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  1. mt_myke

    Should you go and get shit yourself or get a team?

    PEOPLE 
    You need to be flexible. My current project was launched at a startup weekend in September. It was done at the last minute when the team's original plan didn't validate out, and it was me and one other guy. I figured other guy was just helping to be nice, as he kept talking about checking out...
  2. mt_myke

    Real simple - real snacks!

    EXECUTION 
    Merry SnaXmas! Time for the next step. Biz partner and I have sold some "friends and family" prototype boxes. We've looked at similar businesses and have spreadsheets full of numbers. Next week (at the latest) we're going to be launching a marketing campaign for SnaXmas - christmas oriented...
  3. mt_myke

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

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    Not to be a Debbie Downer but I have to agree. I wanted to make games for a living when I was a kid, but I'm glad I didn't. Game programmers as employees are notoriously overworked. Indy game developers are the classic starving artist types. For every Mojang (Minecraft) and Roxio (Angry...
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    Awaited in Valhalla

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  5. mt_myke

    How many of you moved from EU -> US?

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    I did but I don't think it counts...I was only 6 at the time.
  6. mt_myke

    Noob questions about FBA (Amazon)

    Yes, that is what I wanted to do. Thanks for the right terminology, had not heard of "soft bundling" before and was getting frustrated looking at various fulfillment companies that were all based on the model of you being the original manufacturer and shipping them your inventory.
  7. mt_myke

    Noob questions about FBA (Amazon)

    Hey all, starting to get my business going. What I'm doing is snack boxes for a specific demographic. I've done some validation with retail-bought items and have a pretty good idea what will work for my audience. Amazon carries enough of the products I'm reselling that it would be possible to...
  8. mt_myke

    Yea, somebody had to calculate that shit

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    That is exactly the answer. We've done "hard landing" comet probes before (a spear-like probe shot into a comet) but this is the first time we've had an orbiter module with a lander. It's a HUGE technical achievement. We will learn a lot about the comet, and we will learn a lot that will let...
  9. mt_myke

    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    I'm surely going to come off as a huge jerk for doing this but: spec·u·la·tion ˌspekyəˈlāSH(ə)n/ noun noun: speculation; plural noun: speculations 1. the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence. "there has been widespread speculation that he plans to quit" 2. investment in...
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    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    Bit of a forum design problem here...if you click on the newest/most popular/etc post links at the top of the main page you don't actually know what category they came from. The URL doesn't show you either. There may be a way to tell directly from the thread but it's certainly not obvious...
  11. mt_myke

    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    I don't align with or support Daivey...it's more like the empathy Frodo feels for Gollum. Trading is psychologically brutal and I've seen many people end up in a bad mental place like Daivey. I'm ashamed to say I've been there myself and have lashed out in a similar manner. It's one of the...
  12. mt_myke

    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    OK, in the interest of abating the hate, I think I see what's going on here. Everyone other than Daivey is seeing this as "instead of spending $500, I made $500", and focusing on that, and pretty much not thinking/responding/caring about the OP's claim that the $500 was made by "investing"...
  13. mt_myke

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

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    That's called "trolling", and there are many people who do it to get exactly the kind of rise out of their victims that you just displayed. The guys over at Penny Arcade explained it best:
  14. mt_myke

    Yea, somebody had to calculate that shit

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    I've been laughing about this all day. I read (more like consumed) the fastlane book over a few days last Christmas. Until that point I had been working on a do-it-yourself financial engineering education, using all the free and cheap resources I could get my hands on. I'd done the math for...
  15. mt_myke

    My life sucks, so I'm going to make $1,000,000 in 12 months

    EXECUTION 
    Which one of these is the "standard"? I know what they all mean, but when you're pitching and someone asks "What are your sales?" what specific figure are they asking for? I know it's not net profit, but is it top-end revenue, EBITDA, or ???
  16. mt_myke

    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    In an efficient market it should make no difference at all...any information about the stock/company is already reflected in its current price. You can't both believe in efficient markets and believe that you can gain an "edge" with fundamental analysis of public information (secret information...
  17. mt_myke

    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    I used to be pretty heavily into FX trading, and thought about this a lot. The value is added from the perspective of the market itself. The job of the market is to allocate resources efficiently. It does this by rewarding people who get it right. The snag for most people is, did they get it...
  18. mt_myke

    Today I made $500 without any effort

    HOT! INVESTING 
    If you believe markets are efficient it shouldn't matter because all that info has already been analyzed and "priced in". And yes, that implies fundamental analysis is a waste of time, a belief which will surely burn up many stock pickers. It worked for Warren Buffet precisely because no one...
  19. mt_myke

    Yea, somebody had to calculate that shit

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    The problem is traditional diffy-q classes teach the wrong thing. Differential equations allow you to express system dynamics with simple and elegant relationships between rates of change (usually) when there's no simple closed form solution ("give an equation that shows the output of this...
  20. mt_myke

    Yea, somebody had to calculate that shit

    OFF-TOPIC 
    Trying to figure out analytical (closed-form) solutions for differential equations is pretty bogus anyway, and all but a useless anachronism in the modern world. Calculus is fine enough, you build on first principles and are able to solve most problems reasonably. Differential equation...

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