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Side Hustle School

#2029 - Failure Friday: Failure Friday: “We had no desire to help college students cheat…”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the co-founder of Next Day Animations. Great business name! But before they found their ideal customer, the team tried a different name that didn’t work so well.

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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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

Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions

Connect on Instagram: @193countries

Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com

Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com


If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 


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0:00.0

I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success.

0:12.3

That's why we have this weekly segment here called Failure Friday.

0:16.7

Failure Friday.

0:17.7

Onside of school, a collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, and of

0:21.9

course, failure.

0:23.7

Always enjoy working on this segment.

0:25.0

I hope you enjoy listening to it.

0:27.1

We have had a lot of great stories since we began this segment at the top of 2022.

0:33.1

If you've been listening for a while, you know that there's a lot of great ones in the

0:35.9

archives.

0:36.9

I really appreciate the case studies, side hustlers, entrepreneurs who have been sharing

0:41.3

these stories often just very candid, honest, sometimes vulnerable.

0:46.9

This is how we learn.

0:48.3

This is what it's all about, delving into all the things that don't go well.

0:52.9

With that in mind today, short story features Caitlin Rogers.

0:57.8

She is the co-founder and chief storyteller of next day animations.

1:01.7

Let's see here.

1:03.2

First of all, chief storyteller is not a great title and also great brand name, next day

1:08.6

animations.

1:09.6

You totally understand what that is about, right?

1:12.5

What a beautiful way to put the promise of your business directly in the name.

1:16.9

Now having said that, this is a really funny story about messaging and expectations because

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