Entrepreneurs

Cali chronic said:

You are kind of sensitive for a trader LOL What is the difference? Isn't it a gamble of the odds? And unless you live in Rhode Is or Parump you gotta shop for a pretty hooker! Unless you of course can control the market there Dr. Evil....

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In Vegas odds are with the house. Only a few times can you put yourself in a position to have the odds in your favor.
On Wall street you figure out setups that work 80-90% of the time and take them, betting your max amount. You can also have setups in your arsenal that are only 60-70% right, at that time you bet maybe 50% of an original position.

Sensitive? Not sure how you came up with that from my 2 posts.. Wish i could tell someones personality by looking at 2 posts LOL

I am coming off a 12 year run from Res Real Estate and Mortgage, then moved into Portfolio Banking as the bottom fell out. Got a divorce and sold of my homes and did not have the strength to go back at it, in Socal anyways. Socal is so competitive and un loyal it would make a priest puke. I Collect my insurance, while looking for a real job. Not a 100% commission with no benefits etc...
Started a small business shooting commercials for websites. I have been in sales for 25 years and am pretty good at slogans, motto's and pitches. The challenge with this endeavor is that exposure on google and the likes of cost big money and no one wants to pay anything for what they 'think' they can do on their own with a flip phone. (maybe in a couple more years when folks realize the vid they did is not what they were after?) In the meantime I Blog on my site to help with ranking and try and become a trusted resource or hub instead of a self proclaimed expert. (Franchisees welcomed)
I also have a Patent Pending for a gardening gadget, I have the pending for about 5 months now and placed it in one store who owns 4 stores. So one could say 4 stores and his catalog he publishes that a bunch of hydro stores buy through him. XX <--Fingers crossed, LOL. I know it will do well as what you think about comes about. I am scheduled to be at a convention in Long Beach this October with all the hitters there to preview what is new so I will see. One thing I gotta tell you, it is hard to stay focused sometimes. Times I can go balls out and have the enthusiasm of a new mother and other times I tell myself to just do one thing towards marketing or farming my brand a day. I find placing my Brand in an obvious place helps me remember my promise.(like pinned above mu computer)
I recommend this movie to anyone who would like to move up in the world. The name of the movie is "The Secret" it is on Netflix. This will help you, trust me.

Johnny Retro said:

In Vegas odds are with the house. Only a few times can you put yourself in a position to have the odds in your favor.
On Wall street you figure out setups that work 80-90% of the time and take them, betting your max amount. You can also have setups in your arsenal that are only 60-70% right, at that time you bet maybe 50% of an original position.

Sensitive? Not sure how you came up with that from my 2 posts.. Wish i could tell someones personality by looking at 2 posts LOL

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Spoken like a true Gambler, Never down. Good luck as it is an integral part of your company. I have some experience on the matter, hence me knowing Vegas has hookers when you are up and trading is gambling. Sensitive because you reached for a semi-quasi insult about me writing of what you assumed I knew nothing of. As opposed to concurring and then tossing in with a bit if studying.
Respectfully,
C.C.

Cali chronic said:

Spoken like a true Gambler, Never down. Good luck as it is an integral part of your company. I have some experience on the matter, hence me knowing Vegas has hookers when you are up and trading is gambling. Sensitive because you reached for a semi-quasi insult about me writing of what you assumed I knew nothing of. As opposed to concurring and then tossing in with a bit if studying.
Respectfully,
C.C.

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There are always draw downs in ANY business. Dont recall where i said i was 'never down' could you point that out for me? You are a gambler by "hoping" your product will sell. Any entrepreneur is a gambler, the ones that make it are the ones that put the odds in their favor. I have other sources of income that pay the mortgage, food, and gas. I make my play money in wallstreet.

And its easy to point out the people who are uneducuated on the subject because they respond with the "your a gambler" attitude.

Good luck with your endeavors

thanks for the advice but im not too fond of the idea of day trading. seems like id have a better run in vegas actually...im pretty good with certain types of poker (especially hold em). i dont wanna do that either as poster said, "the odds are with the house" and thats absolutely true...otherwise casinos wouldn't be in business.

I think the best odds of winning anything in a casino (with the exception of playing roulette and betting black or red) is blackjack in which you only have a 17% chance of winning.

majority of the games in vegas rely on luck. granted it takes a fair amount of skill & strategy but mostly its luck. especially with slots.

I was hoping to take that $5K and do something worthwhile with it. ive saved it up & set it aside and right now its just collecting dust in a safe.

i thought about using it for my wholesale/liquidation ventures but seems like a slow way to move $5k. especially since my damn ebay is always getting shut down -_-

lectricfeng said:

Greetings all.

I am new to this site and am impressed with the level of comnuncation that goes on.

I am also new to growing this sacred plant and have noticed the growing world has really evolved.

From technology to the laws on how they are written.

I am in the process of developing a grow system that will ultimately shorten the grow time of the plant but also increase not just the potency but alter the characteristics of the plant. All mainly thru applied select frequencies.

