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Side Hustle School

#2386 - Failure Friday: Homemade Hummus Subscription Fails to Smash

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from a listener with a tangy idea. Drawing on her Lebanese ancestry, she tries to create a “homemade hummus subscription box. Alas, those chickpeas failed to smash themselves into a hit. 

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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

Hi, you splurvy robins in here. Now all you dessert devo teas will know there's nothing better than tucking into a tub full of Ben and Jerry's.

0:06.5

But what I didn't know until recently is that they've only gone and taken it to the next level and created an ice cream sundae experience in a tub.

0:13.8

They've got some of the chunky, as swirly as flavours, but the new sundae's range has an awesome whipped ice cream topping that's covered in gooey sauce and chocolatey chunks.

0:22.1

Mmm, I'm really loving the new Dolcey Delish and Chocolate Cheesecake.

0:25.5

Mmm, mmm, oh man, you've got to try this.

0:28.4

Available now.

0:30.0

All right, all right, welcome to Side Us All School. This is Chris Gilebo. I guess what I got for you here today.

0:45.8

A homemade hummus subscription fails to smash.

0:50.8

That's right, we're going to talk about a homemade hummus subscription box and idea from one of our listeners.

0:56.7

And just in case you're just going through a whole bunch of episodes and didn't notice the title or just in case your brand new to the show, which hey, that's awesome.

1:04.3

Welcome. Either way, today's episode is in the segment known as Failure Friday. Failure Friday. So this is all the stories that didn't work.

1:13.1

All of the case studies that it turned out to actually be quite unpopular. So it's about mistakes, missteps, disasters.

1:20.4

And of course, failure. What did not go well? What is not a side hustle that made $100,000 or a million dollars, but made either $0 or definitely not enough to be sustainable?

1:32.0

And we've been doing these stories for about two years now just because I highlight a lot of successes.

1:37.3

And I like to tell stories of projects that are going really well and making lots of money for people.

1:42.0

And that's cool, but there's another side to it. And we want to see what about those ideas that don't work, right?

1:47.6

So lots to take from these stories. Today's features Angela Aziz from Virginia.

1:53.9

Angela was drawing on her Lebanese ancestry and decides to create a homemade hummus subscription box.

2:00.4

But alas, those chickpeas failed to smash themselves into a hit.

2:05.4

So let's hear the story from Angela homemade hummus subscription. I'll come back at the end with a quick wrap up.

2:17.7

I'm Angela Aziz, a hummus enthusiast, hailing from Richmond, Virginia.

2:29.7

My Lebanese grandmother's hummus recipe is something of a legend in our family.

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