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Side Hustle School

#1791 - Failure Friday: Test Prep Tutor Gets Rejected by 100 Publishers

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the founder of a standardized test prep service. Before he started his business, he earned a perfect score on the SAT—and then pitched a book that was rejected by more than 100 literary agents and publishers.

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0:35.0

Hey there, thank you for tuning in today. My name is Chris Gillibot, the host of

0:38.2

Side Us All School, bringing you case studies, stories, tips, questions and answers.

0:43.5

All kinds of interesting material designed not just entertain you, but also to inspire you

0:48.6

and show you what you can do to create more money for yourself,

0:51.6

create a side hustle and income generating project that allows you to, well, I don't know,

0:56.2

to more of what's important to you. To have more autonomy and independence, that is our ultimate goal.

1:01.2

Now, I also believe that you can learn as much from failure as you can from success,

1:05.6

if not more, actually. And so that is the principle we had in mind when developing this weekly

1:10.4

segment called Failure Friday, a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps,

1:15.2

disasters, and of course failure. So just like our Throwback Thursday segment, you get to hear

1:20.2

directly from side uslers. In this case, who have struggled to get something off the ground.

1:24.4

I'm going to tell you this quick story of something that went very wrong. And so often the story,

1:29.6

you know, they tend to vary, but often begins with an idea and assumption, what they thought

1:34.2

would happen and then what really happened. And of course, what they learned along the way.

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