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Recent content by RicardoGrande

  1. RicardoGrande

    Cafe Franchise in Rural Areas

    IDEA 
    If Hunt Brothers can do it in the U.S. in towns with less than 300 occupants, you can definitely work something out in NL. Maybe you can event copy their "Rent out equipment and sell them the inventory" business model...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    View: https://youtube.com/shorts/q-rC9qiHNx0 Random dumb little video but -really- goes to show the importance of making connections and planting seeds. The guy's been selling business jets since the 80s, sold off his fast food joints and had to go to eastern europe after the berlin wall...
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    Launch of a clothing brand - produced by me, no drop shipping

    EXECUTION 
    Either way you go, wanted to say you can definitely do this. At one of the BNI groups I visited, there was a dad who had run a custom t-shirt/screenprinting/hat embroidery company since 2009 and had no lack of customers (even with modern PoD places as competitors) at all. He just got sick of...
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    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    NOTABLE! IDEA 
    Ryan Moran mentions this in his episodes or founder interviews. One could spend years agonizing and chasing numbers trying to find something "ripe"... or just pick up an existing pain they already have, solve it, and put it out there for market feedback. Smart sweets that sold for like 380...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

    HOT! CHAT 
    Don't know where else to put this: Was looking at leads, part of my process involves checking their business listings. One guy got directly sabotaged, I'm assuming, because his google, nextdoor, and business directory listings showed his address as the County Jail :rofl: (In addition to a flood...
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    (Slow Burn) Starting and Fastlaning a snack & nutrition brand.

    EXECUTION 
    Wow. Took years of searching but finally finding the right words and talking to the right people. Got pointed to a few people from one of the groups I'm in, two of them are actually successful food founders who have already exited. A few more still work in the industry and have had great...
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    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    NOTABLE! IDEA 
    Oh Man... this one is a brain tickler: HUNT BROTHERS! View: https://youtube.com/shorts/lGeG_trG4Tg https://www.inc.com/associated-press/the-amazing-way-hunt-brothers-has-built-a-pizza-empire.html I've seen the signs on some shot-up, sketchy-@$$ looking gas stations, but I did not know they...
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    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    NOTABLE! IDEA 
    The oldheads on the forum always talk about domain experience, even if it isn't from a job. It can be anything, passions, hobbies, anything you've been cultivating enough knowledge/experience with to start to identify gaps and/or opportunities. So for today's example of why you (me) are dumb...
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    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Update: Surprise client has ghosted(?) me. Was supposed to get him on a call to approve the new site I built up and take final payment, then he put off that call, and he's been kicking it down the road weekly for a month now. E-mails- about 200 out, one touchback though I don't believe it will...
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    If You Work Remote at a Job, Listen To This Advice.

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    A wider thing I'm really picking up here, between the two main camps, is this: If you have time, whatever time you have, make damn good use of it. And damn it, I've been there too. I know @Johnny boy just had a gold post on this the other day, but it's worth re-iterating here. Despite what...
  11. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    NOTABLE! IDEA 
    Everytime I come here with one of these, I feel like I just walked out of a boxing match with Mike Tyson :rofl: What's on the table this week? So, everyone nowadays is a bit of a health nut, I see a lot of ads and discussion on twitter, one thing that popped up a lot were people discussing the...
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    Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Meetup.

    MEETUPS 
    Oh hey we're on for today?
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    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    NOTABLE! IDEA 
    Guys I can't stop finding these and hating myself for overthinking product ideas :rofl: This is one I ran into from the startup CPG group- Unbooze: So- it's another rehash of "hangover prevention supplements" but they seem to be blowing up. It's a small handfull of supplements (napkin math...
  14. RicardoGrande

    (Slow Burn) Starting and Fastlaning a snack & nutrition brand.

    EXECUTION 
    Small update: Did more prototyping in the past months, I've settled on a first product that I can make reliably (only minimally blowing up my kitchen) but now the questions are: 1) How do I get this to taste better and shelf stable? 2) Can my recipe be broken down into a formula, which a...
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    Web Design Journey

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    See what his GMB profile looks like, and if there's nothing there, create it and optimize it with service area and services- you should be able to find a video or two on youtube to get you most of the way there. I've been doing it because I see the writing on the wall for SEO due to chatgpt...
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