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    Thank you Thursday! - (January 11, 2018) Entrepreneur


    Thank you Thursday! - (January 11, 2018)

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 05:06 AM PST

    Your opportunity to thank the /r/Entrepreneur community by offering free stuff, contests, discounts, electronic courses, ebooks

    and the best deals you know of. Please consolidate such offers here!

    Since this thread can fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts.

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    Posted a shirt design that went viral. I don't have the shirt. What do I do?

    Posted: 10 Jan 2018 10:21 PM PST

    Ok, so yesterday I had a great idea for a shirt design and went ahead and posted it on my Facebook page that has a sizable following. Within a couple of hours the post has been shared thousand of times and now the people are asking where to get the shirt. I would love to direct people to a link on where to buy it but the problem is, I made the shirt as a joke and not as a serious venture. What do you guys recommend in order to monetize it? My niche is marketing but I am not in the least bit experienced with physically selling products online.

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    The one thing you know you should do, but don't

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:33 AM PST

    Maybe it's just me. Or maybe it is just me that listened to everyone's advice, did it, and didn't follow through. Or maybe it was me that had gotten content with the results, and figured the process had nothing to do with it…

    There's certainly an undeniable magic when it comes to writing, reviewing, verbalizing, or even nowadays typing your goals.

    If you have listened to anyone who has some success, their success began with a blue print on how to get there. The blueprint is simple, write down your goals.

    I know for me, it certainly has been a while - old goals of mine had become washed away in the chaos of today's demands. New goals seem like another addition to the "To-Do" list.

    As a business owner, I once wasn't a business owner.

    Actually, all I did was dream about the day I would own a business - I wanted personal freedom. I wanted to be my own boss. And I never wanted to ask if I could take my lunch break. Who is ok with that?

    So, two years ago, I took the advice of one of the famous motivational gurus who preached the idea of writing down my goals.

    On my goal board I wrote my dream goal: "By the age of 25, be my own boss"

    I also had a financial goal: "Save $15,000 before you start your business"

    And a personal goal (which at the time was): Read Rich Dad Poor Dad

    I kept it simple - I didn't want to overwhelm myself, I wanted to make it as easy as possible to Take action

    Whether it was pure luck, or the fact that these 3 goals kept in my mind throughout (the last one becoming interchangeable after I finished the book) I can say with certainty that it helped at least guide my direction day in and day out. That simple. 3 goals. As a business owner now, I can't tell you the last time I've written 3 solid goals out and committed to take action. So, as an act of accountability, and hoping that you share yours with me, I'm going to write them down here:

    Dream goal: Scale my painting business, and double our last year annual gross to $450,000 per year.

    Financial goal: Begin taking steps to invest 10% of today's money in hopes to achieve an 8% return over the course of it's time in the market to ensure a profitable retirement plan.

    Personal goal: Read the "Fifth Agreement"

    Feel free to write your own goals below. You can use my 3 goal method, or just write what you plan to do. I'm interested in truly seeing what else everyone else is aiming for.

    Maybe it's been a while for you too, and committing it to writing could be your first step to a new beginning.

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    Today, my dreams came true.

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:41 AM PST

    Today was the reward for two and a half years. It felt truly impossible. We have a product, huge companies decided they want it. We're making connections. We're making money. We have customers who are excited and investors who are proud. We became the overnight success I have dreamed of for so long.

    We're being chased by the largest companies in our space. It's incredible. We did it.

    Do not give up. It is possible. You and your team may spend a long time what feels like hell. If you keep going, you will make it. You can be an overnight success. You can do it. You will. Do not stop. Focus. Remove those who doubt you. Build your product. Stay focused. It may seem impossible, but it can happen.

    Best of luck to all of you. If I can do it, anyone else can. Go for it.

    EDIT: Some of you are asking about my product. I don't post it on the public web, sorry :( It isn't relevant to this post or its message. I am trying to be industry agnostic; this post's subject matter applies to any entrepreneur.

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    Launched new startup after leaving my 15 yrs of high paying job. Kindly requesting your critique.

