The Side Hustle Project

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Landing Six-Figure Freelance Clients On The Side And Perfecting Your Pitch With Jake Jorgovan Aug 08, 2017

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In this episode, we’re chatting with Jake Jorgovan, an entrepreneur and founder at Outbound Creative where he’s a sales and marketing consultant for agencies, helping them land their dream clients.

Side Hustle Law 101 And Avoiding Getting Fired: Anthony McCusker, Attorney For Slack, Lyft And Atlassian Aug 03, 2017

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In today’s episode, we’re talking to Anthony McCusker, an attorney of more than 20 years here in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s worked with and represented companies like Slack, Lyft, Atlassian and more throughout his career. And today, we’re talking all about the legalities of starting a side hustle – can you do it?

Getting 2.5 Million Followers And Earning $10,000/mo On The Side With WeRateDogs Creator Matt Nelson Aug 01, 2017

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In this episode we’re chatting with Matt Nelson, the creator behind WeRateDogs—the twitter sensation @dog_rates, that has more than 2.5 million followers.

The account shares images of cute dogs with a rating on a scale of 1-to-10… although just about every dog gets a rating above 10… because, well… Matt believes dogs are pretty great.

At 20 years of age, he just finished his sophomore year of college and he’s juggling this side project he started a year and half ago—with a full course load and internship.

Despite all of his competing priorities, he’s been able to amass an incredible social following including 173,000 followers on Instagram and 167,000 followers on Instagram.

AND, he’s monetizing his audience—over the past four months, he’s generated $50,000 in revenue—largely from the sale of merchandise from his website, weratedogs.com.

James Altucher On Side Hustles, Losing Everything, Building Networks And Creating Small Successes Along The Way Jul 27, 2017

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In this episode, we’re talking to James Altucher, the founder of more than 20 companies, including a web design firm that began as a side hustle… he spent 18 months running web design company on the side (including hiring a dozen employees).

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

Finding Courage, Getting Inspiration And Building A World-Class Brand Through Side Projects With Debbie Millman Jul 25, 2017

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In this episode, we’re chatting with Debbie Millman—who’s been named “one of the most influential designers working today” by Graphic Design USA.

Debbie is a designer, author, educator and host of the podcast, Design Matters where she’s interviewed designers, creatives, entrepreneurs like Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin, Steven Heller, Tina Roth Eisenberg and many more.

Debbie spent 20 years as the President of Design at Sterling Brands, one of the world’s top branding firms where she landed the company business with clients like Pepsi, Gilette, Star Wars and more.

But Debbie’s no stranger to the side hustle… she actually started freelancing on the side of her very first day job straight out of college—she did design work for small local businesses in her neighborhood in New York City.

Since then, she’s grown to having numerous side projects including her podcast, writing 6 books, teaching the Masters in Branding program at the School of Visual Arts, being the creative director at Print magazine, a blogger for Fast Company, and president emeritus of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, to name a few.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

Launching 46 Side Hustles And Earning $10,000/month In Side Income With Mubashar Iqbal, Product Hunt Maker Of The Year 2016 Jul 20, 2017

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In this episode, we’re chatting with Mubashar Iqbal aka Mubs. To put it modestly, Mubs is one of the most prolific side hustlers I’ve ever met.

He was recently named Product Hunt’s Maker of the Year for 2016, now has 44 total side projects he’s launched on Product Hunt.

As a software developer by trade, Mubs side projects are earning him around $10,000/mo and he’s pretty much always working on something new.

The week we recorded this interview, he had just launched a new side project called Will Robots Take My Job—and it received nearly 2 MILLION page views within the first few days of going live.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

How To Start A Food Blog (On The Side) And Grow A Community With Gaby Dalkin Of What’s Gaby Cooking. Jul 18, 2017

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In this episode, we’re chatting with Gaby Dalkin, the food blogger extraordinaire behind What’s Gaby Cooking, where she has more than 275,000 followers on Instagram alone.

Gaby is a machine at what she does—she’s created more than 1,110 recipes on her blog, is a published author of her first cookbook, Absolutely Avocados, and has done collaborations with companies like Williams Sonoma, The Food Network, and much more.

Gaby started blogging back in 2009 on the side of her main gig as a personal chef for families in Los Angeles—including some time working for Jessica Simpson, which helped propel her career big time.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

Noah Kagan on Being Selfish, Side Projects, and Making $1,000 in 24hrs on a Brand New Idea Jul 13, 2017

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In this episode, we’re talking to Noah Kagan, the founder of 2 multi-million dollar businesses: Appsumo and Sumo.com. For being just 35 years old, Noah’s got a pretty insane life story already and we’re digging into everything in this episode.

Noah was employee #30 at Facebook (which as of today is valued at $432B), but he got fired after less than a year there before any of his stock vested, so he walked away with nothing.

During his time at Facebook, he was also working on his very first side hustle—a conference for young entrepreneurs that netted him $50,000 in profit.

Next, he landed as the director of marketing, employee #7 at Mint, the personal finance app, before they even launched and long before they’d go on to be purchased by Intuit for $170M.

But again, Noah left before any of his stock vested at the company, walking away with nothing for the second time.

So how’d that pan out for Noah? Well, he went on to turn down an acquisition offer for $100,000 plus equity for his game company (while he was still working full-time at Mint). This offer would’ve been worth somewhere between $8-10 Million today.

Instead, Noah eventually sold his game company for around $10,000 after it was clear only a few of them were really taking off.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

A Radically New Definition for the Word “Business” (and How to Find the Right Idea) Jul 11, 2017

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Now, to get this started… I want to offer up a radically new definition for you—of what a business really is. A new take on how you should think about being an entrepreneur. I’m going to argue that a business is nothing more than a “format for channeling your skills, experience, abilities, and interests—into a neat little package that helps people accomplish something meaningful.”

In today’s episode, we’re talking about one of the most common questions I get from friends, family, and readers on my blog—the question comes in various different forms, but it always boils down to, “How do I find a profitable side hustle idea?”

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

Building an Authentic Community Around Your Side Hustle with Chris Guillebeau. Jul 05, 2017

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In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chris Guillebeau, multi-New York Times Bestselling author of four books including The $100 Startup.

Over the past 10 years, Chris been to every country in the world and still travels to more than 20 each year.

He’s an active speaker for companies like Google and Facebook—he also hosts an annual conference of his own called World Domination Summit with guests ranging from Brene Brown to Derek Sivers, Michael Hyatt and more.

Chris has recently embarked upon a new adventure this year, The Side Hustle School which features a daily podcast, workshops, and community.

Special thanks to our sponsor for this episode, Freshbooks: Cloud accounting for freelancers, solopreneurs and side hustlers.

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