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  1. Rickson9

    How I’m using TikTok to grow my next MILLION DOLLAR business starting with $0

    MARKETING 
    Hello! Long time member. Haven’t posted in awhile I built a self-sustaining multi-million dollar real estate rental business and then disappeared Now I’m back and ready to do it again! With ZERO experience with social media, I’m using TikTok to grow my new business from $0 My goal is $1...
  2. Rickson9

    How James Compton Made $50,000+ in 5 Days

    EXECUTION 
    "I made over $50,000 in 5 days with a drone. It’s super easy and takes little time. Most of the people doing what I’m about to tell you are making a killing and are trying their best to keep it secret from others. I’ve been there done that so here’s step by step how to do it. Enjoy :-)"...
  3. Rickson9

    Frank Rolfe

    REAL ESTATE 
    Hi guys. I just wanted to share some information about and a podcast by Frank Rolfe. I did a search on his name, but nothing came up. If this post belongs in another thread, please move. Awhile ago, I mentioned that some of 'tomorrow's' millionaires will be those who started buying U.S...
  4. Rickson9

    'Stupid' YO App Is Going Viral. 100 YO's Being Sent Per Second And Climbing

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Hogeg, the CEO and founder of Tel Aviv company Mobli, had requested a simple way to get in touch with his wife and his assistant via his smartphone. Email chains were burdensome. Even texting encouraged longer conversations than Hogeg had time for. He envisioned a simple app with large buttons...
  5. Rickson9

    The Dark Side Of Facebook, Where People Lie, Steal, And Make Millions

    In 2011, Fyk was bankrupt, in jail, and borderline suicidal. His troubles dated to 2005. Fyk had been working in real estate. As the month went by, the market turned. Eventually, it caused him to go into a “financial tailspin,” as he puts it. With a wife and a young child to support, he...
  6. Rickson9

    Lawyer Quits Firm And Starts Sex Toy Business That Makes $1M A Year

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Brian Sloan quit his job as a lawyer to start a sex toy business that generates over $1 million a year, and he did it without office space or full-time employees. He and his collaborators at Very Intelligent E-Commerce, Inc. have skipped the usual distribution methods, focusing solely on...
  7. Rickson9

    After Selling His Startup For $25m People He Barely Knew Started Calling...

    FUNNY 
    I sold my startup for $25.5 million on Monday just after 2:23 p.m. Pacific Time. Selling the company, Perfect Audience, to Marin Software took six months of writing carefully worded emails, meeting secretly in cafés, and pacing around the streets of San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood after...
  8. Rickson9

    How To Go From Broke School Teacher To Billionaire

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    In 1995, a former school teacher from China named Jack Ma visited the United States for the first time. He used to go to a local hotel every day so that he could meet people and learn English. He also bought a radio so that he could listen to the English broadcast every day. Despite how well...
  9. Rickson9

    How To Write An Effective Plan and Get Noticed

    I found the following article educational. It's basically how DropBox founder, Drew Houston, got noticed by Y Combinator. If you examine his writing, it's detailed, concise, and speaks to what value he is attempting to bring to the market. Not only does he understand what he's bringing into...
  10. Rickson9

    Man Makes $24 Million Flipping Buildings He Bought 2 Years Ago

    REAL ESTATE 
    Adam Mermelstein, just flipped 12 Upper West Side buildings that he bought two years ago for $60 million. He paid just $36 million for the properties. http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/big-landlord-killing-upper-west-side-article-1.1776076 Baller
  11. Rickson9

    Man Fired. Gets Sued. Launches Startup. Sweet Revenge

    OFF-TOPIC 
    "I was not only fired, I was also sued," he said. His employer accused him of trying to steal their clients and their trade secrets. Jobless, he quit law school. "I’m a law-school dropout and a philosophy major. I’m like the most unemployable person in the world," he laughs. When one of his...
  12. Rickson9

    The Periodic Table Of Storytelling

    PUBLISHING 
    http://designthroughstorytelling.net/periodic/ Background: Dmitri Mendeleev might have designed the original periodic table – a graphic representation of all the basic building blocks of the universe – but artist James Harris has done something way cool with that template — the Periodic Table...
  13. Rickson9

    INTERVIEW: How Barbara Corcoran Shot Like A Shark To Real Estate Top

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Barbara Corcoran did not seem to have much of a chance at building a real estate empire. She barely got D's in high school because of her dyslexia. She still has difficulty reading balance sheets and doesn't care for the details of money management. But starting with $1,000 from a boyfriend...
  14. Rickson9

    35-Year-Old Sells Most Expensive Life Insurance Policy (Guinness World Record)

    OFF-TOPIC 
    (Dovi) Frances spent 4 1/2 years in the Israeli army (the requirement is 3 years for men). During that time, he was in the infantry and attended the officers' academy. He went on to graduate from business school, and then followed his older brother to Deutsche Bank in San Francisco in June 2008...
  15. Rickson9

    15 Year Old Overcomes Fear, Age And Lack Of Experience To Become A Successful RE Investor

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Until this point I had only practiced conversations in front of a mirror and read a handful of courses on the subject of real estate investing. To say I was nervous was a understatement. Not only was I unsure about what I was doing I also looked inexperienced, doe-eyed, pimple-faced, high-pitch...
  16. Rickson9

    28 y/o Will Open 1 Business Every Week For 52 Weeks

    OFF-TOPIC 
    After college, Grussing founded RootSuit — a vendor of skin-tight spandex bodysuits that landed him on "Shark Tank." Next, he created a dealership of motorcycle sidecars sourced from India. Though these endeavors bear little in common other than the impulsive passions of their inventor, each has...
  17. Rickson9

    "Secrets" Of The Richest People

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I feel that this article has a lot of good pearls. Like most broke university students, Steve Siebold wanted to get rich. But unlike most college kids, he did something about it. So he tracked down a millionaire—and requested an interview. That millionaire, in turn, introduced him to another...
  18. Rickson9

    Student Went From Sleeping In Starbucks To Investing In Over A Dozen Companies This Year

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Hamed originally went to Cornell University to play baseball, but fractured his back trying to steal a homerun and had to quit sports. While his back was recovering from the injury, he taught himself to code and created a news summarization website. When that startup failed, he created...
  19. Rickson9

    26 Year Old Sells His Startup For $80 Million

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Jared Hecht, 26, makes startups look easy. He sold his first company, GroupMe, 370 days after it launched for ~ $85 million. GroupMe, a group text messaging app, was acquired by Skype in 2010. Last fall, Hecht and his GroupMe co-founder Stever Martocci left Skype. Both are doing new startups...
  20. Rickson9

    Man Sells First Business For $51 Million. Second For $120 Million.

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Eduardo Vivas is on a roll. On Thursday, LinkedIn announced that it was acquiring his startup, Bright.com, for $120 million. That would make Bright LinkedIn's biggest-ever acquisition, edging out Slideshare, which LinkedIn bought for $119 million in 2012. For Vivas, it's a two-in-a-row home...
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