My First Million
The best business ideas come from noticing what's working and doing it better, faster, or for a different audience.
Partner with niche influencers to create exclusive communities for their followers
Why It Works
Pre-filters for like-minded community members, leverages existing trust from influencer, excludes trolls and irrelevant users
Prerequisites
How to Execute
Identify influencers with high engagement in target demo
Propose exclusive community for their followers
Let influencer invite followers to private group
Monitor engagement and content quality
Extract successful patterns for broader rollout
When It Fails
When influencer's audience doesn't match your actual target market or when community lacks clear ongoing value
Real Example
“Parenting app partners with mom blogger to create private group for her 50K followers, then uses insights to build standalone platform”
Related Knowledge
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Opposite Forces Market Theory
When one solution becomes dominant, it creates market demand for its opposite characteristics
Build high-trust community by starting with pre-filtered, like-minded members
Active community of 10K+ members with high engagement and trust, generating valuable content organically
Trust Over Accuracy Decision Rule
In advice-seeking, people often prefer trusted but potentially less accurate sources over more accurate but untrusted so
Wisdom of crowds beats algorithmic search for personal advice
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10,000 moms who are bored and scrolling on their phone
Large groups of engaged users can provide better search results than sophisticated algorithms