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:52 PM PST

    I worked in the semiconductor/Telecom industry for 15 years. Last year I left my job to launch my startup product. My motivation was to try and solve the problem of information overload and provide smart tools to collect, organize, manage, increase productivity and most importantly have everything in one platform.

    I was wondering if people in this group can kindly spend a few minutes and provide your feedback on the product? And would you be interested in using it to solve your information overload problem?

    Product name - Clipicious

    Why Clipicious?

    Clipicious is a cloud based powerful productivity platform that helps you collect information using the smart annotation system, organize and manage it in a structured manner and help increase your productivity using smart tools and timers.

    Information comes in various sizes, shapes & formats and we lack tools to collect & structure such discrete learnings in a commonly recognizable basic unit of information. Such lack of tools discourages us to manage our learnings in an organized manner. At times this leads to the loss of valuable knowledge as well as investing our limited time in re-acquiring required information.

    The problem is compounded by the fact that NOT all learnings have a digital form. We still rely on traditional mediums which are still not completely digitized like books, hand-written notes. Then there are certain types of information like colors, questions which are hard to capture in a standardized format.

    Keeping this in mind Clipicious was created. It helps to acquire all such discrete learnings in a standard unit of information known as Clips. It also provides with a convenience to organize captured learnings as per each person's logical workflow using clip categories, folders, groups, tags, interest rating etc.

    Clipicious has powerful in-built productivity features to manage your learnings effortlessly. Some of the main features are:

    • Clipicious Web Clipper
    • Text & Image Annotations
    • Time Tracking & Reporting
    • Q&A Module
    • Clipicious Teams for Organization

    Future goal is to expand on the feature list (like OCR, document annotations, notifications and much more etc...) to make it one stop platform for everyone!

    What do you think?

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    Online Marketing: Absolute Beginner. Where to start?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 06:33 AM PST

    I've always had an interest in marketing, and now that I have a more lax semester of uni coming up, I would enjoy trying my hand at online marketing. However, I don't know where to start at all. What is a good platform to advertise on? What is a good product for affiliation? I know a little bit about SEO (used to work for a webshop) and I have a little experience in copy writing. However, my technical skills are not phenomenal.

    What I am asking is, what is a good starting point for an absolute beginner? Are there any good free resources out there? Any tips or leads you may have?

    Any help is greatly appreciated! :)

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    Can someone critique my test business?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:04 PM PST

    Hi all. I have some experience with a few side businesses, but this is my first all out on my own, hoping to make a living out of it business idea. Inspired by my brother becoming a single dad, I'm trying to streamline different family chores. First one is clothes shopping. By the beginning of Q3, I'm going to launch an online clothing retailer that allows users to create a profile of themselves and their family members, with their personal measurements. Then, as they shop for clothes on the site, it recommends what size to buy. Example: Click on a pair of Levi Jeans you're trying to buy for your son Tommy, and it tells you that Tommy is a size 28. If I can work out deals with a brand I'll carry them directly, if not I'll consider having an affiliate marketing angle where it tells you what size to buy and then you can buy it off of Levi's (or whatever) site.

    I'm looking to start a few test businesses to test advertising strategies and the like. These are standard clothing retailers, no real competitive advantage, but I'm not looking to make significant income from them, just get some feedback. First one launched two days ago, www.collaredworkshirts.com, built on Shopify with about an hours worth of extra code from me. This has about half a dozen brands that I have relationships with and can carry directly, each with a gross margin of 40-50%. These are brands I'll be able to carry on my main site and get all the measurements for. Even though this is more of a test site than anything, any feedback on the site itself, advertising ideas, or really anything else would be great. Between posting it in a few other threads on Reddit and $5 in one Facebook ad, I've got about 50 hits in two days, but no sales yet.

    I appreciate it, and best wishes to all of you on your ventures.

