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3 reasons why you should start an online business

2025-11-11 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:52 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Business and entrepreneurship · mode: List of tips or lessons

Ali gives three reasons to consider starting an online business: only your own skills cap your income, you can build time freedom and flexibility into it, and running it is the ultimate quest for learning new skills, like a video game whose points are real money.

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00:00:00 — Three reasons to start an online business: uncapped income, time freedom, learning skills

  • ★★ With an online business only your own skills cap your income, Ali says, while in a job your manager, pay banding and employer cap it; he finds that control empowering. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ An online business lets you build time freedom and flexibility into it, Ali says: if you do not want to start work at 7 or 9am, you do not have to, and can design the business to suit you. — 00:00:21

  • ★★★ Having your own business is the ultimate quest for learning new skills, Ali says: it is like a video game in which you learn and try things in the real world, and the points are real money. — 00:00:32

    “the points that you get in this video game are real money that you can spend on real things”

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