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  1. Two Dog

    Plant Powered Kitchen, Arizona

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    Happy to help! Just post or DM with any questions or ideas. My wife was vegan for about ten years before we got married. She even launched a vegan dog biscuit company before we had kids. Now she and our two daughters are all veg. It's just me and the dogs eating everything else nowadays. Home...
  2. Two Dog

    Plant Powered Kitchen, Arizona

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    Have you considered a frozen food meal delivery service instead of the restaurant? Running any startup is tough. Running a restaurant startup is 100x harder. When we were kicking around different business options, I specifically ruled out restaurants after working at many over several years...
  3. Two Dog

    Caught up in a comfortable slow lane...

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    That often plays a big part in it, but it's really just a way of avoiding having to make uncomfortable decisions. I mean this next bit in a nice way. Living paycheck to paycheck is not safe. It means you have no emergency funds or means of supporting yourself if/when the paychecks suddenly...
  4. Two Dog

    Idea Generation To Execution: Fastlane Millionaire's Step By Step Guide

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    LOL in sympathy. It's been so long since launching a startup, I've long gotten used to everything pretty much working effortlessly month after month after month with my existing business. Something breaks every few months and I spend a few hours fixing it. The rest is completely automated on...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    I'd be hoping they've mastered the autorotation concept that keeps helicopters from falling out of the sky.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    My bet is there aren't enough completely insane entrepreneurs who would be willing to tolerate those parents. I'm picturing every parent from School of Rock. Not enough money in the universe.
  7. Two Dog

    I’m out of money. What lever do I pull?

    Google Search is failing me. I watched a video of a guy last year who set out to earn $500 cash in one day by cleaning gutters. Just proof of concept of what's possible with effort. No equipment, no cards, not even a ladder. Nothing but balls and hard work. He knocked on 20-30 doors before...
  8. Two Dog

    I’m out of money. What lever do I pull?

    Sure, there's usually plenty of options. Not necessarily all available to you, but see what fits. Bon chance. The goal of surviving has only two levers: reducing expense and increasing cashflow. Preferably work both of them. Start by throwing out the idea that you have the luxury of three...
  9. Two Dog

    just some doctor

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    Think about some low effort ways of practicing for 6 - 12 months to earn a better reference. One of my doc friends is doing telemedicine at the moment, but has worked/volunteered in the Ironman Triathlon med tent for twenty years and still counting. You could look at helping out with local...
  10. Two Dog

    Cannot even get 1 meeting with potential customers

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    Well, they don't. I spent too many years selling a few million dollars worth of software to such people. Not exactly my go-to earnings strategy any more (Thank God), but I learned a lot about endlessly pushing the rock uphill and closing deals regardless. @zander1983 There's really only two...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Love the link. That's a terrific resource. No, it hasn't been hard for us to find local food sources, but we're used to searching out a lot of stuff from traveling all the time. Our kids aren't in public school, so we're always looking for interesting things wherever we setup shop for a few months.
  12. Two Dog

    just some doctor

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    Getting a job at the mall is flat out giving up. You will be lightyears away from helping anyone. I don't understand how "I got my medical license" can happen without finishing residency, but so be it. Lord Almighty, take a telemedicine gig making $200 / hour or locum tenens work before selling...
  13. Two Dog

    just some doctor

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    I've been interacting with White Coat Investor and the WCI forum crowd for several years. Completely understand where you're standing now. It's probably in a hole about $300K - $600K deep. For what it's worth, I truly believe the future of private practice for people like yourself is either...
  14. Two Dog

    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    None of those really explain the explosion of self-storage units over the past 25 years despite much larger homes. I think most people just buy too much crap. Amazon is probably a silent investor in every single self-storage company.
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    My wife was vegan for a long time before moving to vegetarian. It took a couple of years for her to really understand that vegan/vegetarian processed food is the same crap as any other processed food. Doesn't matter whether you eat meat, plants, keto or anything else. Processed => industrial...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    Four seed companies control over 60% of the GLOBAL seed market. Most of US agriculture is non-edible soybeans and corn raised for either feeding livestock or providing the industrial food processing industry with raw inputs. Monsanto, et. al. are quite happy with the results over the past 25...
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    Margaritaville (I've Bought A Golf-Course!)

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    That's really interesting. We had a handful of SFHs going into 2008. Mentored with a couple local guys with multiple apartment buildings around the country, realized there was zero overlap with our residential property experience largely due to financing and due diligence, decided that...
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    Margaritaville (I've Bought A Golf-Course!)

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    I recall $7M being the total loss. It stood out to me as "Holy Crap, that's 1/4 of his net worth gone in one deal!!" Just finished the entire thread. Thanks for taking the time to write everything over the years. Just the work involved in upgrading and maintaining the course is staggering. It's...
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    Margaritaville (I've Bought A Golf-Course!)

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    This is awesome. I saw your first post and skipped to the end to see whether it was still active. Now have to get some more coffee and read the other ten pages. ;-) Friend of mine sold his training & consulting business about 20 years ago for $30M. He was a big golfer and somehow got the idea...
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    Random Chat, Thoughts, Posts, and/or Rants Thread

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    And that's *really* the important bit. Knowledge. Learning how to make money and learning how to keep it are equally important. It's much easier to become wealthy by not handing over a big chunk of income to the government. Whenever I ask someone who complains about high taxes: "How much time...

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