A spectacular offer too all you devouted readers

I want to grow a newletter for this blog. And I want to reach 10,000 readers in the coming 2 months. And I want to cut you in on the action.

I will create a newsletter that will send out not only the posts I make here on this blog every Saturday, but also special bonus offers that only newsletter readers will recieve. And I don’t mean silly offers that anyone can offer. I mean bonuses that can actually make you money. Making you richer. I will cut you in on my deals. Exotic deals. Special deals that you seldom get to experience unless you start your own things. There will be no need for investing money. Just smart brains. I like smart people who can accomplish the seemingly impossible. If you are one of those wizards (or want to be), then you and I have a match. I give you the opportunity, you decide what to do with it and how to use it. See it as a way of training you in how the real business world works. What you read about in the newspapers or in books is seldom the way things work in the inner sanctum. It’s a lot of smart dealings and smart solutions. So if this is of interest to you, then help me with this thing first.

Those who succeed in giving me at least 2000 new readers in 30 days will recieve 1% of the ownership in one of my ventures. Free of charge. Just as a thank you for helping me reach higher. I believe in givng and taking. In business the rule is “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”.

This is how you can help me:

1. You write a comment to this post. Saying you are game, you are in. Be sure to give your email when filling in the comment fields. No one else will see your email adress, only me when I log into my blogger back office.
2. I will email you back telling you how to help me more in detail. There are certain steps for verification and so on that need to be considered so that we both benefit from each other. No point in doing this otherwise.

Take care and don’t be shy. Send those comments. We win by being bold.

The one thing that runs this world except people

This world is run by people foremost, but there is one thing that governs how these people run things. That “thing” is agreements. What the agreement says is what goes. Or actually “the way people intepret agreements is what goes”.

Why discuss legal stuff? Because it is so important. If you are not skilled in writing and interpreting agreements, you will lose. You may not do business with sharp guys today, but you will someday do business with such guys. Perhaps not because you want to, but because you are actually forced to. Don’t believe you will fall into that situation? Think again.

Many entrepreneurs I have been in contact with has this naive view of business. They think everyone is nice and trustworthy. That it is all about the product and that it is all about the creative design. It is actually more about the agreements you strike with people and how you secure cashflow from those agreements than anything else. The product or service is just something to use to get to the dollar (a bargaining chip of you will). Always will be. Just as agreements is the “thing”, the same goes with your market offer. The market offer is actually much more important than the product you have. I mean you can have a simple piece of stone. On the face of it, it is a bloody stone. Nothing else. But then, involve smart agreements and that stone can suddenly become a million dollar asset. And the agreement you reach always stems from the market offer you can come up with for that ordinary stone.

Many entrepreneurs are so tone death to business that they can’t see this flow of melodies. Few of those who start out as tone death become skilled in hearing the music. But many of them do not.

What I want you to think about and actually practice after reading this post is the following:

Find something. Find anything. It can be any kind of crap you can find. Then look at it, create a smart market offer for it. Then create an agreement for that crappy shit you have and find someone to sign that agreement of yours. Then collect the money. Ask any professional marketer and he will tell you that you can promote most things with a compelling offer. The offer sells, the product/service just comes along most of the time. I have seen one guy on TV who lives in New York and he fills these transparent boxes with litter from the streets of New York City and sells them online. He sells garbage at a premium. I mean, come on. If he can sell crap for a lot of money, then you can sell a stone or even rent it out. Right:)? We all can do that.

Now that I think about it, and I am pretty sure that all of you business junkies out there can relate as well, many big investment banks and big corporations usually buy their big clients some drinks at strip clubs and what have you and then have them sign their agreement while they are intoxicated. I know, ugly stuff. But I mean, that is how business is conducted in the real world. In the fantasy world many internet guys live in this notion that everything is fair and nice and I think they are foremost cheating themselfs on how the reality really looks like and they also cheat those who follow them. I just wonder how they even survive with their strange fantasy ideas. I really don’t get it. I wouldn’t survive a day if I was that unaware of the reality. I really wouldn’t. I learnt my stuff on the “street” as they say. I don’t have an MBA and never will have one. Why would I want to have such a crappy paper in my drawer when I know how to survive without it? It would only be a waste of precious time. In the time those people study for that MBA they could have made their first $10 Million. And they would be saner as well.

