#1700 - Failure Friday: “I didn’t know my business partner was a convicted felon…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 27 August 2021
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from Alan Perlman, the founder of a drone training company. His business now brings in seven figures a year, but it started with a rocky partnership.
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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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| 0:35.1 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success, if not in fact more. |
| 0:40.6 | It is with this principle in mind that we have been running a series called failure Friday. |
| 0:45.1 | Today is Friday, so guess what? It's happening again. Failure Friday is a collection of short |
| 0:49.5 | stories all about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and failure. Just like our Thurberk Thursday segment, |
| 0:56.4 | conveniently taking place on Thursdays, you will hear directly from side oscillers who have |
| 1:00.4 | struggled to get something off the ground, or have made a big mistake or misstep, or otherwise |
| 1:05.1 | experienced that big setback disaster or failure. So these stories have varied quite a bit, |
| 1:10.5 | but often it starts with an idea or an assumption, and then the reality of how that idea |
| 1:15.0 | or assumption plays out in the real world. And of course, what they learn from it, and how they |
| 1:19.4 | respond and how they move forward. So I really enjoy this series and I'm getting lots of good feedback |
| 1:23.4 | about it. I hope you like it too. Today's short story features Alan Pearlman, whose business is |
| 1:28.8 | headquartered in Nashville, but his team works remotely. What he does is drone education. So if you |
| 1:34.9 | want to become a drone pilot, you need to get licensed, you need to actually learn how to fly your |
| 1:38.5 | drone so you don't crash it. That's what his company provides. And it is a company now as you're |
| 1:43.6 | going to hear. It's actually grown quite a bit, but started as a side hustle. So let's hear from |
| 1:48.3 | Alan about a big struggle he had getting started, and I'll come back at the end to wrap us up. |
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