea.
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There's like 800 pound gorillas literally everywhere could squash you in a moment. And I just think that the uncertainty and the slot machine nature of being an entrepreneur, it is tough. It is really tough. You have to be at peace with it. If you're not able to be at peace with the uncertainty, then you'll never survive as an entrepreneur. Jay Scream is back. Hello. What's up, dude?
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this concept of local also like local art local yes pottery yes local furniture making uh i love the idea i think it's great yeah yeah that's the idea and that's when you're giving it away because you know no one can execute it i'm giving it away because i would like to see a lot of nitro coffee for that one that's true i i do i do i would like to see more of these pop up and i just think that it's one of those
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like really validated ideas. The hard part about the idea is just getting these entrepreneurs to agree to show up on a Saturday morning or whatever because they have to staff it.
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digital ideas right now okay yeah and but I think someone should do it
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Step one would be, I'd create an audience in my town. So I would, you know, local like restaurant reviews and- hotel reviews and things like that, like build a email list or TikTok following in my local town. Once I have that, then I have leverage with the merchants and I say like, hey, I'm thinking about creating this, you know, flea market meets farmer's market.
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By the way, I think there's like a name that you can own there. Like, what is that? You know, what is that called? You know, flea and farmer. I don't put it together.
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Yeah. Something like that. And. you know, if I was able to pull, pull this together and get hundreds of people to come on a Saturday, would this be of interest? And that's all you need. You just need them to say yes.
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And then once you have five or eight or 12 of those, you go to the, the, the city and there's, there's always someone or town and there's always someone there who's like their job is, is commerce. And in my little town in Canada, uh, that I'm, that I'm, that I'm in, um, I actually met with the government official, and he was just like, you'd be surprised. You can walk right in into the town hall.
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Well, I work every day because I don't look at it like on a week to week basis. I'm like, okay, I've got like some stuff to do this year and some goals I want to hit this year and I want to hit them. And so my average day is like I wake up, I wake up pretty early and I have three things I need to do every single day. And if I do those three things by 2 p.m., I'm out.
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These are small towns. And just be like, hey, is, in this case, is Denis around? And you just have a chat with him. These people are open to having conversations with citizens or people who live there. And then you get them to support it in some way. And then once you have both sides, I don't think you're going to need that much of your own cash to actually get this going.
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So it has a lot of the ingredients I like for a business idea. It doesn't require a lot of cash to get going. It's something that could be replicated. It's...
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it's there's also probably an opportunity to create like the brand for for this category for this type of experience like for example in new york i think they have something called smorgasbord have you heard about this i've heard the word smorgasbord but not the event smorgasbord I think it's like, you know, someone's going to kill me on this because I'm getting it wrong.
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But it's basically like in Brooklyn and a few other places. I think there's just like, you know, a huge, huge, almost like a food truck festival. All the different, a smorgasbord of food. And there's, it's kind of like this in some ways. But then it becomes a brand. It's like, oh, you're going to Smorgasburg this week. You're going to Smorgasburg.
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And they're able to like... If they open one up in Portland, Oregon, I'm sure that would get buzz as well. Another example of someone who's done this, by the way, is Time Out. So they have these Time Out food halls where they went to... Like the...
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popular but landmark food institutions and cities and then they created like a uh what's it called the food court so instead of having like subway and mcdonald's it it's it's like the the local shawarma stand that everyone knows in the town
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But if it takes me longer, you know, I don't stop until I finish those three things every day.
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Yeah. Yeah. So there are experiential agencies that do like, you know, if you're Evian and you want to, you know, throw an event at, you know, Wimbledon, there's big agencies that do that. A buddy of mine owns one. I think he does like 30 million a year in revenue. Oh, my God.
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Yeah. So that exists. Yes. But, you know, I think for smaller companies, more like new types of events like the ones we're talking doesn't exist. And I wonder what you can do also on the business model. to make it different and interesting. Like maybe you can do like rev shares and maybe you can make it a productized service in some capacity. So there's a lot, there's a lot here.
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You don't want to, but you will.
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Good idea. Good pod. Thank you. Good friend.
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You always save yourself, I think. If you enjoyed this episode... Give us a like on YouTube and a comment. We do read every single darn comment.
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I think people who over optimize on like this whole productivity system stuff, like
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take it too far you inherently you inherently know that there's like two or three things that you need to do just do the thing and and also can we be honest it's not like we're toiling away mining you know doing mining you know going down in a mine shaft we're literally pressing buttons on the internet that's like our work you know absolutely and it's so fun it is so fun
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I just told people to follow you and then you're like, I don't use social media, you know?
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All right. Go build some internet audiences, people. Go build some internet audiences. There you go. Later.
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No. For some people, that might be 8.30. For some people, that might be 4.30. So whatever it is for you, wake up relatively early. Take out a piece of paper or an iOS note and pick three things that you need to do. Do the three things. and don't get burned out. Don't fly two coats to the sun. That's what it is. That's all it is. Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in.
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I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out.
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100% of the money I have and the wealth I made has been self-made.
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100% of the money I made has been from inheritance and winning the lottery, you know? Yes, yes, yes. No, I think this system is a system I developed when I was 18 or 19. So when I had nothing, when I had no companies, when I was just getting started, this is what I developed. So it's not like now that I quote unquote made it or I have a little bit of money, it's like, yeah, I'm way more chill.
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It's like, no, no, no. I've always, this is how I've always been.
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And so I'm like... You can't wrap your brain around it.
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The most painful part about being an entrepreneur to me is the uncertainty, period. Anything could happen. You know, if you're building a SaaS startup, for example, you wake up every day and you check Product Hunt and you're like, I hope that You know, if you're competing against Figma, Figma didn't launch something to compete directly against you.
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I drag myself into it. I don't think, you know, we have a bunch of companies under late checkout and a lot of, you know, a lot of the times some of them are struggling more than others. And, but a lot of the people running it don't want to bring me in because that's like, you know, an area of last resort and they want to fix the problem themselves. And, and that's, that's amazing. Right.
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But I don't want to make it seem like I'm so chill that I'm just like, All right. Yeah, good luck, all these companies. I'm not. I really care about these businesses seeing full potential. So I'm in the slack. I'm looking at things. I'm asking questions. But you can do those things and not work 20 hours a day.
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Yeah. I mean, of course it comes to your mind, but I think people are going to, I think people are going to listen to this and are going to be like, this is champagne problems, Jonathan.
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Yeah. Wouldn't be the first time. Hey. How are you doing, man? I'm good. I'm good. I'm at the Cabot in the Woods on the lake, Canada. Very nice. Feeling good. Just had a nitro cold brew. Oh, shit. Which makes you feel real good. There's about 350 milligrams of caffeine in it. So that's an average cup of coffee I think has 80.
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get financial freedom right now i want to like require my parents i want to do all these things i need to you know buy a house have you seen the have you seen the price of coffee lately you know yeah someone okay is this your audience okay let me ask you let me change the topic uh maybe i thought all your audience were millionaire uh entrepreneur no maybe maybe i mean to put a bow on this topic i think that realistically you can get a lot done in
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eight hours a day just figure out yeah what what are the most productive hours and slap do not disturb mode and have a cold you know a nitro cold brew and uh see you in outer space do you use zin do you use nicotine pouches i'm not i'm not a i'm not a zin i'm not a zin boy no
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What's the scale of a big lead gen business?
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I needed to have you on the Startup Ideas podcast and you said yes.
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I was driving with a buddy of mine. He's a big real estate agent. And we get to a red light and we see these signs that say, we buy houses for cash and then a phone number. So it was like a bit of a lull in the conversation. So I just brought it up, making small talk. I'm like, I wonder who actually sells their house by calling these phone numbers. It's also a really nice area.
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It didn't really make that much sense to me. If you're going to sell your house, the average house in Miami Beach is at least a million dollars, let's say. Are you really going to call this random phone number? And then he goes, oh, you don't understand. This is actually a lead gen business. So they have these signs all over North America. And then they
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call these people, they get insight to people who are kind of on the fence if they want to sell their house. They're just basically fishing to see what is their house worth. And there's so many people that are just curious that, oh, if you can sell your house for $1.2 million today, yeah, maybe you would. But if it's only worth $800,000, maybe not. And then they sell those leads.
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I don't know who they sell it to, Are they selling it to other real estate brokers? Are they selling it to private equity who want to buy Blackstone, who want to buy them? I don't know. But it was just interesting to see how this one funnel that isn't digital at all is probably crushing it.
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This is your people. You're going to get a lot of comments on YouTube and stuff like that. People are going to be like, Chris guy. Yeah, he's one of us.
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Idea number three, what do you got for us?
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So I think the thesis that Facebook is only for people over 65, which is basically in our world, we're kind of like, that's what Facebook is, isn't necessarily true.
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Yeah. All right. So you have a list of ideas. Let's start from the top and let's give it to the people. Give them some actionable, tactical ideas. Each one of these ideas are better than the next. So let's get right into it.
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There's only one thing that's missing from this idea that I would love, which is give me a prediction of how many impressions, likes, follows I'm going to get from posting this.
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And I know that's not going to be perfect and sometimes it's going to be wrong. But I think that one killer feature around... Tell me how many impressions... Start with one platform. How many impressions will I get on Twitter? That itself is so, so, so valuable. And I think you're absolutely right. There isn't really a lot of... data on the lifecycle of content and news stories.
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And I know I would be willing to pay for a service that served that up to me on a silver platter. I care less about scheduling it and automating it, to be honest, because there's tons of platforms that do that. But I think that there's a huge opportunity around, definitely an eight-figure opportunity around exactly the trending nature of stories and content.
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I created a Greg GPT, like a custom GPT. I uploaded all my newsletters that I've written for years, all my tweets. I exported all my tweets. I trained it on that. And it's not there. Like I don't get, I'll say, I'll give it, hey, I want to write a tweet. Here's my outline. you know, write it in the listicle format, like I normally write it.
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And it's just, maybe it's just, I, I just hate anything that isn't me personally. Um, because it's my voice. Um, but so maybe it's me. Um, but I actually think that, I don't know, man, these, it's just not there yet. It's not there yet. Yeah.
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Oh, Delphi. Yeah.
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friend of the pod I won't say who he started a billion dollar business sent me a text yesterday hey brother do you do your own writing or do you work with a writer and I wrote 100% myself and he's like you have no idea how much I was hoping you say working with a writer or working with AI you know we're going to say this and people listening are going to be like oh I wish they were just going to say here's one tool I used there isn't one tool you can use you can definitely use AI like
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You can definitely use chat GPT or clode, as I say. Clode to train a little bit and be like right in this style. It's not going to get you ready to post anything. material, but it might get you, it's not going to get you from point A to Z, but it might get you from point A to B. That's the state of where we are with AI writing and AI content.
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It gets you, could get you from point A to B, which is great. It moves you forward and that's awesome. One thing, I'll give a tip for content creation and using some of these AI tools. What you can do is you can give it an outline of here's the tweet I want to write and this is the style I want it to be in. Ask me questions. if you don't know how to do this or you're missing any information.
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And then it becomes your writing assistant. So you've now turned ChatGPT into a writing assistant and you're going back and forth. And then the chances that it gets from point A to B is instead of 30%, it's like 70%. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah. What's my problem? You be honest. You be vulnerable with it. And you're like, listen, I know you might not know me. I know we're just getting to know each other. Like, make it fun. Have fun with ChatGPT a little bit.
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. All right. Next idea. Number four. I like this idea. Tell me more about it.
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Okay, so this is the first time I've heard of Shady Rays. Did you know that they have this VIP program? I don't think so. So the way the restocking fee works is if you lose your glasses, if you're a part of the VIP program, it's like $15 to restock. But if you're not a part of the VIP program, it's like $20, let's say. Brilliant. And to join the VIP... What do you get by...
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Being a VIP is you get like 5% extra discount, priority order, early access to sales, dedicated customer support. Now, it would be really smart if they charge for this VIP program. I don't know if they charge for it.
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They should. They should. I don't know. It doesn't say. It just says, are you in? So I'm not in.
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Wow. Okay, so that could be optimized. That could be optimized. I think if I'm them, I'm creating a $5 to $10 a month. Call it even $4 a month. Something no-brainer. And the whole goal is to get you to buy more things. So I love it. I love your idea. I think there's probably a hundred other niches you can go and apply this to.
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Love it.
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Yeah, this is your last one. This is your last idea.
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Go with the Shopify one.
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Okay, and say someone wants to start this business, how do they get to the Shopify merchants? Someone might be listening to this and be like, yeah, cool. I like that there's a no-brainer offer. I love the ICP. I love that it's going to bring in monthly cash flow, but I just don't know how I would get to hundreds if not thousands of merchants.
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My man. Drop them gold. Appreciate you coming on. Where could people get to know you a little bit better on the internet?
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Beautiful. You got a last question for me. What's on your mind?
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I mean, it's really just this podcast YouTube thing. The Startup Ideas podcast, Spotify, Apple, YouTube. And why? Just because... it's the, it's the, it really does build affinity with people. And if they listen to you every week, um, that affinity compounds and it's cool. It's really cool.
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Like, especially the audience that I'm attracting right now, which is a lot of people building indie hackers, people who, you know, are at their desk job, but at Google or something, but daydreaming about building a startup zero to one, um, Like we talked about in the beginning, these are your people, these are my people. And I feel lucky I get to... This is my job.
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I don't do this full time, right? I just get to come on here a couple hours a week and jam ideas. And someone told me this morning, yeah, I love the Startup Ideas podcast. It's like junk food for my entrepreneurial brain. I don't know how I feel about that, junk food, but... I get it. I get it, right? There's ideas people and there's not ideas people.
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And there's this, people say like, whoa, ideas are nothing. Execution is everything. But that's not how we talk about ideas. When we talk about ideas, we're talking about, okay, here's this Shopify abandoned cart idea, but here's actually how you'd go and start it. And here's the idea of the sub ideas on how to do it.
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I don't know where this podcast goes and I don't know where this YouTube goes, but I'm getting energy from it. That's for sure.
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It's a trick question because I know a lot of, I'm not going to name them, but I know a lot of other podcasts, like B2B creator type people who have tons of subscribers, but it's low quality views and low quality comments and just low quality.
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I think that YouTube is the most valuable because they're listening to you, they're watching you, and they see you. So I don't know, a YouTube subscriber, if it's high quality, $7. I would say close second is probably Spotify and Apple, like audio listeners, maybe $6. And then newsletter subscribers, like quite low, like $1 or less.
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No. And that's like, I'm not trying to grow my YouTube to 5 million subscribers. I'm not trying to grow my podcast of, you know, 20 million, you know, followers, stuff like that. I'm, I'm, I want to grow slow and steady. And I want people every week. There's more and more people. And it just feels like this groundswell. And I don't need to be Lex Friedman. I don't want to be that big.
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I just want this group of people who are interested in building stuff. And I do think that audio and video is the best. I will say, this past weekend, something cool happened to me. I'm drinking my coffee and... Actually, I drank a few coffees and that got me to tweet a lot. Usually, you can tell that I have a lot of coffees when I'm tweeting a lot. That's how I get it out. And I tweet something.
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And then all of a sudden, I see my notifications blowing up. Who replies to me? Elon Musk.
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So, okay, I'll pull it up.
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I'm sorry about that. That must suck. You know, that must suck. So here's what went down. So I go, the current state of the X algorithm is your tweet will literally never be seen by a soul or you go ballistic with one to a hundred million impressions and nothing in between. So then he goes, I agree. We need to fix this. So then I go, I want to help. First of all, context.
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It was like 11.13 or something or whenever I got that. It was like 11 something when I got that, when I saw it. And I was on my way to go work out with a friend. and I didn't want to be late. So I was like, Oh my God, Elon Musk just tweeted at me and I don't have Twitter on my phone cause it's smart.
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Right. Cause I'm a, yeah, I'm a, I'm not going to put a Twitter on my phone. Of course not. You know why? So I down, I'm like, Oh, I'll download Twitter. Download Twitter. I responded and I just responded quickly. Um, And yeah, I was like, I want to help. I advised some of the biggest social apps before, like TikTok and Reddit, DMs open. So then I'm doing dumbbells, just checking Twitter, my DMs.
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I'm like, is Elon writing? Is Elon writing? Because I don't have notifications, again, because I'm a sane person. Okay, and then one more quick thing happened that Elon said. So then he said, because Robert Scoble, this other guy was like, Oh no, here's what he said. Hold on. Elon Musk writes, I saw his post because a friend sent it to me.
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Forwarding links is taken as a signal, but should be a far stronger signal. So first of all, the fact that someone forwarded my tweet to him is insane. Yeah. And then the fact that he later tweeted out that he's changing the Twitter algorithm to focus more on small accounts... And he acknowledged it. So like, did I just change social media?
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I've got almost 400,000 followers.
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Yeah. And that's the story of how I met Elon Musk and he never DM'd me.
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All right, Chris, this has been fun. I'll catch you later.
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What do you think? So first of all, I'm just going to put this out there. I need to get this off my chest for a long time. I still log into Facebook probably once a week. I'm just putting it out there. Yes, I'm a 35-year-old male. And yes, I do log into Facebook from time to time. And that's because sometimes their emails bring me back. Sometimes their memory emails bring me back.
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I'm a very nostalgic person. So I'm always like, oh, what was I doing on this day 11 years ago? The birthdays, sometimes I'll be like, oh, I think it's my friend Jeremy's birthday that I went to high school with, but it could be tomorrow. So let me go check Facebook.
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I think there's a lot of millennials who are actually on quote unquote Facebook, like count it as weekly active users or monthly active users, that if you ask them, hey, are you on Facebook? They'd probably say no. It's kind of like how when you look at the polls, people just say they don't vote for Trump, but secretly they vote for Trump. Yeah. That's where we're at with Facebook.
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It's like, who's eating it, right? Like, there's someone eating it.
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So that's where we're at with Facebook. So I think the thesis that Facebook is only for people over 65, which is basically in our world, we're kind of like, that's what Facebook is, isn't necessarily true. Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions, and I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses.
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They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast. But the main thing is, most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut.
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Just click below to get access. Your next cash-flowing business is waiting for you. Yes. It is for older people, it does skew older, but it's not necessarily just for old people. There are some random WAUs like me, weekly active users. This is a gift that you're giving people that this exists, that this is like an arbitrage opportunity.
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I do think that there's, obviously this is a growth idea, so anyone who's building anything could go and now start posting, cross-promoting, so thank you for sharing that. There's also an agency idea here where I think the tagline could be something like, we go where you don't have time to go. And it's basically, there's a bunch of social networks.
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There's a bunch of places where you know you probably should be there, but you don't have the time because if you're building an audience, you want to focus on one platform or two at most. So for example, Quora. Everyone knows that answering questions on Quora is really great for SEO and drives traffic. But who does that? Do you know anyone who does that?
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This is a gift that you're giving people that this exists, that this is like an arbitrage opportunity. There's also an agency idea here where I think the tagline could be something like, And we are live. Chris Kerner, you're on the pod. Thank God. Thank God because you are an idea machine. You own eight RV parks. You own seven companies and you're constantly sharing ideas with the world.
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Yeah, neither do I. Neither do I. But I go onto Google sometimes. And Cora comes up and I'm like, that was a great answer.
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Totally. So I think there's an agency that you can build here, small to medium-sized businesses you approach and you say, we'll do it for you. There's also focusing just on creators. So you're like, hey, for $500 a month, I'll go do this for you. You don't have time to do it. You're not thinking about it. I'll do it for you.
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Totally. We can call that threadheads.com.
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Yep. Cool. Anything else before we hop on to the next one?
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All right, what's Numero Dos?
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Wait, I got to explain what those tools do for people who don't know what that is.
