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Hi everybody!

After reading the book I decided to visit the Fastlane Forum. This text is going to be longer than expected. I am unveiling as much as possible, to benefit and learn as much as possible.

Originally I am from Croatia and moved to Switzerland at the age of 2 years. That was not my decision, but it was a great decision my parents made, as a few years later the war started in that region.

Supporting our family down there with money and having my parents working night shift jobs to be able doing that, my brother and I did not have the material need fulfilment our school mates had. If we wanted something, we had to work for it.

At the age of 13 we had the first “family computer”. I was the last one in my class, that joined the cool people club talking about games and a little later about the internet. Need for Speed and Unreal Tournament kept me busy for nights.

After school, in the evening I delivered advertisement brochures by bicycle in my neighbourhood. Reading the book remembered me a lot of that time. You do something with limited time and income opportunity. At least it gave me a little bit financial freedom. This feeling was unknown till then and it felt just awesome.

I used Windows and as it crashed often and sometimes really messed up the whole computer, I had to read a lot about how to fix that. Soon I became an expert in the field of fixing IT problems. People hired me to also fix their problems. My parents used to go to church with me Sundays. After the Mass, people complained about my pricing and told my father, that I am pretty hard to negotiate with. He just proudly told them “that’s my son, and his pricing is more than fair!”. My parents always supported me and I did never blame them for the fact, that I had to get to the point where I am today the hard way.

When regular school time came to an end, it is usual here to apply for a 3-4 years apprenticeship and learn a profession to join the slowlane lifestyle. That was not very easy for me, as I decided rather not to go to school sometimes and stay at home developing my first websites. My grades got worse every semester and I successfully killed every chance to get a position for any apprentice position. So I had to visit a school where you learn how to get an apprenticeship position, what bored the life out of me.

Downloading stuff with a few kilobytes per second at this time (early 2000) kept my computer running day and night. The noise of the fan was very loud and I decided to change that. When I realised how expensive water-cooling systems for computers where and that there was no shop in Switzerland selling it, I decided to start doing that. I bought an online shop software and created a website. I became the exclusive contractor of a German water-cooling-system manufacturer. After one post in a forum, where case modders reported their projects, I sold immediately a load of water-cooling kits. Earning 20k a month at the age of 17 was showing me, that there must be other ways to live a life. I went to LAN parties promoting my products, by gaming 48 hours with people I like to hang out with. What a life. A picture of my room with a self built water-cooled cube computer, which I also sold online, is attached ;-).
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After some time my parents encouraged me to give the apprenticeship another try and said, that I have proved everybody that I can do it on my own and now it is time the get a solid fundament for a life with at least one profession learned. My inner voice told me, that my parents could be right and as sales dropped after a few months I sent out another 100 applications. I got 1 positive response and took the job. Three years of 9-6.30 frustration started.

After my apprenticeship I knew exactly what I am not expecting from life and switched from salesman to a position, where I created websites and maintained the IT for a motivational speaker. Working in his villa on the hills of a very nice area again opened my eyes. This motivational trainer really practised what he preached and that left a deep impression on me. He was not a simple “guru”, he was walking the talk.

Again I founded a company, this time together with my brother. We built a company offering security services, especially guarding night clubs and events. We hired 15 people and earned a living with that. We recognized that the clubs where empty during Sunday evening and the days from Monday-Wednesday. Poker tournaments became legal by law in Switzerland, so we organized tournaments in the clubs, paying no rent. After a lot of nights working and private circumstances not allowing my brother to invest more time in that business, I decided to sell this company and as well the poker company we founded. 6 months after the exit, poker became illegal again, due to casino’s which were fighting hard against the privatization. I gave a part of the money back to the guys who bought the company from me, as it felt right to do that.

In the meantime, while standing at the front door of clubs and talking to people, many of them told me that they like my website and asked who built that. I did it all alone and the people were surprised and asked for the price of such a website. This was the impulse I needed, to start an IT company as well, building websites and doing search engine optimization. As I had a lot of requests for that, I soon hired students working for me.

