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Build a Profitable Side Business Without Quitting Your Job
Welcome. You found the right place. This community exists for one type of person: a senior corporate professional who is serious about building a second income stream and wants to do it the right way. Not the "quit your job and leap into the unknown" way. Not the "here are 47 random ideas" way. The structured, strategic, fits-your-actual-life way. If that is you, pull up a chair. Here is what to expect inside: Weekly coaching calls - FREE until July 15th - where we work through real challenges together. Accountability from a peer group of Directors, VPs, and senior leaders who understand your constraints. Practical frameworks you can apply without disrupting your career or your family life. And full access to SideHustleDBL.com, where an AI-powered platform matches you to more than 1,500 curated side business opportunities based on your skills, your schedule, your budget, and your goals -- then walks you through validation, business planning, and a 12-week launch framework. This is a working community. People here are building things. You will fit right in. To get started, do three things: introduce yourself in the comments, head to sidehustledbl.com and take the free assessment, and tell us below what kind of side business you have been thinking about. I am Mark Langford. Harvard MBA, four companies founded, and more than 1,000 professionals coached over 30 years. I built this platform because I spent decades navigating exactly what you are navigating now. I know what works and what wastes your time. Glad you are here. Now let's build something. -- Mark sidehustledbl.com
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Week 3 Call Notes & Recording
SUMMARY The meeting focused on evolving the SideHustleDBL Time Rich Project platform to make it more actionable, less overwhelming, and better aligned with how users actually progress their side hustles. Key themes were: - Validating side-hustle ideas through real market tests (simple offers to strangers, Etsy tests, outreach). - Major UX and algorithm updates to the dashboard, matching, and business-plan flows. - User feedback about overwhelm, leading to concrete plans for a progress bar, “pick up where you left off,” and better visibility into where each side hustle stands. - Demonstrations of the business plan wizard, auto-generation features, and upcoming data-import capabilities. - Personal commitments from each participant to move one clear goal forward before the next session. RECORDING https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m4N4hYFTXXwG7pzh5Z9fMghqZ4XbTM7z/view?usp=sharing ACTION ITEMS Mark Langford - Platform/Product - Implement an active-side-hustle progress bar showing: - Current stage. - Next step. - “Pick up where you left off” entry point. - Fix the business plan wizard so: - Auto-generated content can be successfully accepted and submitted end-to-end. - Make market-demand evidence sources: - Done: they just took some time to load - Finish business-plan data import feature: - Options to integrate or append imported text/content into sections. - Evaluate and design: - A basic stage-gate workflow (stage definitions + user edits). - A cloning/branching mechanism for existing ideas (especially idea descriptions). - Correct active-side-hustle display: - Ensure it reliably shows the actual active side hustle, not assessment status. - Operations & Communication - Send out meeting notes and recording. - Send scheduling notice: - Next session moved to Tuesday (due to Denver Startup Week talk).
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Suggested upgrades/bug fixes
@Mark Langford ok to start a chat here on suggested upgrades and bug fixes? One I found is that as I was trying to input my skills, it would be nice to have the option to upload .txt or .md file, not just a PDF or JPG
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AI Can Generate 100 Business Ideas. It Cannot Tell You Which One You Should Build.
AI can hand you a hundred business ideas in seconds. What it cannot do is tell you which one is right for you, because the best idea is not a property of the idea. It is a property of your situation. See the attached presentation for the details of how to choose the right business for you.
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Week 2 Call Notes & Recording
SUMMARY This meeting for the SideHustleDBL Time Rich Project focused on: - Status check-ins on each participant’s side hustle ideas and where they are in their journey. - A live demo of key SideHustleDBL features (ideas, market demand, success probability, business plan wizard, fast track, competitive analysis, Blue Ocean/niche features). - A framework for choosing and validating side hustles, emphasizing constraints (capital, time, risk, income needs, skills, life stage) and minimum viable tests (MVT). - A roundtable discussion where participants shared ideas, concerns, and requested feedback. - Next-step commitments (milestones) for each participant before the next meeting. - Product feedback and requested platform improvements for SideHustleDBL. RECORDING https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SQiE34nogF02l2dBJuZ90mhUywxAIq4k/view?usp=sharing ACTION ITEMS - Jessie: Start & review auto-generated business plan for chosen side hustle. - Mary Claire: Book/conduct 1–2 validation calls for sales pipeline product. - Vaughn: Complete venture details & plans in platform; begin relationship-building. - Marcus: Build business model + financials for Garden Ally; prep for pricing talks. - Cheryl: Run Market Demand analysis for HR/influencer side hustle. - Kim: Apply Market Demand / Success Probability to her idea and define an MVT. - Mark: Implement platform UI/UX and algorithm improvements, post resources, improve meeting logistics, and schedule the next session.
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