Yes, I have something against MBA guys. I think they have a screw loose. If some of you readers have an MBA and you read this and don’t have any hugh trouble accepting my truth, then more power to you. I consider you one of the smart MBA guys;). I really do. What you need to know is that there is a big gap between what the books tells you and what reality really looks like and I hope you are aware of that. If not, you will certainly find out sooner or later. It’s a bad wolf world out there and the sharp ones are the ones that will win. Fair or not.

If you would even use a fraction of all that MBA crap in the real “street” world you would be very dissapointed and very hungry. If you start from scratch and you are in debt as I was, then you have no options but to play to win. And you win by being clever and sharp with those papers called agreements and you play it to the hilt. But always inside the law. If you play outside the law, then bu-hu for you. Hope you enjoy the orange suits in jail. Unless you get away with it. If that is the case, then try doing it legally next time so you can sleep like a baby as well. No need to break any laws. I mean laws usually have such big loopholes in them that I don’t really understand why anyone would willingly break them.

What I talk about here has nothing to do with being criminal. Far from it. You do things that reach the goals, but you never break the laws. That is counter-productive no matter how you look at it.

If the agreement says” This and this is the deal”, then those things are the play rules between you and the other party. After that it is all about gaining as much as possible from that agreement by interpreting it in a way that is most satisfactory to the goals you have set out for yourself and your company. You can be sure the other players will do this as well. Why wouldn’t they, unless they are brain dead or something. Play inside the rules, but do it cleverly. Use your brain, that is, after all, your best asset. That goes in anything in life.

You may have heard lawyers say “that agreement has so many loopholes in it that you can drive a big school bus through it”? Well that is a lawyers way of saying, you are screwed unless you become very sharp and exploit what you can exploit. Be sharp about the creation phase of the agreement. Before you sign, find every way of getting out of the deal lawfully. Find every loophole you can think of so you know how to hide and how to play the other party for as much gain as possible. Once again, play lawfully. No need to break rules.

I usually have a motto that goes something like this “Rules and regulations are there to be used cleverly by you”. And it’s true. Capitalists, I mean true capitalists, not socialists posing as capitalists (there are plenty of those morons around), always try to outsmart the system with legal means. Ask any true capitalistic soul and he will tell you ultimately that business is a game. It’s like Monopoly. A true capitalits looks at most obstacles as challenges to be overcome. They find the rule book and beat it or end up owning it or whatever. He uses the system against itself and gains. And such acts should be encouraged. They should really teach school children this. Teach them how to have the employer give the best deal or beat the employer with his own cleverly constructed employee agreement:). If the school taught these things, then we wouldn’t see so many jobless people we do see today and will continue to see tomorrow. I would be willing to guarantee it. The reason so many people work for capitalists or the goverment is not because they always want to. Many times it is because they have no other options. Or they can’t see these options themselfs due to lack of understanding of agreements and how they could have these agreements work to their own benefit.

Just take those myriads of financial companies that exists today worldwide. There are so many rules and regulations in the financial sector and the reason is pretty simple, because there are so many capitalists daily trying to outsmart the system and also succeeds. Until the system creates additional rules and regulations. When the new rules and regulations are in place these capitalists will find new ways of circumventing the system legally and cleverly so as not to be tied down in the same mold as everyone else. By now you should know that you have to create a competitive vaccuum for yourself. You need to operate in a vaccuum and let the competition work out a sweat inside the mold.

Agreements are the tools that can make you very rich fast and with relative ease. I can go around here ranting for a long time about this. As you may have noticed already. It is a subject that is very elastic and easy to discuss in eternity.

In it’s simplest form: Create an IOU, write that someone special is indebted to you, they owe you, say, $1 Million. Then let someone write their signature on it. Making a million bucks is not that hard really. It’s more the convincing part to have people sing that piece of paper that can be tricky. But once you have their indebtness on paper, be happy. Why not buy them a couple of drinks and have them sign it while being drunk;)? Just kidding, no hate mails needed.

