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Side Hustle School

#1409 - Q&A: My idea isn’t working … what’s the best way to move on?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What happens when your first, second, and third ideas all fail to achieve your desired results?


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0:35.2

What happens when your first, second, and even your third idea all fail to achieve your

0:40.1

desired results?

0:41.1

Well, some of these things are not overnight successes.

0:44.7

As you may have heard from many of the stories we have featured in the past four years, I always

0:48.4

try to just give you the real story and talk about challenges and obstacles.

0:52.9

And once in a while, it is a pretty cool thing where this person's first idea really

0:56.4

takes off.

0:57.4

But probably a lot more often, the first idea doesn't take off.

1:01.2

The first idea is either a flop or it doesn't perform to expectation or you realize as you

1:06.3

go along, this is not really what I want to do.

1:08.6

So you try something else, then you might try something after that.

1:11.3

And on and on and on.

1:12.6

So it is a bit of an iterative process, meaning that you do it over and over and hopefully

1:16.3

improve as you go.

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