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  1. trylks

    Brokering Connections for Fun & Profit

    GOLD! SPEEDWAY 
    I think the first one is the most difficult. I would like to know more about that one. I am guessing you have written about it, being (as it is) in "the past". Would you share a link? Thank you in any case, and good luck.
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    If You Don't Have All Day, You Have All Night.

    MINDSET 
    Do your entrepreneurial job before your "day job". Use your best energy for your side hustle, and leave your body as a carcass void of energy or thought for your presence at meetings and other brain rotting activities until the end of the work day. Then sleep early to get up early.
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    Where to learn trading?

    INVESTING 
    The Intelligent Investor -- Benjamin Graham But perhaps you should consider a plan B before zeroing on investment. Probably DeMarco wrote something like "the compound interest scam", I am too lazy to search for it now, sorry for that.
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    Ideas for blog name? How do you find good names for you website/project?

    IDEA 
    This. MakingGames.com or something similar, if considering to get a URL. If you already have the URL then "The Game Development Blog". GL;HF
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    Focus and subtraction or shave the yak?

    Context: I have a 9 to 5, I am a wantrepreneur so far, to achieve a greater freedom (and better hourly rates), I am setting up a consulting business, writing code. I have many ideas for SaaS, but after closer inspection, probably not so many people need them. Hence the current focus on...
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    Will employees still be useful in the future?

    MINDSET 
    Read the books from MJ DeMarco, in particular the CENTS commandments, and in particular the E: Entry. If a robot can do it, you do not want to do it. If anyone can do it, you do not want to do it. Instead, find something that sucks, and do it with a unique selling proposition. If you need...
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    Moving Out The UK Because It Is A Woke Sh*thole, Any Suggestions Of More Conservative Locations?

    HOT! 
    Thriving and "un-woke": China, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia,... Note: "Conservative Locations" may not be the most immigrant-friendly locations.
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    Do I need to buy hosting as well for my website? or just the domain name is fine?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    There are free hosting options. At this point, what you need to do is search for information in the Internet, understand the technology, and make an informed decision.
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    Books, productocracy, and the creator economy

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    I was thinking of people just sending it by email, like "hey, I'm attaching a book, highly recommended". Most creators are not going to get to torrent sites (or even to be read for free, TBH), that's not a problem. Productocracy relies mainly on this word-of-mouth marketing, and makes...
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    Is blogging a good business idea?

    IDEA 
    Does not seem a hard question. Let's see how good is blogging with the CENTS: Control: choose a self-hosted option; or mail-list, keeping the addresses to which you are writing. Fair enough control, I would say, as long as you don't upset the internet cancel culture mobs. Audience-based...
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    Books, productocracy, and the creator economy

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    Lately, the "creator economy" is "blooming", I mean: there is a handful of services to allow you to upload a PDF and get paid for people downloading it. I want to share my opinion about it because I would like you to correct me in whatever I am wrong, perhaps not too much: This approach to...
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    The right time to quit a JOB

    MINDSET 
    The "theory" says: keep the 20% of your customers that only require 20% of your time and energy but give you 80% of your income. YMMV "Common sense" says: do not quit freelancing 100%, spend less time on it, and possibly charge more by hour.
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    Inventing the next "hand job" or web tool VS. building a platform

    I don't like content creation as a business model, or the attention economy as a whole. When I "generate content", it is after many repetitions, to settle something and stop repeating myself, e.g. tweet. Having said that, a following may be useful as part of a funnel, i.e. not for direct...
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    Question about control in my new business idea

    IDEA 
    I would use LinkedIn API to bootstrap my product, being aware that it is not permanent. You may find alternatives either already existing but with worse cost/benefit ratio, or only possible after reaching some critical mass.
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    University has killed my vision

    Entrepreneurship is not easy. You have to work smart. Consider your current situation a training on that. You have a problem in front of you that is achieving the same results but in only 1 hour. Have you ever seen a mention on 10x developers? Be a 10x you.
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    The final solution to all "I have some money what do I do?" threads.

    GOLD! MINDSET 
    The bait and the tuna are not a bad metaphor, very graphical and explicit. The final conclusion: "Buy something to meet the needs of others" is not so good, e.g. you have $10K, I need a car (I want to work as Uber driver), will you use the $10K to buy me a car? No, you won't, nobody would. The...
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    In case of emergency, buy red lipsticks.

    INVESTING 
    Reminds me of the skirt length (Hemline) theory. I would not base investment decisions on it, in the best case scenario you may analyze significant amounts of data and write a paper about a correlation that may fail to hold at any time.
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    I've Read UNSCRIPTED!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I have read unscripted (some time ago, in fact). I have found three parts in it. The first part is the first half of unscripted, a bit conspiracy-like, I would have written in a different way a number of things, less conspiracy more as a naturally emergent phenomenon, from societies made by...
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    Standards and conventions

    TBH, I do not even know, they should put a price tag next to it, make an interactive page, or just explain. Most probably I will choose one of their competitors, but I am taking some time to skim through forms and documentation because I think it might be a way to get potentially useful...
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    Standards and conventions

    Due to legal requirements I need insurance, I got a bunch of forms from potential insurers. One of them asks if I follow the ISO 9000, which for them is probably a good thing: "follow standards, avoid risks". Similar to that there are not few standards and conventions, the lean x, the minimum...

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