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That's interesting. So basically what you're saying is, let's just say painting, like house painting. So I'll use programmatic SEO to generate a ton of demand in house painting in Miami Beach. And I built the landing pages and suite of landing pages. It's generate, you know, I built the SEO juice. It's working. I just need someone to fulfill the service at a high quality.
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And I'm willing to basically partner with someone to, and then basically split the revenue with them. So basically focusing on cash flowing businesses, I would imagine local businesses because SEO is especially good for local businesses. Um, and is that what you're saying?
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Do you know much about lead gen businesses? I feel like they're not really talked too much about in tech Twitter, Silicon Valley.
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Who can we study that does lead generation really well? And what's the scale of a big lead gen business?
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I think you're totally right. I think there's also an opportunity. When a market gets really big, there's just an opportunity to be a me too. And if you just innovate on like your $5 less or your black, you know, your red and black, you know, just a color way. Yeah, totally. That could also be enough. So you're a... I would consider you a growth guy or marketing guy.
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If you were going to create Yonder for rich people, let's just say you did some quick testing. People are like, yeah, that's something I want. If it looked like a, I don't know, really dope cigar, high-end cigar case, I would totally buy that for $799, $799 instead of $149 or $249, which Yonder charges. How would you go about actually growing the thing?
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So anyway, so you were on that mountain top, you were brainstorming startup ideas. You decided, you decided to text me. We're now here. Um, and, and I'm ecstatic cause I, you're the real deal. You've built, I mean, you've built businesses from zero to 20 million ARR completely bootstrapped. So when you talk, I listen. That's rare.
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And you don't need to incentivize these people. It's really as simple as just sending them the product and being like, if you like it. Look, here's the thing.
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Not many people end up doing that for a lot of reasons, which we agree are stupid. Some of them, you know, exactly, exactly. So, um, let's just, let's just get into it. You know, what's on your mind right now and what could you share with, with people? So look, I, um,
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And if you don't like it, will you throw it away? Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google.
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And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition. So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it.
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They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30 day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend BoringMarketing.com. Someone's going to listen to this and be like, yeah, but I can't write copy as well as you, Adam.
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And I think a really easy way to do it is if you find another product that has great sales copy, like let's say Jolie, like go and sign up, buy a Jolie, for example. Just study their copy, map out their funnel, and then just go to Claude or go to ChatGBT and be like, hey, this is what I'm trying to write for this product.
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I want it to be in the style of Jolie because I like it for the following reasons. Could you take a first stab at it?
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Totally. You know, totally. Totally. Yeah, I think what you can steal is not the individual recipe, but the direction of the recipe. So for example, one of my favorite websites is once.com, Jason Freed's company. And it's this beautiful manifesto around how they see the world and how things have changed and all that.
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I'm not saying go and copy ones.com, but what you can copy is the recipe of a manifesto and a main character encountering problems and stuff like that and apply it to whatever it is you're trying to do. Because recipes like that don't really change. Human beings don't really change and it's really just about adapting... that to whatever it is you're doing.
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Yeah. Um, they love being different, but like, did they invent the manifesto? Probably not.
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Totally. Well, I thought, you know, I was listening to that. I was like, maybe I'll be the guy too.
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That's the pod. There you go. Mic drop. Thanks for coming on. Where could people learn more about you?
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Damn. And I like how you gave the email, you know, people, your email is about to blow up. Sweet. Yeah, that's cool. And dude, you should, you totally could create a system that takes your LinkedIn content and just in a, in a, elegant way moves it to X, but that's a story I got to, you know, we got to talk about that.
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Totally. And going back to your yonder idea, it's like, if I was going to start that idea, I'd start with a TikTok account and Instagram somewhere, build content around phone-free spaces, go review phone-free spaces, phone-free, like get at phone-free experiences on Instagram or whatever it is.
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Um, so it's a good place to start, not just for personal, but for, as I always think about it as like my minimal viable product is my, my social account.
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So Adam, I'll catch you later and, uh, maybe on a mountaintop somewhere.
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So there's probably people who don't even know what a yonder patch is.
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If you were going to create Yonder 2.0 or Yonder for XYZ niche, how would you actually go about doing so? Adam Robinson, you've made it to the Startup Ideas podcast.
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Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions. And I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses. They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast.
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But the main thing is most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut. Just click below to get access. Your next cash-flowing business is waiting for you. I am...
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Yeah. From a scale perspective, from what I heard, Yonder was doing like $30 to $40 million in revenue. They've got over a million students every day using the product in 21 countries, which is crazy. That costs about $25 to $30 USD per student. Another interesting thing is I just checked Google Trends and I used this tool called Glimpse that adds some search data on top of it.
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Some of the top searches for Google Trends for Yonder is Yonder stock. How do I invest in Yonder? Invest in Yonder. Is Yonder publicly traded? Which is a really good signal that people believe in the company. So if you were going to create Yonder 2.0 or Yonder for XYZ niche, how would you actually go about doing so?
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Totally, dude. How do you know I wasn't just checking Twitter right now? Yeah, I'm sure you were. How do you know I was just on Twitter this whole conversation?
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Totally, totally. So I'm on the Yonder website. And I see something I like seeing, which is if you go to the other website, they have a bunch of different categories. So it says, first of all, their tagline of phone free spaces, like perfect, really, really well said. So elegant. So elegant.
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Three words is the goal. If you can get to three words, God bless you.
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I like that. Beautiful, right? Yeah, that's really good. That's really good. So on the Yonder website, phone-free spaces, you got homes, all these categories, homes, school, music, comedy, events and weddings, courts, workplace, productions, hospitality, and other. What that says to me, whenever I see something like that, I'm like, okay, how do I create Yonder for X? Yeah, totally.
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I think going to your point, if you can mock up some of these landing pages, mock up the products for X, and then just start talking to those people, that's a great approach. The other thing I usually do, also to your point, is once I see categories, I'm like, okay, these are categories, but what's a... what's a group of people that I would go target that has specific needs for this thing?
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So, you know, yonder for rich people, uh, yonder for, uh, you know, you know, wellness people or, or whatever, just, you know, going down the list and, uh, and then seeing, is there something unique that you can provide to them?
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And, you know, why I like SaaS businesses so much is the margins are incredible. You can expect anywhere from 70, 80, 90% margins. What other businesses could you do that in? And today, that's what we're going to talk about. Only SaaS businesses. And by the way, each of these ideas, I'll give you the playbook. So the first idea is called... I just had way too much coffee and I get the jitters.
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You can expect anywhere from 70, 80, 90% margins. What other businesses could you do that in? And now it's cheaper than ever to go and build these MVPs, build these minimal viable products. So Over the last few years, I've gotten more and more interested in building SaaS products, and I have built a bunch of them. And today, that's what we're going to talk about. Only SaaS businesses.
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Are you ready? I'm ready. Can you tell? Can you tell what the coffee jitters? All right. So the first idea is what I'm calling the legal jargon simplifier. And I had this idea because I... was just signing some documents with a real estate agent that I'm working with. So I'm selling... I'm selling my apartment. And... I honestly didn't understand a lot of what was going on.
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And I know a lot of you are like me. So what if there was a one-click solution, like a Chrome extension that could demystify complex legal documents? And I think you start with just terms of service. So how would it work? Okay, I'll give you the playbook. And by the way, each of these ideas, I'll give you the playbook. So you install the Chrome extension. It would be free to start.
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And then you activate it on any web page with legal text. So that could be a Google Doc. It could be a website. And then you click the extension button to generate a quote-unquote four dummies version of the legal document. Now, I don't know if you can use the term four dummies because it might be for the books. But you get the idea. Something like that that's super catchy.
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And then what happens is the AI analyzes the text in real time. So then you get these like plain language summaries of the key points. If you have a 20 page doc, hopefully it just gives you two, three, four points. It highlights and exposes the red flags of unusual clauses in simple terms. That's really what you're looking for.
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And then you offer a risk assessment score based on industry standards and user rights. And I know there's probably a lawyer listening to this and being like, oh my God, I don't know if you can do that. And I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. I just wish this thing would exist. And I know that people would pay for it. And how would they pay for it? I think you can charge something like $5 a month.
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It can be very, very cheap. Or you can do something like $50 a year, $75 a year, and you'd get things like advanced explanations, document comparison stuff. So you'd apply a very similar model to a DocuSign. You get a free few signatures and then they eventually charge for it. So how would I grow this business? What would be my growth strategy?
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So I think you can actually create accounts like Twitter accounts, Instagram accounts, where you show like the simplified versus original versions of famous terms of services. No one knows what they're signing when they're signing terms of services. I think everyone knows that. So I think if you compared them and just showed what they actually said, I think those would go viral.
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The other growth strategy is just it's free, right? You're doing a Chrome extension, so you can do all the app store optimization in the Chrome store. And then you can do a referral program. So I'm thinking like protect a friend, get a month free. And then, of course, you can partner with all the legal education platforms to offer this tool as a part of their curriculum.
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I think that you can also do something cool where you implement a legal clarity certification for businesses. You try to ride this wave that everyone knows that these terms of services are... There's a lot of words and people don't understand it. I think that If you can do that, that's a huge business and someone would buy it.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
I think you can definitely sell that business to a Salesforce, to a box.com, to someone like that once you get your revenue up. So that's idea number one, legal. We're just getting warmed up here. Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition. So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. Idea number two. the micro-influencer campaign manager.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
So this is about streamlining the process of running a micro-influencer campaign for small to medium-sized brands. In micro-influencer, I'm talking less than 8,000 followers. Okay, so how does it work? Well, you use AI to identify and vet these micro-influencers based on brand alignment and engagement rates, followers, that sort of thing.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And then you create basically an agent that automates outreach and negotiation processes with these templates. You can manage content approval workflows and posting schedules. You can track campaign performance across all the different platforms like IG and TikTok and YouTube. And then you provide return on investment analysis and suggestions for campaign optimization.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And when I get the jitters, I have the best startup ideas. I don't know why. So I just was writing down a ton of SaaS startup ideas and I needed to click record and share it with you. Now, you might listen to one of these SaaS ideas and steal it and build the MVP in a weekend and it starts growing and growing. All of a sudden, you're doing a million dollars a month.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
You can charge something like $149 for 20 influencers. There's this growing demand for micro-influencers and small to medium-sized businesses. It's a lot of work to do. If you have a store or something and you have two employees, it's just difficult to manage this.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And yes, there's marketplaces that you can go to, but I think if you can do an automated AI type of micro-influencer campaign manager, there's something here. So... Yeah, just making influencer marketing accessible and manager for smaller brands because I think this is just a bigger and bigger marketing channel. Okay, how would I grow this thing?
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
So you know I'm really big into tools and lead magnets. First thing I would do is I'd probably create an influencer campaign ROI calculator, make it completely for free. I'd partner with e-commerce platforms to offer it as a marketing tool for their merchants. Probably hard to do with Shopify because they're too big. But the smaller ones. I think I'm really into these certification programs.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
So I think you can do something, a certification program for micro-influencer marketing specialists. I'd implement a campaign of the month showcase to highlight success stories. And then I'd love to host some sort of speed dating event between brands and micro-influencers online, get people to sign up, and then you can nurture those people. That is idea number two.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
All right, for idea number three, I'm calling it the AI writing coach for non-native English speakers. And by the way, there are billions of non-native English speakers. This is a huge market. And they want to learn English. They want, they want to work online. And a lot of them could speak English well, but sometimes writing it, you know, it's not their first language. I get it.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
Speak multiple languages. It's not, it's not easy. So the idea is basically creating a tool for, you know, writing improvement for this specific, specific niche. So, okay, how does it work? you start by just analyzing the user's writing style and their common errors. You give real-time suggestions for grammar, style, and vocabulary improvements.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
You offer content-specific language usage shifts based on the industry and document type. You generate personal writing exercises to address the weak areas, track and adapt suggestions over time. So this is basically like grammarly, but really focused on the non-native group. And I think that just the positioning, if you just focus on that, that itself is a huge opportunity.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And then again, focusing on professional talking and really focusing on business, I think a lot of people would pay for it. And they'd probably pay $5, $10, $15, $20 a month. And that adds up. You can also do it...
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
if you want to do like a yearly, you know, a couple hundred dollars or a hundred dollars, or you can also think about doing lifetime deals, but you got to be careful with that because, uh, you really do have to know what your costs are. Okay. How would, how would I grow this thing? Um, so for a tool perspective, I do like a free professional English proficiency assessment tool. And, uh,
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I'd probably just do a ton of webinars for like, you know, I'd be like the effective business writing guy or gal for non-native speakers. So I would bring people in online. I would show them how writing has, you know, increased their job prospects, have helped them get promoted.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
You end up selling the business to Salesforce. And then you send me a DM or comment on YouTube. Change your life. And I wouldn't be surprised. Or you might just listen to one of these ideas and it gets your creative juices flowing. And that is why I love doing this podcast. Because these ideas, you don't necessarily need to steal if you don't want to.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And I just, yeah, I'd start by just hosting all these workshops, bring them in, get their emails, maybe nurture them through a community workshop. where they can meet other people. And I think this is a multi-million dollar business. The next idea. All right. So a micro-localization platform. So... I've actually told this story on the pod before, but I'm here in Quebec right now.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And Quebec has this weird thing where it's like one of the biggest markets in the world for Pepsi, not Coke. I went into a store the other day. It's like, can I have a Coke? They're like, will Pepsi do? You hear that all the time here in Quebec. And it has to do with... Coke didn't really understand the local nuances of Quebec when they first came here.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And this is many years ago, I think in the 60s. They just bought the same ads for British Columbia that they did for Quebec. And that didn't resonate. Where Pepsi understood the local cultural nuances and created campaigns that spoke to them. So how do we think about that in today's world? How can we productize that, create a SaaS product out of it?
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
Basically, you do AI-powered analysis of local cultural nuances and trends. You basically adapt automatically content for the different localities. People in Montreal might speak a little bit differently or like to do different things than people in Quebec City. You can integrate with all the major CMSs, like the WordPresses and social media platforms.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
You do real-time performance tracking of localized content. The content production isn't necessarily just words. This could be videos, GIFs, all types of automatic content. And then there's a suggestion engine for local partnerships and influencers. These global brands want to know what's cool in this neighborhood, in this city. Different neighborhoods even are different.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
I think you can charge something like a couple hundred dollars per locality. So if you want Montreal and Quebec City, that might be $400. For some of the bigger global brands, you might even say, and some of the bigger cities, you might even say certain cities cost more. If you think of a city like New York City, they're so different. Even Williamsburg to Bushwick is very different or
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
Tribeca to the Upper East Side is different. So maybe you're charging $199 for each of them. So I think this is just cool because it allows the global brands to feel way local, helps them increase engagement, conversion rates, and that's going to be the big moat going forward. I think local, I'm really, really bullish on that. So how would I grow this thing?
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
I would basically do every month or every couple months these free cultural sensitivity reports for top global brands. I'd create a local rank score for brands' local adaptation efforts. Obviously, I'd be partnering with the different marketing agencies. I'd be hosting workshops on the impact of micro-localization on sales. And I feel like no one really owns that on places like Twitter.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
So who's talking about micro-localization? And then you just implement just a local referral program for local marketing consultants. And that's what I got for you today. I don't want to overload you. I want to keep it short and sweet. These are some ideas and how I'd grow them. I hope it got you thinking. Shoot me over a comment on YouTube and let me know what you're thinking.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
But it might just spark something in your own life. It might just... You might hear this one idea for this niche and want to apply it to another niche that you know well. So... we're just going to go through these ideas. I'm going to give them all to you. Listen to the whole thing. Think about them. And why I like SaaS businesses so much is the margins are incredible.
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4 SaaS ideas you can build as a SOLO founder
And if you liked it, if you want more of these powwows, if you want me more to overdose on coffee, I'll do it and I'll do it for you. So thank you for listening to the Startup Ideas Podcast. And I will see you in the comment section. See ya.
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I'll give one idea that comes top of mind to this. So pools, so you can, you know, go find where the highest per capital amount of pools are private pools, which costs like 50 to a hundred grand. If you want to, you know, real pool and a try to sell them on a pool. And then you just sell that lead to whoever ends up making it. Um, B you can also sell them on, um, uh, upkeep of their pool.
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So, you know, for like 200 bucks a month, we'll send someone who kind of like test the water and makes it all good. So I think that's, you know, an easy opportunity. And then you can also go to places where it's cold, where people have hot tubs. So think about like mountain towns, like. And that's the thing. The prompt here for people is don't go to the obvious HVAC stuff. That's obvious.
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What are the non-obvious spaces to go into?
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And you did. And it worked. So thank you. Let's start with service businesses because they're easy to start. And I want you just to bang through all these service business ideas because some of them are really good.
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Whatever you want. You can start with whatever you want. But what's important to me is that for every idea that you talk about, just being, giving people the tactics around like, here's the idea. And this is how I'd actually go about starting. Yeah, exactly. Cool.
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Yeah, I think what pisses people off about working with influencer agencies is most of them are not really conversion rate focused or ROAS focused. They're kind of just like, give me some money and I'll get you some influencers. And that's the trade.
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So if you can position this as revenue focused and just basically that whole story and on the website you tell the founder story of that and you tell the story of like, I was once one of those people. I spent a million dollars a month and I was generating $1,000 of sales. Mr. Beast even reviewed my product and it sucked. Some story like that, of course, has to be true.
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But some story with a founder letter, similar to how Jason Freed has like,
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really good founder letters like if you check once.com or any of his stuff he just he has a really good way of just talking about the bigger picture and then once you learn about once you scroll down and you read the founder letter you're like wow yes i have spent a bunch of money on influences and has gone nowhere so i think this idea plus founder letter has legs
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Yeah, let's get in there. And just on the Jackie Chu side of things, I know a lot of people are listening to this and they're like, I'm not starting a YouTube channel. And I was actually one of those people who hated YouTube up until recently. But if you go to Jackie Chu's YouTube, Homie is not producing his stuff very...
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Step two is you... just sign up to a few affiliate offers, you get anywhere between 20 and 40%. People don't realize how much some of these SaaS products are willing to give. And sometimes it's even lifetime deals. For example, you know, we host a lot of our communities on school. And school, which is actually Hermosi's, one of Hermosi and Sama Oven's business,
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we get 40% of lifetime revenue of the $99 a month that people pay for it. So that's step two. And the outcome of step two is it subsidizes your customer acquisition cost. So it puts you into a... zero to negative CAC situation where you can go ahead and take some of that money and put it into ads to get more of your...
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Yeah, and it doesn't cost really anything to get started. And the videos actually make you pretty accountable to actually learn and be good. Because you're not going to be doing tutorials on, you know, dashboards, Google Analytics dashboards, if you don't actually know what you're talking about. So it forces people to get from not good to good at the skill set.
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It's time for software.
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750 apps. Oh my God, dude. And half of them don't even have any reviews. So there's basically like 80, 70 apps that people use. It's a goldmine.
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So... 29 million users of QuickBooks. And you know how many users Shopify has? How many? 4.6 million users. Which is a whole other framework for thinking about when you want to create software in one of these app ecosystems, look at how many apps are in the ecosystem versus how many users there are. And just go to where.
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So yeah.
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Yeah. Let's, let's keep going.
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Yeah, I think the move is to create a set of accounts per city. So you do like cool spots, Denver. I also think that's step one. Step two then is,
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probably a mix of using other people who've gone viral in that city and being like, I'll give you a hundred bucks if you review this other place and getting them to cross promote on their, their personal patient, you know, and the, the, the, your new page. And you'd be surprised like a lot of these people don't have that many followers and like a hundred, 200 bucks is like, Oh wow, that's amazing.
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You're going to send me this cocktail bar and you're going to promote, promote me on that page is amazing. And then you just build up a bunch of these accounts that are essentially like Yelp for these different cities. And then once you have that, then you probably, you know, you probably, everything goes back to email. Then you probably figure out a way, how can I get these people?
