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  1. mt_myke

    Funded webapp SaaS

    SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    Are you using the "grunt" methodology for equity? If not, check out the book "Slicing Pie". In your case the problem solves itself, as he starts working on your project part-time his equity (slice of pie) starts shrinking relative to what it was when he was fulltime.
  2. mt_myke

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    If your business is fundamentally non-technical (you're reselling stuff off Alibaba, for example) then you may not need to code. You can quickly build an online store with the many tools and pre-made templates that already exist. However, all your competitors are doing the same, there's no...
  3. mt_myke

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

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    This should be emphasized. There's a world of difference between $50-$100 a day and $5k-$10k. At my day job the only marketing they do is PPC ads, and it keeps a room full of agents busy handling inbound sales - but they also spend over $2M a year on ads.
  4. mt_myke

    Ebola in the USA... Anyone Concerned?

    HEALTH 
    I call BS on the reporter. If it's not public why would the CDC tell a reporter? Most likely they are monitoring 1400 individuals who might have had contact with someone who had ebola, and are being watched for signs of it developing. That's a lot different (and much more benign) than 1400...
  5. mt_myke

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    This is actually a great question, and what I meant with my professional driver analogy. I wish I knew a great site for this but I don't. Most of the time you get a brief introduction to "How XYZ fits into the picture" and then it dives right into XYZ. A site that explains how webapps work at...
  6. mt_myke

    Your s*** sucks and nobody cares

    This post is about the Dip. These are usually written by someone who's now successful and looking back. This one is written being there. My hope is it'll be useful to someone here, maybe myself some time later. "Your stuff sucks and nobody cares." That's pretty much where I am right now...
  7. mt_myke

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I'll just add more fodder to a thoroughly overstuffed thread. This may seem harsh but really if you're not already interested enough in coding to be doing it because you want to by your teen years...you probably never will. I'm sure there are people who started coding in their 30s but I doubt...
  8. mt_myke

    Learning to Program is STUPID! (or SMART?!)

    GOLD! HOT! 
    That works fine until you want to tweak it or scale it up, at which point you can find yourself paying 10x trying to make it work than you would have paid doing it with more appropriate tools in the first place. I've seen the line about "we'll do a quick prototype and then redo the real thing...
  9. mt_myke

    I'm going to make an easy $1M in 2015.......

    EXECUTION 
    I've never done concrete, but I live in Montana...I know a lot of guys who've wrecked their bodies doing concrete (FOAF apparently even died from the chemicals soaking into his sneakers). I also know a lot of guys who leave their families in Montana most of the year to work in Williston...it's...
  10. mt_myke

    I'm going to make an easy $1M in 2015.......

    EXECUTION 
    I would recommend ditching the paper notes and doing that on google spreadsheet. You can share it with other people, sort on the various columns, make backups, and do calculations directly...it's way better than some piece of paper.
  11. mt_myke

    I'm going to make an easy $1M in 2015.......

    EXECUTION 
    You guys would be full-on pros on forex forums (not a compliment)
  12. mt_myke

    Ebola in the USA... Anyone Concerned?

    HEALTH 
    http://time.com/3643092/ebola-deaths-7000-who/ "The total number of cases in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia now stands at 19,031, up from 18,569." Since ebola has about a 50% mortality rate we'll be crossing that psychological 10k death toll sometime in 2015, probably sooner rather than...
  13. mt_myke

    Fastlane Business Using Wordpress

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    I have a lot of reasons to hate WP, and most here won't care. So I'll cut this short to just a few points. People give WP a lot of credit for things that aren't WP at all. Take the templates. Guess what, most WP templates are made with Bootstrap (or similar) - you can get Bootstrap templates...
  14. mt_myke

    Post Your Desk or Work Area! (The Workspace Thread)

    MINDSET FEATURED! 
    Apple had portrait monitors back in the 80s already, big CRT ones that had a 90 degree rotating stand. Saw some in newspaper offices but they never caught on in general. You might be ahead of the curve on a resurgence now that monitors are much lighter and everyone's used to the...
  15. mt_myke

    How I 'retired' at age 22.

    EXECUTION 
    Enough info here to make a good guess at the size of Mr. Grumpy's portfolio and the cash flows he's living on. Using the Toronto Stock Exchange composite index as a proxy, it was at 13705 on Friday the 12th (his post was Saturday the 13th). Two and a half weeks before that would have been Nov...
  16. mt_myke

    Fastlane Business Using Wordpress

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    No. :) Longer WP rant when I'm on a fullsized device...
  17. mt_myke

    Real simple - real snacks!

    EXECUTION 
    Redid the entire web site this weekend in a more modern one-page style. http://hackersnax.com/
  18. mt_myke

    Post Your Desk or Work Area! (The Workspace Thread)

    MINDSET FEATURED! 
    Already had this argument earlier in this thread. Virtual desktops are underrated. I'm typing this on the laptop I've been using all day...no external monitor but 4 virtual desktops. External mouse is nice for longer use though.
  19. mt_myke

    Old people, don't despair!

    HOT! MINDSET 
    Well I certainly feel a lot better reading so many replies from fellow old people. Gives me hope after too many posts on here along the lines of "I'm already 28 and feel like life has passed me by...is it too late??"
  20. mt_myke

    Old people, don't despair!

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I'm not usually one to just link to articles, but this one seems worth it: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238924 For the record, I'm newly 44 as I type this. I know many (if not most) of the members of this forum are in their 20s. Who here is over the "four-oh" and starting a business...

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