It wouldn’t be very fair if I just took an idea

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It wouldn’t be very fair if I just took an idea I’ve secretly been working on behind the scenes for months or used my existing audience & website to boost my early results, so here are the ground rules I’m setting for myself.

1. You Tell Me What to Build. There are 3 topic options to choose from at the afghanistan phone number database of this post, which I selected because I have a genuine interest in them (this is a core principle of starting a meaningful business). Tell me in the comments which topic you want me to build a business around. I want to show you that you can quickly build a business around anything you care about.

2. $500 Limit. Sticking with my lean business building philosophy, I’m going to limit myself to spending no more than $500 on validating this business idea. I’ll be showing you how to build a business without breaking the bank.

3. 30 Days to Validate. I’m going to pick a topic, validate it with an email list of potential customers and launch a product or service to that list by the end of December. It’s that simple. I’m going to show you that you too can do this in 30 days or less while keeping your full-time job.

4. I Can’t Use My Existing Audience. To keep things fair, I’m not allowed to use my existing ryrob.com audience or website traffic to accelerate my early results. I’ll show it’s possible to build an audience in 30 days.

5. 25 Hours/Week Maximum. For this challenge, I’m going to limit myself to treating this like a side business—I’m only allowed to allocate 25 hours per week to validating this business idea. I’m not taking any time off to focus solely on this. The show must go on with my freelance business and course students, so this will be my side business for the month of December. This is also the same amount of hours I was putting into building my freelance business on the side while I still worked at CreativeLive. I’ll show you that it’s possible to build a business around your day job in no more than 30 days.