How I Would Build A Business in 2025 (If I had to start over)
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Hey friends, if you’ve ever wanted to start your own business but felt stuck because you don’t have the “right idea” or you’re worried it’s too risky, this video is for you. I sat down with serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley to unpack nine key lessons that can help anyone build a business from scratch. These are the insights that I’ve also learned from being an entrepreneur, and hopefully you’ll find them useful. Enjoy xx
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Introduction
01:33 - School Didn’t Teach You To Be An Entrepreneur
05:26 - The Entrepreneur Mindset Shift
13:00 - The Lie You Were Taught About Business
23:50 - What A Lifestyle Business Actually Looks Like
30:57 - Goodbye Homer Simpson
40:01 - How Business Actually Works
43:25 - The 7-6-6 Apprenticeship
55:16 - Your Founder-Opportunity Fit
01:00:45 - Pain, Prize, Payment
01:04:42 - Should You Sell To The Rich?
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If you have ever thought about starting your own business someday, but you have been held back by thoughts like I don't have a good idea or I don't know what I would sell or like why would anyone buy from me or I don't have the right skills. And you've also probably been told that starting a business is super risky. But to be honest, one of the things that I've really learned over the years is that pretty much anyone can start a business. And in this video, I'd like to lay out a little road map for doing so. And this is based on a conversation that I had with serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley, who is a friend and mentor of mine. Daniel has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs to help grow and scale their businesses. and he's also built multiple seven and eight figure businesses of his own. And in this video, we break down exactly how you can start completely from scratch and build a business from nothing. Certainly, if you are watching this video on a device that is connected to the internet, you have everything you need to start a business. The reason people say, "I don't have an idea." It's actually not that they don't have a business idea. It's very easy to have a business idea. They don't have any idea as to how businesses run. So, that's the bigger issue. This is why you don't go and start a business as a number one first. This episode is part of Freedom Fridays, the new series on the channel where we explore books and strategies and ideas and conversations and tools that can help you build a business that helps you work towards fun, fulfillment, and financial freedom so that you can really live life on your own terms. >> So, the way that uh you approach business is if you want to be an entrepreneur, if you know that you want to be on this journey, you know that uh you want to do this, you need to do something called >> we're going to structure the video in terms of the nine key lessons from the conversations with Daniel....
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