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  1. mt_myke

    Yea, somebody had to calculate that shit

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Yay, something I know a bit about. The math isn't all that hard because there's not much volatility in the motion of planets...they pretty much move in well defined cycloids (think Spirograph). In fact the basics were figured out back in the 1600s already (Kepler's laws of planetary motion)...
  2. mt_myke

    My regrets as a 46 year old, and advice to others at a crossroad

    HOT! 
    Geez, how about adding "don't lie down and die in your 40s" to the end of that story? He could continue writing his book tomorrow. Many famous entrepreneurs (Colonel Sanders, Ray Croc) didn't "make it" until after their 50s, and IIRC a breakdown of startups showed that most were founded by...
  3. mt_myke

    "How to Make a No. 1 App With $99 and Three Hours of Work"

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Interesting thread. My old roomate is looking at doing games so I did a bit of research on this yesterday. The one point I'll make here is be very careful about "average" game prices. Averages are based on the underlying distribution being normal. What that means is you'd expect a small...
  4. mt_myke

    TOXIC PEOPLE

    HOT! PEOPLE 
    In all fairness the other crabs are probably trying to pull themselves up and out, never realizing that all they're doing is pulling the other crab back in. Anyway here's a great clip from the Boondocks about crab bucket syndrome:
  5. mt_myke

    Online CS/Programming Course As a Fastlane Business

    I'd be very careful drawing too much of a conclusion from this. I agree this gentleman made a very shrewd move, but keep in mind he released the course literally days after Apple announced Swift, and (not surprisingly) generated most of his income in that first month. I suspect his profit is...
  6. mt_myke

    Quick Hustle: How I made $2,000 on Teespring

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    Same, after viewing the shirts I now get them as ads on this site, as well as others. Is this something Teespring does? What's the proper name for this?
  7. mt_myke

    Real simple - real snacks!

    EXECUTION 
    Thanks for the replies! I'm at the point now where I can continue validation by putting together prototype boxes and selling them to whoever will buy, and getting all the feedback I can from those sales. Someone came up with the idea of making them available at the local gaming store (old...
  8. mt_myke

    Real simple - real snacks!

    EXECUTION 
    This is the progress thread for the new business I accidentally started at an event last weekend - for more about that check out https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/startupweekend-post-mortem.55165/ To summarize: The business was pitched in 60 seconds on a Friday night, ignored...
  9. mt_myke

    Starting TMF In My Late 30s

    MINDSET 
    Hang in there! I'm 43, gonna be 44 in less than two months - and I just took a HUGE step toward making my business reality! Just remember, whenever you're down, you've still got over 5 years on me! :rolleyes:
  10. mt_myke

    StartupWeekend post-mortem

    UPDATE!!! There was a dinner at a local restaurant after the event. I didn't go, but I've been told there was a groundswell of support and enthusiasm for my idea at that dinner. Monday morning (just yesterday, seems like weeks ago already) two of the event organizers contacted me - they are...
  11. mt_myke

    StartupWeekend post-mortem

    Just got back from the Glacier Startup Weekend. This is an event sponsored by Google and others and they seem to have a lot of them, and since I'd never seen it mentioned here I thought I'd share my experience with fellow goatherders. Glacier means Glacier Park area of Montana, so I wasn't...
  12. mt_myke

    Anyone know anything about currencies?

    INVESTING 
    Sure, and I bet wages in Thailand for equivalent work are 2-4x less than in the US, at least.
  13. mt_myke

    Anyone know anything about currencies?

    INVESTING 
    This is something newbie currency traders (and gold bugs, who are wrong about everything always) get tripped up on. They're told relative currency valuations mirror relative strengths of countries, and so when the US financial system imploded they thought the USD would go down. Of course as...
  14. mt_myke

    Anyone know anything about currencies?

    INVESTING 
    As someone who used to trade currencies... Forget about any rhyme or reason in the relative valuation of currencies. You will come away frustrated if you try to find a simple formula that gives you real-world relative prices between two currencies. There have been volumes written about this...
  15. mt_myke

    Product validation vs. internet startup

    Thanks MJ, I'll continue with "Plan A". BTW I think this is the first forum thread of mine you've commented on, seems like that should be an achievement (although it would spur the worst kind of behavior - never mind). Anyway it wasn't you, it was someone on my progress thread that said...
  16. mt_myke

    Product validation vs. internet startup

    Getting visitors is easy - you pay to get them, as @DrJake said. Working a day job (for now!) at a company whose sole lead generation is from google ads - and keeps a room full of phones ringing 16 hours a day, 7 days a week - has convinced me that "organic" and similar non-pay approaches are...
  17. mt_myke

    Product validation vs. internet startup

    Yes you are right, I am, but the reason is I've been told "yer doen it wrong, make a landing page!" And I've thought for some time how the heck I would do that for the thing I'm doing, and couldn't come up with a way that made sense, hence this thread. I was also hoping for validation...
  18. mt_myke

    Product validation vs. internet startup

    Right and that's my point. I don't know what the very first version of MJ's site looked like but at the very least he would have had to have different cities, lists of limo providers or limo types available at each city...even if the "request a reservation" was nothing more than a form mailer...
  19. mt_myke

    Product validation vs. internet startup

    Ok, I've been thinking about this for a while, but just can't reconcile some things here. First let me make sure I got the original FastLane story more or less right. MJ was a limousine driver and had several clients ask if he knew where to find a limo in other cities. Based on this, he built...
  20. mt_myke

    My many attempts at flipping items on Craigslist

    MARKETING 
    Nope, junk. Flat panel LCDs can be had for $10 used at the "buddy price". CRTs (glass) - you can probably get people to pay you to haul them away, even if they are still working. Same for glass TVs, my neighbor put a working 30" glass TV on the curb last week, free, with a stand to sweeten...

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