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Unofficial results came in, and it looks like I got 2nd place in the competition - lost by a pretty big margin. Thank you everyone for the support! It has definitely been an interesting experience that made me step out of comfort zone on quite a few areas. Of course, the good that has been done for poor public schools is surely not overshadowed by losing the competition.
A few afterthoughts about the competition:
- Competing against other Tim Ferris fans is definitely challenging . Especially when going for quantity of donors - in hindsight should have probably went for total funds raised, as there was potentially less competition there.
- I failed to implement some of the teachings of Tim Ferris in this competition. That is, using automatic/smart methods to gain the desired outcome. I definitely hustled, but didn't capitalize on some opportunities to gain MANY donors with little time investment through a creative method - even though I was presented with a few ideas to do so. There was some risk involved with these ideas, as they could've not worked at all, and that threw me off. Instead, I chose to go with simple yet time consuming and unscalable ideas like going around bars with an Ipad to and selling people (LOL).
- Didn't shoot for the stars. I entered the competition after 10 days, and seeing that the #1 spot had 33 donors. From standard calculations and adding some margin, I figured 150-200 should be enough to win (ended up getting 255. First place had 430). If I aimed at doing something really incredible like 1,000 donors, I would have probably had to think more outside the box and could have won easier.
That being said, again it was a very good experience. Thanks again for helping me out - I really appreciate it.
- David
A few afterthoughts about the competition:
- Competing against other Tim Ferris fans is definitely challenging . Especially when going for quantity of donors - in hindsight should have probably went for total funds raised, as there was potentially less competition there.
- I failed to implement some of the teachings of Tim Ferris in this competition. That is, using automatic/smart methods to gain the desired outcome. I definitely hustled, but didn't capitalize on some opportunities to gain MANY donors with little time investment through a creative method - even though I was presented with a few ideas to do so. There was some risk involved with these ideas, as they could've not worked at all, and that threw me off. Instead, I chose to go with simple yet time consuming and unscalable ideas like going around bars with an Ipad to and selling people (LOL).
- Didn't shoot for the stars. I entered the competition after 10 days, and seeing that the #1 spot had 33 donors. From standard calculations and adding some margin, I figured 150-200 should be enough to win (ended up getting 255. First place had 430). If I aimed at doing something really incredible like 1,000 donors, I would have probably had to think more outside the box and could have won easier.
That being said, again it was a very good experience. Thanks again for helping me out - I really appreciate it.
- David
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