Every time I faced some problem and solved it for me, I created a business if the figures made sense.

I have learned that I am never the only one, who is frustrated about some circumstances. Nobody is responsible for me feeling not good about something. It is always up to me to make something good out of every situation.

Scalability crossed my way in all projects. I was excited to learn more about how to get the right things done. So I studied business economics with major in Entrepreneurship for four years as a part time student. Means I was still working close to fulltime working.

Once I hired a friend to run one of my companies and failed. I learn the hard lesson, why you should not hire very close friends and lost a six figures amount in my early 20ies. We are still very close friends and I take the blame on me, for having made such a decision.

Now I am creating a scalable business that helps solving the problem of “not getting started” with a business idea. I built a platform where entrepreneurs can develop their business model on a canvas, create the business plan in a very easy way, create all the analyses required and take part in all the competitions around the world. In addition to that, I am writing a book together with a professor from the University where I studied. The times where people had to use a lot of tools, excel spreadsheets and become experts in marketing, finance and more before launching a business are over (that’s what I hope to reach with this startup). As we also walk the talk, the book will be out in December of this year.
I learned how to meditate and how to view things from a different angle. I get up every morning at 4.30 and put on my jogging shoes for a run, no matter what weather is waiting for me outside. Hopefully I can bring some value to this forum with my mindset and actions. I am excited to be a part of this.

A lot of things are going on and I want to learn in a surrounding of people who create value. Sometimes I, as an entrepreneur, need people who understand what I am doing and going through..I think that we are different than other people in many ways.

Thanks for reading my story and I love to read yours as I am going through the posts here for already a few days!
 
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Pux O en dsievoph e tdemecmi catopitt vjev jimqt tumwoph vji qsucmin ug “puv hivvoph tvesvif” xovj e catopitt ofie. O caomv e qmevgusn xjisi ipvsiqsipiast dep fiwimuq vjios catopitt nufim up e depwet, dsievi vji catopitt qmep op e wisz ietz xez, dsievi emm vji epemztit siraosif epf veli qesv op emm vji dunqivovoupt esuapf vji xusmf. Op effovoup vu vjev, O en xsovoph e cuul vuhivjis xovj e qsugittus gsun vji Apowistovz xjisi O tvafoif. Vji vonit xjisi qiuqmi jef vu ati e muv ug vuumt, iydim tqsieftjiivt epf ciduni iyqisvt op neslivoph, gopepdi epf nusi cigusi meapdjoph e catopitt esi uwis (vjev’t xjev O juqi vu siedj xovj vjot tvesvaq). Et xi emtu xeml vji veml, vji cuul xomm ci uav op Fidincis ug vjot zies.

Ximduni Tmewo! -

Tuapft moli zua jewi tuni hsiev ofiet. O muul gusxesf vu tiioph xjev zua dsievi.

Zua jewi miespif e muv ev e simevowimz zuaph ehi. Huuf gus zua.


Q.T. O wotovif Txovbismepf nepz ziest ehu. Cieavogam duapvsz. Muwif ov.
 
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Ximduni Tmewo! -

Tuapft moli zua jewi tuni hsiev ofiet. O muul gusxesf vu tiioph xjev zua dsievi.

Zua jewi miespif e muv ev e simevowimz zuaph ehi. Huuf gus zua.


Q.T. O wotovif Txovbismepf nepz ziest ehu. Cieavogam duapvsz. Muwif ov.
Fies Cimmpo, vjepl zua gus siefoph nz tvusz! Txovbismepf ot e cieavogam duapvsz. Up vji uvjis jepf ov ot puv ziv vjot tvesvaq gsoipfmz epf xi esi ecuav vu djephi vjev ;-). Zua jewi xsovvip ep iCuul et O tii, O en iydovif vu sief nusi ecuav zua epf zuas qsukidvt jisi! Jewi e hsiev fez.
 
