The One-Person Business Model (How To Productize Yourself)
Dan Koe · 2022
"For most people starting out, a one-person business built around personal experience, skills, and interests, distributed through social media and no-code tools, is a more viable path to self-reliance than either traditional employment or a venture-scale startup, because it removes the capital and team requirements that used to gate entrepreneurship."
Koe's argument starts from a structural observation: the internet removed the two things that used to make starting a business hard, needing capital and needing a team, since a single person can now build an audience, a storefront (website), and a product with a few hundred dollars and self-taught skills. His one-person business isn't freelancing, trading time for money on a single skill; it's built on what he calls the Experience Model — turning your own goals and problem-solving process into content and, eventually, a product others can buy to shortcut their own version of that same journey.
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