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  1. CaptainAmerica

    Wanna play a brainstorming game?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    On the plastic wrap alternative, try beeswax cloths. They hold better and last longer than plastic. On the cough drops, well, I'm allergic to corn, which is EVERYWHERE, and I'm also a chemist...so. I'll get on that and see what I can come up with! There's one that you might try if you're not...
  2. CaptainAmerica

    The hen and egg problem - on becoming a middleman when there are no participants.

    This is exactly what I'm trying to start, and it's difficult for all these reasons: - known, large players - aging/old school industry - disconnect between people using the products and the people who pay for them It's an industry absolutely screaming for modernization in logistics and...
  3. CaptainAmerica

    How to scale my business and finally profit

    HOT! 
    I'm a huge fan of the Profit First structure: Sales – Expenses = Profit Sales – Profit = Expenses Here's a two-page overview. Ask around to see who else is using it, and how it might help.
  4. CaptainAmerica

    Must See Movies, Recommendations?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    These are great! I'm re-reading The Riddle of the Sands, which was made into a Michael York movie in 1979. My dad took me to see it - the only movie we ever saw together. It's fascinating.
  5. CaptainAmerica

    What is the #1 must read book to breakthrough in Time Management?

    You don't need a book. Just schedule the Big Rocks, and know that the little things that you don't value - you'll either need to delegate or forgo. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqGRnlXplx0
  6. CaptainAmerica

    Food Chain Opportunities

    This came out today in Fast Company: Map of America's Food Supply Chain. There is a huge need, laid out on a convenient map, for better food transport. What can you do here? Link to the original study Link to the publicly available csv database
  7. CaptainAmerica

    How to Take Action When You Don't Feel Like It

    MINDSET 
    the list I'd write for someone else is totally different from what I would or could do myself.
  8. CaptainAmerica

    REAL resources on self image and self belief

    NOTABLE! 
    exercise volunteering gratitude meditation vision board learning a new skill time blocking living by core values Books: The Art of Selfishness AngerBusting 101 The Path of Least Resistance
  9. CaptainAmerica

    How does a 22-yr-old scientist find business insights? MBA? Meet-ups?

    A friend of mine specializes in answering this question. He and I worked for a flow cytometry software company, and he expanded as a consultant. Let me know if you're interested, I'll DM his link.
  10. CaptainAmerica

    Working through my biggest mental block. Here it is.

    HOT! MINDSET 
    About stoicism.... I trained with a guy who taught me 'no mercy, no malice'. I had an unfortunate tendency to go one way or the other - but either way I was emotionally bound to the outcome. He put it like this: There's an electrical fire started in the wall of your house. You go over and shut...
  11. CaptainAmerica

    Hey I'm new. What can I do if I'm useless with no skills?

    INTRO 
    Your positive assets are worth expanding on! - you have one job; can you improve on it? learn a skill from it? take some way to improve and sell it to similar businesses? - $10K is enough, if you're careful, to start a side gig. Doing what? where's the people with problems and money? you...
  12. CaptainAmerica

    Time-blocking my week

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    YES! It's all about putting those big rocks in first. For those that don't know: View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/SqGRnlXplx0 You have to know what you value before you do it, otherwise your calendar fills up with things that are important, but not necessarily valuable to you. It's...
  13. CaptainAmerica

    "I don't know what product to sell" How You Choose A Product-Based Business

    NOTABLE! 
    I have a small niche business - but the market is necessarily tiny, limited, and diminishing. Yay for progress, but at some point I'll have to lay the business down. But the business MODEL, I can use to my advantage. For years, I was all about solving my own problems - only to find that...
  14. CaptainAmerica

    Mobile Boat Tarping and Cleaning Service.

    Scheduling is going to be a nightmare unless you hire help. Because everyone pulls their boat in the same 3 hour time frame, and there's only one of you. Get together a full squad with same color t-shirts, and just show up. Name a price and gage the reaction. Do this for a few weeks, and...
  15. CaptainAmerica

    What questions help you make your final decision?

    MINDSET 
    Two suggestions: - know your values, and do the work that best supports those values - when you come to a decision point, use the Heath brothers WRAP Decision Tree. And, I know there's people making absolute BANK on selling their knitting patterns.
  16. CaptainAmerica

    Question about the .....Natural Gas industry

    INVESTING 
    and LNG has issues like fracking and pipelines that are more political (read: emotional) in nature than technical. tread carefully.
  17. CaptainAmerica

    Really good (but obscure) business books?

    HOT! 
    I'm a fast reader, and run a book club for Business and Personal Development Books. My sweetie is a CEO. I read the books, create a synopsis with action points, and give it to him. He is a faster reader, and gives it to his CTO to implement. Systems work!
  18. CaptainAmerica

    2020 Fastlane Summit at Talking Stick Resort... Event Info

    MEETUPS 
    well, darn! I have 2 separate grandchildren due that week. seriously, it's about the only thing that COULD keep me away!
  19. CaptainAmerica

    The Poor Man I Cant get a job: Flipping Stuff Log

    HOT! SIDE HUSTLE 
    I finally read through all of this. Here's my advice, based on what worked for me: - get A job. for me, I took a series of mind-numbing, dead-end jobs until I finally found one I could stand for more than a few months: forklift and truck driver for the ReStore. It was very physically...
  20. CaptainAmerica

    what tasks or activities do you do again and again, day in and day out, that you wish you didn't have to manually fiddle with?"

    HOT! 
    In light of the organization folders, it would be slick to have an off the shelf taxonomy that most service-based businesses could utilize. I'm so tired of going into an office where "Debbie's Folder 2014" is still a thing. Debbie hasn't worked there in 4 years, but that's the folder with the...

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