Best Businesses To Start In 2022: Vending Machines, B2B Newsletters, Virtual Study Rooms & More

About this video

Sam and Shaan discuss several business ideas and frameworks, including a listener’s success story with vending machines, the emerging virtual study hall market (Studyverse), Scott Galloway’s lucrative speaking business, B2B media newsletters like Industry Dive, Aunt Flow’s menstrual product dispensers, and an exploration of what true product-market fit actually feels like. They examine how some businesses scale explosibly while others plateau, and debate when entrepreneurs can truly recognize that their product has achieved genuine market demand.

Key takeaways

• A listener named Jack quit his banking job after listening to MFM, started a vending machine business generating $10k/month, and is now attempting a 100-mile run—demonstrating how the podcast’s message about ‘doing memorable things’ can directly influence real life decisions.
• Shaan is investing in Studyverse, a virtual study hall platform that gamifies studying with features like shared music, to-do lists, and community—tapping into an existing behavior (Lofi study streams with millions of viewers) that lacks a polished product solution.
• B2B media newsletters targeting niche industries (like Industry Dive with 53 newsletters across waste management, pharma, HR, etc. doing $110M revenue at 30% profit margins) represent a ‘boring blueprint’ that’s proven highly profitable but now facing increased competition as more entrepreneurs learn the model.
• True product-market fit is marked by operational chaos (hiring for servers/customer support constantly, not features) rather than survey data—it feels like a punch in the face, not a gradual realization; Brian Armstrong advises founders to focus on action and information gathering rather than analysis.
• Scott Galloway’s claimed $5M+ annual speaking income demonstrates the economics of personal brands built on 10-15 years of consistent content creation, though his business predictions have historically underperformed the market by significant margins.

Episode details: published August 11, 2022 · 44K views · 1:02:26 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The business ideas, figures and results discussed are the hosts’ and guests’ own claims, shared as brainstorming and entertainment — not verified facts and not investment advice.

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