MBA316 Q&A Weekends: Should I start my business around a passion or a skill?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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It's nice to think you can successfully start and run your own business from something that you enjoy, you love or you're good at. But we're pretty sure, just as every entrepreneur who is already running a business would say, this idea isn't a walk in the park and should be validated thoroughly first. Let's learn how to go about this question in today's episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the 100 R. M. B. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. Show.
0:10.0	Welcome to the 100 R. M. A show. And today is a Q&A weekend episode where we answer your question
0:16.2	right here on the show.
0:17.6	If you have a question you want us to answer, just email us a contact at 100 MBA. net or you can send me a tweet.
0:25.0	At Bis Republic is my handle Bis Republic.
0:28.0	As always, I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm.
0:32.0	I'm also the co-founder of the
0:33.9	$100 MBA, a complete business training and community online. You can check
0:39.0	out some of our free courses or free guides over at 100 MBA.net.
0:44.6	And today's question comes from Kate.
0:46.4	And Kate asks, should I start my business around a passion or a skill?
0:51.7	A very insightful question. I'm going to get into the details in my opinion of how to approach this, how to start a business around either passion or skill, what's the ideal situation, and how to go about finding out what to do.
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1:48.4	That's get sidekick.com slash MBA. So asks, should I start my business around my passion or my skill?
1:57.0	K, you remind me of an old, old ebook that I wrote and gave away for free called Make Your Passion
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