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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONUPDATE AFTER MONTHS OF SILENCE After a few attempts at pivoting my strategy, I decided to stop pursuing this business idea. Some health problems prevented me from producing and delivering my product for some time. During recovery, I realized it was time to move on. Learnings: I should focus...- darkomind
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Unpopular opinion: tell people about your business
PEOPLEWhy is this an unpopular opinion? The general narrative, pushed by many business gurus online, stresses the "hustle in silence, let your success make the noise". The main arguments in favor of this narrative are: Telling people about your business gives you a dopamine boost which prevents you...- darkomind
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- Forum: Managing People, Relationships
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 8+9 My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here. ⚡BUSINESS PROGRESS Last two weeks Delivered my first three orders and received excellent...- darkomind
- Post #24
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 7 I'll be off from work for 10 days! It's my chance to clear the fog and put my ducks in a row. I want to print flyers before I can start pitching to restaurants, but the logo is still WIP with the deisgner. Everything slows down during the winter holidays. Not me! My product A dessert...- darkomind
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 7 My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here. ⚡BUSINESS PROGRESS Last week I talked to two customers. Apparently, one of the two works in...- darkomind
- Post #22
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 6 (Week 5 below if you missed it) My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here. ⚡BUSINESS PROGRESS Last week's highlights Made a testing batch...- darkomind
- Post #21
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 5 Thread out on a Thursday instead of Saturday as I'll be visiting my family in my home country. My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here...- darkomind
- Post #20
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONThank you for your your 2-in1 reply, appreciated! I had excuses for too long. They all revolved around the concept of "One day I'll start my business, I just need to find THE idea". After reading UNSCRIPTED - the Great Rat Race Escape I had a more clear framework in mind, that helped me...- darkomind
- Post #19
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONThanks man, I appreciated your reply. You're right, I shouldn't push too hard. The tendon problem is my body telling me to slow down. If you look back you can see. Moreover, if I aim for 5 and achieve 3, it feels like a constant failure. Giving these signals, I suspect that 5 was overkill to...- darkomind
- Post #16
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 4 (changed the layout for readability) My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here. ⚡BUSINESS PROGRESS Last week's highlights I tested my...- darkomind
- Post #13
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I have a top 1% salary in my country but I'm not on the Fastlane
INTROThank you for sharing your story, Antonio! If you accept some advice, stop comparing yourself to other people. The only person you should compare yourself to is your past self. Look at where you come from, then at how far you've come. You may not be a millionare but you certainly made big...- darkomind
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONThanks! Comments like yours motivate me to keep pushing. Whoa, I haven't considered this. I am not thinking about employees but I understand hiring will happen if I want to scale. I can't take care of everything by myself forever. I must find data on wages of fulltime employees, including extra...- darkomind
- Post #12
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 3 My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here. ⭐WEEKLY PERSONAL GOALS Complete 5 workouts: 1 kickboxing, and 1 strength training. 2/5 this week...- darkomind
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONThank you! You're right, numbers are what must make sense at the end of the day. I'm learning business finance and accounting online and creating spreadsheets to do some upfront calculations. One of the aspects that play in my favor is that if I make a batch of let's say 20 portions, a...- darkomind
- Post #8
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AI + CODE = SOFTWARE?
IDEA SAAS / APPS QUESTIONAll of those, and more. The Plus edition can search the web with the new Bing integration, meaning that results are in real-time. Besides copywriting and grammar/spelling check (English isn't my first language) For example, I use it at my job to format code, write code (saves hours), debug and...- darkomind
- Post #16
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AI + CODE = SOFTWARE?
IDEA SAAS / APPS QUESTIONAre you using ChatGPT plus? Worth the money in my opinion. It can now read pdfs, run data analysis, navigate the web, and do many other things using the available plugins. I use it for everything, from my daily job to personal life to business matters. In some aspects it does the work for you...- darkomind
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Family recipe to food business [Progress Thread]
EXECUTIONWEEK 2 My product A dessert based on a family recipe from my country of origin. It's popular where I live but I never found a version as good as the one my family makes. Roast my idea here. ⭐WEEKLY PERSONAL GOALS Complete 5 workouts: 2 kickboxing, and 1 football. 3/5 this week. I skipped...- darkomind
- Post #6
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Roast my product idea against the CENTS framework
IDEARead that! I started thinking about which of my signature dishes I could start selling after reading about Jeff and Sam's soups. I also got to know about the concepts of co-packer and food scientist. Thank you, MJ! Cool customGPT you built here. The goal is definitely to build a Productocracy...- darkomind
- Post #10
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Roast my product idea against the CENTS framework
IDEAThank you all for your replies! I love how active and helpful this community is, I guess it's a byproduct of having a common goal. I'll tackle them one by one: Yes, I'll definitely try it. My favorite part of the fastlane is that as long as I don't give up, I'm in the game. There are many...- darkomind
- Post #9
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Roast my product idea against the CENTS framework
IDEAHi everyone, The aim of this post is to learn from your replies. I'm new on the forum and new on the Fastlane. Having zero experience with entrepreneurship, I decided to just start somewhere and base my business on a product I am familiar with: A dessert from my country of origin, based on...- darkomind
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