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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/jayabrahamassets/Books/From+Mediocrity+to+Millions+--+Joint+Ventures.pdf found this slab of gold as I was searching about JV's.
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    A cautionary tale of Amazon being Amazon...

    SCALING 
    Bezos is basically Rockefeller 2.0
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    We ended up hiring a paralegal to help us out, we'll see how it goes
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    @MJ DeMarco I was reading through TMF again and you mentioned in the chapter talking about how your competitors were undercutting your leads, how you "had better joint venture partners". Do you have any advice on utilizing joint ventures in the lead business? Anything from your time that maybe...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Some unfortunate news. We started reading about the law and what we've been doing is unfortunately in a gray area when it comes to legality and we had to shut down our operations the way we've been doing it right now or eventually suffer consequences. Well, the fastlane sure is a journey of...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    You know what, I’m actually very happy this happened. Thank god it didn’t happen when I have 100+ clients. I can catch it early and solve the problem. This problem is going to be the single reason why we are able to scale the company to new heights. If never happened, we’d have stayed small...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    We're going to build our own small version of twilio. That's the only way around this.
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Well the question I have for you is.. Did you do anything to gain more control after they banned you the first time? I think our problem was the lack of an opt-in. So we're going to try the ads strategy you were telling me your friend uses. I wonder if @MJ DeMarco ever ran into control...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    Well well well.. Today I had my first run-in with the commandment of control. I never thought @MJ DeMarco 's words would come true, and thought i'd be the outlier that beats it, but no no no. The commandment of control will get you. For us, it was twilio. Sudden shut down. It's stopped our...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    It's funny, when I wrote this I was sleep deprived. After i slept and meditated for 1 hour all chaos vanished in my head. When feeling stressed. just ask "am i just sleep deprived and my brain is blowing things out of proportion?"
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I can see why you chose the screen-name Antifragile. Wow, if only we could all adopt this mindset, it would be an endless flow of creativity, innovation, and fearlessness. And the entry to having the mindset appears to be... well... failing a lot!
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Thanks. This is great, this is probably the thing that is hard to see with new entrepreneurs because they haven't had enough failures they've recovered from to use as references in the past to know that it will be okay this time around. Exactly. You're disconnected from what happens in the...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    vulnerable post I’m wondering if anyone here running a business has found a mindset or perspective shift to separate your emotions from the rise and falls in business? It literally affects my mood. Things are going well in the business, I feel good. Things are going bad, I feel bad. I feel...
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    Going Fastlane Like My Life Depends On It.. (continued)

    GOLD! EXECUTION 
    A client just tried to offer me a full time job for doing what my business provides. That, is how you get a good job without a degree ! Of course, I said no.
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    What skills should I learn in 2024 ?

    IDEA 
    that's too hard, i rather read 100m offers all day and spend the rest of my time feel euphoric about how i'll "eventually" use the information
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