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Module 3: Choose your opportunity · 4 min

Choose your opportunity

Match the business to your skills, feedback budget, and customer knowledge.

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Your strongest skill changes the opportunity.

  • Jason starts the business-choice question with the person: can you build a product, sell to buyers, or acquire traffic?

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  • A strong seller can build demand and buyer relationships. A strong media buyer may begin with an existing advertiser’s offer.

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  • He warns against repeatedly changing identities. Build a working system around one strength before chasing another business.

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what's your core skill set?
Hello, my name isJason Akatiff
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What should come before choosing a business model here?

A faster signal makes learning less expensive.

  • Jason compares lead markets with different conversion rates and lead costs. Sparse outcomes can make mistakes slower to diagnose.

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  • His mass-tort example needs much more initial spend than his simpler lead examples. These are reported scenarios, not benchmark budgets.

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  • For a newer buyer, he favors a tighter feedback loop that builds pattern recognition before taking on slower, costlier tests.

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The numbers they shared

$20k–$50kJason’s example of initial mass-tort testing spend to start seeing results; not a recommended budget.share
$200His contrasting example of spend that could begin producing simpler lead feedback; not a profitability claim.share

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And that feedback loop is so important
Hello, my name isJason Akatiff
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Why does feedback speed matter to a newer media buyer?

Knowing the customer is still an advantage.

  • Jason sees an opening for people who know a customer’s work deeply enough to identify a useful product.

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  • His restaurant example starts with an operational problem, a prototype, and feedback from owners before marketing the software.

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  • He also sees demand for teaching and implementing AI tools. His market-size and workforce timelines are predictions, not established results.

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Domain knowledge → product evidence

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    Start with a customer and workflow you understand.

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    Build a prototype around a concrete pain.

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    Get owners’ feedback before expanding into acquisition.

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If you have experience and skills in a space, you understand a customer really, really well.
Hello, my name isJason Akatiff
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What makes the restaurant-software example credible as a starting point?
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