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Forget about "starting a company."Try making $1,000 with a small project first.When you join Small Bets you'll find a support network ready to help you get your first small wins.


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Lifetime membership

  • Get feedback and support on your projects in our Campfire chat.

  • Hundreds of conversations every day in a safe space without any of the negativity on social media.

  • Ask questions, get answers by experts with first-hand experience.

  • Make friends, find cofounders, build your reputation.

  • Access a library of 50 recorded classes to level up your knowledge.

  • Pay once, member forever. 100% satisfication or your money back. No questions asked.


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Library

50 classes, 90 hours of high quality education, all in one place.

  • Building a Media Business - Arvid Kahl

  • Intro to Internet Pipes - Steph Smith

  • Understanding LinkedIn - Justin Welsh

  • Publish a Best-Selling Course on Udemy - Hassan Osman

  • Amazon KDP Crash Course - Greg Lim

  • Effortless Screencasting - Aaron Francis

  • Domain-First Development - Peter Askew

  • Delve Into Expiring Domain Names - Peter Askew

  • Building Businesses on Wordpress - Peter Askew

  • Spreading Ideas with Memes - Dagobert Renouf

  • Understanding the X Algorithm - Dagobert Renouf

  • Emerging from the Void on X - Daniel Vassallo

  • Make $500 on Upwork by Monday - Sean O'Dowd

  • Enough GPT to be Dangerous - Sairam Sundaresan

  • AI for the Rest of Us - Sairam Sundaresan

  • Growing on Substack - Elle Griffin

  • Getting Started on YouTube - Aprilynne Alter

  • Casual YouTube Creation - Azul Wells

  • Marketing Fundamentals for Non-Marketers - Daniel Vassallo

  • Fundamentals of Internet Marketing - Amanda Natividad

  • Gumroad Crash Course - Daniel Vassallo

  • The Art of Podcasting - Espree Devora

  • Explaining Ideas Visually - Janis Ozolins

  • Intro to SEO - Jordan O'Connor

  • SEO Keyword Research - Jordan O'Connor

  • Building a Content Roadmap for SEO - Jordan O'Connor

  • Wandering the Pathless Path - Paul Millerd

  • Building & Launching macOS Apps with SwiftUI - Grace Huang

  • Intro to Google Ads - Jay Mac

  • Extremely Minimum Viable Video - Cam Houser

  • Build in Public on Twitch - Charlie Coppinger

  • What to Expect When You Go Self-Employed - Catherine Cusick

  • A Practical Guide to Self-Employment Taxes - Catherine Cusick

  • Getting Started with Short-Term Rentals - Isaac French

  • Creating Income through Real Estate - Louie Bacaj

  • A Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD - Jesse Anderson

  • Getting The Attention of Influential People - Benjamin Carlson

  • Getting Featured in the Media - Benjamin Carlson

  • Getting Started with Midjourney - Christian Heidorn

  • The Basics of Buying & Selling Businesses - Thomas Smale

  • Art of Interviewing - Danny Miranda

  • Self-Sponsor Your Own US Green Card - Archie Agrawal

  • Crowdfunding Crash Course - Tugra Sahiner

  • State of the Creator Economy - Sahil Lavingia

  • Equity Crowdfunding for Solopreneurs - Sahil Lavingia

  • Notion for Creators and Entrepreneurs - Monica Lim

  • A Stoic Guide to Dealing with Uncertainty - Mahmoud Rasmi

  • A Pragmatic Guide to Business Ethics - Mahmoud Rasmi

  • Reproducible Success Strategies and Ergodicity - Luca Dellanna

  • Small Bets Fundamentals - Daniel Vassallo


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Testimonials

  • Arvid Kahl: "This isn't just an amazing community for eager founders to learn in; it's also an expression of Daniel's expansive teaching mindset. Allowing people to teach themselves by re-living your past lectures is an active act of empowering those who already have an overflowing schedule."

  • Florin Pop: "There are tons of webinars with amazing people, and the community is full of amazing people."

  • Tony Dinh: "Small Bets is the most active server on my Discord!"

  • Espree Devora: "Small Bets is the most high value engaged helpful business community on the internet. We pay a one time small fee for life time access to quality connections and impactful education that transforms our lives."

  • Kenny Liu: "I just finished the Small Bets lecture about Upwork with @SeanODowd15. Countless gems for takeaway! @dvassallo and his team continue to provide real value for the Small Bets community. So glad I signed up!"

  • Ergest Xheblati: "Honestly the best community I’ve been a part of in the last 10 years"

  • Aprilynne Alter: "I can easily say that the Small Bets community has been one of the most engaged groups of people I've had the pleasure of teaching! Great community there."

  • Hassan Osman: "This course by @dvassallo will show you: How to think about starting a business; How to reduce the risk of failure; How to use randomness to your advantage. Truly one of the best courses I've taken."

  • Dan Rowden: "The Discord is full of amazing makers. It’s like a curated group of the best from Twitter, plus more interaction and value."

  • Vic Vijayakumar: "You get an active community Discord, lots of guest lectures (with recordings), tons of freebies (and/or discounts to various saas / ebooks / courses), and in my case I also made some very good friends."

  • Monica Lim: "You don't need another course but this by @dvassallo legit freed me from self-sabotage and procrastination. It's value dense, affordable and the community is still small and quite active."

  • Manny de Souza: "By far, the best content I consumed about entrepreneurship and lifestyle. It is amazing to be among of so many like minded people."

  • Jeffrey Guenther: "Absolutely worth the price of admission. It's like having access to a bunch of paid courses."

