Should I Work for Someone or Just Start Alone? — Transcript

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1. 0:00Zarkhived. Hey, Alex, 22, studying
2. 0:02design next year and want to build
3. 0:03Australia's best streetwear brand
4. 0:06next 5 years. Do I stack cash via
5. 0:07service business, work in a proven
6. 0:09brand, or start and learn by doing?
7. 0:16Mhm.
8. 0:17I wouldn't start a service business.
9. 0:19Um
10. 0:20if that's what you really want to do. If
11. 0:21you want to If you want to, you know,
12. 0:23start Australia's best streetwear brand,
13. 0:25I would probably look at Thing is, you
14. 0:27don't want to work in a proven brand cuz
15. 0:28they'll be too big and you won't get
16. 0:29enough exposure to enough disparate
17. 0:32types of work. And so, I would rather
18. 0:34work with a very founder-driven
19. 0:36small So, when I say small company, I
20. 0:39kind of say like
21. 0:41call it 10 to 30 max, maybe 40 max. So,
22. 0:44you could have way more exposure. At
23. 0:46least even maybe
24. 0:47not to the work, but at least to every
25. 0:49person doing the work. So, you could
26. 0:51basically take all your lunch breaks,
27. 0:52all your mornings, and all your
28. 0:53afternoons and evenings trying to talk
29. 0:54to other co-workers to learn what they
30. 0:55do. So, you can learn about how to do
31. 0:57it. Um
32. 0:58I think that's one of the most
33. 0:59underrated ways of
34. 1:01of of learning any kind of new skill. Um
35. 1:04you can obviously just start and learn
36. 1:05on your own. I mean, you can look at Ben
37. 1:06Francis and figuring out with Gymshark.
38. 1:08So, there's nothing to say that you
39. 1:10wouldn't be successful. Um I learned the
40. 1:12gym business by literally just starting
41. 1:14the gym business, but I still took 3
42. 1:16months, and I did the basically like an
43. 1:18apprenticeship under a successful gym,
44. 1:20which kind of showed me the beginner
45. 1:21ropes
46. 1:22uh to doing it right. And so, that is
47. 1:24how I literally did it. I worked for
48. 1:26somebody for three-ish months. I got a
49. 1:28good understanding of what I needed to
50. 1:30do, and then I went out and did it on my
51. 1:32own. Now, can you do it in less than,
52. 1:33you know, more than 3 months? For sure,
53. 1:34you don't have to do 3 months. You can
54. 1:35do 6 or 12. Um but, I think you can give
55. 1:37yourself a deadline that you want to say
56. 1:39like I am going to make sure that I that
57. 1:40I move on by this point. Um
58. 1:43So, yeah. If you like this video and
59. 1:44you're business owner who wants to break
60. 1:45through your current revenue ceiling, I
61. 1:47just distilled every lesson from scaling
62. 1:4810 businesses past 10 million and three
63. 1:50businesses past 100 million into a
64. 1:52completely free scaling roadmap that
65. 1:54I've used to go from 0 to 1, 0 to 10,
66. 1:55and 0 to 100 plus. And so, you can click
67. 1:58here, and you can check it out. Again,
68. 1:59absolutely free, and since your business
69. 2:01owner appreciates you, and uh enjoy.