Hello everyone,
My name is Adam VanBuskirk, I'm 38, happily married, no children, and an IT Manager for a manufacturer. I started out coding websites around 20 years ago as I worked full time and started college. I've always spent the majority of my free time working on various projects. I would say businesses, but I've never had the discipline to give them everything I've got, so they always end up as unfinished projects.
I had rental properties (6 properties / 11 units) in my early 20s (I sold the last one last May), many failed (in my eyes) website ventures (a website that charges landlords for posting off-campus housing ads to college students that makes 4K per year, a game with 500 users that had tons of potential, but I got bored with, a retail website doing 30K/year in revenue, but in a niche that couldn't go much higher, an Android game that had $100 in revenue, a food discovery iPhone app poorly marketed), on and on. I love to create (products and value) and I love business, but I've always lacked a key trait in terms of being a successful entrepreneur - will. I always get bored fast and quit.
Anyway, I'm in the beginning of year two of a new website / venture and haven't given up. After reading MJ's books and Good to Great, I realized lacking the will to not quit has always been my main shortcoming. I give up way to fast. I need to keep the flywheel spinning for years and turn the crank way more often to get the gold gumballs. I think I'm on my way now that I realize the flaw - when I get a good idea, don't give up! I'm only at 800 users per day and making $300/month, but I'm still going strong after 1 year (for me that's a start). Time and more importantly my will will tell if I make it.
Looking forward to great conversations and learning a lot from those that have and are taking their journeys. Sharing mine as well.
Take care,
Adam
My name is Adam VanBuskirk, I'm 38, happily married, no children, and an IT Manager for a manufacturer. I started out coding websites around 20 years ago as I worked full time and started college. I've always spent the majority of my free time working on various projects. I would say businesses, but I've never had the discipline to give them everything I've got, so they always end up as unfinished projects.
I had rental properties (6 properties / 11 units) in my early 20s (I sold the last one last May), many failed (in my eyes) website ventures (a website that charges landlords for posting off-campus housing ads to college students that makes 4K per year, a game with 500 users that had tons of potential, but I got bored with, a retail website doing 30K/year in revenue, but in a niche that couldn't go much higher, an Android game that had $100 in revenue, a food discovery iPhone app poorly marketed), on and on. I love to create (products and value) and I love business, but I've always lacked a key trait in terms of being a successful entrepreneur - will. I always get bored fast and quit.
Anyway, I'm in the beginning of year two of a new website / venture and haven't given up. After reading MJ's books and Good to Great, I realized lacking the will to not quit has always been my main shortcoming. I give up way to fast. I need to keep the flywheel spinning for years and turn the crank way more often to get the gold gumballs. I think I'm on my way now that I realize the flaw - when I get a good idea, don't give up! I'm only at 800 users per day and making $300/month, but I'm still going strong after 1 year (for me that's a start). Time and more importantly my will will tell if I make it.
Looking forward to great conversations and learning a lot from those that have and are taking their journeys. Sharing mine as well.
Take care,
Adam
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