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by advertising 4y ago
Bourdain was still dunking french fries at age 44 before he wrote kitchen confidential
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by advertising 4y ago
Best of life is not behind you. 40’s are the back nine of your prime. You have the most knowledge and experience and still have energy and ability. Be careful of the stories you tell yourself because they will eventually become true.
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by advertising 4y ago
Friend works for real estate group that provides consulting services for companies looking to move into a new area. Friend can drag a box around any area down to the block and see how many people visit that area, what part of the city they
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by advertising 5y ago
The book - Fabric of Civilization takes an informative dive on what happened as cotton/wool fabric technology evolved and different bottle necks in the process changed, along with who was compensated more and who lost their jobs in the
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by advertising 5y ago
Know a few “pot lawyers” and retail operators. The real money is in gaining a license for a dispensary. Growing is a race to the bottom. From humboldt era $5k lbs to $800 lbs
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by advertising 5y ago
Money is but a reflection of what we value. Money is not evil, but the abstraction of “value” in modern life does cause the problems he blames money for. Perhaps the jungle/forest tribes way of life is the best and simple way we can be
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by advertising 5y ago
Judd made Marfa and died before it ever became what it was today. Secretive group of artists and the like came later and in the end, all good towns need an industry and Marfa’s real industry is tourism of people coming to see the art and re
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by advertising 6y ago
The flower market in downtown LA is one of the best in the world. Very neat experience to get there at 5am, semi-akin to Tsukiji back in the day.
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by advertising 6y ago
Package up a gimmick in a decent looking kiosk and pitch the “where won’t this work!?” dream. You’ll capture enough imagination in pitch meetings to raise a few mil. You’ll put together a team and manufacture your first batch, spending all
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by advertising 6y ago
Much like Europe already
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by advertising 6y ago
Easy - hold a plank
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by advertising 6y ago
Worked in commercial real estate before the last crash and have a few friends working at big mall companies. Have seen some really cool plans to turn a whole mall into residential with the interior being common areas and parks etc. Some rea
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by advertising 6y ago
Need AoE!!
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by advertising 6y ago
I was raising money and met this zen style investor for lunch to talk about some issues we were having, basically complaining and blaming and things like that, he interrupted me and said - “Be careful the stories you tell yourself because t
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by advertising 6y ago
It’s a bit of a paradox when you try something audacious like a startup. I raised money, had 6 full-time employees and went hard and a year in realized it wasn’t going to work. It sucked, the stress, the grind, the failure. That experience
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by advertising 7y ago
Should add that his insurance company covered everything both times and provided rental car but after second time they won’t cover the vehicle anymore being parked in that neighborhood on the street.
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by advertising 7y ago
Friend of mine has a Prius and lives in Echo Park in LA. His cat was cut out of his car twice in two weeks. Seemed like every person in the chain benefited from the theft, scrap metal guys, tow truck towing his car to mechanic, mechanic rep
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by advertising 7y ago
A person I know routinely flies with ~1 lbs of marijuana in his checked luggage as well as edibles and vape products, all just for personal use. He flies internationally to and from the States and no one ever says anything to him. Even flyi
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by advertising 7y ago
The pollution is the tough part there. Despite the great weather normally. Have you found anywhere else comparable that isn’t insane expensive?
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by advertising 7y ago
Where are the numbers on revenue here or what point of scale shows profit. They show a spreadsheet with 10 users costing $2,800/mo to maintain and $24k upfront. How could that ever be profitable at a competitive price point? Am I missi
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by advertising 7y ago
We entered that zombie phase our 5th year in business. Now we are in our 9th year and have ticked along slowly slowly decling a bit each year. Down to two employees and probably have one year left to go. All investors except for our single
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by advertising 7y ago
Scroll to bottom to see it’s a piece pushing for ethanol flex-fuel
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by advertising 7y ago
We used a few to power kiosk touch screens and other commercial display applications using network broadcast video. Made a seven screen display each with their own pi that sync’d individual videos running on each to create some video art pi
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by advertising 7y ago
dammit
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by advertising 7y ago
This is exactly where you’re wrong. The government is full of corruption. They buy large pieces of land and change zoning laws to allow for a big Home Depot style place or an oversized hotel on their land and then they sell it. They shut do
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by advertising 7y ago
My parents have lived in a gem of a town outside of the US for 20 years. About 15 years ago it started to pop up in top 10 lists and the last 10 years has exploded with tourism. What used to be an extremely affordable, beautiful, and pleasa
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by advertising 7y ago
Oh man q3osp dm17 all day. You just really took me back. I really miss rocket arena and the first LAN parties I went to. Right as broadband had really started to be available. Still have not found anything close to q3. Maybe it’s just my no
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by advertising 8y ago
They still do the glass bottle returns in Mexico.
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by advertising 8y ago
What about the idea of everyone having their own cup and water bottle that they take everywhere. If you want the drink to go and forget your cup, buy a new one at a high price or have it there.
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by advertising 8y ago
Have bought only retro super future for this very reason

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