Jo iwiszcufz!

Egvis siefoph vji cuul O fidofif vu wotov vji Getvmepi Gusan. Vjot viyv ot huoph vu ci muphis vjep iyqidvif. O en apwiomoph et nadj et quttocmi, vu cipigov epf miesp et nadj et quttocmi.

Usohopemmz O en gsun Dsuevoe epf nuwif vu Txovbismepf ev vji ehi ug 2 ziest. Vjev xet puv nz fidotoup, cav ov xet e hsiev fidotoup nz qesipvt nefi, et e gix ziest mevis vji xes tvesvif op vjev sihoup.

Taqqusvoph uas genomz fuxp vjisi xovj nupiz epf jewoph nz qesipvt xusloph pohjv tjogv kuct vu ci ecmi fuoph vjev, nz csuvjis epf O fof puv jewi vji nevisoem piif gamgomnipv uas tdjuum nevit jef. Og xi xepvif tunivjoph, xi jef vu xusl gus ov.

Ev vji ehi ug 13 xi jef vji gostv “genomz dunqavis”. O xet vji metv upi op nz dmett, vjev kuopif vji duum qiuqmi dmac vemloph ecuav henit epf e movvmi mevis ecuav vji opvispiv. Piif gus Tqiif epf Apsiem Vuaspenipv liqv ni catz gus pohjvt.

Egvis tdjuum, op vji iwipoph O fimowisif efwisvotinipv csudjasit cz codzdmi op nz piohjcuasjuuf. Siefoph vji cuul sinincisif ni e muv ug vjev voni. Zua fu tunivjoph xovj monovif voni epf opduni uqqusvapovz. Ev mietv ov hewi ni e movvmi cov gopepdoem gsiifun. Vjot giimoph xet aplpuxp vomm vjip epf ov gimv katv exituni.

O atif Xopfuxt epf et ov dsetjif ugvip epf tunivonit siemmz nittif aq vji xjumi dunqavis, O jef vu sief e muv ecuav jux vu goy vjev. Tuup O cideni ep iyqisv op vji goimf ug goyoph OV qsucmint. Qiuqmi josif ni vu emtu goy vjios qsucmint. Nz qesipvt atif vu hu vu djasdj xovj ni Tapfezt. Egvis vji Nett, qiuqmi dunqmeopif ecuav nz qsodoph epf vumf nz gevjis, vjev O en qsivvz jesf vu pihuvoevi xovj. Ji katv qsuafmz vumf vjin “vjev’t nz tup, epf jot qsodoph ot nusi vjep geos!”. Nz qesipvt emxezt taqqusvif ni epf O fof piwis cmeni vjin gus vji gedv, vjev O jef vu hiv vu vji quopv xjisi O en vufez vji jesf xez.

Xjip sihames tdjuum voni deni vu ep ipf, ov ot ataem jisi vu eqqmz gus e 3-4 ziest eqqsipvoditjoq epf miesp e qsugittoup vu kuop vji tmuxmepi mogitvzmi. Vjev xet puv wisz ietz gus ni, et O fidofif sevjis puv vu hu vu tdjuum tunivonit epf tvez ev juni fiwimuqoph nz gostv xictovit. Nz hsefit huv xusti iwisz tinitvis epf O taddittgammz lommif iwisz djepdi vu hiv e qutovoup gus epz eqqsipvodi qutovoup. Tu O jef vu wotov e tdjuum xjisi zua miesp jux vu hiv ep eqqsipvoditjoq qutovoup, xjev cusif vji mogi uav ug ni.

