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Business ideas for professors

Years of research and teaching give you something few people have: deep knowledge and the ability to organise it. That is the core of a course, an advisory practice or a small online school.

Change the sentence below to describe you, and we will suggest three businesses you could build from it, each with the people most likely to buy first. Choose one for a free five-page plan.

Free · No sign-up or email · Three ideas, then a five-page plan

YOUR HEAD START

The people who already trust you.

Former students, colleagues, industry contacts and the organisations that cite your work. A new business finds its first customers far more easily among people like these.

THREE DIRECTIONS TO START FROM

01

An online school in your field

A structured program for professionals who want your subject without enrolling in a degree.

02

Expert advice for companies

Short, focused advisory projects for businesses that need what you research.

03

Writing and editing help for researchers

Grant, paper or thesis coaching for early-career researchers in your discipline.

These are examples to show the pattern, not recommendations. Your own ideas will be built on what you type above. Check first: Check your university's rules on outside work, conflicts of interest and who owns course material you created there.

FROM ONE SENTENCE TO A BUSINESS

How it works.

  1. 1

    Type one sentence

    Your job, a skill or something you love. We suggest three businesses you could build from it.

  2. 2

    Get your free plan

    Choose one and read a five-page plan on screen: your first ten customers, the offer and its price, your first 90 days, and what your website and Business Chief would do.

  3. 3

    We build it with you

    When you are ready, we build your website and set up your Business Chief, an AI chief of staff from PrivateChief: $499 to start, then $199 a month from the day you go live.

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