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I've seen Mark Cuban use "wannapreneur" many times on his show and I've heard others use this term. I spent a good week trying to figure out what they meant because the term never seemed to correlate to the size of the success of the pitch they were hearing. At one point someone came in who has built some kind of underwater propulsion device which was the culmination of 3 years of work. He had a pretty polished proto…
Out of curiosity, what show are you referring to?
Forgive me if my reading is off, but it sounds to me like one of your current stumbling points is "inner game". Reading between the lines a little, you seem to beat yourself up or go within yourself in response to failure. This is a common trait with perfectionists, who often want to feel like they are without flaws before they open themselves to the world. I'm basing this on this post and the post you linked to abou…
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I mean... how does history not already tell you this? Nearly every person we remember as a historical figure was able to "sell" something to get there. The typical exception to this is the person who did something interesting, but someone else sold it for them after they died. In the eyes of their lifetimes and most of history, Edison won the Tesla v Edison battle nearly 100%. Edison was a vastly better salesperson.…
I suppose the question at the root of it is: can you determine someone's "entrepreneurialness" completely by looking at their total profit (or maybe total revenue)? Or is there more to it than that? For instance, Tesla's ideas were used extensively by others to make money. Is the fact that he personally didn't capture that revenue with is own account take away from his "entrepreneurialness" score?
Here are some things that worked for me:
1. Get some time off. Don't work, just relax, read things, try to find real problems from people around you.
2. Start a project with someone. Anyone. Accountability works really good.
3. Try to concentrate on one things, making it good enough.
4. I've found that listening to entrepreneurship podcasts works wonders for motivation.
And to end this comment: the moment you've got $1 in your account you stopped being a wantrepreneur :)
Forgive me if my reading is off, but it sounds to me like one of your current stumbling points is "inner game". Reading between the lines a little, you seem to beat yourself up or go within yourself in response to failure. This is a common trait with perfectionists, who often want to feel like they are without flaws before they open themselves to the world. I'm basing this on this post and the post you linked to abou…
Perfection cannot be realistically achieved, you'll find yourself in an asymptote of diminishing returns. Excellence, on the other hand, can be achieved.
Just my 5 cents on making linux-commands-examples.com into an actual business: 1. Do a Google Trends research on the Linux commands people search for (and get trouble with/get confused with). Pick ~5 most popular ones. 2. Find 2-5 pages on the Internet for each command where people asked for help and didn't get a 100% satisfying reply. 3. Write a description page (or article) for each of those commands, explaining th…
> Once you get >1000 visitors/day That is a big once. >you can start monetizing it How? Ads from an ad bank?
Just my 5 cents on making linux-commands-examples.com into an actual business: 1. Do a Google Trends research on the Linux commands people search for (and get trouble with/get confused with). Pick ~5 most popular ones. 2. Find 2-5 pages on the Internet for each command where people asked for help and didn't get a 100% satisfying reply. 3. Write a description page (or article) for each of those commands, explaining th…
My gut reaction is: - 1,000 views/day => ~$1/day => ~$30/month - 100,000 views/day => ~$100/day => ~$3,000/month - having blogged about something on a regular basis that I cared about, I think my blog got maybe 50,000 visitors in 3 years, although I wasn't trying to attract them per se, and then I ran out of things I wanted to talk about - you'd have to really like creating content to grind away for a long time to st…
Also, the numer of ads to be served on the network varies and when it drops, the lower quality, lower traffic sites are the first to remain without ads that convert and so without revenue.
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A friend of a friend owns and runs google ads on linux.die.net (linux manpages). It pays his mortgage.
I never realized there were ads on this website. Always though it was someone doing it for the love of it.
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you're asking this question in a thread about Mark Cuban... yes, 100% salespeople
That’s depressing. So Nikola Tesla was a loser poser but your local slimey used car salesman is the ideal entrepreneur?
Then I finished my education, did my years of professional work (which I think is kinda relevant to do) and realized I hate work.
Only then I found all these phrases and tips around being entrepreneur. And well it didn't help at all.
Only when I started to make things out of pure passion and being able to let go when things sucked I started to get things that stick.
And fuck most projects I start still go nowhere. However some do. And i am cool about that.
Don't give up. But give up trying to make money. Make great things that you need. Recreate things that you know you can do a lot better, and never stop. Things will eventually work out.