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  1. TheSilverSpoon

    My most promising and fastlane friendly idea seems impossible to implement

    IDEA 
    I think you are massively overestimating the cost and time to get this built. Obviously, I don't know the details, but connecting a form to a 3rd party API and performing some basic math is 101 level stuff. More than happy to take a closer look and give you a better idea if you want. Traffic...
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    What is the most important ideology you have learnt about entrepreneurship?

    1. No Excuses. Zero. Late for your meeting cause traffic was bad? Wrong. You should have gotten up earlier. Still fat? It's not those genetics - you just haven't spent enough time working out. Underpinning this is a realization that you are 100% responsible for exactly where you are in life...
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    Software Developer Roundtable: Share your tips, tools and strategies

    HOT! 
    Experience: Been coding for 12 years or so now. Professionally for the last 2. Worked on some pretty cool stuff from fintech sentiment analysis, to computer vision for automated CAPTCHA solving, to poker bots. Settled down in the Amazon SaaS space for the time being. Toolbox: On the backend...
  4. TheSilverSpoon

    Quality App Developers (Freelancers)?

    This. I have hired and managed a LOT of dev work - from overseas agencies, to one-man-bands, to US based agencies. That really is the best way to interview candidates. Higher ratings and higher job completion numbers can give you a real rough estimate, but you are playing roulette if that is...
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    SteveO: From Employee to RE Investor to Golf Course Owner...

    FEATURED USER 
    @SteveO I wanted to say thank you. We met very briefly back at the 2013 meetup. While the wealth of business stories and knowledge you have contributed is truly great, I find myself quite regularly going through your posts and digging for your philosophical thoughts. Over the years, the...
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    Tony Robbins - March 23rd - 26th (LA)

    MEETUPS 
    PM incoming!
  7. TheSilverSpoon

    I will fix any problem in your life. Guaranteed.

    MARKETPLACE 
    Andrew and I had a call a few days ago. I was having trouble stepping back, chunking up and aligning my actions with my 6-12 month goals. Previously, I had been effectively completing short-term goals at the expense of my long-term goals. Trading today's deadlines by forgoing tomorrow's systems...
  8. TheSilverSpoon

    Parse.com - A Huge Lesson In Control

    WEB/DIGITAL 
    On the flip side - if you hadn't of given up that control, how much slower would you have been to market? If you built up your own backend from day one, how many sales would you have lost while you were in development? Giving up control isn't necessarily bad. There is diminishing returns in...
  9. TheSilverSpoon

    Fastlane Summit Entrepreneur House in Scottsdale, AZ

    MEETUPS 
    Damn. This place puts the house last year to shame!
  10. TheSilverSpoon

    Can you recommend a good website host?

    HOT! MARKETING 
    The more I use digital ocean the more and more I like it. I don't run nearly the traffic some of you do, but its a breeze to start deploying code to in just a few minutes. Super easy to spin up a new server or updgrade as well.
  11. TheSilverSpoon

    Quote of the Day - QOTD

    HOT! MINDSET 
    A couple of my favorites "A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week." —General George Patton (I think I stole this one from @Iwokeup ) "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." —Winston Churchill "It is easier to build...
  12. TheSilverSpoon

    Uber of IT Support

    EXECUTION 
    The problem I see is that successful two-sided marketplaces tend to cater to higher volume, lower value consumers. Fiverr and Uber both average $5-$10 or so per transaction. Typically, the higher the volume and the lower the value of each transaction, the greater the importance of the...
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    When does it go from learning to mental masturbation?

    MINDSET 
    If you are learning stuff because it will "be useful someday in the future" it's mental masturbation. If you are learning stuff because "I'll need to know this when I launch my _____" it's mental masturbation. But, if you are learning stuff because you are doing ______ today, then that's good...
  14. TheSilverSpoon

    Am I Underworking?

    No. You're not. Marketing takes money. If you don't have money, it directly impacts your ability to market. If you don't have money, but do have time, what could you be doing to get more money? (hint: it begins J, rhymes with bob, and you probably won't like it) As for the RE course... out...
  15. TheSilverSpoon

    Are You Holding A Full-Time Job While Still Working On Your Fastlane Business?

    MINDSET 
    I do. Tried the whole quit your job and start a full time biz thing last year and it didn't work out for me. Realized it's hard enough to start a business, but it's even harder trying to start one and live off of it from day one. So now I work full time. It does a few things for me. It gives...
  16. TheSilverSpoon

    What's the difference between Slackers and Go Getters? The answer may have to do w/ brain chemistry.

    NOTABLE! MINDSET 
    Disappointing article. The big problem I had with it was how they chose to define the go-getters and slackers. "Participants would be labeled as “go-getters” if they accepted harder challenges for more money, even when they were told they had a slim chance of winning, whereas less motivated...
  17. TheSilverSpoon

    How to Cultivate Lasting Motivation to Create A Abnormal Work Ethic

    MINDSET 
    You got it!
  18. TheSilverSpoon

    How to Cultivate Lasting Motivation to Create A Abnormal Work Ethic

    MINDSET 
    Simple - traction and momentum. Without those its difficult to put in the long hours. A business that makes you a few grand in the first month is exponentially easier to keep going than one that made $0. Once you hit a $100 day, you want to have $100 days, every day. Then $200, then $300, and...
  19. TheSilverSpoon

    Unsure/ negative thoughts

    MINDSET 
    If you were doing $1300 a day would you still feel the same way? If yes... Dig down deep and find out why you feel that way If no... Simply sell more. Selling more usually solves most problems :) Sent from my HTC Glacier using Tapatalk 2
  20. TheSilverSpoon

    Not Taking Action? BS! You are ALWAYS taking action

    MINDSET RANT 
    Learning loop vs Action without Reading vs Action AND Reading Which will you choose? Source: Adapted from Problem Solving 101, a book well worth the read.

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