PETER THIEL - silicon valley is dead? Entrepreneur |
- PETER THIEL - silicon valley is dead?
- Don't be afraid to take on low-skill / low-pay "menial" jobs.
- What should I do? - 20 years old
- 17yo looking for some advice
- How do I get a business loan for a new business?
- Nomad Couch: Find a nomad to share a place with you
- Trying to help my wife by being a social media marketing n00b
- Dropshipping trending products from Aliexpress
- Why type of organization has non-profit and profit products?
- Which idea is better?
- Before asking for feedback, I'm going to ask you for feedback.
- I need to start regularly emailing customers newsletters and post to social media, where to start?
- Looking for Amazon users in Germany, France, Italy, Spain ...
- Mobile Apps or Web SaaS for eventual self-employment?
- [Infographic] From Loser graduate to Digtial Nomad in Bali
- Mobile Music Discovery Application
- Seeking wisdom
- Can you use the business Paypal account for personal shopping?
- Need advice about employee
- Does anyone have any experience with buying an existing domain via a negotiating agent?
- Any Experience With Ringless Voicemail?
- Clothes rental startup
- I have a great idea but I don't have sales people. What would be your advice?
- X factor?! NOT The Talent show... If You Don't Have This In Your Business - You're Losing A Ton Of Money!!
- Investing
| PETER THIEL - silicon valley is dead? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 02:50 AM PST PETER THIEL next google will not come from silicon valley "It feels like it has somehow jumped the shark," he told interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin. "It's not the wisdom of crowds. It's the madness of crowds," slamming the region's "negative network effects," San Francisco's "dysfunctional" city government, and runaway housing prices. https://qz.com/1448268/peter-thiel-thinks-the-next-google-wont-come-from-silicon-valley/ [link] [comments]  |
| Don't be afraid to take on low-skill / low-pay "menial" jobs. Posted: 04 Nov 2018 12:15 PM PST I went from a highly technical (Engineering) job to being unemployed for quite some time, due to a bust in my industry. This led to months of being unemployed, and a metric TON of job searching. In the meanwhile, I also called temp agencies, and agreed to take "anything" that came my way, just to do something, really. This led to a string of "shitty" jobs, often one-time assignments. And even though I was highly educated, with good work experience, it was mostly manual labor, or quite menial jobs. Did I feel like a failure? Sure. I had imagined something else. But I always do my best, no mater how boring or uninteresting the job is. I was also sending out applications during the evening, so I figured something would come along, sooner or later. But there's one thing I had not foreseen: The sheer number of "There HAS to be a better way of doing this!" moments. A ton of these jobs are being done the same way they were done 20-30-40 years ago. Minimal digitalization. "Process optimization" is foreign. For example: I worked at one warehouse, which was part of a leading big box electronics store, where 90% of registration and data tracking was done manually, by paper. Employees registering data with their one phones, sending important information over snapchat or FB chat. One time we had to manually count a whole truckload twice, because the guy in charge had lost his checked inventory list (paper), but before he got to enter the data on the computer. Or the fact that expensive cargo (cellphones) would get shipped in one large box, then "hid" in the rest of the cargo. These boxes would sometimes contain hundreds of phones, and be worth hundreds of thousands. They contained no tracking systems. No anti-theft systems. No-nothing. And it's still like that. So, if you're really struggling to come up with ideas, I highly recommend to just dive into some jobs, and see what pops up. It's easy to get accustomed to always having cutting-edge tech at your fingertips, if you work in tech - but huge parts of large industries are still very primitive, and ripe for change. And you won't really discover those things, unless you actually work there (or happen to be a consultant, trying to identify all these things). [link] [comments]  |
| What should I do? - 20 years old Posted: 04 Nov 2018 10:12 AM PST Hi! I'm mainly specialized in Photoshop - and I've managed building a 16.5k Instagram account with an average engagement of 10-15%/post. This has taken me around 1,5 years. This is something that I'm going to continue growing! I got myself a translation job from English to Finnish, and that's mainly my business right now with a rare editing gig here and there. I still live at home, and I get around 2k$ savings a month from the translation and little editing. Should I try graphic design next? (Illustrator mainly) My Instagram is visual art, and not graphic design- and that's why it's not as viable as a business idea compared to graphic design. Just looking for ideas here. Thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2018 03:41 AM PST Naturally, as a young person my funds are fairly limited, as such, I'd like to hear some ideas about businesses that would be relatively simple (in terms of upfront capital required, and also legally) to set up and begin to operate. Furthermore, I'd like to start something that is scaleable and can be sustained into the future and continue to be a source of income for years to come. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thank you!! [link] [comments]  |
