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  1. JIRS

    Buying a business vs starting from scratch

    MINDSET EXECUTION QUESTION 
    When I hear "buying a business" two cases that I know of come to mind. This is a n=2 from my perspective, so take it with grain of salt, but I realized that buying a business and thinking you can improve it is far from easy. #1. Austin, TX, 2001, car transmission shop. My car's transmission...
  2. JIRS

    Introducing myself as I now think I understand the Forum

    INTRO 
    Ok, I think I had my FTE. Here is the post on the FTE/FTM thread. I quit my job and I have a 6 month runway to get some traction (a bit of savings) or go back to a job. I will be doing consulting with a tech product component (that I am building simultaneously). Hopefuly I can get this off the...
  3. JIRS

    Have you had your "FTE"? (Or Was it an FTM?!)

    GOLD! MINDSET FTE CHAT 
    I had my FTE lat month, I just didn't walk out of my job, but I knew that I had learned enough and was not going anywhere with the company. I had previously slept under my desk after 27 hour long work day (yes, that is not a typo) with a blood shuttered eye, coughing out of stress, and a...
  4. JIRS

    Just bought a house for $9,000...

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I wonder if it is possible to put 2 and 2 together for an entrepreneur and get the $10k grant for remote workers and score a livable house for the same amount... Apparently Kansas has the remote worker 10K grant program...
  5. JIRS

    Fed Up With Your Country? Where Is Left to Go?

    HOT! 
    Forget the notion of Left and Right, how Venezuela went down the drain was a different thing. Venezuela was always left leaning, with two parties, one conservative (Partiso Social Cristiano - note that the conservatives had the word "social" in their name ), and the liberal party (Accion...
  6. JIRS

    Fed Up With Your Country? Where Is Left to Go?

    HOT! 
    I feel blessed to live in the USA BECAUSE I was lucky enough to have escaped Venezuela. I see people complaining about first world problems like taxes, rules and regulations and I think to myself, what if you lived in Venezuela ?!?, where taxes come in the form of risking your life just to go...
  7. JIRS

    Quit my job after reading MJ DeMarco's book

    MINDSET FTE 
    Are jobs in France truly 5/7 ? Here 5/8 jobs are actually (in my experience) 6/10+ jobs. Don't quit unless you have already something with enough traction... keep on trying while at work.
  8. JIRS

    How to start a new online business ?

    As suggested above, you could probably make your own with the right wordpress plugins; that may be enough for a initial proof of concept that you could scale later. Search for "wordpress dating sites" "build wordpress dating site" "wordpress dating themes", there are several pre-built options...
  9. JIRS

    TAMPA BAY, FL Fastlane Meetup

    MEETUPS 
    Hi @RayAndré , Welcome to the Tampabay area I am in Indian Rocks Beach and just love living here. There seems to be not much of movement in this thread. I am a Fastlane wannabe, but if there is enough quorum for a meetup, I am in.
  10. JIRS

    Invented Product: Testing Market w/ Amazon Product Listing and Facebook Ads

    HOT! 
    Interesting product and marketing experiment. Thank you very much for sharing. - Is this product for an unfinished room such as a basement or garage ? or just any room in a house ? - If yes above, is there a way to target people as they move into new homes, or when they are looking to install...
  11. JIRS

    Introducing myself as I now think I understand the Forum

    INTRO 
    Thank you for all the kind words. Here is my update as I am keeping this thread as sort of a journal to remind myself and get some wisdom from others when appropriate. It may resonate hollow to some here, but I feel like I am making some steps in the right direction. Here is what has been...
  12. JIRS

    Making Money with Matlab and Python scripting

    Welcome to the forum, I am also a newbie here as this is my second post. I've been following a few threads over some months thought. I am also a long time Matlab programmer, but when I left the academic setting (PhD/Postdoc) found myself at odds with Matlab as I didn't want to cough-up the...
  13. JIRS

    Uncommon books that you'd recommend?

    BOOKS 
    Antifragile by Nassim Taleb. I absolutely hate the author, but if you are able to digest the book, the message in it is pretty deep and revealing, and it is a nice complement to The Millionaire Fastlane. I'd have to read the book again, but one of the messages it left me is the following...
  14. JIRS

    Introducing myself as I now think I understand the Forum

    INTRO 
    Hi There from Florida ! I've read The Millionaire Fastlane and Unscripted once a couple of years ago, and just recently after I joined the forum. I am a 47 year, married with a 6 year old child. I have always wanted to move to the fast lane but always endup somewhere between the slow lane and...
  15. JIRS

    I've Read UNSCRIPTED!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I just finished Unscripted in audible. Awesome book, but lots to unpack.
  16. JIRS

    I've Read The Millionaire Fastlane!

    GOLD! HOT! 
    I've just "re-read" (audible) The Millionaire Fastlane book, and actually recommended it to my Brother who is also looking for a way into the fastlane. I've also read "Unscripted", and will post on that thread when I re-read (audible) the book. I loved the Millionaire Fastlane, and it is...
  17. JIRS

    Reading posts. Learning about the forum before I post my current status with my FIM.

    Reading posts. Learning about the forum before I post my current status with my FIM.
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