So I moved to Austin for an adventure with three or four half-plans for making money which all fell through, plus unexpected expenses hit me hard. A few months ago I read the writing on the wall and set about finding a Real Job. Interviewed at a local startup; they didn’t want me. Went to some programmer meet-ups, gave a couple talks, stuck around afterwards to ask who was hiring. Found a great company that way, so starting this month I’m living in L.A., working for a funded startup in a skyscraper.
My buddy and I continue to grow our e-commerce business, 1100+ orders filled so far this year. Our inventory contains over 80K individual items. Custom software that I’ve written has allowed us to scale what is essentially a 1 or 1.5 person operation with room to grow. We ran a booth at a live event earlier this month which went great, did a lot of buying & selling, and generally made a great impression on a lot of customers. Expenses are huge, though, so even if we’re profitable it isn’t by much. My goal is for us to be ramen profitable by the end of the year.
So I’m walking two paths towards wealth. Moving forward is going to be a grind, a lot of hard work and careful planning but I’m excited for the opportunities.
Sorry if playing marketing guy is too wide the mark on norms here, but my gut says if you have a young business promote it to everyone who’ll listen and some people who’d rather not: whatcha selling and if one of us likes it how do we buy it?
If you want to buy something, send me a PM and I’ll send you a coupon code for a LW discount.
If you have MTG cards you want to sell, I want to talk to you. Our buy prices are competitive and we will buy most everything. Drop me a line with what you’ve got and I’ll get back to you quick with an itemized spreadsheet breakdown.
Goal: Money
So I moved to Austin for an adventure with three or four half-plans for making money which all fell through, plus unexpected expenses hit me hard. A few months ago I read the writing on the wall and set about finding a Real Job. Interviewed at a local startup; they didn’t want me. Went to some programmer meet-ups, gave a couple talks, stuck around afterwards to ask who was hiring. Found a great company that way, so starting this month I’m living in L.A., working for a funded startup in a skyscraper.
My buddy and I continue to grow our e-commerce business, 1100+ orders filled so far this year. Our inventory contains over 80K individual items. Custom software that I’ve written has allowed us to scale what is essentially a 1 or 1.5 person operation with room to grow. We ran a booth at a live event earlier this month which went great, did a lot of buying & selling, and generally made a great impression on a lot of customers. Expenses are huge, though, so even if we’re profitable it isn’t by much. My goal is for us to be ramen profitable by the end of the year.
So I’m walking two paths towards wealth. Moving forward is going to be a grind, a lot of hard work and careful planning but I’m excited for the opportunities.
Sorry if playing marketing guy is too wide the mark on norms here, but my gut says if you have a young business promote it to everyone who’ll listen and some people who’d rather not: whatcha selling and if one of us likes it how do we buy it?
Here we are. We buy and sell Magic cards.
Attn Magic: the Gathering players
If you want to buy something, send me a PM and I’ll send you a coupon code for a LW discount.
If you have MTG cards you want to sell, I want to talk to you. Our buy prices are competitive and we will buy most everything. Drop me a line with what you’ve got and I’ll get back to you quick with an itemized spreadsheet breakdown.
Now that is precisely what is known as spam.
Ha, fair enough.