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justinmares

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About justinmares

Co-author of tractionbook.com, growth at Airbrake (now Rackspace)

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    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 #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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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…