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My name is Igor, I'm 27 years old, I'm from Ukraine. I invested $300k in the project and closed it without earning anything. What did we do? In 2019 we made “Uber for plumbers.” Is your pipe leaking? Leave a request and the master will be there in 20 minutes.
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7 years ago, we started a startup to challenge Carta, we raised $1M, got our first 100 users, and tons of optimism. 6 years later we went bankrupt. In 2017 I was playing cageball in Oslo when I met my old friend, who said he just started a new startup,
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It's very easy to get lost in day dreams of fancy cars, big houses, exotic places, and expensive things. How many of you think about products you can sell or services you can offer that will make a lot of money? Why not? If you can sell something or provide
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These are the 9 steps I’ve learned on how to become profitable as an entrepreneur who was previously a software engineer at Microsoft. The process reminds me of writing efficient code: 1. CODE: Understand the requirements ENTREPRENEUR: Understand your offer and targets 2. CODE: Strategize solutions given the available
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Law 1 - Never Outshine the Master Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they
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I've been in this business for years, long enough to see people fail or succeed and draw my own conclusions as to why. I have friends who made fortunes in this business and others who basically flopped and played with IM like a hobby. Everyone wants to be a winner,
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So I was feeling nostalgic. I decided to go through some of my old stuff. Then, I remembered when I used to write scripts for sale. I looked at my vendor dashboard to ponder about "the good old days." Then, I looked at the number of copies sold. The number
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A comical analogy... Have you ever wondered what people mean by "scaling" a business? They say once you find a method to make money you need to scale it to make more money. I offer below a clearer example everyone could relate to. Take for example the street beggar. I
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Does anyone else want to be an entrepreneur only because you find the idea of being an employee disgusting? It bothers me to my core to be someone's subordinate. Call me narcissistic or worse, but it's just how I feel. I'm actually humble and nice towards others. I definitely don't
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Steve Jobs achieved massive success as the co-founder of Apple, but he also was no stranger to massive failure. Like the time Jobs was fired from Apple at the age of 30. Or how about the time he launched numerous product failures. Remember these? The Apple Lisa. Macintosh TV. The
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I am glad to see the back of 2023 and in general I look forward to the New Year anyway. I have read some excellent stories on this sub and thought I would share my own. I did OK dropshipping on Wish years ago. Since then I started a few
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22 Years Ago, Steve Jobs Said 1 Thing Separates People Who Achieve From Those Who Only DreamWhile this sentence is one you might not expect from Steve Jobs, it is one that all of us can -- and should -- say.Inc.Jeff Haden
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Here's a hypothetical question for debate. "Is it easier to get 1,000 people to give $1, or 1 person for $1,000?" Say you needed $1,000. Would you ask 1,000 people for a buck or try to find a single person to give you the lump sum?
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October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of a trick question. It's equivalent to asking how to make a startup succeed — if you avoid every cause of
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