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🗓️ 11 January 2025
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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.
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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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