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    Is there a good way to store product knowledge to make training new costumer service reps easier?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:03 PM PST

    my company sells to contractors and do it yourselfers for home/yard improvement products of a very wide variety. We are expected to be knowledgeable on the products to help our costumers know which would best achieve their goals. There seems to be a functionally unlimited amount of unique questions we get asked so ultimately experience is key, which we are always short of.

    I was thinking of some kind of knowledge base software like this large corporation i worked for had, but i recall they spent tens of thousands on, and honestly thats not available right now for me.

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    Using Open Source to Grow Business. Month #6

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:45 PM PST

    Original article can be found here

    This post was originally published in one of startups-themed subreddits and was it's top post for a couple of hours, fellow redditors found it useful and I was answering all the questions in the comments section. But then it was deleted by the moderator because I kept product names in the body of the article. I'm still keeping product names due to the ease of reading. I'm still ready to share our experience. Let's start!

    Today my team has 2 popular open source products launched, and we're ready to share our experince.

    We founded our company 6 month ago and we had literally nothing. Nothing except an unfinished vue.js admin dashboard template that was no more than another hobby project, a nice UpWork profile and money that was hardly enough to pay a month's salary. Quite a risky situation, I'd say.

    Still, we had a feeling that an unfinished admin template must be the key. We've put all our efforts into making it a complete open source product. We started as a team of five and had one month to either make it and get clients or fail and start looking for a bit less exciting jobs for bigger companies.

    Then, a little miracle happened — a couple of days after we gathered, one of my UpWork clients asked for help, so a teammate of mine started to handle the project. Suddenly, our financial situation turned out to be less desperate and the rest of the team continued developing the admin template.

    In the beginning of August, Vuestic was complete. We were exhausted and excited at the same time. And then, the launch started… It was fantastic! Vuestic became GitHub trending repo №4 and got lots of positive feedback — a reward from the community we are really thankful for.

    How Vuestic helped us?

    In my previous article, I stated that for a web-development company having nice open source products may be more effective in attracting clients than writing tons of cold letters and submitting numerous UpWork proposals. Well… I'm still using UpWork and writing cold letters. And I still hate it.

    But anyway, everything is much better now. With an open source portfolio we've got way more responses. All our current clients have some tech background and they were really impressed by Vuestic (the template was the main reason why they started working with us).

    Moreover, recruitment comes easier now. We are located in Belarus, and the IT sphere really stands out here. Most of the other spheres are experiencing stagnation while software development companies are flourishing. As a young company, it is really difficult to stand out in the eyes of developers. In the very beginning, nobody wanted to join (and they were right — we started from the very bottom). But now people we're talking with look at out GitHub profile and get excited. A new teammate joined us in December and one of the main reasons for that was our open source activity.

    Putting hands on the next open source product

    Vuestic was really massive and expensive for us. Once we finished it, we concentrated on looking for new clients and finally making at least some money. Also, to be honest, the product took lots of our energy, so we were not ready to start something new. By the end of autumn, we felt ourselves safer and refreshed and decided that we were ready. But ready for something smaller than an admin dashboard. After browsing tons of articles and GitHub repos, we finally came up with an idea — a collection of cool html/css loading spinners available both as html/css code snippets and as customizable vue.js components.

    There are lots of similar libs on GitHub. Our main focus was on the ease of usage. If you want to check the spinner inside your app, just click to copy the code and you're ready to go. So, in the middle of December, we launched Epic Spinners. People liked it, we got into GitHub trends and received 1200+ stars in a month. By Christmas, we were happy and a bit tired.

    What's next?

    January 2018. We started with one unfinished product and no resources. We are still a team of five. But now we have two popular opens source products, traffic on GitHub and a couple of happy clients. We feel better and ready to grow.

    We believe in the power of open source. We have no exact plans but a feeling that 2018 will be an important year for us with the achievements we will be proud of.

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    How to evaluate if the business ideas I have are good enough?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:39 PM PST

    Hey,

    I know nothing. I only just started lurking entrepreneur subreddits.

    My parents were pretty below average at any money-generating achievements, executing ideas or getting anything done, including getting a CV written.

