Codie SanchezFounder @ Contrarian Thinking

6 MUSTS To Start a Successful Business

13 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Short YouTube advice segment (by Codie Sanchez) listing key qualities for starting a successful business: enthusiasm for the work/process, customer-focus, product-driven approach with a good product, making the work fun, differentiation (create new or improve existing), and authenticity to the founder. The speaker emphasizes sacrifice, standing out in crowded categories, and aligning the business with the entrepreneur’s genuine interests.

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Do you think it takes to actually start a really successful business? One is enthusiasm. I think you have to have a lot of enthusiasm around not just the product that you're selling, but also like the process of being an entrepreneur. That means a sacrifice. When your friends at the bar for happy hour, you might have to go back to the office to do something. Like you have to be willing to do all that. You have to be customer focused and product driven. The product has to be good. I think it has to be fun. You want to have fun and you want to have fun making money. And you have to be different. Sarah always says entrepreneurs do want to two things. Either they create something brand new or they make something that exists better. So what are you doing? Are you making something brand new or are you taking something that's out there and just making it better? And I think it has to be authentic to you. Everything is. All categories are so crowded right now. There's so many. So you have to stand out.