#1980 - Failure Friday: “We locked ourselves in a room for six months to build it…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the co-founder of Sports Bookr, a service that helps sports facilities with online booking and scheduling. In starting up, the team learned that “validation” is not a one-time activity.
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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.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there and thanks for tuning in today. |
| 0:09.9 | My name is Chris Gellipote, your host of Side Usual School, and also your host of this segment, |
| 0:15.0 | Failure Friday. |
| 0:16.0 | One of my favorite segments to work on every week, a collection of short stories about mistakes, |
| 0:20.7 | missteps, disasters, and of course failure. |
| 0:23.3 | All of the things that go wrong. |
| 0:24.9 | And just like our Throback Thursday segment, you get to hear directly from a side usler |
| 0:28.3 | who has struggled to get something off the ground. |
| 0:30.3 | And they tell you this quick story about something that went wrong with a learn from it, |
| 0:34.3 | what it felt like, not just what they learned from it on the other end, but how did it feel when they were going through it? |
| 0:39.3 | I think that's a very important thing that is often overlooked. |
| 0:41.3 | So as I said, it's been fun to work on these stories. |
| 0:44.3 | And this one features Jeet Metta from Toronto. |
| 0:47.3 | His family is from India actually, and his dad was a professional cricket player. |
| 0:52.3 | So first of all, fun fact, also relevant to the story as you're going to hear. |
| 0:56.3 | And together with a couple of friends, Jeet co-founded Sports Booker. |
| 1:00.3 | Sports Booker. |
| 1:01.3 | The business provides online booking, scheduling, payment solutions for sports facilities such as baseball stadiums. |
| 1:07.3 | A really interesting topic or interesting niche, I guess. |
| 1:10.3 | You know, it's a pretty cool idea because as Jeet explains, they really felt like they were providing a solution to a problem. |
| 1:16.3 | But, you know, there's always an issue. |
| 1:18.3 | He and his co-founders also spent six months of building it, just grinding it out locked in a room to use his words. |
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