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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    A little RANT about FAITH and SCRIPT Just said to my wife that we're thinking of doing products and thing's would definitely won't go nice and dandy from the start, but we'll make it eventually. Talk quickly went south with her mentioning my previous "startup" failure, the fact that one of my...
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    Should I learn digital marketing or coding as a 17yo?

    MARKETING 
    People guided by logic and emotions, psychology studies that. Machines operate by strict formal (mathematical) rules. That's probably the main difference. In programming, you often think of casual effects, branches and explain it to machines. Same with marketing. In programming, you split...
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    Should I learn digital marketing or coding as a 17yo?

    MARKETING 
    Both are good. They're actually pretty similar. Both require some strategic thinking, optimizations, analysis, and planning. Marketing includes some copywriting, psychology and design. Coding includes learning languages, splitting complex concepts into smaller and simpler ones and thinking...
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    Beware! Growth-Killing Identity Labels...

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    I honestly don't see a problem with identity labels. The true issue is the fixed mindset itself. I'm a programmer. I also can do marketing, ugly design, electronics repair, electrician service, car maintenance, etc. and can learn to do other things if I have to. I'm not good at that. I'll take...
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    Pricing a unique service?

    (engineer's pay for that few hours you save + some % of penalty saving and missed profits ) * avg. machine failures per year You can probably charge really huge if you can communicate well the benefits for the factories of using your service and there's no competition.
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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    This weekend set the new best days again for the NDA project. Done some quick analysis and it turns out that top 5% of our users are responsible for 50% of the profits and total profits from the bottom 50% are less than the profit from the top 1 user. Glad we went with micro-payments, as we can...
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    Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started (seriously)

    EXECUTION 
    Thing #13: Think of your end goals And built the business that can achieve them. You on your own and have the choice of what to do and how. And the choice of what to do next on every stepping stone of your journey. Choose carefully. One vehicle is the fastest on the highway, other is better in...
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    Product vs Service - Which Do you Prefer to Sell?

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    If they are really equal then Product every time. However, they different so it's unlikely. Been thinking a lot on this recently, sharing my thoughts and findings in a CENTS projection would probably help someone. Control Serving one big client is not different than depending on one supplier...
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    Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started (seriously)

    EXECUTION 
    Thing #11: Get it to the market Yes, you may think it's not good enough, not perfect, not ready, bad idea, etc. But that's only you. The market is probably much bigger and consists of different people/businesses. Someone might like it. You'll never know until it's there. This is extremely...
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    (Video) The Contrepreneur Formula Exposed

    Totally made my day, lol. $31m blueprint, the system and only for $1.99! Only 5 steps! Though, the gnomes had a better one My friend was under the influence of similar gurus but on superhuman abilities, not entrepreneurship. It's really hard to get people out of these nets once they've...
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    How to be less busy

    *** Offtopic Thanks for reading, you're probably the only one who got to the end :). Definitely could do it differently, without getting myself into this situation. Although, quite likely the results would be different then too. I'm almost done with the energy drinks already, only drinking...
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    How to change career?

    Or he would try to keep you cause your salary is below median and you're the second best guy in your department. That may be a raise proposal or refusal to give good recommendation if he's a dick. You probably make him some good money. Everything else sounds like a good plan. You would probably...
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    Andy shoots the breeze with eliquid

    HOT! 
    1) Waving hands makes it more full and even emotional. Gives a feeling that both of you are totally focused on it. 2) You're really good at listening and you both wait for another person to finish the talk and don't interrupt him. 3) A half sentence at the beginning doesn't make it any worse...
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    How can you work full time while growing your business ?

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    It's complicated... It's a client project of my side service business but I also have decent equity in it for reduced service rates. Machine learning is probably the only thing I haven't played with yet in programming. Oh... and I haven't launched rockets into space too, but I'm pretty sure...
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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Things are getting better. NDA Project got an app of the month title in a niched online magazine. They've also written a nice article on it and put a link on their main page. Free marketing for us. The churned user is back but using the app much less (more carefully?). The project also passed...
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    Advice on order of operations (concept/product vs. market/audience)

    Start with a need or a problem to be solved. Then check if the market for this need exists and how big and hungry it is. Then figure out the solution and check once again if the market is happy with it and is willing to pay for it. Starting with your own needs is probably the easiest way. Steve...
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    How to be less busy

    Totally agree that being "busy" is not a good a thing. But what to do if I'm busy with really important tasks? Zero social media, news, tv, friends and other distractions already. No perfectionism, get sh1t done asap mode. Zero priority subscriptions to anything even left the current project's...
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    Which Movies/Series/TV Shows Are You Watching?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    I don't watch TV series as that takes too much time. However, I don't miss any Marvel movie :).
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    How can you work full time while growing your business ?

    HOT! 
    I'm working for 12-16 hours a day for the last 2 months on a clients project (not recommended). Took a two-week vacation to build the MVP and get it to the market, you can do the same if you're building a product. Finding good freelancers to outsource the product is another option. They would...
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    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Week -4 Is probably the worse so far. NDA Project had to refund 4 clients cause of bugs. One was our (the wrong formula that made sense, but we stated another formula in the documentation and clients were relying on that). Two more from the data provider that we spotted manually, but too...

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