Hello all,
I registered on this forum back in 2009. I don't think the book came out until several years after that, but I never read it (until earlier this year) nor posted here until just yesterday. My initial attraction in 2009 was getting rich. It was all about me and what I wanted.
Reading through some recent posts, it seems like a lot of new members have similar ideas and thought processes. I failed at one dumb business after another because I didn't really care about the customer or what they needed and wanted. In fact, I had no idea how to figure out what they really wanted anyway.
By the time the Fastlane Millionaire was published, I was tired of failure and "gave up" on the whole make more money thing. Last year, I again decided I needed to make an effort to become my own boss, so to speak. I knew I needed a different approach to business as everything I'd done before was crap.
First I looked into Noah Kagan's Make Your First Dollar course. I got part way through it, but I had also gone back to college for a computer science degree and didn't have the time to complete it. In the end, Noah refunded me and I was out.
After school, I thought about the Foundation, but I decided against it after reading posts about it here. Someone here mentioned Amy Hoy and 30x500 in the context of the Foundation and went to investigate. What she said really resonated with me about what I'd been doing wrong before (and what was wrong with validating ideas like Noah Kagan and the Foundation teach). It's not that those methods can't work, but there's a better way (Amy calls the native customer research a "safari").
Anyway, Amy discontinued the 30x500 program last year, but a retooled self-study version was released to 150 people in Feb. I was one of the ones who got in. The actual course kicks off April 19 (part 1 - reading your customers' minds) and the second part about creating a product to fulfill what your customers need starts in June.
I'm excited. For the first time in my life, I'm going to be building a business focusing on others and truly helping them. Creating real value for others.
Good times!
I registered on this forum back in 2009. I don't think the book came out until several years after that, but I never read it (until earlier this year) nor posted here until just yesterday. My initial attraction in 2009 was getting rich. It was all about me and what I wanted.
Reading through some recent posts, it seems like a lot of new members have similar ideas and thought processes. I failed at one dumb business after another because I didn't really care about the customer or what they needed and wanted. In fact, I had no idea how to figure out what they really wanted anyway.
By the time the Fastlane Millionaire was published, I was tired of failure and "gave up" on the whole make more money thing. Last year, I again decided I needed to make an effort to become my own boss, so to speak. I knew I needed a different approach to business as everything I'd done before was crap.
First I looked into Noah Kagan's Make Your First Dollar course. I got part way through it, but I had also gone back to college for a computer science degree and didn't have the time to complete it. In the end, Noah refunded me and I was out.
After school, I thought about the Foundation, but I decided against it after reading posts about it here. Someone here mentioned Amy Hoy and 30x500 in the context of the Foundation and went to investigate. What she said really resonated with me about what I'd been doing wrong before (and what was wrong with validating ideas like Noah Kagan and the Foundation teach). It's not that those methods can't work, but there's a better way (Amy calls the native customer research a "safari").
Anyway, Amy discontinued the 30x500 program last year, but a retooled self-study version was released to 150 people in Feb. I was one of the ones who got in. The actual course kicks off April 19 (part 1 - reading your customers' minds) and the second part about creating a product to fulfill what your customers need starts in June.
I'm excited. For the first time in my life, I'm going to be building a business focusing on others and truly helping them. Creating real value for others.
Good times!
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