What career can you do by making videos?

Making free e-learning/how-to videos a full time business?

• We are a bunch of young professionals who are inclined towards education and public speaking. We are thinking of creating a company that creates and publishes videos to explain basics of different things . Questions can be from any domain - marketing,social media,politics,music,self help etc . E.g - How can you get a pilot license in India? How to overcome your fear of public speaking ? Why should you consider choosing politics as your career ? What is the right way to eat Dosa in India ? How is a currency's value defined ? How to begin coding ? Why should you spend time on making friends? .... and so on. We'll focus on satisfying the intellectual curiosity of people. BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE - Since youtube has such a huge user base, we will focus on branding our channel as a universal learning portal and get as many fans/subscribers as we can. All our videos would be free (on youtube) as we want to promote learning online. The current sources of income for the business that we have thought of are: - Youtube ads (youtube pays 1-5$ per 1000views) - Ads on our own website. We will drive users from our videos to the website. Add more resources of the website or start a text blog to go with the videos. - Affiliate marketing. (e.g. giving a link of book in the description and telling people to buy the book for learning more) - Sponsored content (featuring/reviewing others on the channel) Some issues : 1. If we look at India's low internet speed, should it be a big concern for us ? 2. People do spend time on music videos. Will content videos appeal to masses? 3. We guys have experience in public speaking,ideas,delivery,content creation etc. Will it make sense to quit our jobs and work full time on this business ? 4. How much potential do you see in this business? 5. Will it make sense to do join accelerator program or look for seed fund investor before venturing into it full time ? 6. What can be the possible obstacles in this business ? Your criticism,reviews,guidance and suggestions will be really appreciated.

• Answer:

  The company which is already doing this is : http://www.1learning.co/. They shoot and create videos to adress the same need which you are trying to do and are in the business for 1.5 yrs as I know. The questions are : Differentiation :What will you do differently from what they have already accomplished or can quickly iterate. Team strength : How can your team  out run those who are already in the game with money, team and investor backing. Entry Barrier : What is the entry barrier you can create ? One of the worst advise you can get is : Pursue business while you are still in job. It just doesnt fucking work. Majority of founders who work full time have difficulty doing sustainability and fundability answers. If I am an investor ,why should i bet my money on your business if you are not even betting your job on it. Its totally against the spirit of entrepreneurship. Technology businesses have so much complexity that even if you work 16 hrs a day as founders , it will take 3 years to just to get the wheels rolling. Accelerators in my opinion are not entirely  *USELESS*,  they give employment to the sons, son in laws of media houses or large academic institute deans. Nothing teaches business like business.  Learn business by doing it, not masturbating about it The best bet is to get a smart investor ( One who funds and mentors you to success) or a billionaire politician mother in law whose name will get you all the success example Robert Vadra