What's new

Search results

  1. Patrick Jones

    Travel Guru switching lanes!

    INTRO 
    Welcome to the Forum! Is there a website where people can book (and rate) travel agents?
  2. Patrick Jones

    Advice on landing page?

    MARKETING 
    It's incrdibly slow, takes almost a minute to load fully.
  3. Patrick Jones

    Which website builder to use?

    SIDE HUSTLE WEB DESIGN 
    Website builders barely work for plain websites. And by "barely work" I mean they never produce very good results. What you are looking to build is specific, complex and far out of the scope of those tools. With no experience you will easily spend 100-200 hours on creating something that will...
  4. Patrick Jones

    Estonian e-Residency

    You're not. It is considered by many the European equivalent of the Silicon Valley. Cheap cost of living, lots of young talent, central European location - it is a good place. Internet is good, at least up to the city limits. In regards to anything "service", Germany is a desert. It involves...
  5. Patrick Jones

    What should I learn?

    Learn to solve problems. That always pays.
  6. Patrick Jones

    New venture Website, Looking for feedback

    HOT! 
    There is a huge black area at the top (missing a hero image?) and the RLM icon below it is not sharp. The general "blandness" of the site doesn't look professional to me (nor appealing).
  7. Patrick Jones

    The Developer Hourly Rate

    HOT! 
    Computer science has (one of) the biggest gap between the skills of juniors and seniors. That is in huge part because of the inability of the modern education system to teach programming. Programming means solving puzzles, means thinking for yourself, means teaching yourself new stuff. About...
  8. Patrick Jones

    Estonian e-Residency

    There are a couple of Estonian companies that provide both a postal address in the country as well as accounting and reports. Prices for that vary greatly and it is a bit of a mess to understand. One key factor for me was that I'll be running a SaaS and with that will have a huge amount of...
  9. Patrick Jones

    Entrepreneurship as a Timeline

    The way you describe it in your original post is how you would implement a new product in an established company. Startups and new entrepreneurs benefit from a much more agile approach. Steve Blank has a good piece on that: The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups...
  10. Patrick Jones

    The Developer Hourly Rate

    HOT! 
    I've had a couple of conversations here with guys who are looking for a web developer. The one thing they all have in common: the hunt for a low hourly rate. Which is not a good idea. Much more important than the hourly rate is: how much do you pay in total and how much do you get out. If you...
  11. Patrick Jones

    Having Fun

    OFF-TOPIC 
    A detailed view at the complicated relations between the parties involved in any modern web application:
  12. Patrick Jones

    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    I think freelancers are a lot easier to manage. Instead of employing one developer full time, I have 3 freelancers running on 1/3 load. The other 2/3 they spend on different clients. Or goof off, or whatever. With that kind of spread there is always someone available, but I never have to worry...
  13. Patrick Jones

    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Why do you want to hire people? Why not utilise freelancers?
  14. Patrick Jones

    Failure is not an option

    EXECUTION 
    Are you going for Estonian e-Residency? I'm working on that at the moment, too: Estonian e-Residency
  15. Patrick Jones

    Website Design Criticism Recommendations

    Is it business related? If so: thefastlaneforum.com
  16. Patrick Jones

    What are your thoughts on Bucket Lists?

    MINDSET 
    My bucket list: - Race a car through the Alps - See Northern Lights - Live in the countryside - Try playing a drum kit Ticked off + Fire a gun + Learn Spanish + Learn Swing dance + Learn to sing + Try combat sports + Ride a horse + Go traveling for a year It's basically fun stuff to do...
  17. Patrick Jones

    How To Stay Super Sharp After A Soul Crushing Job?

    MINDSET FTE 
    It's really tough. When I was still employed, those hours in the office drained all my energy. I found it helpful to excercise and/or do something I enjoy. What's very important: Acknowledge the fact that you're drained and need a recovery period. Grant yourself that and don't get upset with...
  18. Patrick Jones

    Aspiring to become a Digital Nomad?

    You get good at it after a while. First time it takes all your headspace, after the tenth time you casually write a client email while your suicidal cab driver honks his way through Bangkok rush hour. The positive side of it is also that it breaks up your daily routine. You get new influences...
  19. Patrick Jones

    All Meetings Are A Vain Waste Of Time - No Exceptions!

    RANT 
    Team meetings were where I learned to solve chess problems in my head and sleep with open eyes. Anything larger than a 1:1 quickly gets inefficient.
  20. Patrick Jones

    My biggest purchase…$40k SaaS stock trading platform, using $28k of debt

    SAAS / APPS EXECUTION 
    Generally they are a website's most valuable asset. But in your case there are only 30. Did you get an assessment of the codebase's quality? Was it built by a pro or is it home-grown?

Welcome to an Entrepreneurial Revolution

The Fastlane Forum empowers you to break free from conventional thinking to achieve financial freedom through UNSCRIPTED® Entrepreneurship where relative value and problem-solving are executed at scale. Living Unscripted® isn’t just a business strategy—it’s a way of life.

Follow MJ DeMarco

Fastlane Resources

Get The Books that Change Lives...

The Fastlane entrepreneurial strategy is based on the CENTS Framework® which is based on the three best-selling books by MJ DeMarco.

mj demarco books
Back
Top Bottom