  • Ankur Tyagi: "If you're looking for an awesome community. If you're trying small bets & need genuine feedback. If you need to understand how randomness played a big role in your life. This is for you."

  • Jeremy Smith: "Daniel is solidifying many concepts I had some intuition/pattern matching for, but couldn't yet articulate. Highly recommended!"

  • George McEntegart: "A community that keeps giving value again and again."

  • Ankita Kulkarni: "Highly recommend it, you start thinking in small bets vs taking on huge projects which cost you time and money!"

  • Rafael Rinaldi: "This community truly is the gift that keeps on giving."

  • Jordan Davis: "Very few one-time purchases continue to add more and more value over time like this."

  • Brock Briggs: "The community is absolutely invaluable."

  • Brandon Fearing: "Joined @dvassallo smallbets community yesterday and the guest lecture recordings are 100%. Found @searchbound's domain first development super intriguing. Maybe now I can put my 40+ unused domains to use!"

  • Hugo Hamel: "It is so refreshing and inspiring to be part of the Small Bets community. It might be bad for the economy, but it's extremely healing in many ways to experience. Truly a beautiful community!"

  • Nick Hammond: "Love being able to go back into the recordings on my own time. Appreciate all of the info you've collected in one place!"

  • Angad Singi: "Being a part of smallbets.co, I love the community. The instant feedback, quality conversations, and exploring possibilities of digital business is superb."

  • Corey Wilks: "Shared the same wins in a few communities recently. Nothing beats the supportiveness of the Small Bets community. @dvassallo has created something special. If you're not in, you're missing out."

  • Shivam Dewan: "smallbets.co is my new idea generator. If you need inspiration and a supportive community, this is the place to be. Been into so many discord groups but only this one I actually participate in."

  • Travis Hayes: "Highly recommend looking into Daniel's small bets community. As a new active twitter user, I often have a ton of questions. The community is engaged and has been helpful."

  • Miche Priest: "Taking this course and joining this Discord has been an incredible learning journey. Top notch, creative, generous, engaged people coming together to figure out how to design work around life. Makings solopreneurship not so solo."

  • Enrique Benitez: "Just finished this course by @dvassallo and it's by far the best course I've ever taken, Daniel explains and dissects the process of building a portfolio of small bets thoroughly, from product ideas, randomness and luck, making money and lifestyle design."

  • Jason Akinaka: "Highly recommend it for those who, like me, dread the 9-5 and have way too many interests to ever want to go back."

  • Takamichi Okubo: "Just finished @dvassallo's awesome cohort course. It's 9+ hours of pure informativeness & inspiration."

  • Gaurav Singh: "For a decade, I was on a set life path. Then I decided to change it all and start from scratch. This was hard. For many months, I was lost. Till I did @@dvassallo’s Small Bets course. It was one of the most transformative experiences of my life."

  • Trevor O'Hara: "Proud to say I’m a graduate of the very first cohort! Definitely worth it."

  • Andreas Lehr: "I joined the Small Bets course by @dvassallo in April and can highly recommend it. The content is really great and inspiring. The outstanding part is the Discord community which is very active — you get lots if inspiration just by consuming the participants content alone."

  • Aaron Batilo: "Just launched my first small bet after being in this community. The lessons learned gave me much more confidence about taking risks and investing my time."

  • Haifa Altwaijry: "The gift that keeps on giving. You’ll never regret signing up!"

  • Daniel Rojas: "This is an awesome community, I came because of the course, stayed thanks to the community."

  • Alex Konewko: "So refreshing to hear such authentic and insightful content being shared with an interesting and diverse cohort. Highly recommended!"

  • Vineet Thanedar: "There is no better community of solopreneurs on the internet."

  • Mike Ying: "Great quality classes."

  • Mark Willis Borum: "Worth 10x the cost."

  • Lila Tace: "Small Bets is magical. I found my place."

  • Nick Groeneveld: "Can highly recommend Small Bets. It is the best investment in my career I made. Connected with great people. Joined insightful master classes. Made over 8x the entrance fee on new projects."

  • David Nix: "If you are even a teeny-tiny bit interested in entrepreneurship, you need this."

  • Alberto Sadde: "One of the best communities on part of. The events are top notch and even if I’m often unable to join the live session, recordings are always available."

  • Paul Waweru: "Best investment I’ve made!"

  • Dave Kang: "This is the most interesting entrepreneurial community I’m part of, smart people making a living off the corporate grid."

  • Milly Barker: "Watching just 6 hours of @dvassallo's Small Bets Fundamentals Zoom recordings has done me more good than 3+ years of striving to figure things out myself. Gratitude doesn't even come close."

  • Denis Loginoff: "Went to a potentially life-changing lecture by @LBacaj in Small Bets! It made me rethink my entire strategy on side income."

  • Matouš Jemelka: "Insane February line-up of events at @SmallBetsDotCom. Wonderful guests riffing on fascinating topics. I am especially looking forward to @jdnoc & @stephsmithio, but the overal bar is extremely high."

  • Anton Cherkasov: "I joined Small Bets last week, although I haven't had much time to explore. Nevertheless, through just a few chats, I have already gained valuable insights. The community of amazing people is truly incredible."

  • Venkatesh Narayanan: "Worth joining small bets and try out new things. The guest lectures recordings are fantastic."

  • Kunal Modi: "Thanks to @dvassallo's small bets course and its amazing community, I got the jumpstart that would have otherwise taken me ages to figure out on my own."

  • Greg Gilbert: "I rarely recommend products publicly, but the Small Bets community offers incredible value for the price."


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