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Iskender Piyale-Sheard

Toronto, Canada Area

Community Manager @ Lighthouse Labs. Previously Trip Facilitator at Hacker Paradise.

Featured on Notable.ca and a few podcasts for my Job Hacking expertise. Built a career-development/mentorship community of 800+ members.

Experienced in early-stage growth hacking and promo.

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I Will Help You Target Your Desired Career and Industry, and Find Your Next Job.

In a typical session with me, we'll:

- Drill down into your desired career path, personal goals, and values
- Prospect a list of specific potential companies/areas of interest to target
- Form a strategic angle for outreach and find specific people to reach out to.

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How does one come up with a great business idea?

One of the tried and true methods for finding a winning idea boils down to finding a common problem and providing or building a solution for it.

Step 1: Find a specific demographic of people/businesses. (Ex: Accounting Firms in Chicago, Sushi Restaurants in California, Small Advertising Firms in Nebraska).

Step 2: Conduct 20-50-100 short interviews with willing people who fall within that demographic. Ask them a standard set of questions involving their day-to-day operations, their challenges, their roadblock/bottlenecks etc.

Step 3: Ask if they'd be open to you coming back to them a few weeks with some ideas on saving time/money or solving those problems.

Step 4: Find the most common problems, and decide on one, or a small subset of them to tackle. Optimize a solution, then return to those people you've interviewed with a proposed solution.

Step 5: Give them a timeline for when you can have a first demo/MVP (minimum viable product) by. Once you have this, have them commit to 3 months of your service and see how it goes.

Step 6: Prepare the roll-out, and build out full functionality now that you have the money to do it with.

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