Business and entrepreneurship
Starting and running a business: ideas, validation, offers and pricing, sales, side hustles, lifestyle versus growth business, teams and coaching, and the story of his own companies. Making money from YouTube and writing is “YouTube, writing online and creators”; personal investing is “Money and investing”.
The main topic of 7 sources; one of the topics of 1 more.
Videos
| date | video | format |
|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-26 | We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 | Vlog or day in the life |
| 2017-07-28 | WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 | Vlog or day in the life |
| 2017-07-31 | How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 | Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) |
| 2017-08-03 | How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 | Long video (solo, talking head or whiteboard) |
| 2017-08-06 | Animating the prototype · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 5 | Vlog or day in the life |
| 2024-05-14 | A Week in My Life · Vlog | Vlog or day in the life |
| 2024-05-21 | A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses | Workshop, masterclass or full course |
Also touch on it
- 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! · Q&A video
Often together
People: Ben
Projects: Skillshare classes · Part-Time YouTuber Academy · Deep Dive · Medical Students Making an App
Organizations: 6med · Namecheap
Places: Cambodia
Products: Cut and Paste · InVision · Sketch · Microsoft PowerPoint
Cut and Paste, Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app for medical students (2017) · How do you test a business idea before building it? · Ali says that because he and his SixMed colleagues graduate next year (2018) and may not have time to run the courses, he is slowly putting the interview course content on YouTube. · how to get leads? · Ali says Productivity Lab is a new product his company is launching around next week (week of 20 May 2024), and the retreat held a session on it. · how to set up a business with a co founder? · which course platform? · Should you build a business on online courses?
Key statements
The most important statements (★★★) in the parts on this topic, at most 3 from one source: 16.
- 2017-07-26 · We're trying something new... · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 1 — announcement: Ali and Ben will make a simple iOS and Android app, connected to a back-end database, that stores the details of the operations a medical student has assisted in. — 00:01:44
- 2017-07-28 · WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 — Ali: After discussing whether to continue, Ali and Ben decided their app stands apart as a free, simple, easy-to-use surgical logbook only for medical students, without the extras doctors' logbooks need. — 00:00:00
- 2017-07-28 · WE HAVE A COOL NAME · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 2 — announcement: Ali and Ben's surgical logbook app is now called Cut and Paste, and its website is cutandpaste.ac. — 00:03:02
- 2017-07-31 · How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 — Ali: Having started a few projects, Ali is always tempted to spend ages polishing a website, but for a project like Cut and Paste the website is secondary and the app matters most. — 00:00:00
- 2017-07-31 · How to make a website in 5 minutes · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 3 — recommendation: Ali: Whenever Ali starts something new, he makes the first one-page landing page on Carrd, a simple one-page website generator, and designs a proper website later. — 00:00:43
- 2017-08-03 · How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 — Ali: For lay people who just want to turn an idea into reality, Ali says designing an app is effectively just drawing boxes on a page, first with pen and paper, then as a digital copy. — 00:01:23
- 2017-08-03 · How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 — recommendation: Ali says that in 2017 there are so many good free resources that there is little point starting an app design from scratch: free iOS and Android component templates give you the boxes and buttons. — 00:02:54
- 2017-08-03 · How to design an app · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 4 — Ali: After a few hours of Ben's paper sketches and a few hours of Ali and Ben working together in Sketch on one computer, copying in template components, they had a reasonable-looking Cut and Paste design. — 00:04:22
- 2017-08-06 · Animating the prototype · Medical Students Making an App - Episode 5 — Ben says making an app prototype has two major steps: design what you think the app will look like, even in PowerPoint or Microsoft Paint, then create links between the screens. — 00:01:57
- 2018-03-21 · Q & A - 5,000 Subscribers! — Ali says he got into medical education to make some money: in his first year at university he ran a BMAT course for students at his school, then built a website for the BMAT Crash Course and marketed it nationally, and it grew beyond what he imagined. — 00:06:05
- 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali tells his team the business is now trying to build to scale, so that it delivers results for students and customers without relying on him churning out videos or being involved at every step. — 00:00:49
- 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says the cavalier attitude he has had so far only goes so far: to reach the next level his business must go slow to go fast, planning for three, five and ten years to become a calm business that helps people build lives they love. — 00:01:44
- 2024-05-14 · A Week in My Life · Vlog — Ali says scaling his business gives the option of hiring a ghostwriter for Twitter, LinkedIn or Instagram; he has dabbled with it over the years, but for now it feels too inauthentic. — 00:02:44
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: In 2012, aged 18 and just admitted to medical school at Cambridge, Ali was scammed out of £1,000 of life savings from years of private tutoring when he tried to buy his first Apple product from a seller on Craigslist. — 00:01:27
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali: One idea on Ali's 2012 list, a website on BMAT preparation he could charge for, became his first successful online business, because he had expertise in helping people do well in the BMAT. — 00:02:20
- 2024-05-21 · A Beginner's Guide to Making Money with Online Courses — Ali says that from 2014 to about 2019 he made around £150,000 a year from SixMed's classroom courses. — 00:03:26