My primary goal is to sell my systems to medical growers.

The system would consist of a generator, custom software and training on how to use the system.

I am in the preliminary stages of testing.

Does anybody out there know of anyone doing this kind of research?

I can see an amazing amount of potential due to the number of states that have passed medical M.J. (14) and 12 pending.

Much thanks.

Lectricfeng

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Jason King wrote about something similar in the Cannabible 2 I believe. It is a product called "sonic bloom"

It uses certain radio frequencies to enhance growth.

don2009 said:

my dream is to somehow acquire a large pice of land and have anchors of hemp, smoke the herb and sell the hemp stems to the textile and paper industies. Learn to read b4 you talk shit.

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ha. the stalks of textile hemp and the herb you smoke come from two different plants. if it where a quote about seperately growing hemp and marijuana for textile sales and smoking respectivly, then it would be correct but implying that they are done from the same plant is ignorant. I stand behind my 'shit talking'

I know a town that has six and eight passenger golf carts giving people "free rides". They make a few hundred a night in cash tips. You can get a trick golf cart for 5000 with Insurance. Don't live i a place that would make this work. I did how ever have my own Pedal-cab operation while in college. Worked out well a few nights of the week, just an extra hustle.

there is a pedi-cab business in town that was supposed to be shut down by the DDA, and the community came out in support of these 2 guys and made the DDA leave them alone, that was 5 years ago, they are rolling in the cash.
Entrepreneurs will make this country great again as we usually do.

Wish "I rolled in the cash". It seems like when you make a great plan you always end up with half of what you wanted. Old pedicab legend is that Pedicabs in phoenix were intact run by the mafia. It is said they were using it as a front to launder money. Once upon a time you could operate pedicabs in Hawaii, but the dudes in Hawaii were using the rickshaws for distribution and were mostly from the mainland. Hawaii responded by banning operation. This is all just urban legend that might be difficult to vet, but from my experiences pedicabs are seen as unwanted for various reasons.

Great thread Guys, Ill share,, I bought a Nice Big Work Truck that was used from PG&E, i got a business licenses and started a hauling company. I pick peoples extra trash up for them. I sometimes get jobs from some of my buddy's who are contractor's and take there trash to the dump, it saves them time and money since i have a larger truck than them. I got all the pens, magnets, and receipts i hand out. (Magnets are great, i love seeing them up at my repeat clients homes.)
Thats pretty much it, i have repeat clients now and i can even guesstimate what they are all going to have for me, i recycle donate and sell the items i receive. There is nothing better than charging to take something away and then going and selling it for BANK... I have some really good days and some slow monthes....
The funny thing is, through the business i had a client who had me throw away all his old grow room setup, basically wood and a lot of pots... but it got me in the game, so now i do that too.

Bake&Sleep said:

Great thread Guys, Ill share,, I bought a Nice Big Work Truck that was used from PG&E, i got a business licenses and started a hauling company. I pick peoples extra trash up for them. I sometimes get jobs from some of my buddy's who are contractor's and take there trash to the dump, it saves them time and money since i have a larger truck than them. I got all the pens, magnets, and receipts i hand out. (Magnets are great, i love seeing them up at my repeat clients homes.)
Thats pretty much it, i have repeat clients now and i can even guesstimate what they are all going to have for me, i recycle donate and sell the items i receive. There is nothing better than charging to take something away and then going and selling it for BANK... I have some really good days and some slow monthes....
The funny thing is, through the business i had a client who had me throw away all his old grow room setup, basically wood and a lot of pots... but it got me in the game, so now i do that too.

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thats awesome!!
+rep

themanwiththeplan said:

im currently in need of some ideas. i got 5K cash on hand and my ebay side job just went bust (again)

i was making quite the pretty penny on ebay & would still be doing so but ive had my second account just suspended yesterday *shakes fist* & of course without a reason as to why i was suspended.

in less than 2 months i pulled in an extra $1500 in my spare time. no joke. not bad considering i did it in my spare time clicking the mouse. & no its not against ebay rules either (which is why idk y i was suspended). they never give a reason or tell you how to appeal it.

im working on setting up another 1.


right now mj is my job. im working as a grower for a very small/local collective. i just maintain the collective garden and choose which strains are grown, etc. its a fantastic job but doesn't pay well (since they're so small they cant afford to pay me well enough) but i do it because i couldnt find this type of job anywhere else where i live & i love to grow so its win-win.

Im really hoping to invest some cash and make something of myself. I can't see myself slaving away in a 9-5 for a set figure for the rest of my life. my parents do that and they despise their existence half of the time and always stress about $$$. i dont wanna be that guy.

i can do lots of things pretty well (none really remarkably) and learn pretty fast if i get the chance to learn hands on.

i also bought a huge lot of liquidation merchandise (mostly things for ladies as i know they love to spend $) and im parting it out as we speak. my first order was for $250+ (haven't received it in the mail yet though but yeah).

so yeah i do it all lol just wish i could piece something together that pays better and doesnt have me doing 10 hustles at once.

