✈️ How To Launch A Million Dollar Business in 48 Hours

Inside: Million Dollar Weekend Framework featuring Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo

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Yong-Soo Chung
January 31, 2024

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💸 How to Build a Million Dollar In One Weekend

Noah Kagan (@noahkagan) is one of my favorite entrepreneurs out there. If you don’t know who he is, he’s the Chief Sumo at AppSumo. Today, Noah shares his new book "Million Dollar Weekend" and explains how he used these strategies and tactics to build AppSumo, a nearly 9-figure business.

I even saw his new book on the shelf at my favorite local bookstore here in San Francisco (Green Apple Books on Clement Street) last weekend!

Today, you’ll learn:

  • 💻 How to Validate Your Ideas

  • 💰 The One-Minute Business Model

  • 📈 The Million-Dollar Weekend Framework

  • 📱 How to Scale Your Business Successfully

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Here are a few juicy excerpts from today’s episode to get you flowing:

Principles of Business Growth: "You find a problem people really want, And you'd be patient to continually keep delivering for those people." — Noah Kagan (22:19)

Strategic Approach to Business Expansion: "Have a very limited amount of experiments that you think will be your future growth. And then having a list of experiments you think you can do to find those people, doing them over literally 30 days after you have business success, finding the one that works and then continuing that one." — Noah Kagan (24:06)

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