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First off, congratulations for your excellent marketing (and marketing is a positive word for me), the cover and the title are one of the most compelling I've seen in a while 
So for those who are interested, I just turned 17, and will go to college next year.
I have "ADD", which is kind of a mixed blessing and something I wish I could turn on/off at will Especially the part that encourages me to procrastinate.
I'd be willing to go through hell to get rid of procrastination as I've been having trouble with it for all my life. I've read books, websites, etc but I'm STILL F*ckING PROCRASTINATING. Really need some help on that, but life coaches are really scarce in France (maybe a good business opportunity now that I think about it, lol)
Anyway on a lighter note, I've read the book in one day (it's a real page turner as it's talking about money on every page
) and it further reinforced my positive views about entrepreneurship/thinking in terms of value created instead of money made.
One lesson I'll remember is that "somebody is already doing it" isn't that much of a barrier.
My "life principles" are :
-having high aspirations
-living fully
-self-education
-delivering value
When I was in school I realized two things : 1) Formal secondary education is [insert lots of negative adjectives here] 2) Games are fun
Those two observations formed the basis of my business idea, which will be a simulation game [I'm thinking a facebook game, but I'll have to do research to see if there are more profitable ways to market it] that is both fun and educative. The road to starting the business is still kind of unclear though, but I guess that's entrepreneurship. I'll probably have to ask some questions on this forum
By next fall I should :
-Have a totally clear picture on how to execute my business ideas
-Having put in enough hours at part-time job (academic tutoring) to gather 1000€
-Pass high school final exams with top grades . Yeah, I do think formal education is of marginal value, but with credentialism running rampant these days and parent pressure it still looks like a sound decision. Plus tuition is cheap in the EU (under $5k a year) and there are no gened requirements, so I might learn some useful skills in business and compsci
Anyways, that's pretty much what I wanted to write for now. (Which is actually good since I thought about just erasing all I've written and not posting lol)
Best luck to everyone in your business endeavors,
Akitoes
Post-scriptum
Some short-term objectives with my money (5 to 10-year) :
-Have $20,000 to buy a car without loans
-Invest or spend $10,000 into giving education opportunities (giving economics/personalfinance/business book packages for free, for instance, or organizing cheap seminars) & encouraging entrepreneurship (angel 'mini' investing)
-$5,000 for a Las Vegas Trip and 1K WSOP Event the year I turn 21
And some "dream" things I'd like to spend money on once I've made it ($2 million or more):
-Living in an area with perfect weather
-Founding an educational institution
-Angel investing
So for those who are interested, I just turned 17, and will go to college next year.
I have "ADD", which is kind of a mixed blessing and something I wish I could turn on/off at will
Especially the part that encourages me to procrastinate.I'd be willing to go through hell to get rid of procrastination as I've been having trouble with it for all my life. I've read books, websites, etc but I'm STILL F*ckING PROCRASTINATING. Really need some help on that, but life coaches are really scarce in France (maybe a good business opportunity now that I think about it, lol)
Anyway on a lighter note, I've read the book in one day (it's a real page turner as it's talking about money on every page
) and it further reinforced my positive views about entrepreneurship/thinking in terms of value created instead of money made. One lesson I'll remember is that "somebody is already doing it" isn't that much of a barrier.
My "life principles" are :
-having high aspirations
-living fully
-self-education
-delivering value
When I was in school I realized two things : 1) Formal secondary education is [insert lots of negative adjectives here] 2) Games are fun
Those two observations formed the basis of my business idea, which will be a simulation game [I'm thinking a facebook game, but I'll have to do research to see if there are more profitable ways to market it] that is both fun and educative. The road to starting the business is still kind of unclear though, but I guess that's entrepreneurship. I'll probably have to ask some questions on this forum
By next fall I should :
-Have a totally clear picture on how to execute my business ideas
-Having put in enough hours at part-time job (academic tutoring) to gather 1000€
-Pass high school final exams with top grades . Yeah, I do think formal education is of marginal value, but with credentialism running rampant these days and parent pressure it still looks like a sound decision. Plus tuition is cheap in the EU (under $5k a year) and there are no gened requirements, so I might learn some useful skills in business and compsci
Anyways, that's pretty much what I wanted to write for now. (Which is actually good since I thought about just erasing all I've written and not posting lol)
Best luck to everyone in your business endeavors,
Akitoes
Post-scriptum
Some short-term objectives with my money (5 to 10-year) :
-Have $20,000 to buy a car without loans
-Invest or spend $10,000 into giving education opportunities (giving economics/personalfinance/business book packages for free, for instance, or organizing cheap seminars) & encouraging entrepreneurship (angel 'mini' investing)
-$5,000 for a Las Vegas Trip and 1K WSOP Event the year I turn 21
And some "dream" things I'd like to spend money on once I've made it ($2 million or more):
-Living in an area with perfect weather
-Founding an educational institution
-Angel investing
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