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  1. mt_myke

    Does MJ's current avatar bug anyone else?

    OFF-TOPIC 
    "97% of the people who quit too soon are employed by the 3% that never gave up" That doesn't make sense. Shouldn't it be 100%? They are two separate populations. It bugs me that this is promoting flawed mathematical thinking.
  2. mt_myke

    Process: Landing page experiments

    EXECUTION 
    I'm going to dump some notes on my landing page experiments on this thread, hopefully they will be useful to someone. My goal was to get a response from the internet, using paid ads and a minimal amount of effort. I started with "finance" because I've had several finance-related project ideas...
  3. mt_myke

    Wastefulness by Design

    Hate to be "that guy" just posting links, but this one seems worth pointing out: http://themindunleashed.org/2014/12/lifestyle-already-designed-real-reason-forty-hour-workweek.html
  4. mt_myke

    Importing and the Fastlane

    SOURCING 
    Been reading about some of the importing businesses people are starting or running, and just had two questions. 1) Commandment of entry - If you're just ordering stuff from Alibaba and reselling it, what's stopping anyone else from doing the same? Where's the barrier to entry? What's the USP...
  5. mt_myke

    Your s*** sucks and nobody cares

    This post is about the Dip. These are usually written by someone who's now successful and looking back. This one is written being there. My hope is it'll be useful to someone here, maybe myself some time later. "Your stuff sucks and nobody cares." That's pretty much where I am right now...
  6. mt_myke

    Old people, don't despair!

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I'm not usually one to just link to articles, but this one seems worth it: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238924 For the record, I'm newly 44 as I type this. I know many (if not most) of the members of this forum are in their 20s. Who here is over the "four-oh" and starting a business...
  7. mt_myke

    Noob questions about FBA (Amazon)

    Hey all, starting to get my business going. What I'm doing is snack boxes for a specific demographic. I've done some validation with retail-bought items and have a pretty good idea what will work for my audience. Amazon carries enough of the products I'm reselling that it would be possible to...
  8. mt_myke

    Real simple - real snacks!

    EXECUTION 
    This is the progress thread for the new business I accidentally started at an event last weekend - for more about that check out https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/startupweekend-post-mortem.55165/ To summarize: The business was pitched in 60 seconds on a Friday night, ignored...
  9. mt_myke

    StartupWeekend post-mortem

    Just got back from the Glacier Startup Weekend. This is an event sponsored by Google and others and they seem to have a lot of them, and since I'd never seen it mentioned here I thought I'd share my experience with fellow goatherders. Glacier means Glacier Park area of Montana, so I wasn't...
  10. mt_myke

    Product validation vs. internet startup

    Ok, I've been thinking about this for a while, but just can't reconcile some things here. First let me make sure I got the original FastLane story more or less right. MJ was a limousine driver and had several clients ask if he knew where to find a limo in other cities. Based on this, he built...
  11. mt_myke

    The product that will change how you think about MONEY - forever!

    EXECUTION 
    Sorry once again about the pompous thread title, I still haven't gotten over the novelty of copywriting "hooks". For what it's worth, my "intro" thread has 468 views, though other threads with titles like "Hello from California" have more. If you didn't look at my idea thread, read that one...
  12. mt_myke

    The next internet revolution - money for the masses

    I've been trying to come up with the right way to post about this and finally decided to just go for it...apologies in advance if it's a bit sloppy and unfocused. So my idea (more of an insight at this point) is that we're at a unique point in time where everyone - and I mean EVERYONE - has...
  13. mt_myke

    Newbie reveals simple method for EXPLOSIVE exposure, read now!

    INTRO 
    Hi all, it's Montana Myke, and I don't have any simple method other than trying out the copy-writing tricks I've been reading about on this forum. The view counter will tell me if it worked! At 43 I seem to be older than most of the members here. I did the good grades, good school thing only...
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