| How do I get a business loan for a new business? Posted: 03 Nov 2018 09:35 PM PDT I hope this is the right subreddit. I'm still kinda new to Reddit. First, a little about myself. I'm a truck driver and I've been wanting to buy my own truck and work for myself. I've been driving for roughly eight years now. I did work for myself for about two years but I leased a truck through the trucking company so I know how to run the business. It's not hard to make money in trucking. I stopped doing it so that I could be home with my family more. I currently work for a company and I have a dedicated route that I drive every night. I've asked if they'd pay me to do it as an owner/operator, since the route gets me home every day and is about 2,675 miles a week. Plenty to pay for a truck, et al. I don't want to lease a truck again because that costs way more than buying one. The problem I'm running into is that it takes a bit of money to get started. A truck could cost about $160,000, plus permits, etc. I looked into getting a business loan, but the banks want the business to have been operational for several years already at least, and lots of proof that it's profitable. Also, as far as my personal credit goes, I recently filed for bankruptcy because of some old debt from a time before I became a truck driver and had a new family and had difficulty finding work, since it was shortly after the recession. How do you get a business started when they want you to already be in business to give you a loan? My other issue is my personal credit, but how is anyone supposed to make their lives better when past issues follow you forever? I had a hard time for awhile some time ago, but I know what I'm doing with the business and it's easily profitable if you're aware of all the expenses, which I am. I just don't know what to do and I'm tired of dealing the the garbage equipment these companies want me to use and I'd like to feel more independent. Any sincere advice would be appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Nomad Couch: Find a nomad to share a place with you Posted: 04 Nov 2018 12:43 PM PST Hey Guys, My friend Guilherme is going to live in Thai for a year and he is searching for indie hacker/nomad interested in sharing a place with him for a week. To help Digital Nomads find their couches (like a couch surfing app), I've (@vmesel on twitter) created Nomad Couch, a online spreadsheet to find your next nomad family to stay with and enjoy new moments together. [link] [comments]  |
| Trying to help my wife by being a social media marketing n00b Posted: 04 Nov 2018 11:56 AM PST hi, all. my wife does online fitness coaching. she has been going at it for roughly a year now and has had great results. the product—her and her approach—are great. her sales & marketing are not. i have zero background in social media marketing. i'm a software engineer by day but generally don't do social media (aside from lurking on reddit :)). there are tons of blogs, videos, posts, etc. out there about how to get a million followers blah blah blah but all i really am wanting is some advice from a seasoned small business owner, or those who help them, as to what we should begin doing as we start from the bottom. not looking to have 100k followers, but want to have greater visibility on instagram in our region. thanks for any info! [link] [comments]  |
| Dropshipping trending products from Aliexpress Posted: 04 Nov 2018 11:41 AM PST I've recently been looking at dropshipping trending aliexpress products. Im already fairly advanced in facebook ads but dropshipping is new to me and I'm hoping someone can clear up something that's confusing me about the process. I see all these YouTubers talking about finding a trending product, creating a funnel and running ads on facebook to sell it. The part I'm confused about is where they are selling it on Facebook. What I mean is do you create a facebook page for each product to run ads from and build a community around it? Or do you simply create a general deals page that you run all your ads from? I'm also currently building community's around certain niches on facebook that's getting me loads of free traffic to my sales posts and getting me some sales without any money spent on ads, just simply by building an engaging community. Can anyone tell me the most efficient way to promote those once off trending products and get customers in to your funnel? Thanks guys. [link] [comments]  |
| Why type of organization has non-profit and profit products? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 11:35 AM PST I plan on starting a software business where I build software that is not for profit and software that is for profit. What type of business does that it and where I can learn more about building a business that is both non-profit and profit? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2018 11:08 AM PST Hey guys! Looking for some validation (or criticism) on my ideas. I'm a former news anchor/reporter working on an eCourse/coaching combination where I teach either: A) Affiliate marketers how to present on camera, create amazing videos, and tell effective stories as it pertains to their niche to build trust with their audiences. or B) Business owners how to turn their companies, regardless of the company, into a media company where all the employees are capable of creating brand content. Do these ideas suck? Is one better than the other? Could you see yourself or others using this course? From my research, Idea A has been done on Udemy at least 5-10 times, but not directly related to affiliate marketing. I've also read a lot about how the affiliate marketers who survive will be the ones who can get in front of the camera. Idea B, on the other hand, I haven't found validation for anywhere. It's mostly just from my gut and experiences. I've already created the outline, presentations, and some of the videos for Idea A. But I just realized I should probably see how people feel about this before I pour too much more time and money into it. Please be brutally honest! (Not that you ever have to ask Reddit to be honest...) [link] [comments]  |
