#926 - “Home Haircut” Invention Becomes Viral Moneymaker
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
When this 13-year-old created a hair-grooming tool, he had no idea the success it’d have sixteen years later—but not before it nearly crashed and burned due to too much demand.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a brand new week. |
| 0:11.2 | What's up my friends? |
| 0:12.2 | This is Chris Killebout, the program is called Side Usal School, and I am so glad you're |
| 0:16.0 | there. |
| 0:17.0 | Every single day this week I'm going to bring you a different story of somebody out there |
| 0:19.8 | who's found a way to create some freedom for themselves. |
| 0:23.0 | Either if you're what eventually becomes full-time entrepreneurship or just a way to make |
| 0:26.2 | some extra money, but whatever it is, it all starts with an idea. |
| 0:30.0 | An idea combined with resourcefulness. |
| 0:32.2 | An idea combined with the willingness to step forward to take a little bit of a risk, |
| 0:36.0 | but not a huge risk, not going into debt, not borrowing a ton of money without quitting |
| 0:39.8 | your day job, all those good things. |
| 0:42.0 | All right, so in today's story, a 13-year-old has an idea for an invention and then abandons |
| 0:46.8 | it for a decade because he was busy being 13, 14, 15, etc. |
| 0:51.4 | Only for it to become a viral sensation a decade later when he decides to follow up. |
| 0:56.1 | Now as we've talked about before, your target market is not everyone. |
| 0:59.4 | You've got a product and you're like, who's this product for? |
| 1:01.4 | It's for everyone not a good idea. |
| 1:03.8 | That's true, even if your product is something that can help a lot of people, which is the |
| 1:07.5 | case in the story, you'll still often be more successful by being more specific. |
| 1:13.0 | The interesting thing is that by honing in on a market, go often end up helping people |
| 1:16.2 | outside that market as well. |
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