The issue of startups and bad reputation

In this post I will discuss the issue of bad reputation and startup ventures. As you may know starting something new and especially starting something new AND controversial is coupled with big troubles most of the time. If you are controversial then be prepared to fight bad reputation or don’t fight it rather.

Why not fight it? I know by my own experience that fighting accusers seldom lead to a personal gain for yourself. It usually leads to you being attacked even more. It’s better to let it die out or get away from it in a smart way. Smart way, meaning, try to focus on the positives of what you offer and just let people make up their own mind in the meantime. What else can you do anyhow?

Try being as open as possible for relevant questions. That is the best thing you can do. I know I can learn one or more things myself from these words because I usually become too tangled up in accusations and feel as if it is a personal attack on me, eventhough it may not be.

I don’t know if you believe in the Wealth Dynamics philosphy or not, and that’s fine either way, but I did the personality test that is associated to that philosophy and I was diagnosed a Creator/Star. The difference between a Creator and a Star profile was decimal in my case. Why do I mention this? I want you to understand why I have such a hard time following this advice of mine. Because I truly do have a problem with just letting accusations die out. I alwys seem to, automaticly, create chaos out of the chaos. And the reason is because of the Star trait I have. Star profiles are strong character types. Stars use their force of personality to make things happen. And that is not always a great way of dissolving accusational issues. It usually create bigger problems.

Martha Stewart is a Star profile according to the Wealth Dynamics diagnosis and if we you looked at how she handled the insider charges she faced not that long ago then you will see that she didn’t really face it in a satisfactory manner. She became more entangled in the problem than she really should have. And consequently she went to jail as you may know. So, just so that you know what kind of guy I am I need to refer to these personality tests.

I also did a Myers Briggs test and came out a Champion type (ENFP type). Champion types are, according to the test, rare beings and they are in a minority if you look at all people in the world (one of them being Oprah Winfrey). Champion kind of people are, the test result says, ” ENFPs are charming, ingenuous, risk-taking, sensitive, people-oriented individuals with capabilities ranging across a broad spectrum. They have many gifts which they will use to fulfill themselves and those near them, if they are able to remain centered and master the ability of following through.”. Please see more here: http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html

ENFPs are people-people, meaning we are very interested in dealing with people, we like to try new stuff and we are also sensitive people (maybee that is why I react so strongly to accusations of every kind. I react first and think later).

Now you may be thinking “come on now, why all this self babbling stuff?”. Well, I just want to cover this topic from my point of view so as to create some body and some quality to this post. Maybe you can relate to the way I am or maybe you are the direct opposite. Maybe you are the hard kick-ass type who do not care if anyone even called you an asshole right in your face. Some people even like being in the masochistic position. They crave it, however crazy that sounds. Every man to his passion I guess:). I can’t stand getting my ego hurt, but I am getting better every day at trying to just being “on task”.

When it comes to bad reputation there is one annoying thing about it: you can’t beat it with force. Well you can try to prove to the world with facts and numbers that your adversaries are wrong and you are right. But the funny thing is: it doesn’t matter one jota. Why? Because people believe what they want to believe. Facts and numbers doesn’t change a thing. Sound nuts? Well, the world is nuts. The only thing you can do is to carry on and conduct business with those who care more about your service and product and your offer than about who you stole from or who you cheated or what an asshole of a partner you are. As long as you know that those things never happened or are true in reality you can atleast sleep like a baby tonight anyway. But of course, it is annoying. It’s annoying because having a bad reputation is seldom a good thing even if you know the accusations are B.S. and slander.

I learned one thing from Eddie Murphy which is pure excellence. He said that he never read newspaper clippings about him. He never watches stuff that is reported on him etc. I think he is the absolutly smartest guy on this topic. It’s genius. You know genius is hidden in the simple, right:)? If you didn’t, then now you know.

Carry on soldier and put on dark glasses and plug your ears because you don’t need them in this aspect of business. Let someone else deal with those things on a paid basis. That way you can avoid it, but still having it dealt with, with a professional touch.

