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1. Find someone on (Elance|Odesk|etc.) to do it for less than half of $5,000 2. Get the difference 3. Profit


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Trick 1: Forget about the $5.

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Trick 2: Forget about providing the actual service within those 2 hours. Use the 2 hours just for doing the actual trade.

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Then sell something before you buy it. If I was given just 2 hours, I would do quick brokerage.

Hour 1: Find a group of people who wants to buy laptops* at a decent price. Get their configs down and get a commitment.

Hour 2: Find a seller who will give the best price on bulk laptop purchases.

*Laptops because I think it has high profit margins. But if finding a group or a business that is willing to buy laptops is hard - I would switch to some easy product - like movie tickets.


step 1 - make very little profit - say 1 dollar

step 2 - double that profit in 6 months or less.

consider: if it takes 6 months to double the dollar, maybe this business is not gonna make it.


1. Calculate how much a paying customer pays you, average.

2. Experiment with a variety of customer acquisition methods, starting with Google ads.

3. Calculate the acquisition cost versus the lifetime value cost, find methods that bring you profitable customers, scale.


Step #1: Pick a market that isn't saturated by companies that are hypnotized into selling services below cost.

Step #2: Deliver a technology product into that market.

Step #3: Charge money for the product.

You can skip Step #1 (like 37signals did), but why cause yourself undue stress? All the customer money is outside the echo chamber.


1. spread lies that being rightly forgotten by google costs over $100k and get branded as an expert

2. start a company that offers a $50 form submission for $50k. a killer deal based on lies from #1


3. Collect more profit

1. Sell hardware that has a decent margin. 2. Use that margin to pay for cloud inference costs for an LLM. 3. Gain popularity enough to either raise hardware prices or add a subscription.

Get someone who is good at it to work on it. They get 1/3rd of your profits.

1. Learn how to sell. At all costs, learn how to sell. 2. Determine a pricing structure then raise your prices. 3. Resist hiring anything but engineers for as long as possible.

Good luck.


1. Subsidize low costs with venture capital and take on a ton of customers at a loss 2. Lock those customers into your API somehow. Enough code is effectively lock in for a while. 3. Change your pricing to be profitable. 4. Hopefully get acquired before all your customers leave

1. Come up with an idea for a side hustle

2. Make a sale from side hustle

3. Make another sale from side hustle


Startup formula:

1) Identify a place where a middleman is taking a cut.

2) Find a way to disrupt or go around the middleman.

3) Profit.


Use seller data to figure out which of your competitor's products are the most profitable, copy their product, short-sell their stock, buy-back your own stock with the cash, sell a bit of it when it pops to pay your Yacht/Jet/Hooker bill.

Some guys just have it all figured out, huh?


Step 1) Do 50 hours per month of rails contracting at $50/hour.

Step 2) Use your extra 110 hours per month to build a business that makes money.

Step 3) When said business reaches $2500/mo in profit stop doing #1.


1. Raise $100 million.

2. Hire 100's of talented engineers for above average salaries and perks.

2b. Make them do something that sounds challenging and hard to understand, but ultimately useless.

3. Sell to a greater fool as an acqui-hire for $150 million

4. Earn a few million in profit.

5. Repeat! (because you didnt get a 100X return, just a slim one)


1. Pick an industry you know well.

2. Look at the most popular monthly paid tools in that industry.

3. Pick a tool that seems interesting and not too difficult to duplicate.

4. Build a competitive product.

5. Sell it.


* Make imaginary money.

* Sell it to people who've gone mad.

There is no step 3. It's not an investment, you don't own a portion of the company as a result. It would be like selling monopoly money except that monopoly is a trademark so that stuff's probably worth more.


1. Start a company 2. Shower 3. Profit!

Step 0: see if you can get someone to pay you for the thing you want to sell. It's not so much about what you want to provide, but more about what the market wants to consume.
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