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    Needs to be said... sell the DAMN motorcycle.

    HOT! RANT 
    Track days are awesome, but pricey. I did 3 days on track at Portimao last year and all in, it cost me around $4k. I would consider replacing road riding with 100% track when I have $50k a year to drop on it. I'm not completely convinced by the safety argument either. Granted, a track crash is...
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    *Help* Need to accept international ACH payments

    TransferWise is fantastic. I bank in USD and my personal bills are all in EUR, so I use TransferWise to make the payments. Fees for paying the rent each month are less than ten dollars...and it's still quicker than a 3 day domestic ACH transfer. For international business payments, I provide...
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    Time-blocking my week

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    I love that you now have to laser focus in on exactly what to accomplish with those four hours a day. I wager it's going to be much more than the typical person does in an eight hour day.
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    Needs to be said... sell the DAMN motorcycle.

    HOT! RANT 
    There's a lot of nuance when it comes to bikes and risk. I've been riding for 12 years. I didn't even get my car license until about four years ago. To this day I feel more comfortable riding than driving. In that time, I've: Commuted in and out of London in rush hour Gone on countless fast...
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    Recruitment agency

    MARKETING 
    Hey @Firebird92 , sorry for the late reply. Depends on your ambitions; there are pros and cons to both. Presumably on the B2B sales front, you're looking at getting into SaaS or a similar area? I'd far rather own a successful SaaS company than a successful recruiting firm. That said, it's a...
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    Recruitment agency

    MARKETING 
    Polish market could be a very interesting place to be for sure. I would still specialise much further than that - the smaller the niche, the easier it will be to win clients and the more "reusable" your candidates will be against different jobs. But the niche still has to be large enough to...
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    Recruitment agency

    MARKETING 
    @Over : Have you worked in recruiting before? If not, do you have a background in B2B sales? Marketing and differentiation is extremely important, but if it's not backed up by actually being a great recruiter, it's not going to get you very far. It can be an extremely lucrative business, but...
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    How many customers to validate your idea?

    HOT! IDEA 
    My thoughts, in no particular order: Just because the end game is a platform doesn't mean you have to start out as one. Is the platform you intend to build some kind of two-sided marketplace? If so, that's even more reason not to start out as a platform, because you have the chicken and egg...
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    What Countries and Places Offer the Best Life Quality?

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    Ha! If I had a crystal ball, I'd say that in a few decades, there'll be loads of Brits moving to Warsaw to work instead of loads of Poles moving to London to work. Oh, another anecdote about relative economies. I used to work with a guy at an exec search firm. He was a researcher, had been...
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    What Countries and Places Offer the Best Life Quality?

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    Depends what your priorities are. If I was an employed professional I'd much rather live in the USA than anywhere in Europe. When I was doing international recruitment I frequently found things like a 25 year old sales rep in the US earning more money than the UK Sales Director managing a team...
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    What Countries and Places Offer the Best Life Quality?

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    Yeah it is. I didn't expect to like Germany. Thought it would be too orderly, too rules-obsessed, cold people, etc. Not somewhere I ever really planned on visiting. But I really enjoyed it there, and it had the opposite kind of vibe to what I expected. It's cool that we have the opportunity to...
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    What Countries and Places Offer the Best Life Quality?

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    There's a lot to be said for the shared culture aspect as a long-term consideration. Besides the US, I've never yet traveled outside of Europe. However, whenever I go to NW Europe or the US, I feel like I belong there. Well, not in France, but in Germany/NL/Belgium etc. I'm not sure whether it...
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    What Countries and Places Offer the Best Life Quality?

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    Never been to Spain (I must fix that...), but yeah that's the impression I get too. Brrr, you're telling me. The usual Jan/Feb temps here are about 14-18C in the day and 9-13C at night. Last couple days we're having a cold snap of 10C/3C, which is like a nice winter's day in southern England...
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    2019: Becoming Unemployable (Local Lead Gen)

    EXECUTION 
    This is great! A few thoughts from a career sales guy: Not to stand in the way of you getting stuck in and taking action, but two books I recommend - The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need - Anthony Iannarino Fanatical Prospecting - Jeb Blount Your questions are OK. What I really like is...
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    What Countries and Places Offer the Best Life Quality?

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    I was in the Algarve in early September. Coming from Malta, it was cold. A lot colder than I expected. I was there for five days and I think the max temperature was between 23-27C. It was cold in the mornings and at night. Felt pretty similar to the weather here in late October/early November...
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    How to legally pay no taxes... possible?

    HOT! TAXES | REGS 
    I don't even like winter in Malta. :D Turns out you have to go really far south to enjoy year-round warmth. I was in Berlin a couple weeks ago. Enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to, but damn, there's no way I could voluntarily deal with that freezing cold and greyness several months a...
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    How to legally pay no taxes... possible?

    HOT! TAXES | REGS 
    That's true. It's also the case that when the "official" evidence doesn't jive with anecdotal experience and what you can see with your own two eyes, it's usually because someone's trying to pull the wool over your eyes. The World Happiness Report is created by the "Sustainable Development...
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    How to legally pay no taxes... possible?

    HOT! TAXES | REGS 
    There are literally dozens of countries in the world where you can live and pay no (or minimal) taxes on production. And most of them are far from being shitholes. In Europe alone there are multiple options: Malta, Cyprus, Monaco, Andorra, Portugal, to name a few. Hong Kong, one of the greatest...
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    South Wales

    INTRO 
    Welcome @Ross Owen. I used to live in Bristol so very familiar with your neck of the woods. Mostly as a playground for motorbikes, but still. ;) Two books that will be especially helpful for you right now: The E-Myth Revisited - Michael Gerber Built To Sell - John Warrilow As a dispassionate...
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    Getting Blacklisted for Spam (Cold Email Lead Techniques)

    NOTABLE! MARKETING 
    Although I think @AllenCrawley 's idea is even better...nay, far better, something that's worked for me that I'll throw into the mix: The markets you serve will definitely have all manner of industry associations. You could put together a super-valuable webinar or similar (educational only, no...

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