Thursday, February 26, 2026

More tips on start ups; zero to one

Nation building via learning and being the best in business








1.  Visioning

     1  Draw of a picture of what your projects would look like when completed:  entrance, office, landscaping, workspace
         Troy to do this comprehensively   COMPLETO  INCLUSIVE  Be alive be motivated energized by this picture.   You can do a an 
         great one by working with the architect or designer to complete your vision

    2. Draft you VMBP   

    3.  Draw a road map

2.   BE violently  insane  obsessed with customer service  Be like SJ  (Steve Jobs, when it comes to CUSTOMER SERVICE he is passionately fiercely obsessed.
      observing simplicity, efficiency functionality as key features.  Improving customer experience.  Look is important the satisfaction of 5senses.  Want satisfaciton

     CS and COBS


3.  Some billionaire tidbits


     1.  Entrepreneurs go into their own venture to establish control of business and independence

         A  tradesman was working hard and was asked why working so hard/  He said he wanted to earn so much to buy tools so that he can have his own
         contracting company.  

         But the billionaire said:   you are still a working man at the control and service of somebody else:    the general contractor and the owner.

        Why not:   seek contract, consolidate workers and trade and be a general contractor yourself:    you dont need tools  manpower.  All you do is negotiate
         contracts and you get clear profits.     Adds ons % etc.


      2.  On securing funding from vcs and other funders

           They sound so important because of mumbo jumbo but a clear paradigm injected into every ones start up mind.  Input first before business
           You need capital first before you can put business.  What  do you need the capital for:   initial hires, ads, software, office equipment

          But the billionaire said to Arthur who wants a $200,000 start up funding said focus on 3 S:  (YOU MIGHT NOT NEED THE $200, 000)

          SYSTEM
          SERVICE
          SCALE


        So Arthur went home went into a deep reflection problem solving mode.   What does he have, who is market.?  What can he offer them?

        So Arthur concluded that he is skillful  in logistics and there is one logistics problem he is working on.  So he has a list of 300 logistics company whom he
        emailed offering his solution.   One replied.   They had a deal.  If he can solve the company problem by Friday, he gets paid $6,000.  And they did.  Arthur
        got the bank transfer of $6,000.   He spent the $2,500 for someone to code him a program, spent $500 for supplies and saved the $2,000

       So he went into scaling up.  He made videos of his achievement for the first user and sent the gmail again to the rest of 299 addresses  3 replied.  He offered
       $2,000 lease of his software for their solutions.  He got 3 and got contract for $6,000 monthly revenues.  

       After 3 months Arthur was grossing $80,000 a month, enough to gross him $1,000,000 a year

      He met VAnce the billionaire again after 3 months.  Would Arthur still need the VC assistance?   Naw.  You are right with your 3s.  


     4.  Why is God so unfair?  Why are there rich and poor people

         A poor man watched in despair as he stood drenched in sweat after struggling with hot afternoon sun as he stook in a sidewalk selling fruits.

        He despaired why God is so unfair why there are billionaires and poor people like him.

        The only help he prayed to God (as socialist often do) is to make the rich poor -  ie redistribute their wealth.   He thus made the billionaire poor and gave the
        poor man and the rich man each   30 oranges to sell

        The poor man

        The poor man did not bother to clean his oranges and sold @$1.00 each.  He sold the 30 for   $30.00 .  He kept the $`10 and for the $20.00 he went on
        an eating binge  The following day, he had nothing to sell.  He was still poor

          The billionaire

          1.  He cleaned the oranges and  and arranged them well.

         2.  He made differential pricing

                 5 at $0.85          $4.25  small

               15 x 2.00             30.00 big
     
              10 x 1.00               10.00

               Total sales            $44. 25

          He earned P$14.25 more than the poor man

              3.  The following day, he was able to buy 60 oranges and had to hire school boy to man the new outlet//

              4.  THe following day he added more inventories and increased another outlet

              5.  On the 5th day, he consigned some oranges at some supermarkets 

            On the fifth day the poor man was still poor the rich man is on his way back to becoming a billionaire.   So do you wonder some people remain poor?

       5.  Bankrupt coffee shop employing free coffee strategy

            A coffee shop was visited by a billionaire one day.   The day was not busy and no one visited the coffee shop  Coffee was priced at $6.00 each which
            was rather steep and stiff

          The billionaire suggested  give away coffee  What the coffee shop owner squawked.  "This would bankrupt me

          And so the coffee shop owner sold coffee FREE   Lines formed at his coffee shop.  He noticed though that 40% of the coffee drinkers were not free loaders
          they bought on the average $4,000 of coffee beans, pastries, bread, sandwiches  which for 400 paying coffee drinkers was at $1,600 / day x 30.   Not bad for
          a free coffee promo

        This is an example of business model.  The source of revenue is not the obvious product.  What is essential is not visible to the naked eye (The Little Prince)

      6.  A ghost product/pricing points to push sale of the desired product


        It was noticed that when pricing was  $3.00  for small and P6.00  (for big)sales was low.    But when the price was $5,50 and $6.  00 for big.  Sales for the $6.00 j          umped up  ?  Why its psychology.  The $6.00 was double the value

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