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The $100 MBA Show

MBA2154 How Much Time Should You Give Your Idea Before You Quit?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Quitting is an option. And it’s often the right one. When a product or business idea fails to produce fruit — and you have little evidence to suggest it ever will — wasting more money on it doesn’t make sense.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R. M. B. A. A. A. No Fluff, just the good stuff every single day with our daily 10 minute business

0:15.4

lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar is at home.

0:20.0

I'm also the co-founder of Webinar Ninja, an independent software company I started with my co-founder back in 2014.

0:25.6

And in today's episode you'll learn how much time should you give your idea before you quit?

0:31.2

Many people wonder if they're backing the wrong horse, if they're putting

0:34.8

down good money after bad money, or if they should just grind it out and persevere and they're just

0:40.4

being impatient. Well in today's lesson I'm going to explain how best to know

0:44.7

when it's time to let go of an idea, let go of a business

0:48.6

or a product or a service idea that you are working on.

0:52.1

I'm also going to show you how to do it without

0:54.0

investing so much time and money beforehand so you're not so scared to quit this

1:00.2

job so you don't have that sunk cost fallacy where you feel like hey I

1:03.0

invested so much time and energy and money in this I can't quit now. This

1:07.1

stops you from thinking critically as well as objectively. If you're in this

1:12.4

rut I got your back in today's lesson so let's get into it. Let's get down to business.

1:18.7

Business ideas are great when we conceive them, when we start implementing them, when we start building them.

1:24.0

But when the river hits the road and we put it out in the market, sometimes they can be painful because

1:30.0

you're not seeing buyers, you're not seeing customers.

1:32.5

And you start questioning this business idea, this offer, this concept,

1:38.3

is it actually something people want?

1:40.4

Is it time to move on, close your doors, and come up with your next idea?

1:44.0

Or should you double down and focus and make the idea work?

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