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  1. Delmania

    How to Get Up at 5 AM every day ?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    To cut through all the nonsense, the simplest way to do this is set your alarm for 5 am, and then make a commitment that as soon as you hear it, you will immediately get up and start moving. To be an arrogant a**hole, I wake up at 4:30 on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays to go workout. As a...
  2. Delmania

    What skill would you say is the most valuable in today's economy?

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    Stop with this bad advice. If you read the MF, you should remember that @MJ DeMarco learned enough development to be able to build the first version of Limos.com. This forums is focused on boot strapping solo entrepreneurs with little to no outside investment. Those people do need to know to...
  3. Delmania

    What skill would you say is the most valuable in today's economy?

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    Not everyone needs to know how to program, and the fact that you have a partner that can program is definitely an advantage.
  4. Delmania

    What skill would you say is the most valuable in today's economy?

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    No matter what type of business, a solo entrepreneur does need to know the basis of marketing and sales. You don't need to ben a expert at copywriting, but you do need to know how to find your customers and how to present your ideas to them. The other skills you need depend on what type of...
  5. Delmania

    A word/thought association train...

    FUNNY 
    Asset.
  6. Delmania

    Web 3.0 (Ethereum) is happening, and most people have no idea what it even is.

    GOLD! IDEA 
    Small nitpick, what makes the blockchain resistant to tampering is that each record contains a reference to the previous record. If a person modifies that record, he also has to modify every subsequent record in the chain. Anyways, just wanted to say thanks to @parkerscott for making take a...
  7. Delmania

    Is it smart to start a business on a loan?

    Your two best, and safest, options would be to seek some form of investment from private investors to get an SBA backed loan. The latter requires you to prove you have income, the former requires you to prove to investors you have a solid idea. A regular loan from a bank, a family member, or a...
  8. Delmania

    Do you question anything else other than the slowlane?

    SLOWLANE OFF-TOPIC 
    I'm just going to address these questions. You live in a society that wishes to sustain and propagate itself. We view the people who fight terrorists as heroes because they are willing to put their lives into danger to protect our society. The terrorist, by the way, view us the same. We...
  9. Delmania

    YCombinator Startup School

    I haven't been on in a while, but I wanted to share this with people. Paul Graham's incubator, Y Combinator, is running a free 10-week course on the pragmatics of running a start up. It's called Start Up School, and it's located at Startup School. One of thing I found interesting in the first...
  10. Delmania

    I've never sold a thing in my life but now have to learn to sell myself!

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    Sure, I've talked to Andy a little bit. I'm sure he knows of my forum profile, I'm not new here. The problem with telling people to "give without giving back" and to "serve others" is not that it's not correct, it's that it get thrown around these forums so much that its become cliche. It's...
  11. Delmania

    I've never sold a thing in my life but now have to learn to sell myself!

    INTRO 
    Enough of this bullshit, this phrase gets thrown around these forums so much that it's become trite nonsensical guru speak. Telling someone this is like me telling my kids they need to be more responsible. @D365, selling yourself isn't any different than selling any other product. You...
  12. Delmania

    People are sheep..

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I didn't see any mention of science in this article, just a lot of grandstanding and debating. Humans are socials animals. We have a mechanism called mirror neurons that causes us to automatically simulate something we witness another person do, and we still have a strong evolutionary need to...
  13. Delmania

    The REAL Price of Starting a Website...

    Namecheap, Digitial Ocean, Cloudflare, and Wordpress. $12 name registration fee, $10 monthly hosting fee. It's good enough to get started. Once you actually have paying customers, you can worry about making something bigger.
  14. Delmania

    Need > Know > Want > Looking

    MARKETING 
    https://www.reddit.com/r/sales/comments/51g061/how_to_deal_with_pain_points_a_guide_by_cyberrico/
  15. Delmania

    Where to start

    People learn this by doing. You find some products on a site like Alibaba, buy a small amount, and then place them on Amazon, eBay, and Craigs List. The ones that sell well you ramp up.
  16. Delmania

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

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Why? Because I like to argue? Or because I don't buy that writing sales copy is the one thing you need to succeed? Either is wrong, there's a host of other reasons, but they're not important.
  17. Delmania

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

    GOLD! HOT! 
    After searching through the 5 pages of your posts in this thread, I wasn't able to find out what you said, but I can guess. Something to the effect of the rapid advancement in technology and how those people started when things were newer. Anyways, on this forum, people throw around writing...
  18. Delmania

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

    GOLD! HOT! 
    Some food for thought. Zuckerberg didn't make his mark writing sales copy; he made it programming in PHP. Gates didn't make his mark writing sales copy. C and ASM were his tools of choice. Learning sales copy isn't some miracle that's going to make your rich and it's not pointless. It's a...
  19. Delmania

    "Emotional Intelligence"

    MINDSET 
    Meditation, especially shikantaza, will go a long way. Shikantaza is the "final form" of zazen meditation where you simply sit, and do not count your breaths. You let your thoughts, ideas, and feelings pass through your mind and avoid attaching yourself to them. Practicing active listening...
  20. Delmania

    What book are you reading? Right now. Post up!

    NOTABLE! HOT! BOOKS CHAT 
    Think and Grow Rich/The Magic of Thinking Big - good ideas on how to "think". They help to train you to remain positive and think larger than day to day life. How to Win Friends and Influence People - may seem a little dated, but provides great examples on how to deal with people. The...

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