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  1. RicardoGrande

    (Slow Burn) Starting and Fastlaning a snack & nutrition brand.

    EXECUTION 
    Wow. Took years of searching but finally finding the right words and talking to the right people. Got pointed to a few people from one of the groups I'm in, two of them are actually successful food founders who have already exited. A few more still work in the industry and have had great...
  2. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    Oh Man... this one is a brain tickler: HUNT BROTHERS! View: https://youtube.com/shorts/lGeG_trG4Tg https://www.inc.com/associated-press/the-amazing-way-hunt-brothers-has-built-a-pizza-empire.html I've seen the signs on some shot-up, sketchy-@$$ looking gas stations, but I did not know they...
  3. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    The oldheads on the forum always talk about domain experience, even if it isn't from a job. It can be anything, passions, hobbies, anything you've been cultivating enough knowledge/experience with to start to identify gaps and/or opportunities. So for today's example of why you (me) are dumb...
  4. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Update: Surprise client has ghosted(?) me. Was supposed to get him on a call to approve the new site I built up and take final payment, then he put off that call, and he's been kicking it down the road weekly for a month now. E-mails- about 200 out, one touchback though I don't believe it will...
  5. RicardoGrande

    If You Work Remote at a Job, Listen To This Advice.

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    A wider thing I'm really picking up here, between the two main camps, is this: If you have time, whatever time you have, make damn good use of it. And damn it, I've been there too. I know @Johnny boy just had a gold post on this the other day, but it's worth re-iterating here. Despite what...
  6. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    Everytime I come here with one of these, I feel like I just walked out of a boxing match with Mike Tyson :rofl: What's on the table this week? So, everyone nowadays is a bit of a health nut, I see a lot of ads and discussion on twitter, one thing that popped up a lot were people discussing the...
  7. RicardoGrande

    Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Fastlane Meetup.

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    Oh hey we're on for today?
  8. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    Guys I can't stop finding these and hating myself for overthinking product ideas :rofl: This is one I ran into from the startup CPG group- Unbooze: So- it's another rehash of "hangover prevention supplements" but they seem to be blowing up. It's a small handfull of supplements (napkin math...
  9. RicardoGrande

    (Slow Burn) Starting and Fastlaning a snack & nutrition brand.

    EXECUTION 
    Small update: Did more prototyping in the past months, I've settled on a first product that I can make reliably (only minimally blowing up my kitchen) but now the questions are: 1) How do I get this to taste better and shelf stable? 2) Can my recipe be broken down into a formula, which a...
  10. RicardoGrande

    Web Design Journey

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    See what his GMB profile looks like, and if there's nothing there, create it and optimize it with service area and services- you should be able to find a video or two on youtube to get you most of the way there. I've been doing it because I see the writing on the wall for SEO due to chatgpt...
  11. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    Just posted this in another thread but it should go here: https://www.starterstory.com/sarah-hannington - "Hey, those cruddy little candy hearts with messages, but like, funny and rude ones would be awesome, but no one makes them?" - "Hey, I found a company that I can contract to make my...
  12. RicardoGrande

    “In a gold rush, don’t dig for gold, sell shovels!”

    SIDE HUSTLE 
    I respect this opinion, au contraire: https://www.shopify.com/ph/blog/custom-seasonal-business 100,000$+/year for 2-3 weeks of purchases.
  13. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    IME hello elementor is a blank slate mostly used if you'll be building your own pages with your own elements/designs. It's all I've used when I did use elementor.
  14. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Mopped up the surprise client and final payment coming in soon and I'll get to do my "I saved this guys @$$" case study. Right now turning back to updates for an old client, getting paid which is nice. Sales call today with a guy who's been in contact with me for a year for at least one site...
  15. RicardoGrande

    I'm going to wash windows for money tomorrow for the first time in my life. Any tips?

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Echoing this- I only technically have one active client that's about to pay me right now, but just that and my past few projects make me so thankful. I used to wake up hating the first breaths of air in the day because I'd have to drag myself off to my dayjob. Now I wake up thinking about all...
  16. RicardoGrande

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Does anyone else remember a thread where the guy came on bragging that he read TMF, so he got himself fired at work and worked his unemployment over to disablity- and while he hadn't had any fastlane businesses yet, he'd been pretending for 11 months that his welfare checks were fastlane payment...
  17. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

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    Update: These guys are in Costco now
  18. RicardoGrande

    Surprisingly simple stupid businesses- that somehow work

    GOLD! HOT! IDEA 
    Here's a treat: Thursday Boots. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsoaAy3QWPg Two friends: "Hey, boots are either stupid expensive or really suck... can we do something about it?" So they went down to Guatemala with a design in mind and had some cobblers make just 20 pairs, aiming for...
  19. RicardoGrande

    Exiting the cubicle farm and taking Web-Design full time

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Update: Spent time crunching through the two prior projects while balancing the dayjob, but the dayjob got a whole lot worse. Been applying/interviewing but nothing good yet- things also getting explosive and getting some good motivation to make this work (again). Storytime: Went over contact...
  20. RicardoGrande

    Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Fastlane Meetup.

    HOT! MEETUPS 
    Wow is it that time already

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