Episode 479: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) answers listener questions in this special Q&A episode. Learn how he researches & validates business ideas, what his hiring process looks like, how he’s managed to build huge, passionate communities, and much more.

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Check Out Sam's Stuff:

• Hampton

• Ideation Bootcamp

• Copy That

Check Out Shaan's Stuff:

• Try Shepherd

• Shaan's Personal Assistant System

• Power Writing Course

• Daily Newsletter

• Small Boy Newsletter

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Show Notes:

(00:00) Intro

(00:40) How Sam Researches Business Ideas

(9:45) Sam’s Health & Fitness Routine

(14:55) When to Embrace Shiny Object Syndrome

(19:00) How to be Interesting

(26:20) Why Loyalty is Everything

(28:45) How to Hire

(33:30) How to Build Community

(37:00) Tips to Start a Productized-service

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Links:

• Similarweb - https://www.similarweb.com/

• Annual Reports - https://www.annualreports.com/

• Companies House - https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/companies-house

• Central Athlete - https://www.centralathlete.com/

• MyBodyTutor - https://www.mybodytutor.com/daily-coach/

• ViralCuts - https://www.viralcuts.co/

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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