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I would take that 5k and look into commercial cleaning. That business is recession proof and you can get started with less then 5k

awesome thread, no surprise to see a good handful of entrepreneurs here

I run a real estate business though it's truly a marketing and sales business, real estate just being the product that's bought and sold. It's a business with virtually no barrier of entry, you can literally start with $0 and (with the right knowledge) start doing deals with little or no risk.... obviously starting out with some money makes it easier, but it CAN be done (and has!) with no out of pocket expense.

zlock said:

awesome thread, no surprise to see a good handful of entrepreneurs here

I run a real estate business though it's truly a marketing and sales business, real estate just being the product that's bought and sold. It's a business with virtually no barrier of entry, you can literally start with $0 and (with the right knowledge) start doing deals with little or no risk.... obviously starting out with some money makes it easier, but it CAN be done (and has!) with no out of pocket expense.

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Great idea for real estate, although I am wondering how you start out in real estate with no capital.. I know a fair bit about information involving real estate and would love to start in the real estate industry either with rentals or rehabs or something along the lines of that. But Just not sure on how to get started withit involving no capital..

If anyone has anymore information involving real estate or rentals I would love to know some more about it and/or how to get started..

When I was 19, I dove into the research chemical game head first. I cashed in every asset I owned to purchase a kilo of JWH-018. I set up a make-shift laboratory and re-branded the chemical under a well-known name, cold calling convenience stores and headshops to ship out samples. It was good money for the longest time, it highly varied between $4000-5000 profit every week. Since I live in a small metropolitan area(50,000 people) I was conveniently the only person in town that had the new "legal" blends every time the banhammer came down, so my local market was thriving also.

I'm 22 years old and out of the game now, although I developed a load of connections and too much knowledge about how beautifully terrifying this entire world is.
I managed to save up about $20,000 and dump it into advertising for my recently formed SEO/Web Design firm. The beautiful thing is that I used to sell to a lot of high-level oil rig operators who have since moved into administrative positions and have gotten me many WELL-PAYING jobs in the energy sector doing web development. With SEO contracts I'm making a solid $8,000 per month and an extra $2,000 to $10,000 every time a site launches. It's unbelievable how perfect everything is falling together. We're about to begin on a start-up with funding from a very well-known petroleum company with potential payouts that will absolutely shatter my perception of reality.

Now maybe its all the research chemicals I guinea pigged, or my enormous amount of energy, but I feel like the only thing you can do on this miserable spinning rock is to follow your dreams until they run you into the ground. It doesn't matter how grand or ridiculous they are, just do it. Capitalism isn't dead, its just hiding in the niches.

talon said:

When I was 19, I dove into the research chemical game head first. I cashed in every asset I owned to purchase a kilo of JWH-018. I set up a make-shift laboratory and re-branded the chemical under a well-known name, cold calling convenience stores and headshops to ship out samples. It was good money for the longest time, it highly varied between $4000-5000 profit every week. Since I live in a small metropolitan area(50,000 people) I was conveniently the only person in town that had the new "legal" blends every time the banhammer came down, so my local market was thriving also.

I'm 22 years old and out of the game now, although I developed a load of connections and too much knowledge about how beautifully terrifying this entire world is.
I managed to save up about $20,000 and dump it into advertising for my recently formed SEO/Web Design firm. The beautiful thing is that I used to sell to a lot of high-level oil rig operators who have since moved into administrative positions and have gotten me many WELL-PAYING jobs in the energy sector doing web development. With SEO contracts I'm making a solid $8,000 per month and an extra $2,000 to $10,000 every time a site launches. It's unbelievable how perfect everything is falling together. We're about to begin on a start-up with funding from a very well-known petroleum company with potential payouts that will absolutely shatter my perception of reality.

Now maybe its all the research chemicals I guinea pigged, or my enormous amount of energy, but I feel like the only thing you can do on this miserable spinning rock is to follow your dreams until they run you into the ground. It doesn't matter how grand or ridiculous they are, just do it. Capitalism isn't dead, its just hiding in the niches.

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kool man...i like that. i love that quote i'm going to have to make it my signature.

Excellent thread, I've started entreprenurial businesses all my life (first at age 10 renting video games partnering with a local movie rental store), and my most recent is in organic vegetable gardening. People will always have to eat. They will always need shelter (those of you in the real estate or housing industries) and they will always need healthcare (and medicines to keep them healthy).
Definitely an excellent statement by talon: Capitalism isn't dead, its just hiding in the niches.

I do custom athletic field/golf course management and consultation. Started on my own 1987 and have continued, steady growth to the point that I am now all over the Southeastern US. If you watch sports on saturdays or sundays at all, you've seen my work. Turf? yep.. I have that down cold. I purchase fertilizer literally by the 22 ton truck-load so I get a chuckle when I see people complaining about the high cost of nutrients, amendments etc.

Cool thread Johnny Retro. Its nice to see that there are hard working people like me that are stoners lol.