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Fastlane Driver

Ok, when you have $70M :rolleyes:, you can create 4 schools to help people. Then when a newspaper picks up the story, I will come on this forum and start a thread saying that you're a fucking joke and tell you what you should have done with it. Fair?

Thanks Silverhawk. I'll tell you what I would do - find local businesses for sale at good valuations. Just today on bizbuysell.com I found 2 businesses near me for sale - each generating $50k profit/year with absentee owners, with $50k in fixtures/inventory - with an asking price of $150k....

Sure. if I had 50,000 right now to invest, the first thing I'd do is market myself to Real Estate Investors. I'd look for the deals that require capital, which the person may not have, but the deals is solid. For example, one deal I'm working on, one of my buddies brought me a deal on a 12...

Silverhawk, can you explain more about this?

I had a similar thought process when I started my B&M business. I was wrong. You would think that the high cost of starting a B&M business would limit competitors, but it doesn't - there's still plenty of competition that pops up/copies you/pivots their business to steal pieces of yours. You...

I believe at the heart of entrepreneurship, theirs a inherent drive to follow one's own belief; a self-confidence if you will. It's the drive that makes you go start a business when everyone else is in the last stages of university, looking to get a job. That fire that when everyone tells you "hey...

I personally love the silent JVs on a land development/RE deals; getting 100% ROI or more within a couple months isn't half bad. Most people will have their eyeballs fall out when they hear that, but believe it or not there are even better ROIs out there. Comes back to the key; Knowledge is...

Thanks Mike!

Mike, If you wouldn't mind - what kind of startup costs did you have (just general numbers are fine if you don't want to discuss specifics)? It doesn't seem like it would need to be very much, maybe $5,000 or so just based on what I'm imagining. But it sounds like yours are much higher, maybe...

Man 2.0 Engineering the Alpha - all about naturally increasing testosterone. I have a few small disagreements with the book, but think overall it's pretty fantastic. I am planning to start the workouts next month.

Wow, you have a totally backwards thinking here. So there are 8700 BBQ handle covers on Amazon? I bet there are not. If there were 8700 BBQ handle covers means that people want them. That should not have been a deterrent. FBA would help you immensely, can you offer free shipping? $3.99 next...

WOW, the true secret of real estate is to sell seminars and DVDs and not get into real estate at all! You should join my true secret of Ecommerce affiliate program. All you need to do is sell Renatus DVDs for me.

Yup, just put it on picmonkey and up the contrast and brightness a couple notches and you have a pro-quality photo.

I have an idea for a food company as well, so I am very interested to see your experience. The farmers market here only requires that they inspect your kitchen - no commercial and/or license requirements. Of course getting into grocery stores would be a whole different issue.

I can see where in situation 1, I would have dipped into my savings. In situation 2, how does direct embezzlement, and theft of intellectual property affect your savings? Isn't your personal and business account separate? In situation 3, how does bad investment affect your savings? Don't you...

Comment, People are just giving their opinions here about your idea. While opening up B&M is not bad and many people do it, I feel that after reading the Fastlane book that you should pick another avenue. You have knowledge that others did not have as they were signing their leases and...

I would get an off the shelf one. No reason to make your own.

I would still go for a .com

You can have SSL on these. ??

You need forced savings as if it were a bill. Imagine your savings account sends you an invoice for $2000 each month. It nags you like a creditor does until you pay it.