    Where I am going with this is: the main carers for the majority of my life have been very poor at entrepreneurship and everything revolving around it. That's why I know nothing.

    I have the skills (accounting, graphic and web design & development), but I don't have the tools/environment to use them.

    That ends today.


    I have several ideas for a business. I'd currently be incredibly happy with a business that would get 800€ net profit (1600€ - taxes) but I have no idea how to validate them.

    My current ideas are(descending 'priority'):

    • PC revolving services. Build, diagnose, clean, malware removal, etc.
    • Maid service. Yes, yes, I know. Vomit inducing idea in this subreddit, but it would surely be successful in achieving 800€/month net profit goal. Swedes are lazy.
    • Web Design/Development I have the tradable skills to do that, but I don't feel I have enough experience to lead my own freelance company just yet.
    • T-Shirts It's surely not going to get much profit, but it's a passive income. And money is money.
    • Candle making Same as above.

    How do I decide to which do I commit to first, if at all? I'd love to hear your advice.

    Thank you and I wish you a nice day.

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    Finding someone to help with sales

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:38 PM PST

    I am looking to find someone who can help me sell my product to users. I tried to bring on a young guy who claimed to know quite a bit and his resume looked good same with his LinkedIn but he didn't have any drive and eventually quit on me once I told him I needed a document by a time on a date that was reasonable. I said to have a 1 page marketing plan done in 12 days. Seems reasonable right?

    Well he is gone now and I know I suck at sales even though I am trying each day to send out cold emails, go to businesses and offer to do a demo on site and walk them through setup. I have tried offering limited time deals or videos on how to do stuff as a reference for later use if they forget.

    I need to find someone who will work sales/marketing for a low base salary plus a very nice commission. I am thinking that they would get 50% of the first month's revenue for those they bring in. I would give them a ad budget once they show promise or I approve the ads. I want to be as fair as possible but also need to make it tied to their results since I am running out of money already. I myself and young and living/starting the business off the income from my last 2 businesses.

    The business is an asset tracking SaaS that is targeted at less tech savvy business owners that have over 15 IT assets that they need to keep track of. The software is simple and easy to use, there are lots of options out there that are more feature rich but none that are as simple to use and focus on less tech savvy people.

    I am currently working on adding in a Managed Service Provider plan and feature set. I should have that done in a month or so with features like email/sms notifications for when an asset is due to be replaced according to the time they set for life cycle. That part will also have suggestions for life cycle when creating the models/assets based off the business type and the hardware they input.

    Suggestions on how to find someone that is not going to be a flake and will work on a mainly commission based pay? The base salary I am thinking is $27.5k a year plus the generous commission with stretch goals included.

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    What can I do with 6k unique one-liner jokes?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:23 PM PST

    I wrote a lot of jokes when I was young. ~500 of them are good enough that you could easily believe they were written by Mitch Hedberg. I'm just looking for some one word answers on how I could use them to make money.

    Things I've tried: Narrowed down to my 200 favorites, published it on Kindle store as a book of jokes, never sold any. Made YouTube videos based around the jokes, never got a following.

    Things I've thought about trying: Printing them on shirts and selling them. Putting them on greeting cards (no idea where to start with this). Getting a good picture I can use for /r/standupshots and posting them while trying to gain a Twitter following (or /r/showerthoughts). Writing songs in a similar fashion to Bo Burnham where every lyric is essentially a short joke (I'm not a skilled enough songwriter). And lastly, plain filming myself doing stand up at open mics and performing the jokes, then posting to YouTube, to attempt to gain a following or enter the paid stand-up comedy world.

    Do you have any ideas? I'd greatly appreciate it. I want to bring joy to the world as a comedian, but I also want to bring joy to my bank account as an entrepreneur.

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    CRM with email follow-ups and mobile app?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:16 PM PST

    I feel like I have spent days worth of time trying to find a CRM with email follow-ups and a mobile app. I am basically looking for Close.io but with a mobile app. I don't want a CRM that I have to CC to get an email into it. I want to look at a customer / contact record and see all of my email history and if I send them an email, I can set a reminder to follow up if I don't hear back. I also want a mobile app for the CRM that I can use while on the road to send email and get contact information for making a phone call.

