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Startup tip — You need to be an expert

If you understand the problem, and have a general feel for a solution, you will become an expert

Joshua Dance
2 min readNov 17, 2019

Listening to the Hustle My First Million Podcast and heard a great idea about how you don’t need to be an expert to start a business.

Text from the podcast:

“We were talking about potential ideas Farza was going to go start, and one of the things he kept counting himself out on was he was like, you know, I would love to do this, but I’m not an expert of that. I don’t, I don’t know anything about this. Suli, whose brother, started Native Deodorant was like giving him an example.

He’s like, “ Oh, I don’t think about that at all when it comes to business When I started business, of course, I don’t know anything about it. That’s sort of just the starting point. But as long as I understand the problem and the basics of what a solution might look like, I don’t need to be a master of the solution. Six months in, my brother knew everything about deodorant, but he started saying, “I know nothing about deodorant, but watch, in six months, I will know everything about deodorant.” That really stuck with me because it reminds me of what you’re saying right now…

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Joshua Dance
Joshua Dance

Written by Joshua Dance

Code, design, cook. Make stuff. Cookies. @BYU grad.

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