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Start a Business While Working Full Time 🧑‍💻

2024-06-12 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:40 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: Explanation and tutorial

In a Short, Ali gives three steps for starting a business while working a full-time job: serve people you can reach, who have money and whom you are excited to serve, look for their problems rather than for ideas, and pre-sell before building.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Three steps to start a business while working a full-time job

  • ★★★ To start a business alongside a full-time job, Ali says, first decide whom it will serve: ideally people you can easily reach, who have money and whom you are excited to serve; meeting all three is playing business on easy mode. — 00:00:00 · business on easy mode, person, problem, solution

    “you are playing business on easy mode rather than hard mode”

  • ★★ Instead of thinking of business ideas, Ali says to think of the problems your chosen group of people has, using weekends and evenings to talk to them or browse subreddits to pin those problems down. — 00:00:17 · person, problem, solution

Threads in this video

  • refine · Who should a first business sell to? — To start a business alongside a full-time job, Ali says, first decide whom it will serve: ideally people you can easily reach, who have money and whom you are excited to serve; meeting all three is playing business on easy mode. (00:00:00)
  • refine · How do you find a business idea? — Instead of thinking of business ideas, Ali says to think of the problems your chosen group of people has, using weekends and evenings to talk to them or browse subreddits to pin those problems down. (00:00:17)

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