We have a swedish guy called Ernst Kirchsteiger. He is one of Swedens most famous interior designers. He actually implements this strategy about having someone else read his email, snail mail, taking phone calls etc (an agent so to speak). He is a happy chap for doing so. So apply it yourself as well. Your good mental health is worth gold if you are a startup entrepreneur. You invest so much energy in getting your company up and running, making money and structuring deals. You don’t have the time or energy to sit around being depressed about what some crazy nut with his unsuccessful life says about you. I sure as hell know I don’t.

There will always be some nut trying to make you believe you don’t deserve a hugh paycheck or that you don’t deserve this or that. The only guy who should be ashamed is the nutcase. Ask your agent to recommend a good shrink free of charge. See, that is what good PR relations is all about:). Can you see the headline? “Company ABC offers professional shrink help free of charge to depressed accuser/crazy stalker”. That would be something. Odd and newsworthy at the same time. When have you ever seen that type of headline? I have never seen it so I am very proud of my sudden creativity here;).

A new post will be published every week as of now. And I would really like your comments so don’t be shy. Let them flow in. If your comments are nice then I will publish them and if they are naughty they will go down the toilet quickly. As mentioned before: no time for nutcases with personality issues. If you have nutcase issues then thefastlanetomillions.com will certainly take you in quickly so as to enforce their mob group;).

Take care until next Saturday.

Former supporter of Thefastlanetomillions.com!

Why former? It’s pretty simple. If you bring up anything on that forum that is not accepted by the members, then you risk being called a criminal and you also risk being badly hurt reputation wise. You have been warned.

If you chose to be a member of that forum, do as everyone else and never stick out and never have a unique personality. It will cost you dearly.

There are a lot of evidence on that forum to prove to you that I am right. Just look at those people who have been kicked out for being too “out there” or basicly too outspoken.

Anyhow, I was kicked out and banned today because I clearly didn’t fit the mold anymore. My topics where too controversial so my head was chopped off. I guess it was for the better, it had gone on for a long time. It was a real witch hunt, I gotta tell you.

I will never really understand such people. They have this attitude that they are changemakers. But basicly they are only interested in keeping the status quo. Nothing else. The world is filled with them. And the world is worse off with them running things. You and I, the changemakers can never really be friends with these guys. Because they do not understand a true changemaker. A changemaker has new ideas, even wacky ideas. That is how we are. That is the value we give the world. That is why we exist. That is why we where born. That is our gift.

But when you present something like that to them, and especially to many of those on the thefastlanetomillions.com, you will be witchhunted. They will call you a con-man, a scamster and everything else that have the same definition.

The worst thing about these fastlane people was that they seldom based their strange opinion on actual facts. They just told members that didn’t behave like “one of the gang” (and you didn’t have to be extreme at all I might add, just of another opinion than the majority) that they where con men, they where criminals, they where scams. Even though they might not have been any of that. Some people are just too excited for their own good. I am one of them. I also have a hot temper that seldom makes things better. But I don’t think people shall be treated like scum because they are passionate human beings. And absolutly not treated like criminals unless a legal court has convicted them as such. That’s just cruel, pure cruelty. I wouldn’t imagine calling anyone such horrible things unless I had evidence. And in the case I had evidence I would rather sue them directly, not commit slander as these guys commit daily. And the worst part: getting away with it while innocent people get shot down unfairly for being too passionate about things. It just seem so counter productive.

I believe in treating people with dignity as long as they treat me with dignity. It’s a two way street. On thefastlanetomillions.com that doesn’t seem to matter at all. On thefastlanetomillions.com you suck it up or leave and you leave with your reputation tainted unless you threaten to sue them of course. Then they become even more angry and cut you off faster:).

As mentioned above: enter the dragons den on your own risk. Act as they want you to act and never deviate from their path (no controversial or wacky ideas) or offer anything (and I mean: don’t offer anything of commercial nature. That is the fastest way of being called a con and then you will be thrown out and banned and your reputation is still there to be seen by future business partners and customers). If you offer anything you are a mark. And they will crush you fast. I have seen it many times until I became just another casualty in their big machete machine.

