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From Layoff to Launch: Build Your First Micro-Business

A step-by-step guide for people displaced by AI and automation. Learn to find a profitable niche, validate demand with real data, build an MVP, and get your first paying customers — all while managing your runway.

10 lessons~160 min totalFree — all lessons unlocked

Course Curriculum

1
The New Reality — Why Traditional Jobs Are Disappearing
AI displacement is real and moving fast — but disruption creates opportunity. Learn why this wave is different from previous automation cycles, what micro-niche businesses are, and why they're the best path forward for displaced workers.
12mFree
2
Your Unfair Advantage — Mining Your Experience
Your career experience is your starting moat. Learn how to excavate domain expertise, map the intersection of knowledge and market pain, and see real examples of displaced workers who pivoted on what they already knew.
15mFree

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Idea Validation 101 — From "I Think" to "I Know"

Most businesses fail because founders never properly validated demand. Learn the validation spectrum from opinion to revenue, how MNB's 5-score system works, and what each score dimension tells you about a niche's real potential.

Finding Real Problems — Evidence-Based Research

Not all evidence is equal. Learn the evidence hierarchy from gut feelings to revenue signals, how to read Reddit, YouTube, App Store reviews, and Google Trends like a researcher, and how to build an evidence dossier before you build anything.

Choosing Your Business Model

The right business model is the one that matches your skills, runway, and market — not the one with the highest ceiling. Learn all 15 micro-business models, how to match them to your situation, and how to use the Model Converter to compare options objectively.

Building Your MVP — Just Enough to Start

What MVP really means, the landing page test, no-code tools in 2026, the 48-hour MVP challenge, when to code vs. not, and pre-selling as the ultimate validation.

Getting Your First 10 Customers

Why your first 10 customers are the hardest and most important, the $0 acquisition playbook, Reddit launch strategies, founder selling, building in public, and why discounts are a trap.

Pricing for Profit

Why founders underprice, the value-based pricing framework, willingness-to-pay research, the 3-tier model, freemium vs. paid-only, pricing psychology, and raising prices without losing customers.

From Side Hustle to Main Income

The transition timeline, the 70% rule for going full-time, building systems that run without you, hiring your first contractor, the mental shift from employee to founder, and building multiple revenue streams.

Runway Management — Making Your Savings Last

Calculating your true burn rate, the 18-month rule, cutting expenses without pain, side income strategies, when to raise prices vs. cut costs, the ramen profitable milestone, mental health during the countdown, and what to do if runway runs out.

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