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Yeah. Probably not email because it's Gen Z. Probably text. Have you heard of Laylo yet? No. Tell me about it.
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Give me one last idea. I know I know we're pushing on time. I need it.
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So anyways, with all that- Music is like real estate in that sense.
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You know, my favorite, part of you is. It's when you're 80% through a really good startup idea and you just know inherently that this is a good startup idea that you just get so... I just know it's going to work. You know it's going to work but you're like... It's so frustrating.
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If you were... If you're going to acquire one of these AI newsletters, how do you value some of these businesses? Let's say they have 100,000 subs. What do you pay per sub?
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Here's my take. And it's also a Warren Buffett take, which is if you're going to do an acquisition, it's all about a mispriced asset and a great brand. So I think the mistake that a lot of these newsletters are making is they're monetizing via ads. So to them, a subscriber is worth 75 cents or a dollar.
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Whereas someone like us, so we actually have an agency called LCA that literally builds the biggest AI products out there. So we'll work with a Dropbox and be like, hey, let's go build an AI first version of Dropbox or the Googles of the world, that sort of thing. So a client to us is worth anywhere between one and two million bucks, something like that.
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Now, if you look at a 100,000 person newsletter, if it's high quality, are there the chief product officers and the VP products of some of these large tech companies? Then it becomes a literal no-brainer. You can actually pay up to $5 or $10, who knows? So that's how you have to think about it. So the way to think about it, I think, is start with, a business that produces cash and is profitable.
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And that's also the HubSpot model too, right? HubSpot created the CRM, high margins, and then they started acquiring media after they figured out that, okay, we've got this great margin business, let's go spend $20 million on the hustle.
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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It's a good place to end. I mean, I can never end this, but I can, we can talk for hours, but we're not going to, we'll have to do a part three at some point. I love it, man. Having back whenever it's a good break in my day. I love it. Also, halfway through a double gin and tonic, so life is good. I'd love to see you fully done that gin and tonic and see what you spew out, actually.
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Probably amazing stuff. I like the way your brain works. It's good. Thanks for having me, Greg. I always appreciate it. Cody Schneider XX on Twitter. and SwellAI.com. I'm going to link both in the show notes so people can easily get there. Anything else you'd like to say?
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I mean, I'm interested, bro. I'm interested.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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So what I like about this one is it's local. And I think a lot of people, they think software, they think services. I want to go everywhere. And I think you brought up cars, which is really interesting. I heard a story of a company that is a marketing agency for car dealerships in Quebec. And dude, these, these websites that they're building, like look like they're from 1997.
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Terrible. And the business is doing $20 million a year, just marketing agency for like, they've got like, you know, a hundred clients. And, uh, they retain their clients, right? Totally. Yeah, they totally retain their clients. And this is just Quebec. So it's just, which is a market of seven, eight, nine million people, right? So I think CrossFit for insert geography, right?
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It doesn't always have to be the United States too. There's other markets out there.
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A couple of quick tips for people. So one is if you are targeting non-English speaking countries, like don't do cold emails in English. It sounds obvious, but you know, if you're sending emails to Germany, like it should be in German, shouldn't be in English. If you're sending emails to France, it should be in French. The second thing is use Loom. Don't just send characters in an email.
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And I'm sure some people are going to be like, well, I don't speak German. So how am I supposed to go on Loom? Well, that's where you can use Eleven Labs and some of these other tools. Just use AI to basically... create it. And I'm sure you've got some ideas there. But I'm just seeing looms within emails convert just so much more than just straight up text.
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So I guess it went well. So we recorded most viewed pod, most downloaded pod since the beginning. And I've had everyone from Alexis Ohanian on here, Jason Kalkanis, David Friedberg, Morgan Housel, Sahil Bloom, you name it. But I don't know, there's something about you. You're an idea machine that people couldn't get enough of you.
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This is like 2024's version of college painting.
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Nick, the man who needs no introduction, but I'm going to give you an introduction anyways. You have probably more businesses than you have fingers at this point. You are running somewhere.com, which is just taking over as a recruiting agency right now. You've got probably a hundred million bucks in self-storage facilities. You've got time to be a good father.
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Very cool. All right, let's do one or two more. Bangers. Bangers. Maybe this one? Three names you never share? Yeah.
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And someone's probably listening to this and thinking, why is Nick posting this? How is this going to actually make his businesses better? What's the ROI of a tweet like this?
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Yeah, it does really prime the algorithm. So if you do hit a banger like this, gets a thousand likes, your next tweet, maybe it's a lead magnet, maybe it's something else, but it does work more.
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Okay. I want to do this last one from, from you. And then after this, I want you to pick one creator and we're going to like kind of look at one or two of their, of their posts.
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Cool. This football one, what were you thinking when you tweeted this?
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Right. Totally. I will also say like the quote retweet, this is like a, it does work a lot in the algorithm these days. Um, You find something and then you can just add your POV on top of it. A lot of times it goes viral. You know who's good at that? Levels.io. I don't know if you follow him. Peter Levels. But he's a massive quote retweeter.
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Probably about 20% to 30%, actually maybe more, is him just quote retweeting. And he gets massive engagement.
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Totally, yeah. He went on the Lex Friedman podcast and basically... talked about PHP and like this is a language that not many people sort of write in. And he writes in it and it's just, it's a dividing thing to say that just like, oh yeah, just build something in PHP. So I think he believes the stuff, but he also does it to ruffle some feathers for sure. Quick ad break.
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How to write viral tweets with the man who beat the X algorithm
Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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How to write viral tweets with the man who beat the X algorithm
So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. Okay, this one.
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How to write viral tweets with the man who beat the X algorithm
I'm going to share my screen and I want to go through tweets. We've never done this together. You're talking about some of the real bangers?
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A hundred percent. Yeah, this is, this is just so good. A lot of his stuff is like very, it's like not a lot of words too, right?
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Yeah, why not? And also other people's tweets too. What makes them great? Let's just go through it. I'm going to share my screen. Can you see my screen? Let's go to you for a second. I'm going to go through maybe a few tweets. And you tell me which one you want me to stop at. I mean, this one has 720,000 impressions. What were you thinking when you tweeted this?
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Yeah, homies got range for sure.
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How to write viral tweets with the man who beat the X algorithm
I'm going to put together just some takeaways. I'll probably put in the comment section on YouTube around just like how to, how to tweet like Nick, how to tweet like Nikita. Um, cool. Um, well, Nick, thanks for taking us through your mind there. Um,
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And how were you thinking about this reply second tweet?
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Don't buy into... Here, I'll actually make it bigger. Don't buy into this. Actually, can you see better now?
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You got time to troll the internet when hundreds of millions of people see it. Of course you're coming here and you're sharing some ideas.
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And what percentage, like what percentage true is this tweet?
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I think the strategy, by the way, of double downing on your second line always hits hard.
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Totally. And by the way, for, for, for this pod, like it's okay. What we're talking about right now is how to create content that goes viral. So we're not talking about nuances and stuff like that. It's really just about how you're structuring it and what the insights are.
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Yeah. Nuance does not go viral.
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And I wanted to do something a bit different. I want to get inside your brain around how you actually craft content that gets people ticking. And I don't know if you can just open up a Google Doc and just start typing out stuff and we can jam on it.
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Yeah. And the reality is you actually believe this, you know? And so it's like, you're tweeting things that you believe, which I think is whether I agree with you or not. Like, I actually disagree with you, but I know that you'd believe this because I remember texting some, you know, you, I was like, I played video games today. And you're like, well, basically why?
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Um, but it's cool that we can still be friends and just have differing opinions, you know? Um,
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How important is putting numbers in tweets?
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Let's talk about Marshall, this one that you retweeted here. Why do you think... Why do you think this one blew up?
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However it works, I want people to listen to this and at the end of it, understand how you do it, how you're able to be in Athens, Georgia and get the entire planet to
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And it was insane. Insane. That's crazy. And you did something else that was really smart here, which is you could have just put higher salespeople for $1,800 a month, but you did this. Can you explain why?
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Yeah, and the platforms are optimized more for video now. So I think it also just, you know, you're feeding the beast, the algorithm beast as well.
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Well, I agree. just because the ad dollars are also in video. But you seem to be leaning into video right here. This is working. I don't see many videos that have 700 likes. What did you do here? Did you script this out? How important is the background? Walk me through your thinking on this one.
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Here's where I think service-based businesses are going to go. When you build a service-based business, think of a design agency or an SEO shop or something like that. Number one, you start with humans doing the work. And then number two, you transition from humans doing 100% of the work to AI-assisted human work. And then step three, you transition to agents do all the work.
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The person workshops lead gen for the online community and online education. Our business would then lead gen potential clients for all the NIL agencies or organizations like athletes.org. Okay, so I'm not going to give you specific feedback on do athletes or aspiring athletes need this. I think they probably do, but I'm not one myself, so you would know better than me.
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But I'll give you feedback and give everyone feedback on a really big opportunity, which is credentialization. We're living in a world where the value of a Harvard degree and a Stanford degree is going down. Of course, it's valuable. I'm not going to say it's not. But in our world, our world of Twitter, podcasts, YouTube, what people really care about is what have you done?
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Has your content gone viral in your niche? And that's basically it. And are you an interesting, cool person that I want to work with? That's what people care about. That being said, getting in the front door is difficult today. It's probably even more difficult today than it was 10 years ago.
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And I think the good part of having a Stanford degree or a Harvard degree is it gets you in the front door. I think that there's tons of opportunity to build online programs and IRL programs that credentializes. And what do I mean by credentializes? I mean you get a certificate and people will pay for that certificate. So I saw this really good tweet by Peter Levels on Twitter. And he goes,
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Python is the fastest growing and highest paid for remote jobs right now. The median salary is $80,000 a year for remote, but with massive outliers into $300,000 a year and higher if you go non-remote, usually in office in San Francisco. So then he's put this chart of basically the fastest growing and highest paying jobs in 2024.
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Python, Marketing, Node, Backend, TypeScript, Sales, Ruby, React, Nontech, JavaScript, Customer Support. I would basically use ChapGPT to build this list. Or you can even grab this list. We can put it in the show notes. But I would basically create a list. And then I would be like, how do I credentialize for Python? How do I credentialize for not marketing? Because marketing is too big.
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But what about growth marketing? So how you'd actually go and build out this idea is You take out a piece of paper, you'd write in the middle, hub and spoke. The hub would be marketing. And what are the spokes? Growth marketing, PPC, audience development, video content. What are all the ways that people market in 2024? And then I'd look at credentializing.
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And the other way you can create this business is you can actually go to existing course creators and be like, hey, I'm going to manage... the credentialization of your program. I'm going to manage the graduation of your program. I'm just going to make this experience incredible. I think that's another business that would definitely cash flow $10,000 to $100,000 a month.
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People don't want to spend thousands of dollars on weddings. They want to do something small. They want to do something intimate. And that leads me to my trend of the week, which is micro weddings. So what is a micro wedding? I think we need to just define it. So it basically means a wedding with less than 50 people. It's just way more intimate.
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To give you feedback, Peter, I don't know enough about athletes, but I think what you inspired me to think about is credentialization is something that's a huge, huge, huge idea. So I like it a lot. And then Jose Carrillo says, I recently started building trip.com. It's an analytic platform for UX teams. I'd love some feedback. Okay. So let's bring up trip.com and give him some feedback.
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Okay, so I pulled it up. It says analytics for UX teams that tracks user task duration and helps you fix user sticking points for smoother task completion. Discover the true efficiency of your app with real-time insights into task completion times, identify and streamline complex workflow to enhance user satisfaction and productivity. Okay, and then there's an image here.
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And then how do they charge? So they charge $9.99 a month. And you get five different tasks configured to record. Or $19.99, they call it a business plan, where you get 10 different tasks. So this is one of those ideas that you've built something really smart, but the way you're talking about it and the way it's positioned could be optimized.
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So it's not just about, quote unquote, smoother task completion. Because what does that mean? It means if you get people to complete their tasks... We actually did some research. If you get someone to compete their task, their primary task of going onto a mobile app or going onto a website, they're actually 67% more likely to buy a product or service from you.
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So if you can tell me that you're going to help me sell more stuff, or you're going to help me get more people to subscribe, or you're going to help me get more followers, or you're going to help me drive word of mouth, all these things, that's what this is about. It's not about task completion. So the biggest thing that you need here is to reposition around what is unpacked task completion?
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And the other thing is, when you're writing copy, write like you talk. You would never say in a conversation, discover the true efficiency of your app with real-time insights and task completion times. So you just need to rewrite your website as if you're talking to an eighth grader. And that's a prompt that you can actually put within ChatGPT. You can say,
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You can put in all your copy and then put into ChatGPT and say, I really want this to be written in plain English. Can you make this really, really clear and catchy for an eighth grader? And then you ask it to rewrite it and you're going to get some good stuff. The other thing is, where's the video? I'm on your website and it's just an image. I think that
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And it's especially big in places like New York, LA, Miami. where the cost per wedding guest could be more than $1,000 per guest. So it's absolutely out of control. This is obviously due to inflation. And over the last few years, it's just gotten out of hand. So okay, so this is the trend. I think a lot of you are probably nodding your head and being like, of course, this makes a lot of sense.
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So many people are using images and just text on web pages. I'm really, really bullish right now on having above the fold a video, and that's going to help increase conversion rates, no question. Show me what you're doing. People are used to Instagram stories. They're used to YouTube shorts. They're watching video everywhere. They should be watching video on your website.
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And the beauty is video is one of the best, I think, if not the best way to storytell. Because you've got audio, you've got visual, you've got sound. So you feel more connected to a product via video if it's just an image. And last thing is, I don't know about your business model, 999 to 1999. That feels quite arbitrary.
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And it feels like if you're actually helping that much with task completion, it's worth a lot more than $19.99. So that's my feedback. And I hope that was helpful. All right. So that's the pod. If you enjoyed it, please, please go to YouTube, subscribe and comment on the YouTube video. And I read every comment. I respond to most of the comments, especially if they're nice.
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And I'll see you on the next one. Hope this got your creative juices flowing. Later, everyone.
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How can I create a business on top of this trend? So idea number one is just lead gen. So there's a bunch of small venues that haven't... They're not really set up for micro weddings. And the biggest challenge of that is these small venues don't have the visibility. They have smaller marketing budgets. And then they probably just don't know that this trend is happening.
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So you could go and just bridge the gap. So, you know, I just Googled here, micro wedding, Los Angeles. And I saw that there is actually a sponsored link called intimate mountain weddings.com. So great domain, good SEO. Um, and as the search volume starts to increase, if people become aware that micro wedding is a thing, uh, traffic's going to go, you know, go up.
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So how can you operate this idea as a service? So, you know, step one is you just got to form the partnerships agreement. So you go to these wedding venues, uh, and you basically say, Hey, I'm going to send you a bunch of leads for, for, for your micro wedding. And then would you be willing to give me 10%, 5%, 20% of a booking that's made through your platform?
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So it's like a win-win situation for the small venue. And a lot of these venues, they're hanging on by a thread. They want more revenue. Then you're going to... Step two is just to implement SEO and advertising. So you're going to generate traffic mostly by... mostly by search. So the bet here is that more and more people are going to search it, you're going to show up.
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Once you get to step three, the margins are going to 3, 4, or 5x. Instead of making 20% EBITDA, you might be able to make 60% EBITDA, 80% EBITDA. And the reason why is because you're paying tokens and you're getting agents to do the work. And this might be in five years and this might be in seven years or three years.
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And then you could obviously do a little bit of ad arbitrage. What is ad arbitrage? That just basically means when you're spending $2 a click, but the average click gives you $3. You create this vending machine where you put $2 in, $3 comes out. So, uh, that's, that's where you're going to mainly focus.
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Of course you can do content and building an audience around it and, and just showcase these venues and showcase other weddings. Uh, that's definitely a given. So I would say implement SEO advertising and, and build an audience. Uh, and then step three is, uh, specialize and promote. So, you know, I would say become the micro wedding market gal or guy. Um,
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once you position yourself as that person, and I think that's ripe for the taking, you're going to earn more trust. And the hard part about something like this is it is a new market. And whenever you have a new market, you have to educate people why this should exist. Everyone knows, oh, I just got engaged. I need to go and create a wedding. But they don't
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know about the concept of a micro wedding, what that is, why it's better, why it's going to save you money, and why, if you forget all the money, it's just going to be a more intimate experience for the people that you love. So, you know, I think that there's tons of opportunity to own that, to own that category. And, you know, this is just like one of those low-risk ideas. So,
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Idea number two in the micro wedding space is just helping plan. So offering comprehensive, all-inclusive micro wedding packages that streamline the entire planning process. So I found this Reddit post. So here's the post. Micro wedding in Southern California, LA County, 13 guests, $23,000. And they basically just go into this. This is a long one for those interested in the numbers.
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They talk about how the original wedding was supposed to take place in June 2020. But obviously, because of COVID, they couldn't do it. They talk about how much they paid in their deposit. They talked about basically the budget breakdown. So ceremony venue, $2,000. Dinner venue, $3,500. Partial planner, $1,500.
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I guess that's a party planner, but only partially, which is kind of an interesting... That's a whole other niche to own. Another idea right there is a fractional partial party planner. Photographer, 3,100. Videographer, 1,000. String trio, $800. Florals, $1,500. Anyways, you get the idea. Bottom line is it's $23,386, which obviously is a lot of money, but isn't $100,000.
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But the point is, if they can get there and you've built up all the systems and processes and client base, then you're going to be in a really, really good place. So that's And we're back. Another solo pod, just me. I'm going to give away some ideas, some trends. I did one of these last week and you all loved it. So I figured I'd do another one. Let's get right into it.
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Or isn't, you know, some people spend a million dollars. So they just go into this and you can see, you know, they talk about everything and they break this all down. This is an incredible content piece. I would love to see, you know, you could create a whole audience around breaking down different micro weddings. And then if you look in the comment section on Reddit, people are just so engaged.
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They're so appreciative of it. Hey everyone, if you're anything like me, you've got a ton of design work that you need. Websites, landing pages, emails, social assets, you name it. But you don't just want Beautiful landing pages are beautiful websites. You want the stuff that's going to convert. You want the stuff that's going to actually drive value. That's where DesignScientist.com comes in.
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It's an agency that for one monthly price will do all your design work, all your copy work, all your engineering. And do stuff that actually scales your revenue. You don't need a designer. You need a design scientist. Let's go. Designscientist.com. I liked it so much, I invested in the business.
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I like to use Reddit and see posts that go viral in particular communities as a way to validate a particular business idea. So I see this. And I'm like, okay, there's something here in the micro wedding space because they put it in the wedding planning subreddit, which has 829,000 members. And it went viral within that community.
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So one thing you could do is you can create the subreddit for micro weddings. You can be that moderator. So that's just an idea for you. Okay, let's get back to the idea. So So the idea is basically to create an agency, a wedding planning agency, but only focus on micro weddings. And there's one company that I was able to find that's doing it, and it's called Our Little Wedding.
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And I found it via that Reddit post. They're based in San Francisco. You can tell there's basically a coming soon version of their website. So it's not exactly optimized, but you get the idea. There's these all-inclusive...
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micro weddings that they sell and it's you know between five and sixty one hundred dollars five thousand and sixty one hundred dollars so uh here's one the bay area redwoods elopement so it's an all-inclusive uh package five thousand dollars you get a mill valley amphitheater private ceremony one hour photography personal floral florals you get a dinner a luxury reception dinner celebration
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cake and cake florals and you get add up to six guests so you get this beautiful background super picturesque uh instagram friendly and it's beautiful it's intimate and it's five thousand dollars so this is the type of thing that you can go and create idea number two is you just go and uh organize these packages, build brands around it, and capitalize on the micro wedding trend.