    Does something like this even exist?

    Thanks!

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    Advice for a 16 year old with a small business?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:37 PM PST

    Hello, I'm a 16 year old male, asian (if that matters) with a small business with the burden of school. I have two major decisions I can make in my life right now. This is probably not the best place to post this but here goes:

    I'm just a typical asian male and I'm in a dilemma right now. Before reading this it would help if you read this thread. Tldr UK is shit I wanna get out of here, move to the USA where it's still apparently bad for asian males but definitely not as bad as in the UK. Also quality of life is 10x better. The easiest way for me to emigrate to the USA is getting an education there. My dilemma is this: The application process to get into a US university as an international student is fucking horrifying. As is the time I'll have to waste in order to do good extracurricular activities and SAT exams - this time could be used to build up a small online business I have and also to focus on my a levels (UK exams to get into UK universities). Also this doesn't even take into consideration I have affirmative action going against me since I'm an asian male.

    I have two options

    Work my ass off and spend all my time on the USA application process and do good extracurriculars and do well in SATs.

    Try to get into America another way which doesn't involve getting into college there. Focus all my time on my a levels and building my small business and getting into a UK university (these unis don't offer financial aid like American unis do and scholarships are incredibly rare. In addition there's NO Affirmative action and your grades alone will get you in. ) No stupid extracurriculars are required either.

    What do you think /r/entrepreneur?

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    Business Model Generation in 9 Steps

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:18 PM PST

    Here are all the steps required to define a business model. (From the book: Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur)

     

    The full summary of this book is on my Medium: https://medium.com/@franticrock/business-model-generation-alexander-osterwalder-yves-pigneur-56ce5614fbef

     

    Here's a picture diagram version of this 9-step breakdown you can print out: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*HMwnfTbej-KqrPcMbOvvWg.png

    1. Define the target Market and customer. (Mass Market, or Niche Market).

    2. Define the value proposition. What makes you special, and what exact problem are you solving? (Differentiating factors could be: Exquisite design, Risk reduction, Performance, Utility, etc…)

    3. Define the Distribution Channels. (Storefront, Website, Sales People, Wholesaler, etc…)

    4. Define the Customer Relationship Strategy. (Communication Tone, Level of Assistance, Level of Personalization, Interaction of Customers amongst themselves, Level of Automation).

    5. Define your Revenue Streams. (Transaction fees, subscription fees, usage fees, etc…)

    6. Define your Key Resources. (Physical, Human, Intellectual).

    7. Define your Key Activities. (Production, Problem Solving, Platform Hosting).

    8. Define your Partnerships. (Outsourcing, Risk reduction).

    9. Define your Cost Structure. (Cost driven, Value driven).

     

    Then create 3 interconnected items:

    1. Customer Empathy Map. (Define what customers Think & Feel, See, Hear, Say & Do).

    2. Simulated Customer Persona. (Define your ideal customer's Age, Gender, Marital Status, Location, Income Level, State of Employment, Other demographics, or interests).

    3. Write Down many Customer Scenarios. (Common scenarios, and imaginary future scenarios). Do this using points 1 & 2 above. (Empathy Map, and Simulated Persona).

     

    Defining all these points diligently will help you understand your business, market, product, and execution in great detail.

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    Wanting to start a small business in a niche market, but am a little worried that I don't know what I'm doing.

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:54 AM PST

    Hey entrepreneurs! I've gotten myself into an interesting situation where I have motivation, financial stability, and an idea for a business, but I've never so much as ran a lemonade stand. I'll try and keep it short.

    The plan is to run an art rental company that allows customers to pay a fraction of the full cost of a painting to try it out before purchasing. There are a few other target audiences, including other businesses such as restaurants that like the idea of changing the art on their walls to match the season, or people who like the idea of having different pieces every month.

