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justinmares
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About justinmares
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Comment #40676374
This is just not true - corn/soy/wheat are the most sprayed crops in agriculture.
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Comment #26379730
Nope, we did not do this. We invested a ton in the business and didn't take a dollar out (besides small salaries) for 2.5 years. More context here - https://microconf.gen.co/justin…
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Comment #23044157
Exactly
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Comment #23043326
This is almost exactly correct. Though what's crazy is they charge fees on the notional - aka the amount they're "insuring". So if you have a 4b portfolio, they're charging fees on…
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Comment #23042799
The 3600% return in March is sort of misleading. The returns are on the premium paid for options (or margin), not the notional (which is where fees are paid). That $4bn fund is cou…
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Comment #22611921
That's on the roadmap! Starting with restaurants as that's the world I know best right now
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Comment #22611912
You can type the name of the city you're searching for on this page - https://givelocal.co/search Great feedback though! This is definitely something we pulled together quickly ove…
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Comment #22608229
Crazy. Over the weekend my friend Brent and I built something to help - https://givelocal.co/ Basically, a site that helps you buy gift cards and support your favorite local restau…
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Comment #12254872
We built Fomo to make it easy to display recent actions (Github pushes, reviews, recent purchases, website visits, etc.) on your website. We're launching version 1 today along with…
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Comment #12222029
Investing in spaces you don't know or don't have strong hunches is difficult. I'd recommend just putting money in index funds unless you feel really, really strongly about an inves…
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Comment #12222024
Yeah, still incredibly volatile.
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Comment #12220214
Best investment (outside of investing in myself) was buying into Ethereum when they first announced it. In the 2-3 years since, that's been up nearly 50x.
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Comment #10275386
Basically because we were 1st-time authors. We hired a professional editor and paid him to edit our first draft. Then, we shared that draft with readers and it just wasn't good eno…
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Comment #8632213
Honestly, no. One post to reddit, one to Growthhackers.com and the rest has all been organic.
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Comment #8631035
I'm around $5500 a month total from 2 Udemy courses and a launching Traction book. It breaks down like this (all links below): My SQL for Marketers course on Udemy does about $1500…