Million Dollar Weekend

Million Dollar Weekend is a proven step-by-step guide to launching a business with 7-figure potential in just 48 hours, showing you how to overcome your fears, pick, structure, and validate a great idea, and then scale it to your first million dollars and beyond.

After Facebook, Noah launched countless side hustles. He taught Korean students online marketing. He blogged. Noah launched local happy hours, chess meetups, and an event business. “Focus above all else on being a starter, an experimenter, a learner,” Noah suggests. Eventually, the pieces will come together.

Unfortunately, most people never start anything. Fear, in whatever form, stops them. Your remedy? “The Dollar Challenge:” “Ask someone you know for a dollar investment in you and your future business—one measly dollar!” This will force you out of your comfort zone, make you accountable to someone (they’ll want updates!), and get you some early supporters.

The second big obstacle, the fear of asking, Noah’s father helped him overcome. One day, he accompanied the door-to-door copier salesman. He watched him get rejected again and again. But his father said: “Love rejections! Collect them like treasure! Set rejection goals. I shoot for a hundred rejections each week, because if you work that hard to get so many noes, in them you will find a few yeses, too.”

To develop that same spirit, do “the Coffee Challenge:” Go to Starbucks, order your favorite drink, and ask for 10% off. Don’t justify your ask. Just be nice, smile, and ask. Most likely, you will be rejected — and everything will be fine. It sounds easy, but even professionals find it hard. Try it!

Get over your fear of starting and your fear of asking, and you’ll have taken the first 2 crucial steps on your journey as an entrepreneur.

In college, I brainstormed business ideas with my best friend. “Wouldn’t it be cool if you could order at restaurants from an iPad right inside the table?” There was only one problem, says Noah: “Customers don’t care about your ideas; they care about whether you can solve their problems.” People dream up great visions but never ask real people whether they want them. “Business creation should always be a conversation!” Noah says. Here are 4 ways to find legit ideas: Solve your own problem. If you’re frustrated with something day-in and day-out, chances are, you’re not the only one! Complement a bestseller. Create something to make a popular product you love even better. Examples: iPad covers, video game tutorials, or covers of famous songs. Scour marketplaces. On eBay, Etsy, and Craigslist, people are already trying to spend money. To get a babysitter, unclog their toilet, or solve any other problem. Be the solution to…