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  1. DennisD

    I'm not making a SECOND BURGER for free!

    SIDE HUSTLE RANT 
    The Scene. You're at local diner. It's a small place. The cook and his wife run it by themselves. You've eaten there twice before and you came in today for a burger. You order and hand over your $10. After a while, the cook/owner approaches. "I accidentally dropped your burger on the floor"...
  2. DennisD

    I have a question about feedback echoes

    The scale will make more sense to you when you're in the midst of your journey. My first profitable website was getting roughly ~100k unique visits a month. I designed it myself, knowing NOTHING about design at the time... and do you know how many people I had asking me to redesign? ZERO. If...
  3. DennisD

    Agree or Disagree: Entrepreneurship is a privilege

    HOT! 
    On the main topic of this thread: OP is correct. Some people will NOT BE ABLE to start certain types of business. This is a truth. Sometimes money is a huge factor that LIMITS your ability to get started in certain spaces. A poor black kid from Compton will NOT be able to launch a innovative...
  4. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Home and belongings are concepts we value because we fear entering the unknown. I will never look back on a decision and say "I wish I had chosen to HOLD ONTO my mental crutches instead of facing growth."
  5. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    We had initially planned on travelling southeast Asia for at LEAST 6 months. Maybe INDEFINITELY. Then, we found out wifey was pregnant. We KNEW from the getgo that we wanted to deliver the baby in the US and be surrounded by family. Rather than cancelling the plan entirely, we shortened the...
  6. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    "Everywhere" is a bit optimistic. I'd say the Indonesian food is great at places that has english on the menu. There's no guarantee that the smaller places will be as good to you... unless of course you're a fan of Giardia. 1) Neither. This is another case of "burning the ships doesn't work...
  7. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    A rat got into our room here in Indonesia. I didn't want to get bitten and risk disease, so I spent TWO HOURS trying to corner it and get him out with a broom and bucket. Enough was enough. I wrapped a T-Shirt around my hand, grabbed him, and threw him outside. When another got into the room it...
  8. DennisD

    What is copywriting?

    MARKETING 
    There's a complicated etymology behind the word but hers' what you need to know: Writing is the art of communicating ideas through text. Copywriting is the art of driving action through text. The writing on sales letters, calls to action, advertisements, product descriptions, and pamphlets is...
  9. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Monkeys are little monsters. I was on my toes while visiting Sacred Monkey Forrest, and they still managed to steal my wife's lipstick, crackers, and hand sanitizer. After we left, I had my guard down. We had left a pharmacy with some sunscreen, deet, water, and 200,000 rupiah in loose change...
  10. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    I'd need more specific questions as there's entirely too much. It's a completely different country on the literal other side of the planet. Things are certainly different in a LOT of ways than back home. Some things are comfortingly familiar. What sort of thing in particular were you hoping to...
  11. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Yep! ~$100 was enough money for food and lodging for a week (after that first two days). Hustled HARD to get a few US clients paying US dollars, which (can) last very long in Rupiah. Due to the exchange rate, this is the perfect plan for anybody who has the ability to make money remotely...
  12. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    Started in Denpasar, then moved to three separate locations in Ubud, then to Munggu, now in Canggu. However, as this became our day-to-day... the second half of our trip we stopped like tourists, and started living like locals. Cheap eats, cheap lodging, head down, workworkwork, get shit done.
  13. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    The question isn't WHAT was about to eat the dog. The question is WHO was about to eat it. The answer is exactly as you might fear. While Bali is a PARADISE and I ABSOLUTELY recommend getting here if you can, there are a few peculiarities. Backstory: This is an island "lost to time." Living...
  14. DennisD

    AMA: Sold Everything - Moved to Bali

    HOT! EXECUTION 
    When Cortez conquered Mexico, he wasn't playing around. He ordered his troops to BURN THEIR SHIPS. No backup plan, no solution, no excuses, no scapegoats. Failure was not an option. Defeat the enemy, or literally die trying. Earlier this year, my pregnant wife and I sold everything we owned...
  15. DennisD

    Anyone else notice that McDonalds is making a *killing* lately?

    HOT! 
    Although science, technology, and actual facts are on the side of these bigger companies, people corral into these silos of distrust. Monsanto has a similar problem with their reputation. Even though this is a forum FILLED with 'free-thinking entrepreneurs', we're all human. Bias, groupthink...
  16. DennisD

    Anyone else notice that McDonalds is making a *killing* lately?

    HOT! 
    Before the government intervened in the 1950s, bread was sold by weight and nearly all bakers were mixing flour with sawdust as filler. This was something that's happened for hundreds of years. This included sawdust from treated wood, which, of course, isn't exactly great for your health...
  17. DennisD

    Anyone else notice that McDonalds is making a *killing* lately?

    HOT! 
    I'm convinced that these companies live and die by peripheral zeitgeist. Malcolm Gladwell has a fantastic talk about the cultural rise and fall of wonderbread. When it first came out it represented consistent sanitation in a world where local bakers used poisonous fillers within their bread to...
  18. DennisD

    If you had all the money you could ever spend...

    I'm already doing something amazing and can't afford to split focus. What I had meant to say is: With "all the money I could ever spend", I'd take my notebook of IDEs and bring them all to life.
  19. DennisD

    Why should I have kids?

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    Where is all this coming from? You're not going to get a 'solid argument' because nobody here cares whether or not you have a kid. That's like me asking the community "Convince me to wear green, I want a real solid argument!" Why have a kid? Because you want one.
  20. DennisD

    If you had all the money you could ever spend...

    Hire the team that will allow me to produce my creative works. A children's cartoon about a depressed dragon and manic red panda who are best friends. Sci-fi detective audio program. Videogame about a teenage girl living on the streets. Television series focusing on the origin story of a...

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