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So that's my trend of the week, micro weddings. I love it for a lot of reasons. Like I mentioned, validated on Reddit, offshoot of a particular subreddit. You're starting to see little businesses pop up. There's so many validated business models. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. You can do things like an agency. And then people are willing to spend on their weddings.
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So when you're creating a business, you obviously want to prioritize businesses where people are willing to take out their wallet. And this is something where people feel like they're saving money. If they're spending $5,000 on a wedding and they thought that they're going to spend $50,000, they're going to be pretty darn happy. So I love this concept for a lot of reasons. And I also think that
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you know, as someone who had a micro wedding, I didn't even know it was called a micro wedding, but as someone who had a micro wedding, it was just an incredible experience and special in its own way.
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I feel like, you know, I'm 35 now and a lot of my friends have gotten married and it just sort of feels like by the end of like the last weddings of my friend group, it almost felt like all these weddings were the same and they were beautiful weddings and great places and Beautiful hotels. But they all had the 100, 200, 300 people. They all had the same band. They all had the same sort of food.
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And I think this idea around micro weddings that are just also just unique experience. Like imagine getting married in the sequoias north of San Francisco. All these trees that they're hundreds of years old and they're as tall as skyscrapers. Like how cool is that? So love this trend. And I wanted to give it to you.
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The other thing that I wanted to talk about is just an insight I had around building businesses that are powered by human beings. And when I'm talking about building businesses, I'm talking about service-based businesses. Here's where I think service-based businesses are going to go. So when you build a service-based business, think of a design agency or an SEO shop or something like that.
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you start with, number one, you start with humans doing the work. And then number two, it's you transition from humans doing 100% of the work to AI-assisted human work. And then step three, you transition to agents do all the work. And I think this is just an interesting framework and something I'm just thinking about and I wanted to share with you around what are businesses that are going to
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translate into that framework. Because I think that once you get to step three, the margins are going to 3, 4, or 5x. Instead of making 20% EBITDA, you might be able to make 60% EBITDA, 80% EBITDA. And the reason why is because you're paying tokens and you're getting agents to do the work and people are expensive. There are certain industries where this probably won't happen.
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We run an innovation design agency called LCA. And We work with the Nikes and the Dropboxes and the Shopifys of the world and these large companies with their executive team. And they don't want AI to do all the work. And they also need someone to talk to. And they need someone to brainstorm with. And they need someone to jam with. So there are certain spaces where... where it doesn't make sense.
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But there are certain spaces where it does make sense. And I think that's sort of my homework for you. It's something to think about is what are service-based businesses that are most likely going to hit that number three, basically get agents on board? And this might be in five years and this might be in seven years or three years. But the point is,
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If they can get there and you've built up all the systems and processes and client base in five years, then you're going to be in a really, really good place. So that's something that I've been thinking about. And the last thing I want to talk about today is I've been doing these live streams where I've been bringing people on stage who have startup ideas, who want my feedback.
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So I want to start off with the trend and I'll give you some ideas for this trend. So recently I got married and my wedding was different than most people's wedding. A lot of people have weddings and they've got a hundred of their closest friends and families there. I had a wedding and there was 14 people there and that was including me and my wife. So Weddings are changing.
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And it's been really, really fun. And also people who just have a business experience. And they're past the idea stage, like they've got something live. And they want my feedback. So I'm going to share with you a couple of the ideas that were shared to me that I wasn't able to bring people on stage. And I'm going to give live feedback.
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And my hope here is it's going to get your creative juices flowing. It's going to help you get a bunch of startup ideas. And so let's get right into it. So Peter Gray messaged me. It says, here's the idea. It's called More Than Academy. It's an athlete-tailored entrepreneurial education.
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There will be online community networking masterclass type videos, more formal LinkedIn type online courses for certificates and badges, and an in-person workshop primer series targeting at high school athletes with aspirations of being an athlete aimed at empowering student athletes. Well, it's a lot of athletes with the skills and mindset needed for both athletic and entrepreneurial success.
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What is the promise that you're going to give our listeners today by listening to this?
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Your brain needs to get muggy more often because you are finally making some sense.
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I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and I was like, how's business? He runs a SaaS company. SaaS business. I think they do like three or four million ARR.
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Yeah. And I'm like, how are things going? And he's like, oh, you know, amazing. Like things are, you know, we just hit three and a half million ARR. We're growing double digits month over month. And I was like, oh, great. And then he ends it with, and we don't even run any paid ads.
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As if it's something to be proud of. And I hear that often. I don't know if you hear this often.
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I mean, he isn't. He's a really smart guy. Yeah. But I think for whatever reason, in Ventureland, a lot of the time, it's kind of a status symbol. It's 100% a status symbol. This is the problem. We...
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I don't think you should start with ads though. That's my take. Because I think in order to create ads that are really high, highly performing, you have to have your messaging pretty dialed. And I think the best way to get your messaging really dialed is to do organic content, see what works on places like Twitter, Instagram, just do that for free, learn that's your training wheels.
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And then once, once it starts to get, get traction, then you know, okay, this is the messaging on social I need, and this is the messaging I need on my landing page that actually converts. Now I'm ready to experiment with paid ads.
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That's what I want to be. You love weird stuff. I just had Jason Fried on the pod, actually, your boy.
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This is what happens when a guy from Europe comes to America for an extended period of time and goes to LA and San Francisco and just gets overwhelmed. The European mind cannot comprehend.
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And we talked about making software weird. So you guys are...
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You know, I've known you for a few years now and you talk, you always talk about ads. I always, it takes like, if I'm hanging out with you, it takes like two minutes before you just bring up ads. You just love bringing it up. But I haven't heard you talk at all about conversion, really. Like how much do you think about landing page conversion, conversion rate optimization?
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Can you walk me through how you actually write out the funnel and how you build the funnel and what tools you use?
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I mean, it is probably boring, but whoever's going to listen to it is going to is going to probably do quite well. So I think it's... And I want to know.
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Draw it out. While you're drawing it out, people who are listening to this on audio, you might want to head to YouTube.
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Okay, when you say selling a free training, you're not selling anything.
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Are you charging for these calls or they're free?
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I want the exact stats. I am highly interested.
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Not only did you switch to Basecamp, you went viral on Twitter for it.
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And when you say Black Friday campaign, that's kind of like a squeeze campaign, as they call it?
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Yeah, I was going to ask, is the goal just to send as many emails so people unsubscribe? How do you think about...
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Which I'm trying to pull up the post. You basically were just like, I switched to Basecamp.
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Yeah, I think that's smart. I think that's smart. It also probably helps you with your overall conversion rate.
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We might have to do a part two of this, like how to build funnels.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners
I love copywriting. If people want that, comment on YouTube. So we know. And that could be something that we do.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners
It's just copy. Copy is honestly the hardest part of my job. Like takes the most out of me.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners
That's really good. I've actually never heard of that.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners
I don't know if I have time for it. I think I got to go. Oh, shit.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Sales funnels for Beginners
I'm surprised you said website when you could have said turn it into a funnel.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Beautiful. All right. JC, J Ice Cream, J Ice Cream, Jonathan Courtney.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Full disclosure, for the listeners, I was texting you and you were not responding.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
I mean, I was literally... Here, here. Thursday, August 29th. Bro, come on the pod. No response. No response, no response. Then finally I write... Finally you respond... And then I just wrote, I just miss you. No response. Imagine texting someone being like, I miss you and not responding.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
It's been real. I'll catch you on the next one. Yeah, dude.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
I actually took, I saw your tweet when it had like three likes like early and I was like, this is interesting. I shared it in my Slack and I was like, what do you guys think of this? And people didn't want to get rid of Slack.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Like, what do you want to talk about today? What do you want to talk about on the Startup Ideas podcast? What is the promise that you're going to give our listeners today by listening to this?
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Shocker. Wow. You know, everyone's been asking for J Ice Cream, J Ice Cream, Jonathan, Courtney, for these hot takes, everyone.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO. And that's why I use boringmarketing.com. And that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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Sales funnels for Beginners
Yeah, I also noticed that the gold Rolex... presidential or whatever it's called they all have the gold rolex i don't know what it is about signing up to a meta account but it's like you need it's like you need to unlock it with the rolex yeah it's like instead of login with facebook it's like login with your gold rolex
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Sales funnels for Beginners
So are you running the, as the meta ads expert, are you running the ads yourself or you're just coaching them on how to run ads?
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I don't know the difference between advisory and consulting. Now what I'm really understanding is someone can go and do this and not even charge a monthly fee, but say, hey, I'll take a percentage of... Revenue?
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I like it. I mean, easy to start. I feel like you're right. People are getting... I think you're right. I don't like to say you're right often.
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Yeah, there's an app I use called The Org. I'm not affiliated or anything, but theorg.com. So you can just see publicly traded companies and trending companies and seeing who works there, track them, stay updated on team changes. So I think using platforms like that is helpful. The other thing I would do is...
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besides the mutual connection thing, is I'd create content and I would just tag the people that I want to see the content in, which works surprisingly well. If you're super thoughtful, let's just say it's the automotive business, info business, it's like, okay, go research some stuff, create a really interesting piece, add an image or a video to it, Because LinkedIn is optimizing that.
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And then tag two or three people that... Bring them into the content. Hope that they like it. And if they like it, reach out literally right away.
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But you don't think someone's listening to this and they're like, well, easy for you, Jesse. You went to Wharton and then you worked at Goldman. Like, what about the person who doesn't live in the United States, didn't go to the great school, doesn't, you know, his friends are his or her friends are just, you know, construction workers or who knows. Right. What do you say to those people?
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It doesn't make a difference. Using the construction worker example, it's kind of interesting that you're a construction worker building a hedge fund thing and you have this unique insight into that space, into companies in that space. I remember when I first moved to San Francisco coming from Montreal, Canada, I didn't know one person, like literally no one.
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But I ended up meeting some people at the Canadian consulate type thing, which is random. And basically when people from France
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were coming to san francisco and they wanted someone to show them around i like became known as the guy who would take these people around san francisco and i ended up bootstrapping my network from all these like french entrepreneurs who ended up like you know the founders of zenly who sold it to snap for like three or four hundred million dollars all these like startups um and my my advantage was i spoke this language and so they wanted someone who spoke the language and that's it so
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What other ideas you got?
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Yeah, 100%.
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Yeah, I like the idea of a studio around this. Kind of like how the Match Group has dating apps for every category, or IAC has a bunch of different verticals. What does that look like for supplements for different demographics?
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Mississauga, Brampton, Ontario.
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It's still on the list. Well, thank you for sharing it and being open with it. I appreciate that. How do you go about, I know nothing about creating supplements. How does one go about doing that?
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And you're a paid ads savant. So how would you go about thinking about your paid ads strategy for something like this?
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And in terms of creative, because nowadays creative is huge, right? The main lever, yeah. The main lever. What do you recommend to folks in terms of creating, how do you create creative that is going to get you that two ROAS?
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That's why before you do ads, do organic content. Cause it totally right. Alongside. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Before we move on from supplements, I have a related thing I want your feedback on, actually. A buddy of mine, his name's Rablay Jama. He sold a company to Shopify. When he does something, I really pay attention. He launched something new the other day, which I thought was really smart. So he is Somalian by ethnicity. He's Canadian, lives in Toronto. But he started this skincare line.
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This is like a digital guy, like a software guy. And it's called, it's called, the company's called Glean, but it's this, the product's called Kaisel, which is an all natural multipurpose ingredient used for thousands of years to help alleviate redness and diminish hyperpigmentation. Cool. But it's targeted towards people who are East African.
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And it kind of reminded me a little bit about your thesis here. So what do you think about this business? And have you ever thought about skincare or beauty in that category?
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I like these niche ideas. Your first idea was really unbundling. And the second idea was demographics.
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How does it work with Suno and some of those products? I created the theme song of this show, the Startup Ideas podcast, which 80% of people love it, but 20% of people have nightmares about it. I used Suno to create it. But could I go and put that on Spotify and earn revenue? Who owns the music?
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Yeah.
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Yeah. This is a huge insight that you've blessed us with, which is it's easier to create music now than ever. You can monetize off these platforms and children's music all is kind of Sounds the same.
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Yeah, totally. I love it. Jesse, thanks for coming on. Where could people get to know you more?
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Beautiful. All right, my man. Catch you later. Peace. That was great.
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So I haven't seen a lot of people doing this, but I actually think that if you used AI to scrape a lot of data and enrich your data, that's also value add. And I feel like AI assisted just data in itself is like, if you're a hedge fund and you're not spending money on that, you're like, I don't want to be left behind.
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Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30 day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. So beyond marketing, what are like three, four, five other verticals that could be interesting?
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Totally. I actually was thinking about this the other, yesterday I had a meeting with my editor for my, for my YouTube channel and podcast. And I was like, we should hire just like consult with the number one person on YouTube titles and thumbnails. And like, we'll pay whatever, whatever it is.
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Totally. Yeah. They're the cheesecake factory. There's everything on the menu. Yeah.
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So both these ideas I buy. These are ideas, I'm scribbling notes, I'm like, I want to start one of these. But how do you actually go about growing some of these ideas. In your hedge fund idea, I'm like, yeah, that makes sense, but I don't know anyone in hedge funds.
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In, let's just say, the real estate vertical or the automotive vertical, how do you go about taking this from idea to actually execution?
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Yeah, or partner with be the back end and find a front end with someone like you. Totally. If I was going to start something like this, I would pick a really great name, create a great brand, build out the MVP, and then do two things.
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I would set up cold DMs and just start cold DMing hedge fund managers, people who work in hedge funds, just to look at the website, even if only 1% or less than 1% ends up opening you know, your, your messages. And the second thing is I'd build audience around, you know, around it. I'd build memes around it.
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This is an absolute pleasure to have you, Jesse Pugie. This guy has hundreds of profitable startup ideas lodged in his brain. You're my go-to guy when I want to jam ideas, so thanks for taking some time today.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Right. Well, I think it's you have to channel your inner Russ. You either need to be Russ or you need to channel your inner Russ. So what's Russ doing right now?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Honestly, probably. He has an incredible house and nature. He's got a few things going on, but I think that for the right idea...
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
And thanks for being here, man. Yeah, it's great to be here, Greg. Thanks for having me on. And I said, you can only come on if you have an idea. And your response was, I've got something I can't get out of my head. And so what's going through your head?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
I was going to say, that's what I was going to say.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
You have to be world-class at this. You have to feel it. Yeah. Sorry, go ahead. No, I was just going to say, you have to be, this needs to be a problem that you inherently understand and you can picture it and you have the skill set to, and have ideally done something similar before so that you're not spending a year trying to figure this out.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Yeah. What I'm, what I'm picking up on, well, actually before I say what I'm picking up on, What you're describing to me is what I call the margarita pizza problem, which is a margarita pizza. Of course, it's so simple. It's just dough and tomato sauce and cheese.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
But the difference between the best margarita slice you've had and Domino's pizza, not hating on Domino's because Domino's has its place in society as well. But it's not like you're eating a slice in Naples. Um, so that's what you're saying with, with your product. Like it needs to be Naples, not Domino's.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
And by the way, in the comment section, I know what we're going to get people saying, Oh, why, why are you talking smack about Domino's pizza? Like,
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
How much do you think about marketing when you think about an idea? How much are you thinking about how am I going to get the first 100,000 people to download this?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
That actually just got me thinking of a whole other idea, which is, okay. What if there were limited, limited edition apps that, So just like how there's vintage cars and there's only like a thousand of this one model of Porsche, let's say, this shower app could be like one of a thousand and it just could be an expensive app.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
But those people aren't on Android, realistically. Like the person, you know, I think it would have to be iOS, right?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
In 2010? 14 or 15, we had a really popular app, but it got acquired and got shut down. It was this video discovery app. It was called Five Buy. And it was shut down and our team, this is around the time when Flappy Bird was really popular. So we skinned Flappy Bird so that when you open up the Five Buy app post it closing down,
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
it turned into Flappy Bird, but with our logos and our branding and yeah. So you didn't have to download a new version of the app. It just, wow. And people like Ryan Hoover and all these people were going into the app and Ryan wrote like a whole blog post about it. Yeah. And it was so funny. Like it went viral, like millions of people, you know, millions of impressions.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
People were trying to get their hold on apps. There's something here. And I think like the genius of everything you're saying, like to summarize is, The real world has a lot of ideas for how to develop a product that's going to work. Because you mentioned time. You mentioned surprise, treasure hunts.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
A lot of the stuff you're saying, ephemerality, a lot of the stuff you're saying is, hey, this is happening in the real world, and I wonder if this could happen in software.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
What have you seen recently of a piece of software that has had a little bit of fun that you're like, whoa, these people, they're on, you know, this is interesting. Like, have you had a lot of Is software boring now, or are you seeing stuff that's exciting you?
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I think it says something that we can't come up with 100 apps quickly. Both you and I create software, involved in software, have been in it for a while, but we can't off the top of our head be like, here's the 20 different things. I think it feels like I'll say this. It feels like this idea of cozy software that you're talking about feels like 1 in 100, not 50 in 100.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Most software feels a bit boring right now.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Yeah. Let's, let's make the internet weird again.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Or let's make the internet weird period. Not even an again. you know?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Absolutely. Yeah. Jason, I know what I'm doing this weekend. Making things weird? Making things weird. I'm making things weird. This has inspired me to look through... So yeah, just to put out some weirder stuff and see what happens. I love this idea around ephemerality and time-based apps. I think the idea... I actually really love your scratch-off idea.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
And the blowing... That blowing idea on top of it. Come on. That was awesome.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
I'm going to call these guys out because I'm actually going for dinner at the co-founder's house in a few hours. There is a fun software studio in Paris that are called Ammo. A-M-O. A-M-O. Okay. They will put on YouTube what their apps are, but they have some motion apps. I don't know if you remember this app called Zenly.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
It was like a location-based tracker, kind of like a find your friends, but you can send stickers and there was messaging on top of it. They sold to Snapchat for like $250, $300 million. And now they've gone in, same team basically, have gone and created a social studio where they're iterating on three or four social apps
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
And a lot of them, one is like a photo app that as you move it, the photo is different and you can see different parts of it. That's cool. And they're pushing the edge on a bunch of different things there. And they've also recreated their Zenly app. And it's starting to get traction. So I think, yeah, I guess it's coming out of Paris. It's coming out of probably, you know, these things exist.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
How much do you think about marketing when you think about an idea? How much are you thinking about how am I gonna get the first 100,000 people to download this?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
There is some weird stuff. It's just at the edges.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Totally. Jason, where could people learn more about 37signals instead And you?
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Thanks, Jason. This is great, Greg. Thanks so much. This is really fun. Later.
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Well, Jason, you came on the wrong pod to share an idea because these people will eat up this idea. All of a sudden, there's going to be like 25 seed-funded startup founders who are just going to go after this.
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So do you remember HQ Trivia? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Yes. So Russ, who's the founder of HQ Trivia, is a good friend of mine. is a genius. And he was the co-founder of Vine before, which essentially was TikTok. He was like the host of trivia as well, right? He was never the host. He was the product co-founder and CEO. The host was a guy named Scott Rogowski, I think. Okay, okay.
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But I know what you're talking about. I know the thing, yeah. What was brilliant about HQ Trivia? So the fact that, to your point, it happened at the same time every day. People felt like they were a part of something bigger than themselves. The commitment was pretty low. It didn't take very long. You can do it with your friends.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
And there was a variable reward, to your point, around maybe I can actually win whatever it is they're giving away. I think what you're saying in a lot of ways is you're taking a lot of the mechanics that, well, it actually came from scratch-offs, but that comes also from HQ Trivia and you're applying it to...
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
a game where the advertiser... The problem with HQ Trivia was, if you remember, it was like, first they're giving away $10,000, then $100,000, then $1 million. They're raising venture capital to subsidize it. You're saying, no, no, no, don't raise venture capital, subsidize it. You're saying, get advertisers.
