#695 - Business Students Make $125,000 Selling Headphone Attachments
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2018
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Two friends always talked about starting a business. But it wasn’t until a run-in with some expensive headphones that they finally found the idea they’d been waiting for.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a new week that will take us into December. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Chris Gellibot. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm going to have a state of the union message for you soon, all about the state of |
| 0:15.9 | Sadatul School. |
| 0:16.9 | Some things we've been working on for a while in our quest to continuously improve this |
| 0:19.9 | experience for you. |
| 0:20.9 | But, for now, as we kick off the week, I have a story about two business school students |
| 0:25.4 | who actually start a business. |
| 0:26.8 | This is notable and surprisingly rare because most business schools don't teach much about |
| 0:31.2 | starting a business and most business school students are more interested in going to |
| 0:34.9 | work for a big company. |
| 0:36.4 | So, good for them and also we're going to talk about a problem hiding in plain sight. |
| 0:40.6 | These guys end up making $125,000 so far, it's still going. |
| 0:45.1 | Selling headphone attachments or earphone attachments. |
| 0:47.6 | If you have ever used iPhone earbuds or earphones, especially the older versions, you may have |
| 0:52.4 | had a hard time getting them to stay in place. |
| 0:54.7 | I had that problem myself when running many times. |
| 0:57.3 | In fact, I switched ear buds because of that problem. |
| 0:59.7 | Why Apple hasn't properly solved this issue is anyone's guess, who knows. |
| 1:03.8 | But in any case, these guys go to market with a simple yet elegant solution. |
| 1:07.4 | It ends up bringing them a lot of orders. |
| 1:09.5 | We're going to talk about how they got their idea, how they made it happen, how they |
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