How to Start a Business in One Weekend, with Noah Kagan

Afford Anything

#485: If you’ve ever thought: "I’d love a business BUT …”

• I don’t have TIME
• I don’t have MONEY
• I don’t have IDEAS
• I have TOO MANY ideas and I don't know where to start
• I'm not technical
• I'm not creative or artistic
• I'm not good at sales

You're not alone. Countless people don't start businesses or side hustles for these reasons.

And they're losing thousands -- perhaps millions -- in opportunity cost.

How much could you make if you started a side hustle that eventually scaled into a business? Possibly millions. Today's guest, Noah Kagan, is living proof.

Noah was employee #30 at Facebook. His stock options, if fully vested, would be worth over $1 billion today.

(If you want to do the math -- his stock options came to 0.1 percent of the company, which has a current market cap of $1 trillion.)

But Noah was fired just a couple months before his stock options vested. So rather than getting a billion-dollar payout, he got nothing.

He sank into a deep depression, eventually recovering with the help of a therapist who counseled him on how to reframe the experience.

Then he rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He became a serial entrepreneur, building multiple businesses. His most successful venture now makes $80 million in gross revenue, and his personal take-home is $3.3 million per year (which comes from a $200,000 annual salary and $3.1 million profit distribution.) His net worth is $36 million.

Not a billion, but still not too shabby.

Noah recently wrote a book called "Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours."

He sits down with us (in person!) to share:

-- how to find business ideas

-- how to overcome objections and rejections

-- how to scale

By the end of the episode, the common objections that you often hear -- like "I don't have time/money/ideas" -- will be quashed.

Please enjoy!

For more information, visit the show notes at https://affordanything.com/episode485

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