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10 Dec, 8 tweets, 2 min read
8 years ago I was a college student living in a $290/mo studio w/ no heat in the middle of a midwestern winter

I had my oven on full blast as I laid on my air mattress

"Look at all these idiots with money. Why can't I have that? Fuck this, I'm going to get rich or die trying"
There wasn't half the info and resources back then as there is now, but I was able to start pulling in 6 figures about a year and a half after graduating.

I made a lot of mistakes. Knowing what I do now, I could be a deca-millionaire if I had a time machine.
College kids:
-have a social life but fuck the excessive partying/festivals
-lift weights, stay in shape, and ignore those who don't unless they're highly skilled & focused on $
-learn how to sell & write copy. With the info out now you could be a better seller than a F500 AE
-if you can sell well & work hard, you'll be alright
-bonus points if you can learn enough about tech to effectively run a tech biz
-if you can't sell, learn how to be "good enough" sales & learn how to code
-if learning how to code, start with python
-read "how to automate the boring stuff with python" and find a way to automate some tedious admin tasks
-learn zapier
-learn Django and make web apps
-learn a little front end
-get @blackhatwizardd 's course and cold email SMBs to get automation and webdev gigs
Back to the sales kids:
-2 yrs selling at a F500 will set you up for life, don't worry about low pay
-you'll be good for an 85 to 100k base remote job if you crush those 2 years
-now you'll have a good income to supplement your ecommerce, digital marketing, lead gen, or copy biz
This sounds like a platitude, but it couldn't be more true:

Your network is your net worth.

Your party friends might be cool, but they'll still be doing the same shit in 10 years, and that is definitely not cool.

There's a beautiful world of hustlers on Twitter, hang out here!
If you stay focused and genuinely uninterested in the banality of regular life, you'll attract the kind of people you're looking for.

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9 Dec
The best business books aren't about business.

The Prince is a step-by-step playbook for the most  cut-throat, results-driven leaders.

All flaws w/ Machiavellian philosophy aside, it's still very relevant in legit business.

Here are some timeless pieces of advice:
1) “Injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavour of them may last"

This applies to both your workers & your customers.
Injuries: raising prices, restructuring, layoffs, cutbacks

Benefits: bonuses, perks, features, updates, sales,

Make the pain swift & keep the goods on drip feed.
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