237: How to Quickly Brainstorm and Validate Business Ideas, with Noah Kagan

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Entrepreneurship, How To, Education, Business

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Noah Kagan is Chief Sumo and founder of Sumo.com and AppSumo.com. He blogs about his personal and business experiences at OkDork.com, and his new podcast is called Noah Kagan Presents. Noah has built up a number of successful businesses and is always toying with new ideas or looking for the next big business opportunity, so he was the perfect person to brainstorm with. If you’re stuck at the idea generation phase or pulling the trigger on your ideas, this episode is going to give you food for thought. Noah is a master at this stuff and doesn't sugarcoat anything. And if you already have an idea you’re sitting on, he explains exactly how he validates his own ideas before moving forward and what steps you need to take. Don’t be afraid of failure either. “I’ve never actually met someone who has made money or grown successful businesses that hasn’t had things that didn’t work out,” Noah said. Tune in to hear how Noah comes up with interesting and unique business ideas, how he validates them, and how he splits his time between content creation and marketing. Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: How to Quickly Brainstorm and Validate Business Ideas, with Noah Kagan

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 237, how to quickly brainstorm and validate new business ideas.
0:05.0	What's up, Nick Loper here?
0:09.0	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show, because why climb the corporate ladder when you can build your own? That's the
0:14.0	question my guest today faced he'd be working at some high-flying startups including a
0:18.2	little company you might have heard of called Facebook and he could have continued
0:21.3	down that path working for somebody else collecting a steady paycheck but
0:24.4	instead he set out to build his own ladder and today that ladder is leaning up against the
0:28.7	eight figure business that is app sumo and sumo.
0:32.5	I'm excited to welcome Noah Kagan to the program.
0:34.6	We're gonna chat how to quickly come up
0:36.1	with business ideas and how to validate those
0:38.0	so you don't waste a ton of time.
0:39.5	Noah is a super smart dude when it comes to this stuff,
0:41.6	somebody I've been following for quite a while and somebody definitely worth paying attention to during
0:45.7	your entrepreneurial pursuits. If you like what Noah is dishing in this episode I
0:49.8	think you like his new podcast Noah Kagan presents which can find over at his personal site
0:54.1	okay dork.com so stick around to hear how he comes up with and tests new business ideas and
0:59.4	how you can borrow the same methods you'll also hear the failed marketing strategy that too many
1:03.8	side hustlers rely on and what you can do instead.
1:06.7	Notes, links, and a free PDF download with all of Noah's top tips from this
1:09.6	episode are at Sid Hustle Nation. com slash NOAA.
1:12.8	Before we dive in, I want to take a moment to thank today's
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