#1686 - Failure Friday: Ice Glass Event Business Melts Down
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the inventor of a mug made out of ice. During a big event on an unseasonably warm Minnesota day, he watches in horror as his product literally melts down.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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| 0:35.2 | Can you imagine your money literally melting away? As I listened to this story, |
| 0:41.2 | the one that you're going to hear today, I had a memory from 2011 come to mind. So obviously this |
| 0:47.3 | is going back a number of years, but in 2011 I was starting my first major conference, the World |
| 0:52.6 | Domination Summit, year one, I had no idea what I was doing, but was very fortunate to have some |
| 0:57.4 | pretty cool people working with me on the team, as well as awesome attendees from all over the world. |
| 1:02.5 | If that sounds like a success, well it was, but today is failure Friday, so we're talking about |
| 1:06.8 | failure and the small fail that I remember from that very first day of that very first conference |
| 1:12.8 | was I thought it would be really cool to commission an ice sculpture in the shape of a globe |
| 1:18.9 | and have it come to our opening party. And so pretty big ice sculpture, I don't know the |
| 1:23.3 | measurements, but you know something that looks visually impressive when you're coming to a party |
| 1:27.0 | and you're like, wow, there's a big globe made out of ice. So I thought that was pretty cool, |
| 1:31.5 | but it turned out to be a very warm day and my awesome ice sculpture globe did not last nearly as |
| 1:36.8 | long as I had expected. So I could literally watch the money I had spent, I think it was a few |
| 1:41.3 | hundred dollars, melts in front of me. As I said, I thought about that as I was working on this story, |
| 1:47.3 | the stakes are a little bit higher in fact, but it also involves ice melting in way in front of you. |
| 1:52.2 | And by the way, failure Friday, in case you're not familiar, this is our weekly segment, |
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