Abu Lahya: How I Started My Business in University #muslim #entrepreneur #business #islam

Name: Abu Lahya: How I Started My Business in University #muslim #entrepreneur #business #islam
Uploaded: 2026-03-29T03:00:27+00:00
Duration: 1 min 5 s
Channel: Eyoub (Abu Lahya)
Description: Eyoub tried dropshipping in high school and reselling web development during university, failing at both due to poor pricing and low-quality work. He…

29 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Eyoub tried dropshipping in high school and reselling web development during university, failing at both due to poor pricing and low-quality work. He learned from each mistake, eventually using those lessons to teach others how to avoid the same pitfalls.

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I started my business since I was— even before uni. Okay, what kind of, like, IMA? No, I was doing different things. I was doing— I tried, like, even when I was in high school, I tried dropshipping. I tried selling websites when I was, uh, in the early days of studying software engineering because I had basically engineers around me. I was like, Tabana, make a website. I was like, we can't make a website. How much would you charge for a website? It was like $50. I was like, okay, let me try and sell it for like $100. Nice. Try doing that. Didn't work. It didn't work? I was so bad. Like, even I look back, because I still have the emails that I signed up with. You're bad at selling, or you're bad at like making websites? I didn't make websites. I was bad at business. Okay. I would just make like something that didn't make sense. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, here's a website, it's $200. It was like, no. I was like, please, please. That's funny. I was really bad. Like, if you want a successful— I was very bad. But I think that added up, huh? What do you mean? That added up. You learned from it? Like, yeah, you learned from it. Oh yeah, yeah, big time. This also why it's much easier for me to teach it, because I was like very bad. Yeah, yeah. So that I could see what I learned and what changed. Yeah. So I can see when somebody's bad, because you know, you're just missing this.