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Side Hustle School

#2538 - Q&A: “How can I sell my big app idea?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Like the idea of making an app, then selling it for millions? Don’t miss this episode. 

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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

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investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong All right, thanks for tuning in today.

0:42.6

Side Hustle School.

0:43.6

My name's Chris Gellabow, your host.

0:46.2

Today we have a listener question from Kayla.

0:49.1

She has what she believes could be the next Blockbuster App Idea. So she's got this idea to make an

0:54.8

app and instead of making it and building up the user base herself running her

0:59.7

own company or side hustle, she wants to take this app idea and sell it to a startup or to a

1:06.6

private equity group or to someone with a lot of money, let's say, someone who wants to

1:10.1

give her money for this idea.

1:11.6

Now I've talked a few different times about how you usually

1:14.2

need more than an idea. You can't just sell ideas, ideas on their own or not worth a whole lot.

1:20.0

But what could you do to go from idea to increasing the value of maybe an early stage

1:25.0

asset that could in fact be sold in this way.

1:28.1

And she's going to give an example of a recent sale, a sale of an app for $50 million.

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