Take care and hang around people of your own kind. Meaning people who understands you and your nature. Hang around startup entrepreneurs with wacky ideas and create a strong group mentality with them. Life will become easier that way. It is usually lonely being a refomer and a new thinker. Society never react kindly to those who want to remove the rug from under the power players. Thefastlanetomillions.com and it’s owner is clearly someone who thought I was a too much of a threat and decided to chop me down a few notches and then ban me from entering their strange little world of status quo. I couldn’t be happier.

A changemaker cannot become too civilized, that would take away your God given gift. I mean, the value we bring to the world is new thinking and new thinking seldom follows the norm. If it was following the norm then what kind of change would that have been? It would have been no change at all. So stay individualistic and stay away from those who try to cut you down in size. They are to be considered enemies of your progress. You have to look at it like that. “Them” and “us”. It’s a war. It really is. But it is a war between concepts, not rifles and dead bodies. It is a war between the old concepts and the new ones. And the new ones, ours, has to win. Never think differently. Because if you do think according to old dogma, you cannot win in the startup game. You can’t have black and white in the same spot just as you can’t have the old ideas in the new ideas. Some of them has to go. And the old ideas are the ideas that has to go.

Young people are born, old once die. It’s the way the nature is designed to function. Thefastlanetomillions.com will soon find this out as well. That forum is getting old and change seldom spare the old ones. Especially not forums with such a strange member policy (ruining the reputation of banned members forever for no sane reason at all).

Take care everybody and all good wishes to all of the passionate projects you are currently working on. Nurture them and let them grow into giants that conquer the world one day. Change the industry you are in, never settle for less.

Detach yourself!

A thing I have fallen for myself, many times, is being too attached to my projects.

First rule in being successful in anything is: be detached.

Write down your objective, detach yourself from feelings and just do whatever needs to be done to reach the objective. Everything goes, but be smart.

Act like a commando soldier. Think like a killer who is on a mission.

The moment you think too much, you will lose the sight of the objective and you will lose.

That is why too much analyzing is bad. Have a clear objective, a simple plan to follow and then detach and do.

Be a “just-enough achiever”

When starting a company, do not think like an over-achiever at all. Think like an under-achiever.

I am serious. It works best. It clearly is related to what I wrote in the post before this one. Where I said “Cut out the fat”. Being
an over-achiever is “fat”.

Do what is needed to beat the best guy, not more than that.

Do what is needed to get the financing, not an ounce more.

Do what is needed to be able to reach the next level, not more.

Be a slacker so to speak.

When I went to elementary school I was an over-achiever and, yes, I got top grades. But in hindsight I have come to understand
that I really only needed to be a “just enough” student to reach the best programs in college.

In elementary school I wanted to go to the best program, the natural science program. According to many, the hardest program to
get in to. Not so.

I could have easily been approved to that program with “just enough” grades. Because the vacancy rates to that particular program
was so high. It was embarrasing. Few wanted to go to the program due to the reputation it had of being hard core when it comes
to study morale. Hard tests and all that. I am sure you can relate.

So I could have easily been approved, and in my case I was one of those who where. I went and I left after year one. Bored to tears (much of it because I then believed in being number one in my class. What a moron I was).

Now in hindsight I wondered why the hell I studied so hard when I studied natural sciences subjects. At this point in life, nearly 5-6 years later
I think to myself “I really could have graduated if I just acted more like a slacker than a dumb over-achiever”. People look at all
these over-achievers and they are considered Gods almost, but they aren’t. They are, my personal view, both inefficient and not very
bright. I can say this, because I once was like those people. I am not anymore, because real life teaches you how hard life becomes
when you try being a super human. Society does not ask you to be super human, they just ask you to follow certain criterias. If
you do, then you will have the world in your hand. The world will be your oyster as they say.

Just look at all those people who reach high levels of society today. And then research how they got there. How many of them
where actually over-achievers? I would say less than 50%. I would even bet as low as benief 10%. I mean, look at national Presidents. Are they higher achievers than you and me? Well, are they? I would say no. But they understand how to play the game and you play games well by always knowing the game rules better than the rest.