| Before asking for feedback, I'm going to ask you for feedback. Posted: 04 Nov 2018 10:46 AM PST I realized that one of the most useful things I can have right now is feedback on my website for an event I am trying to gain support for. I need to be positive that it is something that people understand the point of, and will be a useful way to build an email list as I go around campaigning for the event in my city. I figured one of the best ways I could elicit feedback from people in my city is to offer them a discount to the sweatshirt collection associated with the event. "25% off after you submit a feedback form through the website". I haven't decided whether to leave it is a one paragraph thing where they can type whatever they want or ask them pretty specific questions. Are there any problems you can foresee me having with this idea? Have you ever done something like this? What are ways you got quality feedback for the things you are doing? [link] [comments]  |
| I need to start regularly emailing customers newsletters and post to social media, where to start? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 06:41 AM PST Hello. I make a popular gift product. I have been really busy this first 2 years but I am finally catching up and meeting demand. I need to start working on my social media presence and emailing my customers content and deals. My company has about 3k customer email addresses and 6k facebook followers. Is there a good resource for getting organized on this? A book or website? I don't need a perfect plan, but some sort of structure in posting, and some info on what to post. I think I will learn what's working once I get some data. Any advice would be great. Thanks. [link] [comments]  |
| Looking for Amazon users in Germany, France, Italy, Spain ... Posted: 04 Nov 2018 03:49 AM PST I originally posted this in the r/amazon subreddit, but I didn't realize I haven't met my Karma requirements for that one! Posting here in hopes that some of you may be reading from my target European countries. ******* Folks, I am looking to expand my Amazon affiliate business into these countries (specifically these, because I can use my existing account, rather than needing a physical presence in each of these countries). I could just use Facebook ads to drive people to my blog and hope people click through, but I'd rather offer a service that's useful. If any of you live in one of these countries, and shop your local Amazon store, what frustrates you? What do you wish was easier to do on amazon.de or Amazon.fr or Amazon.es or Amazon.it? Also, if I do wind up going the paid-ads-on-FB route, do you normally see FB ads in French/German/Italian/Spanish or are the ads served to you in English? I'm assuming the local language, but I'd like to be sure before I find native speakers of each language to write my copy! Thanks for reading! Edit: I guess I was looking for suggestions like the top-up finders available in the US and UK ... I'm working on building one of those for each of these countries: you know, where you are a few Euros short of the minimum required for free shipping? Is there any other such functionality you'd like to see? I have US Amazon-affiliate sites, for example, that will find all the discounted items for a particular department (right now, focused on art supplies, but there are others in the works). I'm wondering if either of these two ideas would be beneficial in your local markets, or other add-on functionality that makes Amazon easier to use. One other idea I'm toying with is a tool to find, for example, stocking stuffers ... that one should do well in the holiday season. [link] [comments]  |
| Mobile Apps or Web SaaS for eventual self-employment? Posted: 03 Nov 2018 11:25 PM PDT I get a lot of good ideas for apps, and made a few. But I keep reading how on Mobile, you are building a business in Apple/Google's castle - and you ultimately don't control your business. On the web, I get very few ideas, but at least I could completely control the fate of my business. To employ myself, I would like to make products rather than provide a hourly service like consulting. I've narrowed things down to mobile apps or web apps. I don't want to be product of my business. Has anyone had to decide this, or have any thoughts on it? The benefit of mobile seems to be that it is monetized more easily. [link] [comments]  |
| [Infographic] From Loser graduate to Digtial Nomad in Bali Posted: 04 Nov 2018 01:45 AM PDT I'm going to keep this as short and to the point as possible. Also, this is my second post to my first one here: Link Here I posted that when I landed my first website design client and reached $800 income for the month.P.S. I designed an infographic to depict the last 6 years of my life. VIEW IT HERE: https://imgur.com/a/8hbuQzP THE LOSER GRADUATE PHASE: I'm a 20YO Indian graduate born to a middle-class family in a small town called Goa. After recently graduating in finance.Spoiler alert: Absolutely hated that. Most of my friends hated it too but they had already accepted the reality of getting a 9-5 after graduating because it was what society deemed the right way of living. You know: work till you retired on the other hand absolutely hated this lifestyle enough to spend the last few months of college reading and learning from the internet. I even took a bunch of solo backpacking trips to nearby states while my friends were busy attending interviews. I ended up graduating with average grades and no job prospects and hence was "a loser graduate" in the eyes of many. I was also moving back home from college so I'm sure my parents weren't happy either. THE (SUPRISE) FAMILY PROBLEMS: 