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Feels like 1 in 100, not 50 in 100. Most software feels a bit boring right now. I'd like to see more weird in software again. Yeah, let's make the internet weird again. Yeah. I am so excited to have Jason Fried, someone I've looked up to for a very long time on the pod. Jason could be anywhere, but he has chosen to spend his time with us. Thousands of people who love startup ideas and builders.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
One of the things that you're saying, which I think is really the future of the internet is, Adding opening hours and closed hours to apps. Yeah. That's basically what you're saying. So it's funny because when, you know, in the real world, you know, you can't go to your grocery store at 2.30 in the morning. It's closed. Or you can't go to your favorite breakfast restaurant at 9 p.m. It's closed.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
But on the internet, everything is so readily available. And it's funny because I was talking to my wife last night. We recently got like linear television. I don't know what that is. Like television. We got like cable, cable TV. Got it. Yeah. Things are on right now.
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Yes.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
Things are on. And I was talking to my wife and I was like, wow, this is amazing. And she's like, why is this amazing? As I'm like, I just put on Comedy Central, I think it was. And I was like, because I don't need to do anything. We're not going on to Netflix and then trying to figure out, oh, within Netflix, what do I need to watch? Making all the decisions.
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The ultimate guide to product building with the man who changed software
So I think what you're saying is really interesting, which is you kind of have to be there.
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But when Cody Schneider comes on, it's like sip in time, baby.
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The only thing I would do differently here would be I probably wouldn't buy 20% of these businesses with cash. I would just... earn that equity kind of seller financed and be like, yeah, I'm not going to charge you for all these services. I'm, you know, but I'm going to, I'm going to do these things for you. And like, maybe you put some cash down, but you know, I think that's the way to do it.
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So anyway, Cody Schneider, you're back. You're ready to sip. You got a lot of blue collar ideas and... Some blue collar.
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Is it not Alex Hermosi-esque a little bit? Because, I mean, right? He did. The only thing I think that's missing a little bit from this story is what he did with, what was it called? Gym? Gym launch. Gym launch. So he was like, yeah, I had this gym and I, you know, grew it from X to Y. Like, I think the personal brand story is really, like, huge with this. You have to be able to say,
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8 startup ideas backed by data/trends to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
I like it.
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8 startup ideas backed by data/trends to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
So before we move to the next idea, I don't know if you saw this, but Cody Sanchez bought a piece of, uh, Resi brands.
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Yeah. Yeah. So Resi brands is like I think it's the fastest growing painting franchise company in the United States. Insane. They also own Pinks, which is just killer. Pinks is what you were talking about a little bit.
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So they're like visual... It looks like these guys. Dude, I have friends that wear this street wear.
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Right?
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8 startup ideas backed by data/trends to get you paid (steal these $1M+/year ideas)
It's like 80s. It kind of looks like an 80s, like, porno. 80s is back. Porno guys are washing your.
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I mean, it's totally related. So basically the idea is they took window cleaning, but they wear these like, I don't know, it's like 80s porn mustache guys cleaning it. And it's so TikTok friendly.
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Yeah. I would buy a calendar. 100%. Cody Sanchez ended up buying a big piece of the business. What do you think about that? I mean, it's brilliant.
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I mean, this isn't just any subreddit. This is probably one of the fastest growing subreddits. I think it has 2.3 million members. So this is just like a macro trend around people are just tired of buying things that break. Totally. So I love the macro trend. You know, what does it look like? I don't know. I think that there's probably... Like, it would be really cool if there was...
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you know, if I bought, you know, almost like a Costco membership, but totally buy it for life. It's like $100 a year. I get access to these amazing discounts. All these products. And if one of these products breaks, we will, you know, not only buy, you know, lifetime guarantee, but we'll give 20 of them to, you know, if it's a sweater, we'll give 20 sweaters to, you know...
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people who, you know, need sweaters, you know, and if it's a blender, we'll send 20, you know, 20 blenders to a soup kitchen, that sort of thing.
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can I pitch you a pitch you an idea real quick that I had right before this call? So, uh, been into, it's going to sound like dumb, but I've been into reading recently. Hell yeah.
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Hell yeah.
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There you go. So I've been enjoying books and, uh, I've, I've been like, whenever I hear someone recommend a book that, you know, maybe on a podcast or YouTube video, I always write it down instantly. Actually, I just instantly buy it. And after a certain point, I finished all those books. So I would say, let's say I'm a big Cody Schneider fan, which I am, by the way.
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I would go to ChatGPT and I'd say, here's Cody Schneider. This is who he is. Here's his link to his Twitter. What are the five must-read books that Cody Schneider would recommend to me?
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I'm looking to get better at XYZ topic, SEO, organic marketing, whatever. So I think that there's an opportunity to basically create... I guess it's like a newsletter and it's like books that X, Y, Z influencer would recommend. And it's I don't know if it's weekly or monthly, but let's just say it's probably a book club.
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Yeah, but I think with book clubs, would a book club... I don't think it's a book club, sorry.
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Yeah, and I also think that if it's influencer-based or creator-based, you just target people that, you know, if it's for me, let's say, yeah, people who follow me on X, just get those people. I'm sure you can get those emails for like pretty cheap. And then and then just send them like I think they're, you know, businesses have levels.
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So like level one of this is just the free email with like Greg Eisenberg would recommend these two books this month. And here's some key insights. from those books. And then the next level is join the book club, to your point. And it's like, you don't even have to, for $99 a month, we'll just send it to you right away.
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And then the next level is maybe a membership that synchronous events and digital stuff. That's the business.
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Even if you haven't explicitly recommended the book, you can infer based on all the stuff that you've talked about, all the people that you've talked about, all that stuff. You like it?
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And then you're also making affiliate on Amazon. Exactly. What's the percentage?
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Sorry, I'm still on the big insight that you gave that people who read have a higher income level.
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I love it. I want to show you a quick tweet I saw today. Shilma note, my parents have had the same washer and dryer for almost my entire life. They bought them used in 1989, 35 years without issue. I've had to replace our washer twice in the nine years that I've had it. They really don't make them like they used to. And it's these like boxy, I guess, General Electric. it looks like, or Maytag.
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Okay, before you go on to your next idea, I want to give a dumb idea based on this. So I saw a TikTok of like some like 19, maybe 1980 something Honda Civic that had like never been drived. And it sold for like a ton of money because it had like 10 miles on it or something. And honestly, I was looking at it and I was like, this is the most beautiful car I've ever seen.
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So I think one of the dumb appliance company ideas is you create a new car company, no screens. Analog as hell.
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Yeah, and I think it's... People want to go from point A to point B, but it's also people want these devices to be sacred. So if everything has a screen on it, you're just constantly being overwhelmed and distracted. So the idea that you can hop into a 1987, whatever, Honda Civic, but it's pristine and there's no knobs. You don't need Google Maps. You're going for a Sunday drive.
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You know what I mean? There isn't... there isn't a hundred, you know, serious XM radio stations, right? Like there's, you only put in like one channel and it's jazz, you know, that's it.
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Um, you're asking the wrong guy because I'm probably like you, like I was watching.
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Yeah.
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I can't believe you just gave that one for free.
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Real quick, real quick on that. Real quick on that. So he's a he's a big YouTuber. I think he might have a million subscribers.
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subscribers at this point and I believe he started Kevin I think it's Kevin right yeah yeah Kevin I think he started selling seeds different you know right so rare seeds yeah what would you do you know what's your advice to Kevin the only reason I say this is because someone else might be like oh I'll go and do that
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Yeah. So when you say AI, I get AI to write this. Okay, which AI and how do you prompt it?
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So this idea would actually rip it, especially in countries that are less, like more socialist than the United States. So I did a quick perplexity search. I'm here in Canada for the summer. And like just for students, the Canadian government gives $3.2 billion a year to
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for grants and then you have film and art and you know what I'm talking about so it's just and no one not no one but most people don't want to actually go through the work and filling out grants so this idea makes makes a lot of sense to me
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That's an idea in itself, by the way. You look at what creators and celebrities are shilling naturally. And you can start with software and then just approach them and be like, hey, I see you're shilling CapCut. I'm going to go create a CapCut competitor for you. Exactly.
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We have time for one last idea.
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Yeah, I like it. Not enough people are talking about the tax benefits from it. There's a guy by the name of Ankur Nagpal. He started carry.com. He didn't talk specifically about wind, but he did talk about solar. And I don't know if you know this, but there's crazy tax benefits if you invest in a commercial solar project.
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Yeah. Upfront federal tax credit. There's depreciation that offsets federal and state. And you get the income stream from the project. So for example... He tweeted this. He was like, if you invest a million dollars in a solar project, you get 40% tax credit up front. So it's literally $400,000 against your tax bill. That's number one. Then you get to depreciate the asset with time.
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So that's essentially, he calls it a phantom loss that you deduct against your taxes. So these projects can be fully depreciated minus half the tax credit over five years. And then you get the income streams. So he says, if you get 5% for 20 years, that's 50K a year. So he says, let's put it all together.
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For a million dollar investment, you get $400,000 tax credit upfront, $800,000 in federal depreciation, $800,000 in state depreciation, and then 50,000 a year for 20 years. So I didn't believe it, honestly. So I texted one of the an entrepreneur who, who develops tons of these projects. He's in this space.
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He's in the space. So I was like, there's, I just said, I just texted it. I sent him the link to that. Where do I send the bag? I was like, cause I was, I was, I was sus, you know? So I was like, what have I been doing? Not investing in solar my whole life. And then he said,
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Lots of challenges making it work for W-2 employees, but if you're not, it's amazing for business owners and high net worth folks. Lots of brain damage learning the tax code and finding slash diligencing deals, but yes, it's great and a great investment.
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Interesting.
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Why is that?
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It's beautiful. You, that would, the whole thing was, you know, I have a tear coming slowly down my face. You're an angel.
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Somewhere back there. If you've, if you've made it this far in the episode, the only, the only way we know to create more episodes is if you subscribe on YouTube, like on YouTube, comment on YouTube, we read the comments and, uh, you know, go check Cody out. He's, uh, A phenomenal Twitter account. Just Google me. Google him. Stuff will come up.
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Actually, that's true. But we'll include some links in the YouTube description anyways. Thanks again, Cody.
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My pleasure. I'll see you later, man.
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google.
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the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and ai that could help you outrank your competition so for my own businesses i wanted that i didn't want to have to rely on mark zuckerberg i didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses i wanted to rank high in google that's why i like seo and that's why i use boringmarketing.com and that's why i invested in it
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They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com.
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I was wondering what you're going to say about that.
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Yeah. And once you do that and you've done it, you can point to success. You can do it for other companies too, right?
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you have to offer something more than just an audience in my opinion. Like, um, so like my offering to people is like capital design, SEO, paid ads, um, audience. Um, but yeah, you do one or two. My point is if you do one or two of those a year that really work out, like you're good, you know?
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To me, it's high leverage work to do that. You're essentially advising someone else. And if you're you, or you're me, or frankly, you're listening to this podcast, you have an unfair advantage because you know where the world is going. So if you know where the world is going, it's like, how can you... I mean, we talked about this last time, a year and a half ago, when you came on the pod.
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I appreciate it. So what do you got for us today?
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I was like, dude, how are you not building... Doubling down on this and doubling down on that.
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So that's kind of like the Holdco model. And it doesn't necessarily need to incubate everything yourself. You can just partner with someone. All right, I want to move on to the next idea. Fiverr Upwork 2.0.
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Someone in the comment section is going to be like, but why wouldn't you just use Google translate?
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And that's the other thing is, especially bigger companies, they want automations. So they want the ability to be like, okay, I put this in an air table. And anytime I put it into an air table, this air table, this task is made. And I know that within 24 hours, there's going to be the output. And to me, it's worth paying whatever it is per month or per task.
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I want to start with the AI insert keyword generator.
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Because now all of a sudden, I don't have the... worry that if I put it in Google Translate, that it's going to be messed up. I can like trust this source.
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That's kind of a good name for this. Dumpyourstuff.com.
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Yeah. And then the logo could be like a toilet or something. You know, dump...
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What about dumpyourstuff.ai, though?
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That's really interesting. Cool.
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Someone's going to register it. The last time I said a name, it was registered one minute after I uploaded the pod.
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If you wanted to build this app, how would you go about getting customers to it?
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That's right. Yeah, no one talks about that, but... That's exactly how they initially scaled.
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Yeah. I also think this is one of those ideas that you start scaling it. You get a bunch of press.
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Why is it down? Revenues are down?
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Yeah, I just checked on perplexity.ai. Why is Upwork stock down? There's been a decrease of revenue. So less people. Definitely AI concerns. There are fears the rise of generative AI could eliminate many freelance jobs. It's not going to eliminate freelance jobs. It's going to eliminate lower repetitive freelance jobs. And because of this, lower guidance.
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So they're giving lower guidance because they're... I mean, the real big idea, honestly, is you do a hostile takeover of Upwork. You figure out a way to buy Upwork. That's the big idea of this.
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Yes. Yeah, dude, like my heart is hurting because this is such a good idea. The company is worth $1.5 billion, but they've got about $500 million of cash. So the company is only worth a billion dollars on like how much revenue? Let's check real quick.
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So they're basically being traded at almost 1x revenue, like 1.2, 1.3x revenue. So...
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So this is, yeah, there's a bunch of ways to come at this problem. Either you go and, I think the best way, if I was doing this, I would just go and build what you're saying. And then you're going to build a cash flowing business, but you can also decide to sell it to them.
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Right. So yeah, let's talk about that idea. So. You've done that for Headshot Pro, and millions of headshots are created per month. How would you go about thinking about another type of service, like Headshot Pro for X?
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And I was telling him a little bit of what I do. And he was like, oh, you're interested in AI. I'm like, yeah. He goes, I started using this thing called Autoscribe. What's Autoscribe? He said the same thing. He was like, yeah, you know how bad doctor's notes are? Worst handwriting on the planet. I was like, yeah. He goes, now I just have this app. I'm in a beta test with them.
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I'll send you the link here.
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Yeah, it's a Montreal, Toronto company, I think.
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Yeah, it's called Autoscribe. But if you go to their website, I can't even spell it, Mutuo Health. But if you Google Autoscribe, it should come up. Anyways, he goes, what it does is it's real-time transcription. And he was like, I can't tell you how... Okay, actually here, I'm on the website. This is what happens. The patient consents to autoscribe. Then it records it in the room.
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Then it populates in real time the information during the encounter. Because keep in mind, the doctor is looking at a screen that almost looks like a CRM and it needs to be populated in real time. Then there's an analysis that happens. Autoscribe creates a clinical note based on the encounter. Once reviewed and editing is complete, the note can be pushed to the EMR or copy and pasted.
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So it's like a pretty simple idea. He told me that he was like, I'm able to see 10 to 20% more patients per day.
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Exactly. Helped so many people. Um, so yeah, I mean, I think you kind of just have to, yeah.
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Yeah. And I think what you need to do is you have to understand workflows of people, practitioners. So you have to call your dentist, call your auto mechanic, call your barber. And you have to be like, hey, what are the things that you do that's really repetitive that you hate doing?
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Totally. And another idea is, okay, there's a doctor, but what are other people that doctors work with? What about the nurse? Is there something specific to nurses? Like nursescribe.ai. Is that available?
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Give us one before you go, give us one last idea.
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There's a lot there. It just goes into the unbundling of the marketing agency and productizing it and creating these autonomous SaaS apps, basically. That's a process that's just begun to start. I think there's a big opportunity. I think the smartest thing you did was calling it Headline 99. That's brilliant.
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Danny. All right. You know, you've given a lot of value. We appreciate it. If people want to support you and follow along, where can they do that?
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And if you like this episode, you want more Danny, like, comment, subscribe, share this episode so we know that you like Danny. I know I like Danny. So it's always a pleasure seeing you, brother.
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Oh yeah. Well, you'll be wearing a crown and hopefully I'll be wearing a crown too. So let's go.
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Always fun. Later, dude.
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Yeah, and you could, I mean, you could spin up an agency. I know you're not a huge agency fan in terms of businesses, but you can spin up an agency where it's like, we'll actually go and build this for you and we'll build some of these products. So there's like a lower ticket price
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idea here where it's just access to the tool and then there's a higher ticket of like a done for you service so you would because you have a you have an seo agency right like is this something you could offer like would you like why wouldn't you do it yourself for your own content for your own so we actually have been building a suite of we've been building a lot of this stuff and so you're talking about boring marketing.com so we've been quietly just like building a lot of these uh tools and
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So this is the direction we're going in. So yes, I'm a believer. I'm invested in it. And the beauty about this is once you capture an entrepreneur who wants to build one of these ideas, they need more than just SEO. They need a bunch of different services and tools. They need a bunch of tools and they need a bunch of services. So it's a super high-valued potential customer.
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That's the way to think about it, right? You want to think about how do I build a business with a high-value customer? And this is one great way to do it.
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Yeah, I agree with you. This is one of those things where it's a window of opportunity. And I almost was shocked that you shared it because this is a pretty low risk, high impact idea that a really, really small team could do. There's a couple of things I look at when I'm like, should I go into this space? And one of them is, That's true. I was telling Danny that, you know, this is 8 a.m.
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Yeah. Yeah, I agree with you. You know, This is one of those things where it's a window of opportunity. Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google.
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And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition. So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it.
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They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. I won't say the exact term, but even today, actually this morning, there was a particular idea I wanted to go build that I was on a few tools, including Ahrefs. Yeah, it's hard. I type it, I don't say it.
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5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
Saying it, especially at 8am, with one sip of coffee, oh my god, it's hard. So don't judge me, people listening. But... dude, the window is gone. Like it's gotten, I've just seen it over the last like four weeks just get increasingly more and more competitive. And now I'm kind of like, I don't know if I want to do this idea anymore.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
The gold rush is going to be over and Danny is going to be dressed in an all gold suit with a gold presidential Rolex and a gold crown.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
No, I think you're doing all the right things. So I wouldn't be surprised. Let's move over to our idea number two, the comfy UI marketplace.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
They're mostly non-technical, but it is a subset of people who get it. Indie hackers building stuff, so that crew will understand what you're saying.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
I saw this when this was in your list, and I almost was shocked that you shared it. Because this is a pretty low risk, high impact idea that a really, really small team could do. There's two things. There's a couple of things I look at when I'm like, should I go into this space? And one of them is, is there an influx of YouTube tutorials? So I've also noticed the same thing.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
There's been a huge increase in the tutorial space in this space. And it's kind of like that guy, what's his name? Islo in the Notion template space. So there's a YouTuber who has like, I don't know, half a million YouTube subs. And the guy's like printing millions of dollars a year selling YouTube templates. Like you just apply that model to this.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
And the second thing I noticed with Comfy UI in general is they're... their subreddit has skyrocketed in terms of membership. So it's now a top 3 or 4% subreddit, which is just a sign that there's something here.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
for me and like I don't take meetings this early just because I like to wake up, get into the deep creative flow. But for Danny, you make exceptions.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
Yeah. Yeah, it needs to exist. And I will say, though, your audience is pretty perfect for something like this. Would you ever consider partnering with someone?
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5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
Yes, it will. Yeah. I mean, why not, right? I think that's just an interesting thing for creators. This is kind of like a side tangent, but if you're a creator or you're someone with an audience who has access to an audience, of course, you want to work on your own ideas and you want to focus on your own ideas. But how do you partner?
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
and just take pieces of businesses where there's someone that you trust that's going to go and build this thing. I don't know what equity percentage that is. If you take 30%, 40%, 50%, what that is, but there's probably a deal that you can make there.