If you want to suceed these days, especially in startups, you need to be smart lazy and be a “just enough achiever”. And then bank on
it. Hard.

The same if you want to become a highly placed servant. Read the rules carefully and then play the hell out of them. Play by those
rules like no one else. This doesn’t require being an over-achiever, just lazy enough to use what is already there to your advantage.

Just to show you some examples I follow myself in my ordinary life:

1. Exercise: I have a pre-set amount of sets I shall do each week. It doesn’t matter how or when I actually do them, I just have to
do them all in one week. So if you need to do 100 pushups each week as I do at current, then I can basicly do them whenever I want
and whatever day I want. In whatever constellation. If I have 10 minutes without anything to do, then I can do perhaps 20 pushups.
Another day I may feel for doing 50 and will do 50. Some days I feel like doing 10 pushups in the morning and another 10 in the
afternoon the same day. It doesn’t matter how, just that it is being done. It’s an under-achievers way of doing the impossible.

Always do the least thing to reach the level you want to reach.

2. I read many books, but I do it in a very “under-achiever” way. Say I need to read a 500 pages long book in 10 days. Then I only have to read
50 pages a day. And I really don’t have to read all those pages in one sitting. I can divide it up so that it becomes 8 hours in total. Hours that I can spread
over the whole day. So I will read 7 pages one hour, do something fun for 1 hour and read 7 more pages and then 1 hour fun. You
get my idea. Be a slacker, but still do the job. But it in a fun an under-achiever way.

If you can find an audio of the book, then do. Less hassle or job. You are still doing the job, but have someone else read the piece
while you relax with a coffee or something. I mean, if you have the opportunity, then why shouldn’t you take it? Only over-achievers
would spell the dome and as we all know, over achievers seldom have a life either. I sure know I hadn’t.

And another thing to make it even more under-achieverish: ask the guy giving you the assignment why he want’s you to read the book. That way you can scan the book instead of actually read it page for page as you normally would. And only scan for the relevant pieces. That way you could get through the book in record time. That is called speed-reading and is a method most used by under-achievers, me included. Don’t read more than necessary.

3. The same goes with sales: If you want to have $100 million in annual revenues in your business. Then charge higher prices, not less.
Why work many times harder, when you can work many times less and still make the same revenue and probably recieve a hugh profit as
well? Only an over-achiever would tell you otherwise, but those guys are seldom very enjoyable to be around either. Few of them
have any time to actually enjoy their wealth, because they either have to assist the customers all the time or assist their gigantic
staff of irritating employees.

4. The same goes with sex: Why waste every weekend in pubs and nightclubs if you want sex, when you could easily call nearest
escort club and get laid for a few bucks? Sure it cost money, but I am sure those beers and irritating ladies cost you more in both time, energy
and especially money. Why don’t give yourself som slack? Be an under-achiever and recieve more. And, yes, I know it is illegal to purchase sex.

But then again, so are many things. What is more important? A satisfied dick or being an over-achiever believing you will ever score in a pub because you are too afraid calling the one girl who will actually satisfy you now?

Remember: use the laws and regulations to your aid. Follow them so religiously that no one can beat you. The guy who know the laws best always wins. Just look at those who wins in society today: the under-achievers.

Only people who wants to beat the laws with brute-force will be required to be over-achievers. Those who understand the genius
in just swaying with the wind and using the laws and regulations against society itself (it means looking at laws and just find the blind spot) don’t have to be over-achievers at all. It would
be too counter-productive. And besides why do things that cost more and leads nowhere? Well, what is your stance on this?

Wanna join the successful startup entrepreneurs and the successful entrepreneurs in general? Then achieve less and accomplish more by
playing by the rules in a clever and self-serving way. That is how you beat the system and that is how you become a billionaire,
the guy who is getting laid a lot and the guy who get that rock hard body and comes off as the intellectual monster.

Use the laws to reach new pinnacles and use the blindspots of the law when trying to get away. If you don’t think very successful people use this method, then you haven’t understood how society really works. And it is certain that the people who knows, use it against you. Allt the time.

Building a company: hard or easy?