    My thinking is that even if it isn't terribly successful, it wouldn't cost me too much to try. The artists would work on a percentage of the income their pieces create, there would be no storefront to pay rent on (all online), and the only "employee" would be myself to deliver the paintings.

    So with that in mind, here are some concerns:

    -Firstly, do I need insurance to cover the artwork? Or could I go off a "you break it, you buy it" policy? If I did need to buy insurance, are we talking an arm and a leg or is it manageable?

    -With the above point, I'm considering talking to a lawyer to work that and other issues out such as taxes and so fourth, but I'm worried about this costing a boatload as well. Is it strongly recommended, or is this something I can put off until I make some money?

    -Another thing that would be easily answered by a lawyer, what kind of contract should I have artists sign? Does it need to be extensive, covering all my bases, or can I work with something simpler just for the basics?

    If the answer to these questions is "I don't know, just ask a lawyer" I get it and appreciate the honesty. But if anyone has any wisdom here, it would go a long way in helping me make this idea a reality.

    Thanks!

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    I'm a Filmmaker and Entrepreneur. I'm Building Netflix on the Blockchain. It's Called Play. Sup.

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:39 AM PST

    Hey guys,

    So, yeah. I'm a filmmaker and entrepreneur. I've been both of those since before I was old enough to know that's what they were called. For those uninitiated with the Blockchain, it's a new technology that's fundamentally shifting the core of how society works by automating the exchange of value between people and businesses through code. If that definition flew right above your head, I promise it'll make more sense to you once you understand what Play is.

    Every once in a while, I'll feel like watching a very specific movie. I go on Netflix, it won't be there. Amazon Prime, not there. Fucking Fullscreen. Not there. iTunes. 9.99. I'm a filmmaker, I don't want people stealing my films when I make features. But I'm not going to pay 10 dollars to watch a movie after paying so much every month for a boatload of streaming services.

    The internet was never made for commerce of this kind. Disney is making their own streaming service, once that's successful, more companies that own content at that scale will follow. What was supposed to make things easier and cheaper is about to make them a whole lot more complicated and expensive. The problem is that the internet wasn't designed for commerce, so commerce became an area of building monopolies. Now the technologies to create those platforms have been commoditised. More people are okay paying for an extra service. Fragmentation is eminent.

    So how do we avoid it? The Blockchain.

    Play Blockchain is an open source blockchain project that gives every screen and speaker in the world access to every movie, TV show, song, audiobook, VR story and whatever comes in the future. It's not a company, it's not an organization, it's code. Built and managed by community. Anybody can build a player on the Play Blockchain. Whether you're a hardware manufacturer, or a really talented team that can interface a great streaming experience through code, you can build it on the blockchain and have access to all the world's content.

    You would be paying through Play tokens and we should be able to bring down the total amount of money an average person pays for movies, TV shows and songs by at least 20-25%. Since you're not paying for Netflix, satellite, Spotify, Audible and whatever else you floats your boat. And since there are no middle men to satisfy, artists and teams get paid directly, no middle men fees.

    90% of what you pay gets distributed between the content owners based on a smart contract that divides the content's equity ownership. 10% goes to the player you watched it on. New tokens get generated by hosting storage on the Blockchain. The idea is that we'd scale this to movie theaters too, so literally everything.

    I hope that made sense, if it didn't, I'm here to answer any questions so it does.

    I wrote down my story and what I'm up to with this project for investors on this blog post: https://medium.com/@shanegottada/blockchain-startup-looking-for-investors-2e7376f07da5

    If you guys have any investor friends, please share that with them, you might just help make this happen faster. If any of you know Chamath Palihapitiya, please send that blog post to him, I'll buy you a Tesla, I promise.

    Peace

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    Critique my landing page

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:10 AM PST

    Hey all,

    I've recently made some big changes to the landing page of my marketing website for startups and small businesses, Instaaa (www.instaaa.com)

    I've added CTA buttons, buzzwords and other additions which I hope to drive more conversions and clickthroughs to pages. Instaaa recently hit $12K MRR and I'd love to push that even further with small adjustments.

