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Side Hustle School

#1045 - Trio of Friends Creates Ergonomic Desk Accessory

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Side Hustle, Careers, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Business, Entrepreneurship,

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Former college roommates say goodbye to elbow pain by creating a new product designed to alleviate discomfort from working at a desk.


Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. 

 

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0:00.0

[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪

0:08.9

Friends, listeners, community, what's up?

0:10.9

Welcome to a brand new week of Side of Soul School.

0:13.5

I'm so glad you're here.

0:14.3

My name is Chris Killapoe.

0:15.8

Now, if you're out there and you want to start

0:17.5

a product business from scratch,

0:19.7

you've got a lot to think about, and it can be overwhelming.

0:22.3

So what if you think, well, I can't do this

0:24.0

because I don't have a lot of advantages.

0:26.2

I don't have a big network.

0:27.8

I can't go out and do a Kickstarter campaign

0:29.7

and ask 1,000 of my closest friends to all give $100.

0:34.1

I can't get on Shark Tank, or maybe I don't even

0:36.2

want to be on Shark Tank because why would I want

0:37.9

to take other people's money and exchange for their

0:40.0

ownership?

0:41.4

Let's say you're out there and you're like,

0:42.4

I just want to solve a simple problem with a very

0:45.0

simple, practical product.

0:47.4

Well, the whole point of what I do here every day

0:49.3

for 1,045 days in counting is to provide a model,

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