It Always Looks Like Nothing's Happening For The First 6 Months... #shorts

24 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue (Capitalism.com #shorts) that describes the emotional rollercoaster of building a business: the initial 3–6 month struggle, momentum after ~6 months (sales, reviews, repeat customers), growth by nine months (multiple products, ~60 sales/day), reaching a million-dollar business by one year, and receiving a $3.4M acquisition offer by two years. The speaker emphasizes persistent self-doubt despite external success and frames these milestones as the typical, messy reality of entrepreneurship.

Questions this video answers

The first three to six months.

You start to get sales, reviews, and repeat customers (momentum to launch a second product).

Three products and about 60 sales a day.

A million dollar business.

An offer to buy the business for $3.4 million.

Chapters

I'm very open about the fact that the first three to six months suck. But after about six months, something happens. You start to get sales, you start to get reviews, you start to get repeat customers. There's some momentum. You still feel like you're an absolute amateur at it. You still feel like you have no idea what you're doing, but you have enough momentum to launch the second product. And then you're like, oh my goodness, am I going to have enough money to make this work? And then nine months go by and you have three products and you're doing 60 sales a day and everybody thinks you're cool as shit, and you still feel like a failure. And then a year goes by and you have a million dollar business and all your friends think that going to pay for dinner forever because you got a million dollar business. And you're like, this could crumble at any time. But it is true that I have a million dollar business. That's pretty cool. Why don't I feel any different? Why do I still feel like I'm a failure? Because I'm watching these people on the Internet who have multimillion dollar businesses. And then two years go by and someone gives you an offer to buy your business for $3.4 million and you're like, oh my goodness, I did it. That's the reality of entrepreneurship.