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title: "What learning to cook chicken taught me about entrepreneurship"
description: "Cooking chicken and building a business have a lot in common."
source: "Preetam Nath"
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published: "2020-06-21"
updated: "2021-01-24"
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# What learning to cook chicken taught me about entrepreneurship

*Note: if you’re vegetarian, replace chicken with cottage cheese while reading the post.*

Ever cooked chicken?

Chicken likes to be washed and cleaned, cut, marinated, sit for a while, and then cook with several other ingredients. Finally you have an end product worthwhile eating. Both you and others can now enjoy it.

So what does this have to do with entrepreneurship or building a business?

Turns out, cooking chicken and building a business have a lot in common.

The chicken is your business idea.

Marinating it requires time - your raw idea is hardly the final version of the idea that will become successful. It takes time to fully develop.

The chicken (idea) isn’t enough. You need to cook other elements to add flavour.

It needs a voice for its brand.

It needs great design and simple UX.

Tech to support its scale.

Marketing to get the word out.

All of these are necessary for the chicken to taste great.

And after all this dancing between the delicate balance of ingredients, you might have a successful business in your hands that you and others want a piece of.

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## About Preetam Nath

Preetam Nath is an entrepreneur and indie software builder. He writes about building profitable SaaS businesses while leading a good life, from first-hand experience: he co-founded SuperLemon, a WhatsApp plugin for Shopify stores that grew to $25k MRR, and DelightChat, a customer support product for ecommerce and D2C brands.

His website (https://www.preetamnath.com) publishes his blog on business, life, mental models and building SaaS businesses, along with a Micro-SaaS guide, a Programmatic SEO course, and Google Sheets habit tracker templates.

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