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5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
Yeah, I mean... like the Nick Huber's, the Sean Puri's, the Sahil Bloom's, those people, Austin Reef with Oceans, co-founder of Morning Brew, it's happening. I haven't done it a lot myself because the truth is I haven't been able to find people I really trust and I'm scared to work with someone who is going to blow it for me. Right.
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5 $1M+ AI startup ideas from an indie hacker legend
So, um, I, I, I do like, I do, I'm making a conscious effort to like meet interesting entrepreneurs. So hopefully I can partner with them and, and, and, uh, and bring them into the late checkout ecosystem.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Fair. That's why you give it away.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
I think what's so smart about this idea is when artists think about their assets, their pieces of art, they think about working with galleries. And I think, correct me if I'm wrong, galleries take half of the revenue? Sometimes more. Sometimes more. So a huge percentage. Now, this is kind of flipping it on its head and it's saying, forget about the galleries for a second.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
We're actually going to go to this completely new channel that you've never thought of. It's going to be like a completely new almost agent that manages it, you. And the cool part is there's probably more liquidity in condo markets and new home developments and interior design jobs than people walking into an art gallery in your local town and being like, that piece looks cool, I want to buy it.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
I wonder... what other assets are like this like what are other assets that are just marketed to the wrong channel it's that's a really good question i'm not smart enough to have that answer off the top of my head what do you think i was yeah i'll give one off the top of my head so secondhand clothing so there's this big
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
of the last five years, let's say, shift towards thrifting and buying secondhand clothing. And right now, you either sell it on Poshmark where you're not getting that much money or you give it away to Goodwill so it's free. I think that there's an opportunity to take secondhand clothing and do deals with retail shops selling clothing.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Well, here, let me tell you. So you go to this store, right? And the store is a boutique selling men's fashion, let's say. And you're like, I'm going to go put this secondhand. Currently, you don't sell any secondhand stuff. I'm going to go put this secondhand stuff that I've curated from, let's say, Goodwill or other places. And we're going to split the revenue 50%, 50%.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Um, but I'm also going to charge you a installation fee and a de-installation fee. Um, so why is this cool? Because like most of these shops don't have like a secondhand section and they don't want to, it's like a whole new channel for them. Right. So it's a similar concept, um, where, and what I love about all these businesses is including your mural one, like the startup costs aren't,
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Yeah, I like this a lot. Super easy. Super easy. I also think there's another trend. On Friday, I'm meeting someone for coffee at a clothing shop that they're doing a pop-up coffee shop within the clothing shop.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
So I think you can create an agency that is basically a marketplace of connecting different retailers with different service providers and different advertisers and just middleman the whole thing.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
There's actually been a few people that have emailed me and been like, you've changed my life. This has been life changing. I heard an idea that you said one year ago. I took it and I just sold my company for X amount of dollars or I just hit one million in revenue. And especially now that the pod's grown so much, it's getting crazier and crazier.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
I mean, to me, it's just like, selfishly, I'm one of those people, and I think you are too, like I'm an idea junkie. And to me, this is therapy. Like getting out ideas, jamming on ideas, just to me, like this is my time to just, it's my guilty pleasure. And what I'm learning is that a lot of people are sick like me and
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
And sick like you probably and need time to just flesh out ideas because we see the world and it's just not perfect, right? We see the, oh, what if this happened? And what did that happen? We're like, what if people? So I don't even do it fully self-servingly. I do it also just for myself.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
So check this out. I'm going to share my screen. So I met someone who her Instagram handles Marina Minis. You see my screen?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
She creates these like miniature versions of things. And it started to go really viral because people love mini things. And this would be a great example of like an art kit to do small mini things with like instructions on how to do it. Like she has 263,000 followers on Instagram. She's got more on TikTok, I think. But just crazy engagement, right? 84,000 likes. And this is like relatively new.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
So what I like about this idea is you can actually spend dollars, add dollars to target people who follow certain accounts. So you know that these people like Marina minis and you can go ahead. You don't need their permission, right? You just buy the ads against it. Um, And yes, what I don't like about this idea is the production side, but let's just assume you can do that for a second.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
You start building out this marketplace of five, six, seven, eight, 10 creators. And by the way, someone should go and register this domain. The domain viralartkits.com is available. Somehow it's available. So unless my producer Rafa goes and registers it during listening to this, it should be available. And you grab that and then you just start having a bunch of these creators.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
You organize it by creators and then it becomes a thing. And here's the way to take this from a small business that's kind of annoying to an interesting big business that has recurring revenue is you just do a monthly drop where for $50 a month, You get one of these kits and it's cool because you get to learn about a new creator. A lot of these people are creative in general.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
That's the reason why they follow these accounts. And you're happy because you're getting that recurring revenue. Can you find 5,000 people to pay you $50 a month or $80 a month for these things? Probably.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
So what I love about you is you hijack the narrative and you do it through art. And that's the lens of our conversation today. You've got a few cool ideas. I just want to jam with you. Where should we start?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Yeah, and I'm looking at Google Trends for things like 3D puzzles and board games. And if you look at it on a... Let's look at it from a 2004 to present. These are some big peaks. People are... They want IRL things that they can touch and do. And you're right. When going out for a drink and a cocktail costs you $18 or something, you might not want to do that, right?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Because a night out might cost $100, $200. You might just want to stay in and create content with your boys or your girls. So I do think that it is a trend. And I like this. This is a sneaky good idea, dude.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
So I want to comment on one quick thing. I think on Airbnb, what I've noticed is there's a bunch of people that don't even own Airbnbs. They're going to people who have apartments. They call it lease arbitrage. People have apartments. My friend Blake Rocha talks about this a lot online.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
He basically will go to this building and say, listen, I'm not going to buy your building, but if I find you a tenant at this rate, is that cool? Or if I manage your Airbnb at this rate, You know, can I get a cut? So I think this is kind of that same thing, but in a different vertical that no one's thinking about. Literally no one.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Totally. I like it.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
How much capital realistically does it take to get going though?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
We swear he's not that dumb. Yeah.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Three fire ideas. Four fire ideas, actually. Three and a bonus, which we appreciate. I like all of them because anyone can do it. It doesn't take a lot of capital. They're all with virality built in. The problem, I think, with a lot of businesses is it's hard to find customers. If it's built in, that makes your life a lot easier. That's why I appreciate you, man.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Where could folks learn about Art City and you?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
And like, what does art city look like in 20 years? Like, where do you want to take this thing?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Yeah. Which is honestly a good prompt for anyone listening for any business. It's like, pick a business and then be like, okay, I'm Matty Mo. What is the viral version of this business? It's just a good prompt.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Right. And so what is it? It's a video. Is that, you know, reverse engineer the video? The video of what? I mean, it's just. I feel like all social platforms are now 60% video. Instagram, TikTok, even Twitter now is a video platform. LinkedIn just added video. YouTube. Video is the atomic unit now of social. So reverse engineering someone being like, hey, I'm at Art City, check this out.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Totally. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. And I think your goal as the business owner is, if you've got 100,000 unique visitors visiting or watching or seeing your brand, how do you get the highest percentage of that 100,000, call it 20,000, 30,000, to actually create a meme or create content so that that brings in another 100,000? And then you build the flywheel.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
I think all entrepreneurs are looking for shortcuts and it's just in our nature. That's the best shortcut that we have. If you can solve customer acquisition and solve word of mouth, I think you've got a pretty good cheat code. The cool thing is, yes, you don't want to build a huge portfolio of things Maybe I buy that, maybe I don't.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
But I will say that you've built something that could, like when people ask me, oh, I want to build a holding company, how do I do it? I always say start with one thing. So you're building one thing that has this viral coefficient built in. And the beauty about that one thing is it could be scaled to different regions if you want it, you know, if you want it.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Well, I think what you're doing and what I'm doing is and what I think everyone should do if you're interested in being an entrepreneur is you're putting yourself at the middle of something that really interests you. And that gives you optionality to you're like, you're the center of gravity when it comes to, you know, art and this local art.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
So you have these sculptures, you're meeting artists, um, And then once you're at the center of it, even if it's local center, it doesn't need to be global, then you have this optionality around, okay, I can go do this thing, I can go do that thing.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
It's also more fun, dude. It's way more fun to have that optionality to do different things as you evolve as a human being.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Well, I think what's good about venture, and yes, we've both done it, is A, you get rejected
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
hundreds or if not thousands of times so the process of getting rejected is just good for any entrepreneur because it allows you to you're pitching all these vcs and a bunch of them are just you know the timing isn't right you know the the metrics need to be higher oh we have a conflict right so you're getting you're getting all these insights and it does force you to like
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
put all your thoughts in this deck that ultimately at the end is this potent way of explaining whatever it is you do. And that's really, really awesome. I feel like... So that's number... That's A and B. I feel like someone should just create the YC, but at the end, there's no venture investment.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
It's like a program designed to just help entrepreneurs and accelerate them and meet other entrepreneurs. So I think... The VC ecosystem does put you in the room with a lot of other VC entrepreneurs and that makes you high quality.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
We can go for a meal. Also, I'll be in Montreal for Mural Fest in a few weeks, which is a I just Googled it. 1.15 million people go to this event. It's a nonprofit. They basically take over 100 murals and they do all kinds of cool murals. People go and visit it. You should check it out. A little R&D.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Cool. Matty Mo, it's been real. Catch you later. Thanks, bud. Thank you.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Yeah, and I'm happy you said that. Because a lot of people are listening to this and are like, art's cool, but I'm here because I want to create a cash-filling business. And what they don't realize is that you can do both.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Which is honestly a good prompt for anyone listening for any business. It's like pick a business and then be like, okay, I'm Matty Mo. What is the viral version of this business?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
All right, let's dig in, bro.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Hey everyone, if you're anything like me, you've got a ton of design work that you need. Websites, landing pages, emails, social assets, you name it. But you don't just want beautiful landing pages or beautiful websites. You want the stuff that's going to convert. You want the stuff that's going to actually drive value. That's where DesignScientist.com comes in.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
It's an agency that for one monthly price will do all your design work, all your copy work, all your engineering and do stuff that actually scales your revenue. You don't need a designer. You need a design scientist. Let's go design scientist.com. I liked it so much. I invested in the business.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Okay, and... You say start a sales team and find painters, but how do you actually go and do those things?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
This is going to be a special episode. Matty Mo, the most famous artist. You don't do that many interviews these days, and I feel lucky to have snagged you for your brain to give us some startup ideas.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
And from like a revenue and profit perspective, how big does this get and how profitable is it?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
And I wonder if, and you kind of mentioned it tier two and tier three cities. Like I wonder if this is even more interesting in smaller cities because just no one's doing it.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Yeah. And you might not get 10 or 15 grand there cause the traffic's smaller, but the margins probably are bigger there.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
You just got to figure out how you can get cool artists to small towns. But you know, I think you can do that.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
Totally. And it's cool for them because then they can point to like, hey, I did this mural and it puts them on the map, literally.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
It's really cool. Cause if you're doing, you know, a million bucks a city and you're making, you know, five, 600 grand per city, Like could, you know, could you go to four cities? Like it's not crazy.
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
That is true. But for people who don't know you, can you tell them the two or three craziest things that you've done?
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
There you go. All right. Take it, go for it. Do it. Idea one, Matty Mo. Um, I like that one. You know what I like about that one? I like that. It's just,
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"The Most Famous Artist" gives away 4 of his best $1M+/year idea
not complicated so easy it's like it's so it has like four or five moving parts but it's assuming you you get the artist you understand how to sell you're personable uh you iterate with like landlords and and uh property developers like you figure out what your niche is and then you pick the right city once you have it set up you got a good thing going
The Startup Ideas Podcast
5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
What is the promise that you are going to give our listeners by listening to this full episode?
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
I tweeted right before this about real estate. And I feel like this is kind of like digital real estate. I tweeted that, you know, half, nearly half of real estate investors, 42% have lost $200,000 or more on a single investment with 45% admitting a bad investment. That has almost ruined them financially. What are you doing? Just make beats. No mortgages.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Yeah, but I look at that and I'm kind of like, why would I invest in real estate? And I know people in the comment section are going to be like, dude, you're missing out. What do you do in real estate is the best.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Two more digital ideas. What do you got?
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Yeah, it's also a convenience thing because finding the right influencer creator for your brand is really difficult. And they are literally human beings, meaning they change, their interests change. So...
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
So if you want to create one of these characters, how do you create one?
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and ai that could help you outrank your competition so for my own businesses i wanted that i didn't want to have to rely on mark zuckerberg i didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses i wanted to rank high in google that's why i like seo and that's why i use boringmarketing.com and that's why i invested in it
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money-back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. Yeah, and they're 100% going to do YouTube videos. I mean, the first version of Lil Miquela... was just these pretty flat images. And then it became super realistic.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
And then they started doing little short-form videos, GIFs type things. So of course, yeah, it makes total sense that as the technology catches up, you'll be able to make... Well, I mean, you can today. You make essentially a Facebook video. By the way, quick, hilarious thing. I went on Clode and I asked... to give me the steps of how I'd create an avatar like Lil Miquela.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
And Claude says, I apologize, but I cannot recommend ways to generate AI avatars or deepfakes that impersonate real people without their consent, as it's illegal, basically.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
We're doing this live. Boom. So how do you do it? Mid-journey, Dally 2, Stable Diffusion, Focus, which is a free alternative. You craft your prompt. You do something like a photo realistic 3D render of a young woman, digital influencer style, similar to Lil Miquela with specific features, clothing style, background setting. You generate and refine that.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Use the face lock feature to maintain consistency across multiple generations. You use AI powering editing tools like Maki.ai and even Canva has one. And you can even use face swapping technology to maintain consistency across different poses. There you go.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
What do you say to people who will say, no, no, no, I will never fall in love with a digital brand. What do you say to those people? A digital avatar.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
I have two thoughts on that question. One is, when you watch the movie Avatar, do you not connect with the characters? If you watch Family Guy, do you not connect with Peter Griffith? Of course you do. Of course you do. So that's one. And number two... you're not going to know the difference. You're going to be scrolling Instagram. You're going to be on YouTube shorts.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
You're going to be on TikTok. You're going to see a creator who has content that you're interested in. And then only on video four are you going to ask the question, wait, is this a real person? Dude, they sold OnlyFans for these people.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
I need another idea. I just, I need it.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
from there then take that and like you know publish all these articles uh uh that are related to to like building email templates out but your thoughts i mean no-brainer idea proven pain point on you know it's pretty obvious on how to scale it doesn't take a lot of people and i always get this i you know i get this feedback from people there you know people are always like
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Why don't you do share ideas that don't cost a million dollars to build? This doesn't cost much to build. How much do you think this would cost to build?
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
I know I said last idea, but I need one more idea. Just because you know why? Because there's people listening to this that are in the deep end that are here that they deserve the bonus idea.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
Size-wise, how big could this get?
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
The other thing to note is the newsletter is an asset. So if you have 100,000 subs, especially B2B, at the worst case, it's worth, call it a dollar. At the best case, it's worth $10. If it's worth $10- That's a million dollar asset that you're sitting on. There's your real estate. If it's worth a dollar, then it's $100,000.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
That's perfect. That's a perfect way to end the pod. Cody, where can people learn more about Swell and follow you?
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
And thank you for coming on, man. Thank you for coming on.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
I will say, I will say this. You were the most viewed podcast on my YouTube channel.
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5 $1M+ startup ideas you can launch tomorrow with $0
I took it back. And my Reddit one now has like 130,000 views.
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No, let's bring Cody back. Let's make this video. So if you liked Cody and you like the ideas, the best thing to do is tell us in the comment section. Cody comes in there here and there. And just like the YouTube video so you get more of this in your feed.
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It's one of the best on the internet. You always say that because I just put your tweets in it all the time.
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I appreciate that, man. I appreciate that. And I've been following you for a while now and you're one of the real ones on the internet. There's only like a handful of people that are out there sharing the sauce. They share the sauce. I live to serve. You live to serve, and I love that about you.
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All right, man. I'll see you soon.
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Okay, few reactions to that. One is another way you can monetize is affiliate. So not many people know this, but SaaS products will give you anywhere between like 10 and 50% of monthly revenue, like recurring. Totally. So like, hello.
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And someone listening to this is going to be like, oh, but affiliate is so like spammy or whatever. Adobe is literally like a 200 plus billion dollar company. And they recently just changed their, like we think of them as this
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Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions. And I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses. They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. Compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast.
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But the main thing is, most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut. Just click below to get access. Your next cash flowing business is waiting for you. Exactly. Their original, I think, deal was they'd give you 85% of the cut. They just increased it to, I think, 100%.
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They're literally increasing it. So obviously their numbers are working. Yeah.
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We're just going to get right into it. You look like, why do you dress up like The Rock?
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That's not even a show, you know, come for the ideas, stay for the partnership opportunity.
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So, On the video, the recording of videos, you're like, okay, you can record 20-minute videos, teach them how to do it. By the end of the video, they're going to be like, I don't want to do this myself. Here's what I'm seeing is working. Go and create a two-hour video. Totally. Make it super long.
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Why do you dress the way you dress?
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Exactly. Cool. What else you got? Idea number two. Next one. Do you know what type eats are? I don't.
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You look like if Elizabeth Holmes got in a fight with The Rock, that's you.
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Is the biggest marketplace for this typebeats.com?
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typebeats.com definitely check it out because whenever i see like an ugly website like this i'm like oh my god there's something here so that's one printing money printing and then there's uh beats beat stars the top beat market stars yeah that sounds right so they you know the ceo abe bachin says the best type beat producers are making 60 000 a month leases for type beats typically cost between 15 and 150 but they can add up quickly
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Bloodlust. Elizabeth no homies. No homies. Okay, Cody, we don't have that much time. And you know how the YouTube and podcast game works.
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YouTube usually ranks instrumentals higher in search results, which can lead to more views and potentially more sales and leases for the track.
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proceed with this idea we came up with a even bigger idea okay yeah it wasn't it wasn't the idea itself that you you looked at it and you're like oh my god you know this is really hard it was just there's another opportunity and you went for that no yeah i think this is a pretty clear-cut straightforward thing i mean you have to be excited about conferences you have to be
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Cool. All right, Brad, what's, uh, what's idea number two?
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Yeah. So you're, you're absolutely right. I also think that, you know, 50% of Gen Z Americans are, not religious at all. So they're looking for, they're attaching themselves to some of these movements and these movements have become their identity. So absolutely. I think, you know, a non-obvious one would be the sobriety movement.
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But you're not here to talk about any of that. You're here to talk startup ideas, and I'm excited that you agreed to come on.
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You know, I want to connect with other sober daters in my city and who subscribe to the same philosophy and identity that I have.
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By the way, just to confirm, I'm not sober and I have a wife, you know?
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That was an example.
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Oh, no, I'm sober right now, but I might have a glass of wine tonight, you know?
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By the way, there's probably a way to do that just with religious groups so that it's tax deductible too.
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It becomes a no brainer, right?
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Yeah, I said you can't hoard anymore. You've got to stop hoarding. It's just not fair.
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You know what this reminds me of? Have you seen Palette? No. New York startup. I actually invested in it a few years ago. Or Late Checkout invested in it a few years ago. But the basic idea of Palette... Uh, it's palette.com.
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Yeah. It's job board for creators basically. So like they'll work with like a Lenny Richitsky, uh, who's like the product management guy and they'll be like, Hey, we're going to power your job board, uh, for Lenny jobs. Yeah. And, uh, they, they provide the, you know, the, the technology and, and they have a fee structure that I assume that they get like a percentage, uh,
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yeah so this is basically that right the the thinking is like they so they're going after creators and people with big influence in different niches you're you're saying that kind of the same thing um and recruiting in some ways is very similar to dating it's the same for sure yeah it's the same yeah totally yeah and i think what's interesting about this is like
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such a good concept around, they've got all these rebels, quote unquote, who are merchants, and then their job is to arm them with tools and software to make their lives easier and better. What I like about this business is it's arming the rebels, which are these non-formal matchmakers, these casual matchmakers that are doing this out of the goodness of their heart anyways.
