Trick 2: Forget about providing the actual service within those 2 hours. Use the 2 hours just for doing the actual trade.
3.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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