0$/Month As soon as I moved home I found out my dad lost his job and had to amputate his toe due to diabetes and his savings had reached a super low. This certainly added a whole bunch of pressure on me as I had to figure my shit out fast and soon. My mom was strong for a while but soon our conversations turned into arguments over how I needed to get a job I don't blame her I did procrastinate for quite a bit. THE BROKEN HUSTLE: 0$/month I decided to learn how to be a freelancer as my friend had been doing it and I knew my way around the internet. So I picked up WordPress and built a whole bunch of websites for fun. In my area, though there were barely any businesses that would pay more than 100$ for a website (India remember) so I decided to compete in the most crowded place in history: The Internet! I had a pretty banged up laptop but I had access to the internet minus the terrible lag it was enough. THE FIRST BIG WIN: 2.5k$ in 3 months after a lot of trial and error, I got my first client through a post on facebook for about $200 honestly it was chumps change but it was all I needed to believe I can actually do this. I then posted again on Reddit and to my luck, it went viral giving me 2 more clients. Fortunately, I'm still working with them so I don't really have to look for more. DIGITAL NOMAD: All this time I had been working from my room and with my broken laptop but recently I purchased a new one and some gear and have been in Bali, Indonesia for a week and plan to be here for a month more. It's been a great change from living in a place with no recognition for a digital nomad to a place that welcomes it.No, I don't flaunt and post on Instagram as much nor will I sell ebooks trying to making it in the freelancing world I plan to just get better at my skills and hopefully land a remote job in SEO/WordPress and get an affiliate website to $500/month by 2019. Sometimes the most uncomfortable thing is the one that makes the biggest positive change in your life looking back trying to become a digital nomad with my family problems and missing out on those supposedly amazing companies during placement season was a terrible Idea. It took me 3 months to make some money and there were many reasons in between that made me think I wasn't going to achieve this goal but sticking to it finally paid off. Moreover, I was risking a 3(corporate job) for a 9(location independent living) in terms of quality of life.(Guess the book and I'm your friend)In this case, the most uncomfortable thing was defying the system to become a digital nomad against all the naysayers and keep at it. It was super uncomfortable but now I'm in a much better place than before pun intended. So yeh if you're at your hustle and it's SUPER HARD right now STICK TO IT. IT WILL GET BETTER! Here's a picture of my workstation: https://imgur.com/a/qQI2ZUT (missing Headphones and keyboard will take a better pic soon) CONTACT INFO: Mark Xavier Quadros (Facebook) Stuff I've built so far:
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| Mobile Music Discovery Application Posted: 04 Nov 2018 09:23 AM PST Hi everyone, I am currently working on an idea for a music discovery application and am looking for some market statistics. If you could fill out the short survey below I would really appreciate it: [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2018 08:50 AM PST Hi all. After a recent move, I've been accepted into the folds of some pretty successful people. Not millionaires, but definitely can afford to change the oil when they need to. I've been meeting with them every week for a little over a month and a half and they have been giving me some solid advice and encouragement. HOWEVER, they are trying to get me involved with some Amway stuff under the "Worldwide Group." After some basic googs, it isn't that hard to see that this could very well just be a pyramid scheme. What should I do? What are questions I should be asking myself? I want to start a business, but I'm not so sure Amway is the way, you know? [link] [comments]  |
| Can you use the business Paypal account for personal shopping? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 08:44 AM PST I googled this but couldnt find any info. I have to upgrade my personal account to business to accept payments on my website. But since I have only one credit card, I cannot open another account. So upgraded my personal one. Can I still use it for personal shopping? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Nov 2018 10:59 PM PDT I own a small home remodeling business, slowly expanding lately. A couple months ago I hired on a woman who, on her word alone, sold over $1.3 mil gross in the two years she was with the company before mine, designing kitchens and baths. Obviously, taking her word and not calling references, I hired her. Two months in, I've supplied over 5 leads since September 19th. She hasn't turned around a single estimate(numbers only) in a timely manner. Taking no less than 20 days for the first one. Now on 22 days for two more after, and she stopped reaching out to potential customers citing "they are hard to communicate with". Many reminders to her from me, about communication and it keeps falling on deaf ears. I'm at the end of my rope. Ask questions if you need to. But I think firing her and giving her 2 weeks extra pay (as I am legally required to give her two weeks notice) and just parting with her and taking over/re doing all the estimates. What do you think? [link] [comments]  |
| Does anyone have any experience with buying an existing domain via a negotiating agent? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 07:38 AM PST I'm interested in buying an existing domain which has been registered in 1997 but does not seem to be used as of right now. The problem is I wouldn't know how to get into contact with the owner, and even if I did I wouldn't know how to negotiate. So I'm wondering if any of you know a reliable negotiating agent. [link] [comments]  |
