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  1. LateStarter

    Need some serious help planning my future life within the next 3 days.

    Speaking as a seasoned and wise 41 year old... o_O... don't fear a decision. Noting is concrete, particularly at your age. I hate to be the one influencing your decision, since I really know nothing about you other that what you wrote, but I'll offer my suggestion. If I were you , and unsure...
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    At a crossroads. What would you do?

    MINDSET 
    WTF?! Did you really just say that? $5k in the bank and owing $10k and you want to sell your condo to 1) 'relax' and 2) start/grow your business? No offense, but with this as your first post I immediately think you're lazy. You're 25! Get off your a$$ and get to work! You've said that you...
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    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    I'm with you @Vigilante... Mind you that recently I have stupidly been following one specific author's line of books. I read "Abundance", which I thought was great, then followed it up with "Bold" which was decent but more geared to crowd funding and using competition to drive 10x gains in...
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    Toronto Fastlane meet up: Summer Edition

    MEETUPS 
    Sure. I have a full day, but I'll try to rearrange to fit it in.
  5. LateStarter

    Why Real Estate When You Can Buy A Business ?

    EXECUTION 
    Mine have been 20% down through conventional lending. I don't like paying for mortgage insurance and haven't needed to hustle to get creative with financing yet. As my RE portfolio scales I can leverage the other properties as part of the creative financing since they have equity built-in...
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    Side gigs to fund my real startup

    EXECUTION 
    @forchunet don't discount the feedback so quickly. While @Zl1996 might not understand that MVP means Minimum Viable Product, MVP does mean different things to different people. For you it means a website/web app; for others it may mean an standalone app, a physical product, etc. The 'product'...
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    Toronto Fastlane meet up: Summer Edition

    MEETUPS 
    Well geezuz! Someone pin down a date! ;) Do I hear, 17th?
  8. LateStarter

    Audiobooks

    BOOKS 
    I think you're using the wrong comparison for this. Don't compare it to music, but to the book itself. I believe that's what the audiobook price is modeled after and I suspect it's largely due to the royalty/profit structure associated with the content in the book. I'm sure that someone can and...
  9. LateStarter

    FREE: Business Idea Training Course

    IDEA 
    I started a few days after the initial sign up. I'm on day two. Life's been busy with conference travel, 9-5 work issues, and an impending closing on another rental property this week but I'm working on it. Too soon to say if anything is polarizing; either positively or negatively. I think I'm...
  10. LateStarter

    How long should I run a landing page validation campaign

    From what I understand of your project I'd just advertise your site. Your offer is on the site and that's where you need to convert. But also have a FB page build in the event people want to like/share the page and follow you that way. Site coverts to sales FB page builds an audience.
  11. LateStarter

    How long should I run a landing page validation campaign

    +1 My experience has been that heatmaps can help if you are driving traffic but not converting. Without them, it's like trying to look into a black hole.
  12. LateStarter

    I need to kick myself up the you know what

    MINDSET 
    The way I see it, you have two options. 1) Figure out a way that you can better earn $1500/mo and shut down the store to remove that stress, or 2) Make a pivot with the store to try to make it more profitable and reduce the stress it produces. For option 1) To me it sounds like stepping up...
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    How long should I run a landing page validation campaign

    Don't think of it in terms of time, but instead in terms of reach/frequency along with other factors that are specific to your product. Eg. What's the size of your market? What's the sales cycle of your product? How much of your target market have you advertised your offer to and has it had...
  14. LateStarter

    App Development - Pushing the Snowball Downhill

    EXECUTION 
    Have you verified that your idea isn't already part of an existing product on the Android platform? Also consider how to convince people to download it, install it and retain it. After all, getting people to voluntarily download and install something that they know will inconvenience them is a...
  15. LateStarter

    Dropping out of High school?

    MINDSET 
    You sound like a quitter. You quit all 4 jobs you've every held after a few weeks and now you want to quit high school? It's obvious to me that you still have lessons to learn in: 1) appreciating hard work, 2) starting from nothing, and 3) seeing things through. ...likely more beyond that...
  16. LateStarter

    8 Eyewear: From Idea, to Launch, to Growth (And Quitting the Job)

    IDEA 
    Amazing accomplishment and an amazing story you've created for yourself! Keep pushing! There's more out there!
  17. LateStarter

    You've seen it a thousand times, but here it is again

    MINDSET 
    There's just one thing about your post that really concerns me and that is you're basing your decision on finances; both costs and offsetting revenue. While it's sensible to keep costs in mind, I don't think this should be the primary reason in making any decision. $5k/year is nothing even if...
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    FREE: Business Idea Training Course

    IDEA 
    I'm in. Gotta keep moving forward.
  19. LateStarter

    Hey Shumayel. Constructive criticism: Become an Insider, do some heavy reading of the posts...

    Hey Shumayel. Constructive criticism: Become an Insider, do some heavy reading of the posts here (Gold ones), read the book, start building something, and then try recruiting people for a mastermind. Only having 1 post before you solicit people for a mastermind doesn't say much except that...
  20. LateStarter

    Another one of my fresh ideas

    IDEA 
    It's hard to say without knowing product. At the risk of sounding too cynical, it sounds like toilet paper to me. Both the product, and the idea. Wipe your a$$ with it and flush it away. If people use it every day it's likely already a commodity. Margins will be tight and you may never make any...

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