Hey Fastlaners,
I've been meaning to post this and contribute and bring some value back to the place that planted the entrepreneur enlightenment seed in me. If it wasn't for MJ and a few others; my life path would not have been what it has been for the past 10 years and future...
Anyways; one thing unique about me is that I am what you consider having Unicorn Skills by silicon valley standards. I can code, market, and design and all self-taught.
And so combined with a successful SaaS business on my belt now; I think I am pretty qualified in one of the most popular topics here: Should I Learn To Code My App Or Outsource - especially in having been & experienced ALL Sides to this argument and muscling it through to success.
With that said; I am opening up myself like a book; feel free to ask anything and I will give you my honest opinion, advice, and personal experience on hopping the hurdle.
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Background On Me:
Summary On Me Today:
I've been meaning to post this and contribute and bring some value back to the place that planted the entrepreneur enlightenment seed in me. If it wasn't for MJ and a few others; my life path would not have been what it has been for the past 10 years and future...
Anyways; one thing unique about me is that I am what you consider having Unicorn Skills by silicon valley standards. I can code, market, and design and all self-taught.
And so combined with a successful SaaS business on my belt now; I think I am pretty qualified in one of the most popular topics here: Should I Learn To Code My App Or Outsource - especially in having been & experienced ALL Sides to this argument and muscling it through to success.
With that said; I am opening up myself like a book; feel free to ask anything and I will give you my honest opinion, advice, and personal experience on hopping the hurdle.
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Background On Me:
- I self-taught myself Photoshop 10+ years ago to edit my Facebook pictures through Youtube. Before then I had zero technical experience or aspirations to get into tech.
- I needed a website, and made one with the entire thing being a bunch of images fit together by me swapping things in a pre-made html template. I had zero clue on html.
- An all image website gave much frustration as you can imagine. And I learned how to make hyper-links, text color, sizes, table boxes, etc. through YouTube as I needed to fix things.
- Got good enough to make an operational (but ugly af) website, and started tinkering with Google Adsense after reading success stories.
- Got completely obsessed with the Fastlane and learning/observing/researching how rich people got rich and what values/morals/ethics/heart/drive made them capable of doing that.
- Got obsessed with generating traffic to websites. Had made a few viral YouTube videos (before viral marketing was even a term or thought about) that went well over 5M+ views.
- A few passive websites making money (nothing over 5 figures though)
- Kept at it; my ADD made me want to chase SaaS as it was producing a ton of millionaires at the time.
- Failed miserably at launching my first few into an actual live MVP web app.
- Decided to self-teach myself Ruby on Rails (was freakin' intense & hard)
- Finally created one after years of failing to launch, it was met with mediocre success.
- Went through depression, burnt out, etc. etc.
- Stumbled across Amazon FBA and straight hustled. Daughter was soon to be here, it kicked my a$$ into a whole 'nother gear.
- Came back to SaaS world and launched Feedbackz.
Summary On Me Today:
- MRR (monthly recurring revenue) at 5 figures.
- My Programming Skills Are Bare Minimum meaning I know enough to launch a very basic web app, but anything beyond me I outsource. I am also slow as balls doing any development work.
- Content Marketing is where I am really, really good at.
- Design is a close second, mostly due to the fact that over the years; I learned what little things make something look ugly and doing the opposite. Also, genuine empathy from a user-standpoint helps a lot.
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