Ep. 2933 - Q&A: “How do I know if my idea is going to work?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, we help a listener validate their idea for a carpooling app for parents. Learn how to test demand, estimate costs, and spot red flags before investing too much time or money.
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.
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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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| 1:03.0 | How do you know if your business idea is going to work? |
| 1:09.2 | You've got an idea for a new business or side hustle or means of making money, money-making idea. |
| 1:10.4 | What do you do? |
| 1:11.7 | Do you just kind of proceed blindly? |
| 1:16.1 | Do you do a bunch of research first? Is there a happy middle ground? Let's talk about it in the context of a specific idea here. In this episode, we're going to help a listener validate their |
| 1:20.6 | idea for a carpooling app for parents. Now, there are a range of ways to do this, but we're going |
| 1:25.7 | to simplify. That's what it's all about here on Sidesstle School. Alice in Minneapolis, she's got this idea, wants to know, you know, is it worth it for me to |
| 1:32.8 | proceed? What are the risk factors and so on? And in a few action-packed minutes, I'm going to do my |
| 1:38.1 | best to get her a little bit further along the process, as well as help our listeners out there who are trying to figure out, |
| 1:48.5 | okay, I've got a bunch of ideas. How do I know, you know, is this the idea that's worth pursuing? |
| 1:52.6 | A variety of ways we could look at that question, but I want to give you something specific to go away with. So thank you for being out there. The whole point of the podcast is to give you a point |
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