    Currently packages are shown on the page after initial submission. I would like to keep it this way as it's been successful so far. I'm toying with the idea of infographics or images to help spruce up the homepage.

    Any help or feedback is appreciated.

    Cheers!

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    Shopify/ Ecommerce/ FBA/ Dropshipping Discord Server

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:08 AM PST

    Just wanted to share this server for those who actively use one of the platforms/business models above or are just starting out. Download discord and join using this link: https://discord.gg/hVYpB2T

    Guys there know everything from Dropshipping to FBA. No, you don't have to pay to join. Just a solid community to hang out during grind hours.

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    4 Content formats that satisfy Parents.

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:10 AM PST

    Pitch: Only 1/3 adults is engaged in their work (Gallup poll 2017). The others 2/3 are going to work for a pay check. They're working the week, to live the weekend.

    The problem: People start thinking about what work they will do, after their education.

    The product: Guided, self-orientation for high school students.

    Target Customer: Parents wishing their teenagers find worthwhile work.

    My question to r/Entrepreneur: Which content format do parents prefer to purchase for their teenagers?

    1. A Webinar.
      1. 1 full Saturday
      2. The 2 mornings of one weekend
      3. Evenings. i.e. next 3 Wednesday's, from 6pm-8pm
    2. In-person Seminar (like day camp):
      1. 1 full saturday
      2. The 2 mornings of one weekend
      3. evenings. i.e. next 3 Wednesday's, from 6pm-8pm
    3. An Online Course
    4. An Orientation Workbook (i.e. journal with daily instructions & exercises)

    I have tried to target the students directly. What I learned:
    1. They want to be guided/hand-held. They already have access to all the information they need on the internet but they actively avoid orientating themselves.
    2. They have no money.

    Looking forward to your thoughts!

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    How would you monetize a newsletter list with 10,000 subs?

    Posted: 10 Jan 2018 04:36 PM PST

    I have a newsletter that has reached 1,500 subs in two months. I also have a solid strategy to hit 10,000 within another half year.

    I don't need much cash to survive on and so ideally would like to monetize this so I can turn it into a full-time gig. Just wondering how you would approach making, like say $1,000 a month off it.

    Any ideas?

    EDIT:

    The newsletter audience consists of tech founders looking to get funding for their startup. It's ironic because I blog about how to get your company funded and grow your audience, but 'a blog' is not really a scalable company so I'm not 100% sure about which route to take. If that makes sense.

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    What were your biggest obstacles on your road to becoming a successful entrepreneur? How did you solve those problems?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:26 AM PST

    I'm a new, up-and-coming entrepreneur that is looking for advice from the big dogs. I obviously have a lot to learn, and there are some very knowledgeable people on here that I think could help me. Any advice is appreciated.

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    You Have 300k in Cash & No Income, but Can Move Anywhere in the US for Free. Where Do You Go, What Type of Business Do You Start, and Why?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:23 AM PST

    Let's hear it!

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    I just want to be rich - is that a problem?

    Posted: 10 Jan 2018 04:21 PM PST

    Not going to lie, I can't honestly think of something right now I have a genuine passion for other than making money. Is that an issue? I always hear the rich peeps talk about how they were deeply passionate about there/product or idea and that's what made them there money.

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    Do I have to legal start a business checking account to take payments if it's just a test business?

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:02 AM PST

    In other words do I have to go through all the legal channels of starting a business if I just want to see if a product will sell online?

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    48 Entrepreneurs Business Resolution/Goals For This Year

    Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:01 AM PST

    The resolution season is here!

    For centuries, the start of New Year is considered as an opportunity to make a plan for the future. Today this type of planning is done in the form of New Year's resolution.

    It is that time of the year where you take a hard look at your company – how successful was the past year? what could have been done better? and most importantly, what you plan to do in the coming 12 months?

    We asked entrepreneurs from a wide variety of business to share their business resolution for 2018 with us.

    Here are some inspirational resolutions from budding to super-successful entrepreneurs around the world in no particular order. Entrepreneurs Business Resolution

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