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Side Hustle School

#342 - Scientist Starts a Purrfect Cats-Only Pet-Sitting Service

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

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

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In this meow-nificent episode, a Houston scientist and her partner start a service to look after cats when their owners are on vacation. Avoid pro-cat-stination—listen to Side Hustle School and get to work!


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0:00.0

9 out of 10 women feel pressured to conform to unspoken hair rules.

0:03.3

To fit in the picture, you have to change your hair.

0:06.4

Your curls are only acceptable if they're perfect.

0:08.9

I don't see anything that tells you to embrace your gray.

0:11.6

People show up with different hair.

0:13.4

We should celebrate that.

0:14.6

Let's embrace the beauty of all hair.

0:16.6

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0:19.4

with customized skincare ingredients.

0:21.2

To love your silver, love your waves, love your curls,

0:24.2

love the hair that makes you you.

0:26.0

And I think that's beautiful.

0:27.3

New dev love your hair.

0:30.2

Hello there friends and listeners.

0:35.8

This is Chris Gillibot for Side Hustle School, Episode 342 today.

0:40.0

I'm going to look at the question today.

0:41.2

How can you sell on a platform that's not known for selling?

0:44.2

This year we featured a couple of episodes of people selling professionally on Instagram,

0:48.4

even though that platform doesn't naturally lend itself to that.

0:51.0

And way back on Episode 245, we had the story of a man who sells

0:54.9

$1,400 in coffee one weekend to his neighbors using the next door app.

0:59.5

The next door app is essentially a hyper-local social network

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