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The James Altucher Show

The ABC's for Franchisees | Entrepreneur's Jason Feifer

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

By popular request, Entrepreneur editor-in-chief Jason Feifer returns for a follow-up episode devoted to the fundamentals of starting and building franchises, a pillar of the Entrepreneur ecosystem.Starting from the very basics, James peppers Jason with the critical few questions necessary to understanding how franchises operate, which types of business are suited to part-time operators, and what kind of financial returns a franchisee might expect based on their business.Additional Topics Include:Jason: "What is the minimum amount of me a job requires so that I can figure out how to expand myself in other directions?" (03:28)James: "You only learn something by doing that something" (04:55)James: "80% of the learning is doing what you have to do"Jason: "It is only to your benefit that people do things outside of what you're asking them to do." (07:36)Entrepreneur's evolution from within the franchise space to brand independence (09:49)How do you build wealth from a franchise? (27:38)Franchise Disclosure Documents (34:32)Franchise fees and revenue shares (39:14)What type of profit can a franchisee expect (42:57)What franchising success stories has Jason seen (47:25)Has Jason ever considered franchising? (52:41)Editor's note: Topic times don't account for sponsor ads and may appear a few minutes later in the episode on your podcast player)------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book Skip the Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe  to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Jason Piper, editor and chief of entrepreneur.com.

0:11.0

Of course, we don't just talk about entrepreneurship, but he's got so many things going on and his

0:15.9

insights into business, history, always finding like weird things in whatever he's researching

0:22.8

and exploring.

0:23.8

But anyway, we talk about the ABCs, everything you need to know about getting wealthy from

0:29.4

franchising, but then we go on and talk about all these different topics.

0:34.3

Like, we just had a fun conversation.

0:36.5

So I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and here's Jason.

0:42.4

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:47.3

This is the James Altiger show.

0:58.2

And in college, I feel like I mastered the art of doing the minimum required to kind of

1:04.4

essentially graduate because there's no point in 90% of the classes and people will argue

1:09.6

that I was a computer science major.

1:11.6

So I had to take four years, years of calculus, which made no sense to me.

1:17.4

So here's what I did.

1:18.7

Like calculus was like, let's say math 484.

1:21.5

And I took math 701, which was like a logic class cross-listed with philosophy.

1:26.9

It was really like a philosophy class that happened to have like, it was a graduate level

1:30.6

math class.

1:31.6

It was just a listing.

1:32.6

And so I said to the secretary of the department, I'm already in graduate level math classes.

1:37.1

Why do I have to go backwards and take math 484, which is fourth year of calculus?

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