104: Validating Your Business Idea [PODCAST]

There are ideas, and then there are opportunities. How do you find out if your business idea is a true winning opportunity or a dud? In this podcast, Anthony Witt and I help you find ways to validate your business idea, connect passion to profits, and find significance along with revenue.

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Validating Your Business Idea – Quick Notes from the Podcast

• Passion is not enough when it comes to business. You have to have skills and a viable market.
• However, skills can be developed or hired and a market can be found, but we cannot create passion.
• Many new business owners fall in love with their ideas and yet fail to do their homework.
• Over 60% of startups (in the US) never make over $25,000 per year.
• Doing an opportunity analysis tells you if you have a viable and sustainable business.
• An opportunity analysis consists of 1) determining the size of the market, 2) getting a percent of the market you can hit (start with less than 5%), and 3) determining the potential revenue per year by multiplying potential sales (from 1 and 2) by-product or service price.
• You have great ideas within you, but you are likely blinded by the obvious. (Or as I like to say, you are blinded by your own genius.)

“You have great ideas, but you are often blinded by your own genius. “]

Interesting Facts About Business Startups

• Over 543,000 new businesses start each MONTH in the US alone
• Over 50% of small businesses are based out of homes
• Over 75% of US businesses are solopreneurs (no employees)

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