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All you're doing with this is you're just arming them to make their lives easier. And if they want to have upside and maybe the upside, you know, some people are going to be like, no, I'm just doing this out of goodness in my heart and bless their hearts. We need more of those people.
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But some people are going to be, you know, so for those people, you know, maybe you have it so you can, it donates to a charity of your choice or something like that.
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Totally. And I think someone's going to take one of these ideas and they might be bigger than you and me in a couple of years because they're taking one of these ideas.
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Yeah, I like this one a lot. On this podcast, I've been doing something new and I say, do I sip an idea, i.e. do I like this idea or do I spit this idea? I don't like it. Go back to drawing board and I definitely spit this idea. You're doing something, you're productizing that people are already doing and you're just making it easier for them. So I like it.
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And I also think there's that trend around a bit of message fatigue on a lot of these dating apps. Like people are kind of looking for something like this. So you have the tailwinds as well.
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Totally. And I could see the quote on your website now.
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Let's rock. What do you got?
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You're in the flow. I can see it. I can see you're in the flow.
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All right. Well, what's on your mind? What's idea number one?
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Well, I could picture the viral TikToks with 2 million views. Yeah. Right? People screen sharing that. Yeah. So yes, 100%. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
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Definitely the craziest idea on your list.
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and you know here's what i here's what i like about the idea and i think this applies to other ideas too so to me this feels very much like turning something that is not a treasure hunt into a treasure hunt yes and i think that thesis could be applied to a bunch of different spaces so for people listening who are like okay brett's crazy with this dating app idea but
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you know, this concept applied to something else. Maybe it's e-commerce, maybe I don't know what it is, but something in another space. I think that's really, really interesting. So that's what I really like about this idea. Yeah.
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How would you actually go about building something like this? Is this hard to build? Is it easy to build MVP-wise?
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age height and then it calculates how many people of those how many people exist and it went super viral it got millions of like impressions millions of views that was your friend that was the person i i saw that around i want someone who's six five and higher works in finance and make more than a hundred thousand dollars a year that's that was your friend it got like yeah tens of millions of impressions
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Cool. Yeah. I like, I also, the other thing I like about this idea is people will, you know, you want to start an idea that people will pay for and people are used to paying for dating match made it match matchmaking. And, uh, so if it, if it does go viral, like who knows what you have on your hands, it could be really bad.
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Okay. Yeah, I could, I could, yeah, I could shift gears and do a huge, uh, you know, right. I, yeah, let's, let's see what you got.
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I love it because it's one of those things where a wedge is something that it starts off as this cute, profitable little thing, but it has the legs to become something big if you want it.
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And then how do you charge for it? And how would you actually, how would you actually build something like this? Like, how do you go from idea to execution?
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And is this a venture-backed idea or do you think this could be bootstrapped?
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And they're using LLMs and AI, you know, for some of that.
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Yeah. And the data is out there. No one wants to put it in. It's just, you just need a little enrichment in your life. I think this works really well for certain groups and certain very specific niches. What do you think are two, three, four, five specific groups that would use something like this?
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I don't know why I thought of that. That's the task. If you're listening to this, figuring out what are these groups, who needs enrichment, who's going to be willing to pay for it. But you're right. This is an obvious idea. And I love this idea. I sit this idea greatly just because you are right with incumbents aren't. They're not going to be everywhere. And that's the opportunity.
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That's why you don't raise money for something like this. You build it profitably. And, you know, you could get to a situation where you're doing one to three million ARR or something like that and you go to a Clearbit or someone like that and you sell the business.
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What do you think, you know, what sort of multiples, you know, you've worked in the Google M&A world, like what sort of multiples are some of these businesses getting?
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Yeah, I think this is probably one of those ideas that you might just want to cash flow it. And if you get an unreasonably good offer from one of these platforms, let them come to you. Don't run a process yourself because you're right. The multiples, especially with dependence on some of these LLMs, might not be amazing.
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Brett, you crushed it.
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Okay, let's do a bonus framework with Brett.
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I'm salivating right now.
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This is a gift. You've given people a literal gift.
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It really works. I'm going to write that down and I appreciate you sharing that with everyone. Brett, this has been an absolute pleasure. Where could people learn more about you?
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And if you've made it this far in the pod, if you're on YouTube, least you can do is subscribe, give us a like, comment if you like this episode. And if you're listening on audio, just follow and review and share this with everyone you know, because there's a lot of gold in here. Thanks a lot, Brett. It's been real. Catch you later. Thanks, Greg.
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Okay, let's do a bonus framework with Brett.
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Quick ad break. Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google. And the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and AI that could help you outrank your competition.
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So for my own businesses, I wanted that. I didn't want to have to rely on Mark Zuckerberg. I didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses. I wanted to rank high in Google. That's why I like SEO and that's why I use boringmarketing.com and that's why I invested in it. They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee.
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Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. Every conference organizer is trying to get people to meet up because they know that people will come back if that matchmake happens. And by the way, I know some people are listening to this and they're like, okay, how much money is there really in this space? And there's a business called Cvent. Do you know Cvent? No.
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I had never heard of them and... But they're basically a $4.5 billion company. I think they're publicly traded, actually. And what they do is they have a white label app for events and conferences. Yeah, exactly. You talked about a wedge, which is a really good... I think people don't think about wedges enough. But I think this is a wedge to ultimately compete
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with cvent four and a half billion dollar opportunity and cvent by the way like you know you'll go to their website we can show it on youtube like this is like an old school kind of yeah you know it's not like the designers of snapchat went and designed cvent let's put it that way yeah must must be at least like 10 15 years old but yeah but yeah i think like you know one of the other kind of like universal rules of startups is that like once you aggregate users in a place
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Totally. That's the magic experience of the Shop app. Have you ever downloaded that app?
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So it's Shopify's app and I recently downloaded it And if you ask me, Greg, how many Shopify purchases have you made? I would say like, I don't know, two. But you don't really know that you're making Shopify purchases because it's the backend. It's powering these e-commerce experiences.
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So I downloaded the app and then I saw like, I don't know, 50 different, you know, companies I bought stuff from. And it was such a magical experience. I'd love to be able to open this app and be like, oh my God, I didn't know that Brett is going to be at, you know, South by Southwest. And, you know, so I think that's, I do think that having that magical sort of experience is cool.
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If you were building something like this and I mean, you built the product, so I'm sure you've thought, thought about this. How would you actually get to, like, how would you get awareness and in something like this?
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All right, Brett Goldstein. I think you're criminally underfollowed. That's why I brought you on today. Whenever we hang out, I love just picking your brain. You were part of the Google M&A team. You bought companies at Google. You did a startup. You raised $12 million plus for that. You did the VC thing. And now you're working in stealth and working on a really cool product.
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This to me is a wedge salad in half. I love it because it's one of those things where a wedge is something that it starts off as this cute, profitable little thing, but it has the legs to become something big if you want it. So that's why I like this idea.
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Before we go on to the next idea, I have to ask, why didn't you...
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
What's up, everyone? Good to have you back. Today, I really want to talk about something that's been on my brain for a long, long time. It's this idea of anti-trends. You know, we talk a lot about trends and building startups for those trends, but I don't think enough is talked about about anti-trends.
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And this just is, it's, it's, it's interesting to see. Interesting to see where are people clicking in from. Like randomly Indonesia, for example, is like the top search volume. So it's like, that's really interesting. What about Indonesian culture lends itself well to slow living? And then how hard is it to rank in Indonesia? And do I want to rank in Indonesia?
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And you see every agency website saying AI and every SaaS website saying AI. What if you didn't? What if you said AI-free? And these are the little things. When you identify an anti-trend like that and you're first, it's a really good moat. So the question is, how do you come up with anti-trends? Well, number one, you go out there in the real world and it comes to you. You just see it.
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Or do I just want to rank in the United States? So these are the type of questions that you get to ask yourself. It's amazing when you're playing with some of these tools. Another tool that I use. So once you have the list of the creators, you can use a tool like view stats, which is Mr. Beast's tool. They also have a Chrome extension and you can actually plug in.
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So let's just say be more with less. Let's see. Okay. Does this person, are they trending up? Like, are they trending down? Are people listening? You know, let's, let's go, let's go see. So pretty small, 11,300, like a lot smaller than I thought. Like not doing much. So I look at this and I'm kind of like, there's not much competition here at all. Let's go check. How about this guy, Joshua Becker?
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And by the way, I'm doing this just so you can like jump in my brain how I think about things. Like I feel like a lot of you have asked like, How do I live cook, basically? So I'm going to do more live cooking podcasts and YouTube videos. So this guy is crushing it. He's definitely adding subscribers. He's making thousands of dollars a month. Things I look for is how many videos he's doing.
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I also love to look at long views versus short views. I basically don't even... acknowledge short views anymore. It's all about long views in terms of affinity. So if there's a lot of long views, it means that there's a lot of trust here. I have to look at what videos he's doing too, right? This might not be all slow living. Look, it's like some stuff about just tidying stuff and decluttering.
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But there's also stuff like 10 reasons to escape excessive consumerism. So there's definitely a part of it that's slow living and a part of it that's just like minimalism. So there you have it. I gave you my secrets. I told you exactly how I find anti-trends, which are kind of like the trends you should really be paying attention to. And I hope you liked it.
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And if you did, like, comment, and subscribe just so more of this stuff is in your feed. It's the least you can do. You want your feed to be dialed. If you want more of me in your feed, you got to go and do that. And it also just lets me know that I should be creating more videos like this. I did a video on how I find startup ideas with AI.
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And if you haven't checked that out already, go and check that out. And if you want me to do a video and pod episode on how I validate startup ideas, let me know and I'll do it for you. I'm here for you. This is what these are about. Lifting the veil, giving you startup ideas. And it's more fun when more people are building.
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let's let's go get him all right hope hope this got your creative juices flowing I know it did mine thanks for listening and I'll see you next time later
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
Now, in the example of the AI-free thing, I actually saw, I'm going to share my screen. Sorry, folks who are audio only. I actually saw and I tweeted this I saw that there was this study that said AI is a turnoff for consumers.
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So a new study suggests artificial intelligence and product descriptions lowers purchase intent with implications not only for brands integrating AI, but of the wider category challenges of the technology faces, it has become widespread. Point is, if you don't use AI on your website, especially in, I think, B2C, I think good things might happen for you. So how do we identify?
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Let's talk about some of the tools that I use when I want to identify a trend or an anti-trend. And some of these, by the way, are so underrated. So listen or watch to the end so you understand all of them. One is Pinterest. Here I'm on Pinterest. This is actually Pinterest Canada.
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One of the things I definitely, just because I signed up when I was in Canada, one of the things that you see here is a bunch of trends. So these are some trends in Canada, fall outfits, weekly change of 30%, monthly change of 400%. Back to school, obviously, dress to impress, home gardening, color book nails. Okay, interesting. Main character mode has a 10,000 plus monthly change.
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And today I'm going to talk about how you can come up with startup ideas based on those anti-trends, how to identify anti-trends, some of the tools I use, and just kind of bring you in inside my workflow, because why not? So let's talk about why I care about anti-trends in the beginning. So in software, in startups, it's a very competitive place and everyone goes for those trends.
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Sun-soaked spaces, 10,000 plus. When you start seeing these 10,000 plus, these are things that are getting real big. So one way to come up with ideas for anti-trends is just to look at what is trending on platforms like Pinterest. And... do the opposite of it. And I see that BRAT is trending a little bit here. But even BRAT, they talk about BRAT summer and now it's demure fall.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
That's the anti-trend to BRAT, right? There's always an anti-trend. So let's just say, I've been thinking about this trend for around slow living. Now, what is slow living? Slow living, I just noticed that there's a lot of talk around hustle culture, working all the time, dead lifting, cold plunge, wake up at five in the morning, don't stop work until 10 p.m., that sort of thing.
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It's kind of the opposite of my vibe, actually. So I think that slow living is going to be a more and more important trend. So I'll use a tool like Pinterest Trends to go and see like, okay, where am I going? Is it going down? Is it going up? The one bad thing about Pinterest Trends is that it does only go to one year.
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But what I like about it is it tells me related trends, so minimalist living rooms. So now it gives me ideas, right? So I start with my anti-trend and now it gives me ideas around what are the products that I could actually be building here. So maybe there's an opportunity to create like the slow living interior design agency. Cozy, and you see, you know, cozy bedroom.
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You see, these are terms that are coming up. And then it allows me to go check through popular pins. So I can open up a pin here that's popular. So let's just say this one. Living slow, learn to do nothing, put down your phone, accept rest, drink water, go on a walk, social media cleanse, learn to say no, smile, be still, connect to their community. All this stuff.
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And what it allows me to do then is now I'm learning about what is resonating with this audience. I'm learning about what are the philosophies and principles of this particular community and in this particular anti-trend. And it gives me ideas. And then I just... take out my notebook and I start writing down what am I observing?
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You create a little page, take out a pen, you take a little page and you say observations and what am I observing about this anti-trend? I'm observing that putting down your phone is a big part of it or resting is a big part of it. And then I ask myself, what are products and services that I can go and create so that I can monetize and build a community in that space.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
Don't tell anyone, but I've got 30 plus startup ideas that could make you millions. And I'm giving them away for free. These aren't just random guesses. They're validated concepts from entrepreneurs who've built $100 million plus businesses. I've compiled them into one simple database. Compiled from hundreds of conversations I've had on my podcast.
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But the main thing is most of these ideas don't need a single investor. Some cost nothing to start. I'm pretty much handing you a cheat sheet. The Idea Bank is your startup shortcut. Just click below to get access. Your next cash-flowing business is waiting for you. So that's Pinterest. There's also, of course, Google Trends. that you can use, which is similar. So let's go put slow living.
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And you can see over the last five years, this is worldwide, it's progressively going up. This is beautiful to see. I look at this and I'm like, there is certainly some opportunity to be building in this space. This is a trend I like to see. It's not like crazy growth. And I actually almost like that better because to me, this is a sustainable growth.
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Then you can see what people also search, which I find really interesting. But I always check the questions. To me, the questions is the most important place to start. What is slow living? How to practice slow living? What is the art of slow living? This basically puts you in the mind of people in this anti-trend. So Google Trends, you know, it's completely free to use.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
I don't know why more people don't use it. I forgot to say. So I actually added this Chrome extension. I have no affiliation with them at all. But it's this Chrome extension called Glimpse. Discover trends before they're trending. And it just maps on. It basically just supercharges Google Trends. So it also adds things like related trends, which is super good to know.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
So I can go and see all the related trends and Glimpse gives me that. I think it's free to use and I haven't paid for it or anything like that. And that's really, really helpful, obviously, to know related trends because then you go back to your You go back to your notebook and you start writing, what are the related trends and why? You start asking yourself, why are these related trends?
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
Why do we think food sustainability is in there? Sustainable business, euphoria party. What do these things mean? And it puts you down that rabbit hole. The other interesting thing about Glimpse plus Google Trends is it gives you, where are people, where's the most activity on social media? Is it on Twitter? Is it on Instagram? You can see here it's very much on Instagram.
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So when I decide I want to create a social account to build an audience here, because you know me, I always like to start with the audience. Yes, it's nice to be on Instagram because that's where the people are, but maybe I go on Twitter. Maybe I go on Twitter because the competition isn't there and there's an opportunity to do that. I have a friend who is a coach.
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health coach and she was on Instagram and she's like where else should I be and I was like you know go to LinkedIn go to LinkedIn because you know health coach for busy entrepreneurs her niche no one's you know no one's talking about health stuff on or not a lot of people are talking about health stuff on on LinkedIn and she's built like a huge a huge audience on there so it's and and you know when there's not a lot of competition there's uh
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it's worth peeking in. And then you can see the topic map. So you can see like self-care, green living, journaling. I just find this to be a helpful way to just see what is going on in a bird's eye view. And then these are the Google Trends related topics and related queries. So you can see like just what are some breakout topics, slow living with a princess,
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
You can just start scrolling through them, having fun. Spend 30 minutes here. Spend 30 minutes and start observing and writing down. Another way to obviously discover trending topics, so you'll find things that are trending and look for anti-trends, is if you do download Glimpse, you can go to the Discover Trends tab. You can go to discover trends tab.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
You can click into things, home improvement, let's say. And it takes a few seconds, but it'll pull up like what are the different graphs and what's starting to go up? What's the search volume? So you can see like AC cleaning, high income business. And then from that, again, you have to come up with ideas around what can I be building here?
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
And what I've noticed, it's actually quite easier to go to those anti-trends. Now, what am I talking about? What is an anti-trend? If everyone is talking about AI, AI-free AI, might be a great way to position your startup. There might be so much demand for AI-free that, yes, there's billions of dollars going into building startups that are AI.
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And I've talked about how I use gummy search in a previous video, a previous YouTube video, how to do that. And I think I might create a video and a pod around how to validate some of these ideas if enough people are into that. Comment on the YouTube if you want me to create a video around that or pod about it.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
But coming up with ideas are on places like on gummy search or just asking yourself, okay, what do these people need? So Glimpse slash Google Trends is something that is very, very helpful. Another thing that I do is I'll go to a platform like Cloud. And by the way, in a previous video, everyone made fun of me that I call Cloud instead of Cloud. But I speak French.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
You know, think about Jean-Claude Van Damme. You know, I wouldn't call it Jean-Claude Van Damme. That's how you say it in French. So I'm sorry. I'm going to keep calling it Claude. I might be wrong in English, but that's how you say it in French. So then I go to Claude and I'll say... I want to build a business in slow living.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
Give me a list of the top creators in slow, sustainable living and top websites I can go show. I can go check out for some competitive research. And now I generally like to really define what it is. Slow living is the antithesis of hustle culture. Then give me 10 of each. Let's see what they come up with. So then I've got the list of the top creators in slow sustainable living.
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And then I'll just go and check them out. And then the top websites. So this, like add this to your document, add this to, you know, and some people don't like writing down, that's fine. Put it into a notes file, like literally a notes file. You don't have to use anything fancy. The reason I like writing or using just a notes file is not using something fancy. Just, you know, go with what you got.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
And then you can take some of these websites. Let's see what slow.co is. I haven't checked this out. Okay, so it's a newsletter for slow living. And then you can go and look. Okay, there's something called theminimalist.com. There's something called slowyourhome.com. And then once I've done that,
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I'll take one of these, uh, take one of these websites and I'll go to a Ahrefs and I'll put it in, see what's happening, how many backlinks, what are the trends, what sort of traffic, like, you know, how are they doing? Um, And then I'll just start literally playing around with what are the opportunities, any low-hanging fruits in terms of SEO, backlinks.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
I'm always interested to see how many backlinks do they have. What are their top pages? Top pages are interesting because it signifies, okay, what do people actually care about on these websites? That gives you intel into what to do. The organic competition is really interesting.
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How I use Pinterest and Google Trends to find startup ideas
So just play around with Ahrefs and just see how competitive these anti-trend ideas are because that'll give you confidence around what to do, where the opportunities lie. So I would definitely do that. You can also go to the keyword explorer and just see how difficult certain terms are. And then I also love looking at the questions, you know, me on the questions part, like what is slow living?
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
So Mr. Beast's How to Succeed in Mr. Beast's Production document just leaked. And I think it's actually a really interesting read. I think that if you're a creator, you're an entrepreneur, you're a founder, you work in a company, it's worth the read. Love him or hate the guy. I just think that there's something that you can take from this. And I posted it on Twitter.
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Mr. Beast wants things good, cheap and fast. Well, that's tough. That's a tough client. So. Sorry, employees. People always assume money is the answer, and if we just spend more money, we can give what Jimmy wants, which is wrong. Creativity is the answer. Here is an example I use all the time about our gaming team.
