#485: If you’ve ever thought: "I’d love a business BUT …”
- I don’t have TIME
- I don’t have MONEY
- I don’t have IDEAS
- I have TOO MANY ideas and I don't know where to start
- I'm not technical
- I'm not creative or artistic
- I'm not good at sales
You're not alone. Countless people don't start businesses or side hustles for these reasons.
And they're losing thousands -- perhaps millions -- in opportunity cost.
How much could you make if you started a side hustle that eventually scaled into a business? Possibly millions. Today's guest, Noah Kagan, is living proof.
Noah was employee #30 at Facebook. His stock options, if fully vested, would be worth over $1 billion today.
(If you want to do the math -- his stock options came to 0.1 percent of the company, which has a current market cap of $1 trillion.)
But Noah was fired just a couple months before his stock options vested. So rather than getting a billion-dollar payout, he got nothing.
He sank into a deep depression, eventually recovering with the help of a therapist who counseled him on how to reframe the experience.
Then he rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He became a serial entrepreneur, building multiple businesses. His most successful venture now makes $80 million in gross revenue, and his personal take-home is $3.3 million per year (which comes from a $200,000 annual salary and $3.1 million profit distribution.) His net worth is $36 million.
Not a billion, but still not too shabby.
Noah recently wrote a book called "Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours."
He sits down with us (in person!) to share:
-- how to find business ideas
-- how to overcome objections and rejections
-- how to scale
By the end of the episode, the common objections that you often hear -- like "I don't have time/money/ideas" -- will be quashed.
Please enjoy!
For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode485
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