Zero to a Million Dollar Business in a Weekend | Noah Kagen

Wealthy Way

Ryan Pineda

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

How you can change the trajectory of your life in one weekend...
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In a podcast interview between Ryan Pineda and Noah Kagan, Noah, a highly successful entrepreneur known for founding AppSumo and achieving a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue, shares valuable insights.

Noah emphasizes the importance of sticking with an idea for the long term, drawing from his experiences working with and interviewing billionaires. He introduces the "law of 100," encouraging individuals to pick something, do it a hundred times, and then decide whether to continue or quit. The key is to find something one enjoys and has passion for.

Discussing his book "Million Dollar Weekend," Noah suggests that great businesses often start with a single weekend of focused effort. He encourages experimentation and learning from failures, stating that businesses often fail because they don't pivot based on customer feedback.

For those starting out, Noah advises focusing on building a great product first before investing heavily in marketing. He emphasizes the importance of moving forward at a manageable pace and solving business problems before addressing marketing concerns.

The conversation turns to networking and building relationships, with Noah sharing tips on finding commonality with successful individuals, such as flying in first class. Making content allows people to stay in touch, and sending thank-you messages after interactions is a way to build relationships.

Noah talks about the feedback process as a valuable tool for improvement, encouraging people to seek feedback from various sources. The podcast also touches on personal priorities, family, and business delegation. Both Ryan and Noah discuss how they organize their calendars to prioritize their time with family.

The interview concludes with a discussion on setting ideal goals and envisioning one's desired future. Both Ryan and Noah share their perspectives on writing down and visualizing their goals to stay motivated, even during challenging times.

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0:00.0	Look at successful companies we love. Most of them actually started cheaper and faster than we realized. So take Airbnb that started in a weekend.
0:06.2	Like I worked for Zuckerberg directly. I believe it was a weekend if not a week. He was able to build Facebook, which is now a trillion dollar business.
0:12.4	Everyone has a weekend available to change their life. Do I need to go on? build Facebook which is now a trillion dollar business.
0:12.6	Everyone has a weekend available to change their life.
0:14.4	Do I need to go on like an Aaron Rogers darkness retreat?
0:17.4	You know, do I go in the woods?
0:19.4	What does this weekend look like?
0:20.6	The first part, which is probably the most interesting and the most life
0:23.0	changing for the people who've gone through it is a really run how do you start and
0:26.0	really starting is how do you start with yourself and that basically the two major
0:28.8	things that has held everyone back from success is what's up, Wealth Builders today?
0:34.0	I have got a guy who in the last three years has sold over a quarter of a billion, that's right, a billion, not a million,
0:41.0	a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue with his tech company,
0:45.0	Absumo, on top of that, he's not just your normal tech nerd.
0:48.4	This dude actually creates content, and he just hit a million subscribers on YouTube yesterday.
0:55.0	I've got Noah Kagan.
0:56.0	What's up, man?
0:57.0	What's up, man?
0:58.0	Dude, you were on the show maybe like two years ago?
1:02.0	Yeah. And a lot's changed since then.
1:05.2	We were talking about it.
1:06.5	A pregnant girlfriend, number one, which is, you know, family and that's been, that's definitely
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