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  1. Two Dog

    Ask 8-figure business owners for personalized advice!

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    I've just been reading about AI content generation that's deemed pretty darn acceptable by the researchers. Feed it some keywords for a topic and push the button. Let the entrepreneur-bot games begin.
  2. Two Dog

    Have you used any Stacking the Bricks courses from Amy Hoy?

    MARKETING SIDE HUSTLE MINDSET 
    Narrowing down product ideas. I believe her approach is agnostic with regards to market research. It sounds like you analyze internet chatter in groups, forums, blogs, tweets, etc. followed by some magical spell to identify problem(s) and solution(s). Followed by the usual new product launch...
  3. Two Dog

    Have you used any Stacking the Bricks courses from Amy Hoy?

    MARKETING SIDE HUSTLE MINDSET 
    Amy's pretty well known in the internet online marketing / courses area. Prolific writer. I really haven't found any areas to disagree and have a specific interest in her market research strategies for launching new products. Aside from much less pricey materials, the flagship 30 x 500 course is...
  4. Two Dog

    Is THIS the reason why young entrepreneurs are destined to fail? The problem I'm having with Fastlane...

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    Skimming through this thread again made me curious what those numbers are based on. The only possible ways of determining "high-growth" is either self-reported or from outside investors. The former is pretty rare. The latter is commonplace because of how investment money is tracked nowadays and...
  5. Two Dog

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

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    This is really fascinating to me. It's like watching a movie play out. Great stuff and hugely educational. It's a reliable product identification strategy without leaving your laptop. I wouldn't have thought that possible.
  6. Two Dog

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    @MrE I worked with a lot of tech startups to raise angel and VC money. Unless you're extraordinarily well connected or lucky, you're going to find raising private money takes at least as much dedicated time as growing sales. A couple of basic points on this endless topic. 1. You shouldn't be...
  7. Two Dog

    Fastlane Success (8 figure exit!) - Now Back to the Starting Ground !!

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    Actually, that's close to my next question. @NeoDialectic It sounded like you were marketing your products directly instead of relying completely on Amazon. You mentioned starting with picking up the phone and upselling. If you can use Amazon for fulfillment without relying on it entirely for...
  8. Two Dog

    Fastlane Success (8 figure exit!) - Now Back to the Starting Ground !!

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    I feel like you need something that is adjacent to a popular item, but not easy for competitors to see is selling well. What *would* you launch on Amazon starting from ground zero again? I mean the process of figuring out the exact product, not a specific items. Although if you have any of...
  9. Two Dog

    Starting (and Fastlaning) a lawn care service business

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    Small service business usually sell at a 3x owner annual takeout multiple. Meaning that you pay yourself $100K (including benefits and everything else), the business would be valued at $300K. That's seems pretty high for lawn care, so I'm also curious how they established the price. Then add...
  10. Two Dog

    Is THIS the reason why young entrepreneurs are destined to fail? The problem I'm having with Fastlane...

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    Sure. What if it's rephrased as "financial independent people under 30 years old?" You end up in the same place, no?
  11. Two Dog

    Is THIS the reason why young entrepreneurs are destined to fail? The problem I'm having with Fastlane...

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    I feel like that's exactly what's happening. There are a lot more people succeeding ($1m) at an early age (under 30). Social media amplifies it, but there's definitely far more young self-made millionaires now than fifty years ago outside of the usual entertainment and sports industries. That's...
  12. Two Dog

    Is THIS the reason why young entrepreneurs are destined to fail? The problem I'm having with Fastlane...

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    The question you're asking is valid. The underlying assumptions really aren't. "successful/high-growth start-up founder" is so squishy, it can't be answered by anyone. It's just so biased and the search results are going to reflect that. What does high growth mean? What does successful mean?"...
  13. Two Dog

    Ask 8-figure business owners for personalized advice!

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    There's just so much wisdom here that only comes from experience. It's really impressive. You really know your s**t.
  14. Two Dog

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    Testing the product is a great idea, but I'm curious how you do that with a physical product. The only real way to know whether buyers will pay for it is actually selling it to them. Adding prospects to a waitlist is low quality validation. No money, no commitment. I would think about how many...
  15. Two Dog

    Fastlane Success (8 figure exit!) - Now Back to the Starting Ground !!

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    Do you think it's possible to accomplish the same with Amazon starting in 2022? The Amazon landscape is very different than ten years ago. I looked into Amazon FBA pretty seriously about three years and decided against it for several reason. Lack of control, endless fees, no customer ownership...
  16. Two Dog

    Fastlane Success (8 figure exit!) - Now Back to the Starting Ground !!

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    It sounds like you're in a good place at this point, so I'm going to say this made me laugh out loud. Similar story for me with smaller numbers. We were just shy of $1M debt in 2008 when the real estate market locked up. No one could get a mortgage to buy the lovely properties that had just...
  17. Two Dog

    A howl of pain from the founder of Saas. How to acquire users?

    MARKETING SAAS / APPS QUESTION 
    Thx! USP is how I learned it.
  18. Two Dog

    A howl of pain from the founder of Saas. How to acquire users?

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    Great idea. It's paid product placement and has been working since - well - forever.
  19. Two Dog

    A howl of pain from the founder of Saas. How to acquire users?

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    This is the kind of product that can get huge exposure when it's mentioned by a popular podcaster with an audience of podcasters. Same thing happens with all these kinds of platforms: landing page makers, email autoresponder systems, ebook builders, website builders, payment processing...
  20. Two Dog

    A howl of pain from the founder of Saas. How to acquire users?

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    I'm sure it's in one of the books, but I'm only up to Chapter 3. What's value skew? More than you'd think. I spend very little time listening to podcasts, but my wife loves them.

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