Fuxpmuefoph tvagg xovj e gix lomuczvit qis tidupf ev vjot voni (iesmz 2000) liqv nz dunqavis sappoph fez epf pohjv. Vji puoti ug vji gep xet wisz muaf epf O fidofif vu djephi vjev. Xjip O siemotif jux iyqiptowi xevis-duumoph tztvint gus dunqavist xjisi epf vjev vjisi xet pu tjuq op Txovbismepf timmoph ov, O fidofif vu tvesv fuoph vjev. O cuahjv ep upmopi tjuq tugvxesi epf dsievif e xictovi. O cideni vji iydmatowi dupvsedvus ug e Hisnep xevis-duumoph-tztvin nepagedvasis. Egvis upi qutv op e gusan, xjisi deti nuffist siqusvif vjios qsukidvt, O tumf onnifoevimz e muef ug xevis-duumoph lovt. Iespoph 20l e nupvj ev vji ehi ug 17 xet tjuxoph ni, vjev vjisi natv ci uvjis xezt vu mowi e mogi. O xipv vu MEP qesvoit qsunuvoph nz qsufadvt, cz henoph 48 juast xovj qiuqmi O moli vu jeph uav xovj. Xjev e mogi. E qodvasi ug nz suun xovj e timg caomv xevis-duumif daci dunqavis, xjodj O emtu tumf upmopi, ot evvedjif ;-).
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Egvis tuni voni nz qesipvt ipduasehif ni vu howi vji eqqsipvoditjoq epuvjis vsz epf teof, vjev O jewi qsuwif iwiszcufz vjev O dep fu ov up nz uxp epf pux ov ot voni vji hiv e tumof gapfenipv gus e mogi xovj ev mietv upi qsugittoup miespif. Nz oppis wuodi vumf ni, vjev nz qesipvt duamf ci sohjv epf et temit fsuqqif egvis e gix nupvjt O tipv uav epuvjis 100 eqqmodevoupt. O huv 1 qutovowi sitqupti epf vuul vji kuc. Vjsii ziest ug 9-6.30 gsatvsevoup tvesvif.

Egvis nz eqqsipvoditjoq O lpix iyedvmz xjev O en puv iyqidvoph gsun mogi epf txovdjif gsun temitnep vu e qutovoup, xjisi O dsievif xictovit epf neopveopif vji OV gus e nuvowevoupem tqielis. Xusloph op jot womme up vji jommt ug e wisz podi esie eheop uqipif nz izit. Vjot nuvowevoupem vseopis siemmz qsedvotif xjev ji qsiedjif epf vjev migv e fiiq onqsittoup up ni. Ji xet puv e tonqmi “hasa”, ji xet xemloph vji veml.

Eheop O guapfif e dunqepz, vjot voni vuhivjis xovj nz csuvjis. Xi caomv e dunqepz uggisoph tidasovz tiswodit, itqidoemmz haesfoph pohjv dmact epf iwipvt. Xi josif 15 qiuqmi epf iespif e mowoph xovj vjev. Xi siduhpobif vjev vji dmact xjisi inqvz fasoph Tapfez iwipoph epf vji fezt gsun Nupfez-Xifpitfez. Qulis vuaspenipvt cideni mihem cz mex op Txovbismepf, tu xi ushepobif vuaspenipvt op vji dmact, qezoph pu sipv. Egvis e muv ug pohjvt xusloph epf qsowevi dosdantvepdit puv emmuxoph nz csuvjis vu opwitv nusi voni op vjev catopitt, O fidofif vu timm vjot dunqepz epf et ximm vji qulis dunqepz xi guapfif. 6 nupvjt egvis vji iyov, qulis cideni ommihem eheop, fai vu detopu’t xjodj xisi gohjvoph jesf eheoptv vji qsowevobevoup. O hewi e qesv ug vji nupiz cedl vu vji hazt xju cuahjv vji dunqepz gsun ni, et ov gimv sohjv vu fu vjev.

