Re:How to start a sidehustle: Make thing. Add Buy button. Te...
by twobyfour on Friday July 21, 2017 @02:28PM
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Fair enough. I guess my point was that each step actually takes a lot of work to learn how to do well enough to make a viable business. You don't "just" try to sell something any more than you "just" build a video game or "just" convince 200-odd congresspeople to vote for something.
Re:How to start a sidehustle: Make thing. Add Buy button. Te...
by oolaf on Friday July 21, 2017 @07:19PM
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You do "just" do those things though.
Obama did "just" become president. He needed smoke breaks and his blackberry to do it all, but he did "just" do it. He subjected himself to his cause and reaped the benefits.
If I look at those three-step plans and feel offended, thats a problem with me. If I feel like I cant "just" say that succesful people are "just" successful, that speaks to a problem with my idea of what is "just", not what it actually is.
Rather than spending your waking lives researching every aspect of starting a business, the fastest way forward is to simply try to sell something. Maybe you build it first, maybe you buy it, maybe you try to sell it, then build it. Whatever. But just try to sell it and you're in business. Then figure out all that other stuff.