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Basically, they love to give away money every video, but which sounds cooler to you as a prize for a gaming video? $20,000 or a year's supply of Doritos. To me, Doritos is much funnier. So, Contrain feels creativity. He wants people to come up with great ideas. Totally get it. That's my little edit to this slide. That's what I would have said. And I agree with him.
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I mean, if I'm trying to create creative ideas, I want the most creative ideas. Page 16. Backup day. No one will ever have 100% success rate when it comes to filming our videos on time and on budget. It's impossible. You can still do certain things that increase the probability of success.
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And one of those is having a backup day, which is something I had never heard of, but it makes a lot of sense. Basically, the idea is have some buffer room. If you need to deliver on a Tuesday, You want to make sure that you can extend to a Wednesday if something were to go wrong and you can make up for it. So where is the idea of backup Dave in my whole life? Love it. Smart move.
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When you're reading this, you know that Mr. Beast has... gone into some tight situations where things got crazy he probably spent a million dollars on a set and all these people and they weren't able to finish it and the owner of the chateau says sorry you got to be out at 8 a.m tomorrow so um he's talking from experience i think that was a good slide
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And then he published this. So I think that more companies should do this, have their founders just write what they're feeling about how to do X, Y, Z. Let me take a sip. And yes, I'm drinking Coca-Cola Oreo edition. Don't ask me why, I'm trying it. And yeah, I'm not sponsored, obviously, but it kind of slaps. Okay, so that is page two. Let's go to page three.
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This could be one of the more interesting pages of the entire document. And basically, he talks about how to communicate with other people. And most people don't understand communication. And most companies are pretty bad at communication. They don't define what you're supposed to do when you're supposed to do it. So I love how he breaks it down. When to do in-person communication.
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When to do email. How to think about text. No excuses. Move on. Simple. I love it. I think that every company needs something like this. And it felt very human reading it. So I thought this was really cool. This was surprising. This is probably one of the more surprising pages in the entire document. He talks about consultants. Consultants are literally cheat codes.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
You need to make the world's largest slice of cake. Start off by calling the person who made the previous world's largest slice of the cake, lol. Love how he puts lol there. He's already done countless tests and can save you weeks of work. I really want to drill this point home because I'm a massive believer in consultants. because I spent a decade of my life hyper obsessing over YouTube.
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I can show a brand new creator on how to go from 100 subscribers to 10,000 in a month. On their own, it would take them years to do it, but consultants are a gift from God, said no one ever, I don't think. Please take advantage of them, and every single freaking task assigned to you, always, always ask yourself if you can find a consultant to help you. You. I thought this was interesting.
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I also tend to use... I don't call them really consultants. They're experts, right? Of course, you're trying to accelerate whatever it is you're doing as fast as possible. Get the person that's done the thing that you're trying to do. I don't think what he means here is hire McKinsey or hire BCG. I think what he means is hire experts. And I think... I think he's right. Quick ad break.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
Let me tell you about a business I invested in. It's called boringmarketing.com. So a few years ago, I met this group of people that were some of the best SEO experts in the world. They were behind getting some of the biggest companies found on Google.
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the secret sauce is they've got a set of technology and ai that could help you outrank your competition so for my own businesses i wanted that i didn't want to have to rely on mark zuckerberg i didn't want to depend on ads to drive customers to my businesses i wanted to rank high in google that's why i like seo and that's why i use boringmarketing.com and that's why i invested in it
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They're so confident in their approach that they offer a 30-day sprint with 100% money back guarantee. Who does that nowadays? So check it out. Highly recommend boringmarketing.com. Page 19. So this was a weird one. It's a weird page. So no does not mean no. So what he's saying here is basically you have to do everything you can to
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to do the best possible thing for the experience, for the business, and just push through things. So if you get a no, let's say you can't film here, you have to keep going. And you have to say, of course, what can I do to film here? Don't take no for an answer, is basically what he's saying. I agree with him. You want that startup mentality.
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At the same time, you don't want to hurt other people, of course. So I would say I agree with the spirit of it and I just think I would have put a little asterisk. It could get a bit hairy there and make people feel uncomfortable. Let me know if you agree with me there. Page 20. This is a short page, but the takeaway, he leads his company in a very meritocratic way. Do you get him a one on 10?
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on YouTube Studio, which means your video is really outperforming, he'll love you. So he wants the best and he's data-driven. So if you're number one and you're helping, this is a guy who's going to go up to bat for you. It's my lesson learned there. Page 21 says, So this is his, it's cool actually that you can see this. So these are his top 10 videos in the first 45 days.
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The fact that like 44 days, the fact that he's getting like 198 million on his first one and 39 million on 10 is really interesting to see the variety. And like the lesson here is that, and I've actually been learning this myself as I'm spending more time on YouTube is, YouTube is like a hits-driven social app. So you can see here, this is the Squid Game in real life outperforming so much.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
So he says something here that's really interesting. He said, I could make a separate book for creative, a separate book for production, a separate book for editors, but I think that'd be dumb. I actually would kill to see what those separate books would look like. But I understand his point. His point is this is a book for everyone here. But I do think I would love to see that.
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We're talking five times, basically. That's a big deal. For him, this is the difference between making a lot of money and probably losing money. And then when I look at my own, These are my recent videos. I'm a small YouTuber. Subscribe if you're enjoying stuff like this but want more of it. It's interesting. I have a similar hits-driven model.
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I got a few at the top and then these are underperforming. It's interesting that the reason why I bring this up is... If you're a small YouTube creator, this is relevant. This whole document is relevant because he's having the same problems that we are all having. And he's got big numbers, man.
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What clicked for me after reading this page and the last page is the difference between a title and a thumbnail is the difference between millions of views. And so he talked about like titling something catch up before. And just these little changes in title make a really big difference. And these little changes on thumbnail make a big difference.
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And it just makes sense that he's just, he's like an AB testing God. That's what he does. I also, when I, when I saw this, Together, all these together. It was interesting because they're like basically all the same thumbnail. It's like all the same thumbnail with like a different image here related to the video. So this is kind of interesting.
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Random things that you should know. There was one thing that bothered me about this page that I think could be worded in a better way. So he says, I'd rather you be honest with each other than nice to each other. And he's talking about people on set. I think you can be honest and nice. And I think that you could create a more productive working environment and a happier world if you do that.
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I like Mr. Beast. I like that you want people to be direct. You want people to be clear. You want people to be honest. At the same time, I think you want to do that in a pleasant, positive way. Or else it's not a fun work environment and it just kind of sucks. I'm going to assume that you mean that on this one. Because I do think that people can be honest and nice.
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I do think that I, you know, I really like here. He says me like simple, the simpler, the better, the better apply with a grain of salt in caps, but he keeps driving this point around simplicity home. And I really, really like that page 24 when he does, when he goes in bold, he he's basically like writing out things like almost like tweetable things and, and just like bangers, like,
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But yeah, the biggest takeaway for me is when I'm reading something like this is what would be the difference in the quality of Mr. B's videos if people worked 40 to 60 hours a week? 60 hours a week is still working really hard instead of 100 hours. I'm not an all-nighter guy. I work hard, but I do not believe in all-nighters. I started and sold three companies before the age of 30.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I wonder what you think would be in some of those books too. I love how clear the goal is for this whole document. He says, our goal here is to make the best videos possible. All companies need this. All companies need just a really clear goal.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I don't think I've worked more than 40 to 50 hours a week. I just don't believe in it. I think that I need reset time in order to be creative. So I don't know. I think great work can be done in a standard work week if you work hard. And if not, something is broken. So biggest takeaway for page 25 is he says, what is the goal of our content? And Mr. Beast responds, to excite me.
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The goal of our content is to excite me. I just didn't expect him to say that. I thought he would talk about like, there's all these people and we want to make them happy and people love our content. I did not expect for him to just talk about himself on page 25. So page 27 says, He's talking about one video has 120 million views, the other has 45 million views.
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Look at these retention numbers and see if you can pick which one got triple the views. The point is, he's back to data. And I love it. I love that he's so data-driven. That was a huge surprise for me. But I was wondering why there's no talk around a metric, around comments and positivity around the comments. I know for myself, when I create a piece of content, yes, I look at retention.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
Yes, I look at views. Yes, I look at subscribers. But the first thing I honestly look at is to see who's commenting. What are they saying? Are they enjoying it? And I don't know. I didn't get any of that from... So what am I missing? This was really interesting. so he, on page 32 adds his content.
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He basically, he says, if you watch a lot of YouTube, you'll probably notice that when someone does a brand deal, it's boring and sounds like they're reading a script. We take a different approach to brand deals. Um, we like to integrate them. And then he shows what happens, uh, where the brain with the, with the brand deal.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
So I just think that, um, this, you know, we all know that people skip advertisements. Um, But if you can make it really exciting and make it a part of the content and just have no creator, that's when you're winning. So that's what everyone should be focused on. So we got a few more pages. This is where I guess a bit unhinged. So HR definitely did not review this doc.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I'll give you an example. If talent wants to draw a dick on the whiteboard in the video or do something stupid, let them, assuming they know all the risks and aren't missing context on why it's not safe, help them be idiots. I don't know. Being stupid and having fun, definitely I get that part of the shtick, but I can imagine that could offend people or go the wrong way.
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in english or whatever language but like sixth grade fifth grade fourth you know seventh grade just really easy to understand but this document is so simple that even a child could read it and probably because some children probably are reading this like and i mean i'm joking obviously not children but young people are reading this he makes it really really simple
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Understand his point and why it's important to the content, but I don't think it lays out a culture that most people would want. So I don't know if this scales and this seems like this can go bad. That's just my gut reaction. And then the last page, your career. Last but not least, he talks about people, the people who work for him. And he basically says that he's going to make you rich.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
If you do well and you're exceptional at what you do, you will be rich if you work for Mr. Beast, basically is what he's saying. And you'll make more money than you could ever dream of making at any other company. So he puts that in words, he puts that in writing.
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And, uh, my reaction to that is I hear like the sentiment I get, I think the sentiment I get is just, I don't know when I hear people saying stuff like that, I'm kind of like, okay, what does that mean for me? Does that mean I'm going to own 0.1% or 0.1, you know, 1, 2%, but I mean, he can fire me at any time.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
Like, I don't know what it really means, but the sentiment around, this is a big opportunity. If you do your job well, uh, you know, this is going to be big. I totally get. And, and he isn't, he isn't wrong on that. You know, if you stay there and I'm sure if you do a good job, you probably, you probably will be able to, to crush it for him. And, And that's the document. And I enjoyed reading it.
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Of course, I didn't agree with everything. That'd be foolish. But it definitely got me thinking about how to build on YouTube, how to build a content-driven business, how to think about getting your employees, your team on the same page. Yeah. And it got me thinking I want to create a, I know it's not a rule book, a not rule book rule book, a culture document. for my team.
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So I hope you got something out of this. Hope that got your creative juices flowing. And if it did and you've retained and you've made it here, avid few durations long, hit us up with a like and a comment and a subscribe and I'll see you next time. It's been real.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
So page four, he says, 99% of movies or TV shows would flop on YouTube. Now, that sounds really obvious when he says it, but I never thought of it that way. I guess, yes, every medium is different. What works on mobile, what works on different social platforms don't necessarily work on each other. So the fact that Jimmy, we'll call him Jimmy, even though I think there's two people on the planet.
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You either call Mr. Beast, Mr. Beast, or you call Mr. Beast, Jimmy. You know what? I'm not calling him Jimmy. We're going to keep it. I'm going to call him Mr. Beast because that's how, you know, I don't know him personally that well. Although I have DM'd with him a couple of times. All right. Mr. Beast, he's got that YouTube blueprint, right?
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It got like a million views, 10,000 bookmarks. So today Let's get through my unfiltered analysis reactions of the newly leaked Mr. Beast production document.
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And I think that saying that to everyone that, you know, we are not Hollywood or different what works there won't work here, I think is really, really smart. He says something at the bottom which I don't know about. He talks about you're either an A player, B player, or C player. There's only room in this company for A players.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
A players are obsessive, learn from mistakes, coachable, intelligent, don't make excuses, believe in YouTube. B players are people that need to be trained into A players. C players are just average employees. If you're a junior A player, I don't know. Could you be on Mr. B's team? Does that not work? I don't really understand his vibe here.
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And I think that there's some people that just are, they don't come out of the womb as A players, right? They need to be groomed and stuff like that. So it feels like a bit much. I get his point, but let me know in the comments what you think of that comment. Page five. Okay, this is interesting. So here he explains how to go viral online. on YouTube in just a few words. So that's really cool.
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He just breaks down, this could be 100 pages, he breaks it down into basically one page. So on one hand, I think it's genius. On the other hand, I actually don't believe this applies to all video creators. For example, me, myself, I create niche B2B business content. I create content around how to come up with startup ideas and tactics in terms of taking those ideas and chipping them.
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
Some of my best videos are literally like two hours long and with like very little preparation, just like live cooking. I mean, this video, who knows, maybe this video gets a million views, but it's literally just me talking about, you know, reacting to something and it's not like super, super optimized at all. So I think for niches, I'm going to have to disagree with you, Mr. Beast. Um,
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
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The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
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The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
This is a key moment for audience retention. And really the big thing that stuck out to me was that 60 million people clicked on his video. 60 million people. We just had the debate in the US here. Donald Trump. Kamala Harris. And that's about the same amount of people who watch that debate who watch this Mr. Beast video.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
There's more people who watch this video than live in Canada, the second biggest country on the planet. So that's crazy scale. It was also a big reminder to me that I used to think of YouTube creators as entertainers, but they're actually more like data scientists than they are entertainers. So when you look at the top 100 YouTube creators, they are obsessing over the data.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I think that was quite an interesting takeaway from this one. Page seven. Here, I'm calling out Mr. Beast. Why isn't Mr. Beast building the Y Combinator of creators? As you're reading this, you'll see. If he understands how to make people go viral and distribution is more important than product now, it's easier to build product.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
You can use like AI tools and other software to go and create those products. Um, but it's harder to get distribution. So I just don't really like, why is he selling a Lunchables competitor right now with KSI and Logan Paul, which he got tons of backlash for, um, when he could be building the Y Combinator of creators, building products, software, um, and owning piece of them. Um,
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
The other reaction I have to this is the idea of re-engagement makes so much sense, but I had never thought about it. When he writes in here, when he talks about re-engagement, I just think that concept, it's smart. And he's a smart guy. He gets it. And he defines it over here. We also want to do something around the three-minute mark called a three-minute re-engagement.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
A re-engagement can be described as content that is highly interested, that fits the story, and makes people genuinely impressed. Another way to look at this is if it's a segment that only Mr. Beast can do this. It's important to re-engage the viewer around this time because they could get bored of the story and click off.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
These re-engagements are usually spectacles and sometimes needs lots of time and money to perfect. Which, by the way, is a bit of his moat. Not a bit of his moat. It's his moat. So it's interesting that he calls this out. A good example of a re-engagement is when Carl was put in charge watching Josh in the 10,000 Every Day You Survive prison video. Page eight.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
so i'm not going to read you all of this you guys can read yourself while i'm talking but i think i'm just going to give you my reactions to all 36 pages and what i find most interesting so first is he doesn't call this a rule book you see this is not a rule book um and it's not just like a bunch of hey you need to follow these things um
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
You know, I'm reading this and especially now that I'm eight pages deep, I'm like, I love that this guy, Mr. Beast, defines his own language. You've got re-engagement, you've got lull, etc. This is really a hallmark of someone who is exceptional, a founder who's exceptional. And I actually had an opportunity when I was about 21 or 22
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
to be in a room with a founder of a billion-dollar e-commerce startup. He was the one who told me that I was in this brainstorm, and I was the young person there, giving advice on social media at the time. And I just wanted to get right into it. And he was like, kid, stop.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
stop because we need to define what you know so we're all on the same page these five or six different words so we can get to uh we can get we can get to our goal and so here you are mr beast doing the same thing um and i do really like it so in your life too by the way define these things number nine page nine So look at this.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
This is literally like the product requirements for a software product. So I'll read a little bit. The shape of the audience retention graph can tell you which part of your video are most and least engaging to viewers. When the line is flat, it means viewers are watching that part of your video from start to finish. Gradual declines mean viewers are losing interest over time.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
All videos on YouTube generally taper off during the playback period. Spikes appear when more viewers are watching, re-watching, or sharing those parts of your videos. And dips when viewers are abandoning or skipping. Point is... Someone should build software that looks at data like this and gives you insights and says you should do the following things.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And maybe that's ViewStats, which is Mr. B's software creator analytics company. Maybe that's where he's going with it, but I think that opportunity is a billion dollar opportunity. There's no question about it. Page 10. So he keeps talking about this. He keeps talking about being obsessed with YouTube, basically no matter what department you're in, is a prerequisite to work here.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I don't think he's wrong. I just want to put that out there. I don't think he's wrong at all. I think it's really interesting. It gets me thinking of my own companies. What does someone need to be obsessed with? What is the one thing that they need to be obsessed with in order for us to be exceptional at our work? That's my reaction to this page.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
I also have big points for him using haha in the doc. Keeping it casual, my guy. Keeping it casual. Page 12. We're about a third of the way through. We're almost through. When I read something like this, this is a man of excellence. The word late is not in his dictionary. And this whole page really is about don't be late. And it's your fault. And
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My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
it's important to have bias for action, meaning it's important to actually go and do things that you said you were going to do. And you can't blame people. And he just has zero tolerance for it, which makes me just believe it. I'm not surprised how he's able to pull off what he's able to pull off.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And you can tell how seriously, just by reading this, you can really tell how seriously he takes this. Page 13, I mean, this is a massive block of text. Seems stressful, but I get it. I like that he said he wasn't perfect here. You know, we see some humanity here. You know, he says he's not perfect. I think that's an important thing to say.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
But I find the most interesting thing is he's so casual about the whole thing. I feel like it's a friend of mine who's writing to me and I'm just reading it. It's almost like he's texting me this. He even calls out that there's grammar issues. And I think that's really powerful. It feels like he just had a pot of coffee one night. I can just picture it now. And he just started writing.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I think, I'm sure some people work for him and probably most people who work for him, they look at Mr. Beast as almost like a god, you know? And it's great that he said that he's not perfect. He gets stressed. And I think that when he lays it out like this, it's just going to make his company run so much smoother because you're reading this and you're like, okay, I kind of get this guy.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
Here I am working three, he says, here I am basically doing three full-time jobs all by myself. Little things like sending videos to people for birthdays, attending events, networking, all, et cetera, all add up because I'm the face of the channel. On top of that, I'm
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
On top of being the main talent, I have to work with each channel to make sure the creatives are basically evolving and not getting stale and in general, be a visionary for them. Basically running four channels at a high level, better than anyone else in the world can run one. We also have Beast Burger, Feastables. Now he has his Lunchables thing.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And I still have to set the vision and be the lead and creative. So he's got all these things. It's a lot going on and it's tough. I get it. I'm sure there's people listening to this that are like, boo-hoo, Mr. Beast, what a tough life you live. But I mean, listen, he's in the Olympics, right? He's doing it. And it's important that founders communicate what's going through their mind.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
And here he is doing that, so I do commend him for that. This whole page 15, I would have titled it Constraints Fuel Creativity. He basically just talks about how don't go over budget. I'll say a little bit of it. I don't think it comes to a surprise when I say we don't have unlimited money here. Actually, by the way, I think some people think that there is unlimited money.
The Startup Ideas Podcast
My reaction to MrBeast's LEAKED 36 page production document
So it's good that he said that. We can't have every video constantly going over budget because the money has to come from somewhere. But you're in a tough spot because I constantly want better and better videos. By the way, this is kind of like... There's like a Venn diagram, which is like the worst client, which is I want things like cheap, fast and good, good, cheap and fast. He wants Jimmy.