When people I talk to, discuss startups it seems like they always want to make the subject much harder than it really is.

People say “It requires loads of money, it requires a perfect idea and perfect execution and perfect employees. And employees, by the way, is impossible bla bla bla”.

Well, the simple answer to that rant is that it is hard if you think so. For people like me who don’t think startups need to be hard or complex at all, can’t really relate. I do startups myself and I really can’t really relate much at all.

If you deal with people or situations that portray startups in that dark way, then get the hell out and dump it. Try a new angle. There is no time to waste on such garbage.

The only solution to such obstacles is to make stuff really simple and that is what entrepreneurs are best at by the way. That is what they do. They take complex stuff and makes it so simple that anyone can apply it and recieve value from it.

The best way to start a company is to cut out all the unnecessary fat. Which means cutting out head count (humans/employees), cutting out unnecessary expenses (especially fixed expenses), cutting out certain steps to reduce time waste etc.

Please understand, one of the biggest expense accounts is employee/head count. If you cut out that one and still produce very much the same revenue as before, then you have created higher profit margins and reduced a lot of headache. And that means a lot when starting companies. You need to have every ounce of energy focused on growing revenues and profits. Not being involved in drama queen efforts.

The same goes with everything else you cut out. A lot more energy left to do good things for you and your family. Your children, wife, relatives will love you for being more present in their lifes. You know: startups should not steal years of your life. If it idoes, then you seriously need to cut out stuff and replace it with technical solutions (automate it). We do live in the most technicly advanced times ever. Why work like a neanderthal?

Starting companies is more about figuring out:

1. How much revenues shall this venture bring in annually?
2. How can I do this with as little expense and hassle as possible?

Coming up with the product/service is the easiest part. That is also the fastest thing to put together. A little product there, producer there, trademark there, package design there, producer of package there etc. It all goes hand in hand. The more you do it, the more smoothly it all goes.

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How to handle bad press and critics!

First of all, never confront it in length.

Secondly, just send out one press release or one message (always the same message): “This is not true to reality”.

Thirdly: If the behaviour continues, then sue the other party. Your reputation is important. Make an example of the one doing you harm. And then let the world know it.

In the old days, the kings used to chop the oppponents heads off. Some of them even put their opponents heads on poles around their kingdom in order to scare opponents off.

I don’t want you to go so far=). God forbid. But you can always sue, but be prepared to gain nothing financially. Prepare to pay a lot. But I think it is worth it. You will gain more on doing such than go head to head with the opponent in a debate. And in all fairness, you should see it as a promotion tool as well. You wouldn’t be the first one doing so. Many businesspeople use this tactic already and have been for some while.

Usually, when some new bad critic springs up, you will never be head to head with the other party because they hide behind anonymous signatures online. But you can always sue the one owning the forum or the one employing a certain employee who enjoys slandering you. Sue them because they make it possible for people to slander you openly.

As I mentioned before: Have money in the bank ready to spend, it will cost money. A lot if you engage a big opponent with clearly more money to access than you. But if you engage someone who has less money than you, then you have a great case in deed (by the way, this is how those poor patent owners lose the right to their own patents. A bigger company comes in, wants the patent, sue the owner and say he has falsely stolen the patent from them. Even if the bigger company has no case, they still have more money to spend to wrestle control of those patents in court. And they know it. The little patent holder lose because he can’t afford the legal bills. So patents etc have no value unless you can defend them against crazy guys with a lot of money).

Remember to never sue directly. Only sue if you really, really have to. Make it a habit to avoid critics. I know it’s hard. I can contest. I am not really that good at it myself, but when I actually follow my own advice I feel better and my business success is bigger as well. The rumor dies out by itself most of the time.

Also make it a habit to not read stuff about yourself in newspapers and or on forums etc. Actor Eddie Murphy once said in a TV interview that he has made it a habit not to read things that is written about himself. I concur with that habit. After all, if you feel better (because you don’t read negative things about yourself) then everyone else around you will feel good about being around you and helping you out. It spreads like a storm.

You owe it to yourself if you are ever to succeed in the controversial field of “business startups”.

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