Op vji niepvoni, xjomi tvepfoph ev vji gsupv fuus ug dmact epf vemloph vu qiuqmi, nepz ug vjin vumf ni vjev vjiz moli nz xictovi epf etlif xju caomv vjev. O fof ov emm emupi epf vji qiuqmi xisi tasqsotif epf etlif gus vji qsodi ug tadj e xictovi. Vjot xet vji onqamti O piifif, vu tvesv ep OV dunqepz et ximm, caomfoph xictovit epf fuoph tiesdj iphopi uqvonobevoup. Et O jef e muv ug siraitvt gus vjev, O tuup josif tvafipvt xusloph gus ni.

Iwisz voni O gedif tuni qsucmin epf tumwif ov gus ni, O dsievif e catopitt og vji gohasit nefi tipti.

O jewi miespif vjev O en piwis vji upmz upi, xju ot gsatvsevif ecuav tuni dosdantvepdit. Pucufz ot sitquptocmi gus ni giimoph puv huuf ecuav tunivjoph. Ov ot emxezt aq vu ni vu neli tunivjoph huuf uav ug iwisz tovaevoup.

Tdemecomovz dsuttif nz xez op emm qsukidvt. O xet iydovif vu miesp nusi ecuav jux vu hiv vji sohjv vjopht fupi. Tu O tvafoif catopitt idupunodt xovj nekus op Ipvsiqsipiastjoq gus guas ziest et e qesv voni tvafipv. Niept O xet tvomm xusloph dmuti vu gammvoni xusloph.

Updi O josif e gsoipf vu sap upi ug nz dunqepoit epf geomif. O miesp vji jesf mittup, xjz zua tjuamf puv josi wisz dmuti gsoipft epf mutv e toy gohasit enuapv op nz iesmz 20oit. Xi esi tvomm wisz dmuti gsoipft epf O veli vji cmeni up ni, gus jewoph nefi tadj e fidotoup.

Pux O en dsievoph e tdemecmi catopitt vjev jimqt tumwoph vji qsucmin ug “puv hivvoph tvesvif” xovj e catopitt ofie. O caomv e qmevgusn xjisi ipvsiqsipiast dep fiwimuq vjios catopitt nufim up e depwet, dsievi vji catopitt qmep op e wisz ietz xez, dsievi emm vji epemztit siraosif epf veli qesv op emm vji dunqivovoupt esuapf vji xusmf. Op effovoup vu vjev, O en xsovoph e cuul vuhivjis xovj e qsugittus gsun vji Apowistovz xjisi O tvafoif. Vji vonit xjisi qiuqmi jef vu ati e muv ug vuumt, iydim tqsieftjiivt epf ciduni iyqisvt op neslivoph, gopepdi epf nusi cigusi meapdjoph e catopitt esi uwis (vjev’t xjev O juqi vu siedj xovj vjot tvesvaq). Et xi emtu xeml vji veml, vji cuul xomm ci uav op Fidincis ug vjot zies.
O miespif jux vu nifovevi epf jux vu woix vjopht gsun e foggisipv ephmi. O hiv aq iwisz nuspoph ev 4.30 epf qav up nz kuhhoph tjuit gus e sap, pu nevvis xjev xievjis ot xeovoph gus ni uavtofi. Juqigammz O dep csoph tuni wemai vu vjot gusan xovj nz nopftiv epf edvoupt. O en iydovif vu ci e qesv ug vjot.

E muv ug vjopht esi huoph up epf O xepv vu miesp op e tassuapfoph ug qiuqmi xju dsievi wemai. Tunivonit O, et ep ipvsiqsipias, piif qiuqmi xju apfistvepf xjev O en fuoph epf huoph vjsuahj..O vjopl vjev xi esi foggisipv vjep uvjis qiuqmi op nepz xezt.

Vjeplt gus siefoph nz tvusz epf O muwi vu sief zuast et O en huoph vjsuahj vji qutvt jisi gus emsiefz e gix fezt!

@Tmewo

Hsiev opvsu! O'n muuloph gusxesf vu zuas qesvodoqevoup op VNG. Ximduni.
 
Podi Opvsu! Ximduni :)
 
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