| Any Experience With Ringless Voicemail? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 07:29 AM PST I've been researching Ringless Voicemail Drops as a potential strategy to market locally and am wondering if any of you have first hand experience using this technology? I'm interested in how effective it was for you, and any pros/cons. Also, any tips for how to most effectively optimize a Ringless Voicemail campaign would be appreciated. I found a company that offers the Ringless Voicemails at around two cents per message (http://www.cell-phone-list.net/ringless-voicemail-drop-platform.html), so I'm probably going to try them out with a small sample and see how it goes. Before I commit, I'd like to hear your opinions on how effective Ringless Voicemail was/is for you, and any tips to guide me in the right direction. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2018 07:07 AM PST I have an idea on which I would really appreciate your feed back. In order to solve the hassle of traveling with a lot of luggage, I want to rent clothes to people. The user would download an app before the trip, load their measures, pick the clothes, and the package will be waiting at the airport. If you like the clothes, you can buy them easily, you just don't return them, and your credit card is charged. [link] [comments]  |
| I have a great idea but I don't have sales people. What would be your advice? Posted: 04 Nov 2018 06:20 AM PST Hello, I run an IT outsourcing company and I want to expand to the level where we will have a few startups going in and out every 3-4 weeks. The idea I had was to find somebody from an elite university like Stanford, Oxford... and to get a contract with them to sell my(companies) skills. They are at those universities where people have more money to start an idea. I have tried to approach them over Linkedin but no success, seriously no joke I have sent around 100 messages and I got one response. What do you think a smart move would be in this situation? We have brought the timing to deliver any startup to the time of 3-4 weeks, and I want to sell that skill now. Note: [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2018 12:04 PM PST Do you have an X factor? Seriously though - what's separating you from your competition in your area or field? People are buying smarter. Closing deals without them doing research on you and your company is becoming less and less common. The days of closing that helpless car-buyer on the highest gross price is obsolete. Instead, they will go on google, search the car, and find the closest competitors in your area, tell you their price, ask you to match it, and if you don't...they'll leave. What's happening is they are no longer committed to you - just because you spend 2 hours showing them a car, doing a walk around, and telling them all about your product/widget/service... you're not creating anything but a number in their head... which ultimately becomes their "bottom line". "No matter what he/she says, I'm only spending ___ amount" In other words, you don't have an X factor. Your X factor is crucial. This is what bridges the gap between their monetary budget expectations, and YOUR sales expectation...follow me here. What's stopping your clients from buying from someone else? Is it your personality? Is it your professionalism? Is it the way you conduct business? Do you go above and beyond? The real question you should ask yourself is... Do I connect? That's the one thing that isn't leaving any time soon, actually, it's in more demand than any business these days. Do you connect? When you talk to your potential client/buyer, are you truly connecting? Or are you probing, and rushing for the sale? I did a small experiment on this. Here's what happened. I own a residential repaint company, we paint houses for people. There came a time where I wanted to pass along some of the sales responsibility to one of my trusted employees. Having never sold anything in his life, I knew he'd be the perfect fit for the job. Why? Because he doesn't know, what he doesn't know. He's got a nice personality, and comes across as very trustworthy. So, during his training... I came up with this "rule". "You are not allowed to present the estimate to the homeowner unless you ask them 3 questions about their personal life. That's the rule. I'm then going to ask you about those 3 questions when you finish, so make sure you ask them." The results were clear: It worked. He is not pushy, aggressive, persuasive, or overly-confident. He presents them the price based on our estimating standards, and has a 50% closing rate. People love him! When I call to follow up, they gloat about how great he was, friendly he was, and how awesome it is to have such a nice person working for my company. So, what's the point of this? It forces him to connect with the client. Anyone can rush in there and give a painting estimate, but guess what? They're going to remember someone caring enough about their life - it's more than painting, car sales, SAAS. It's about connecting, caring, and proving that you're there for more than just the money. I'm interested in hearing about how you've went above and beyond for your client? How you're connecting with people to show that you're more than just a business. I'd also like to hear how it's made you successful! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Nov 2018 04:24 AM PST Looking to invest some of my savings, don't know where to start any advice/ suggestions would be helpful Thanks in advance [link] [comments]  |
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