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    This Is How Fast Your Boss Can Drop You

    RANT 
    I found out the hard way that Employee Relations is a misnamed department. The term is a euphemism. The actual title is, The People Who Get Employees Cowering So They Shut Up, Quit, And Don't Sue Us. The company where I learned this, was in the news because in other class action incidents...
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    Too old to be an entrepreneur, a little late in the game at 35? I was sick for long time.

    HOT! 
    Hey Raoul, Lew had one of the best forum comments of all time! Of all time!!
  3. Late Bloomer

    Ramit Sethi - "I TEACH YOU TO BE RICH" - how legitimate?

    BOOKS 
    Hmm, maybe he was pitching a different book in the ads I saw. It looked like it was pep talks + many examples of some simple inexpensive local testing to prove a market, doing things that don't scale until you find what sells, then make it efficient, then scale it up. That's not what "I teach...
  4. Late Bloomer

    Ramit Sethi - "I TEACH YOU TO BE RICH" - how legitimate?

    BOOKS 
    I see a lot of people who apparently haven't read the book, or seen anything from Ramit, judge it harshly based solely on what they assume from the title. C'mon, the same thing could be said, and probably has been said by quite a few, about "The Millionaire Fastlane." If someone has read...
  5. Late Bloomer

    Coping with serious disabilities?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I've given several specific suggestions of places to turn for a level of help that this forum simply can't provide to you. I think that repeatedly asking the same question of people who don't have the answers you seek, won't get you better results with repeated asking, and repeated rejection...
  6. Late Bloomer

    Coping with serious disabilities?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    So to put it extremely bluntly: What the hell are we supposed to say or do, that will enable you to make things right for him?
  7. Late Bloomer

    Ramit Sethi - "I TEACH YOU TO BE RICH" - how legitimate?

    BOOKS 
    I didn't buy from Ramit but I was on his marketing pitch list for a while. It looks to me like he's a sincere guy with his head screwed on straight, offering a perspective on small business that actually is compatible with MJ's mindset and tactics. I wouldn't recommend Ramit's material ahead...
  8. Late Bloomer

    Feedback on Potential 10K+/Month Biz Concept

    Jay's a huge inspiration to me for fresh, out of the box thinking, but he himself admits he's very disorganized, intuitive, and improvisational in how he presents his ideas. I would really love to include Jay's concepts for growth and expansion, once I have an MJ-style practical Fastlane...
  9. Late Bloomer

    Investing in other businesses and your Way to FastLane Millions?

    HOT! 
    Growth through acquisition has been a winning strategy for many business people and companies. Warren Buffet, Dan Pena, Art Hamel, and Felix Dennis have all written great material about how they made this work for them. With your experience as a business-savvy attorney, I think it could be...
  10. Late Bloomer

    I've been a loser now I MUST find a solution! Any advice?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Some businesses can be started with little or no up front money. If you don't have clinical depression or a medical issue affecting your health and energy level, shouldn't it be possible to drop everything that wastes time, be efficient at studies, start a business on the side, and then either...
  11. Late Bloomer

    Coping with serious disabilities?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    First... it's kind of you to want to help your friend make the most of whatever could be good in his life. However, at a certain point, you have to recognize that his own choice of philosophy of life, thought process, attitude, perspective, focus, etc., is really up to him and not up to you. A...
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    Coping with serious disabilities?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Responsibility = it is up to you how to respond to a situation. It doesn't necessarily mean that you caused it, by anything you did or didn't do. My oncologist said, "It's just random bad luck for you to have this disease." I'm not responsible at all for the fact that it happened. I am...
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    Too old to be an entrepreneur, a little late in the game at 35? I was sick for long time.

    HOT! 
    I've got quite a few years on ya, Kid Makip, but Ray Kroc was older than I am when he was ready for his lucky big break :hilarious:. Seriously, I highly recommend the movie "The Founder" about Ray and the McDonald brothers. A very few facts and people were shuffled around for Hollywood...
  14. Late Bloomer

    Leasing an office vs working from home

    MINDSET 
    I'm eager to do this as soon as I can afford it. My current client rents an office outside his home and loves the separation between work and personal life. For myself, I know it would really help me stay focused on business tasks during working time, and leave work aside for personal life...
  15. Late Bloomer

    This Is How Fast Your Boss Can Drop You

    RANT 
    I've been there too. Life lesson: "Employment at will" means that at any time they can say, "We won't." One of the top reasons I've got to make business work for me, is so no one person (other than me) can ever again cut off 100% of my income.
  16. Late Bloomer

    Have idea for a device/invention but already invented. Want to make it better though?

    IDEA 
    First step would be see if you can measure or project demand without having to build a prototype. Then, figure the smallest, simplest version, with as few features as possible, that might be enough to demonstrate the idea. I'll make up a silly little example. Let's say your product will check...
  17. Late Bloomer

    MVP Software Release

    EXECUTION 
    I'd like to use the free tier for some demo sites, but I find their documentation a bit intimidating. Do you need to give them a credit card to get started? Can you have your site throttled back so you don't run into overage charges? It looks like free includes a full month of a small Linux...
  18. Late Bloomer

    Copywriting Challenge May 2018 (Join me)

    EXECUTION 
    Michael Porter is a business school professor and business consultant who came up with a systematic way to analyze competition within an industry. Here's a summary. Porter's five forces analysis - Wikipedia If you want to get into these ideas more, there are plenty more articles you can find...
  19. Late Bloomer

    Deaf and Daft, getting my first sale

    EXECUTION 
    Oh, that's really cool!! Arra is easy to understand, although very close to Arri, a top manufacturer of motion picture cameras. Timafy as a name just seems confusing to me. But maybe that's just me. Oh yeah! Duh, you've done this before! I'm glad to see that's happening for you, even...
  20. Late Bloomer

    Deaf and Daft, getting my first sale

    EXECUTION 
    It gave me The Big Scary Security Warning, and then failed to load. (Palemoon is a fork of Firefox.) Clicking Try Again just reloads the same error, not the site.

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