This is neat, thank you for sharing. I've been building a side business helping people plan travel to Italy, but it's very hands-on and time consuming for me (and hence somewhat expensive for my clients). I follow a lot of my own process for things like finding the best paid or award flights, accommodations, activities, etc. This post is making me think that a MOOC on my process might be valuable for those looking to DIY - it wouldn't have the benefit of me doing the planning, but for folks that don't know where to start it's an idea. I can't say I would have thought of it before reading this, but I'm terrible at coming up with ideas!
I'm going to start publishing more posts by entrepreneurs in addition to the standard interviews, and this is the first one. It's not self-serve (yet), but anyone can email me and I'm happy to take a look!
This is just one man's opinion but you may want to revisit the approach.
I don't think this article is as strong as the interviews you've done in the past. When you are interviewing you help remove some of the bias and really get to all the details, it makes it real and raw, where as users writing their own article tend do pick their positioning more carefully.
I think it is that 'realness' that makes IH different than all the noise out their on entrepreneurship blogs.
I hope if you go this route you provide more guidance to the writers to help make it more real.
(Also, it's less interesting when the IH venture already had an established market and following, I want to hear about the journey!)
Thanks for the feedback! Just for reference, the idea here is not to replace the interviews, but to supplement them. I still plan to continue doing 3 interviews/week.
This new approach will allow me to publish a lot of things that don't quite fit the interview format, but are informative and useful regardless; things might otherwise languish on Medium without any attention or discussion from the entrepreneur community; and things that otherwise might never get published at all.
It isn't clear to me that she used the credits for this project. She doesn't explicitly mention using them anywhere. The only step I can see that might use them is for hosting content but the videos are on YouTube and she mentions a platform called Teachable that appears to include hosting.
That's almost exactly how I got started too. Had a successful Kickstarter campaign for a Docker course a few years ago and then continued moving forward.
The only difference is I went to Udemy from the beginning but I'm slowly transitioning away from them and onto my own platform (Thinkific at the moment).
Weird UI effect (I'm using Chrome 59): When the blue loading bar at the top of the page completes, I get popped back to the top of the page, regardless of where I've scrolled to. Bar finishes loading after ~3-5 seconds.
