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Monday, November 1, 2021

Recycling/Unlocking/Hacking Devices for Fun and Profit, Random Stuff, and More

- there's a lot of discussion about saving the environment and re-use but in reality it often skims the surface. Moreover, in reality, a lot of the time waste is getting sent overseas but effectively dumped or burnt instead of being recycled. We'll look at some local options here:
How do we sort out Australia's waste problem _ ABC News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5XJyaRohys
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/10/is-world-in-environmental-trouble.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/03/prophetsgenesisterraforming-mars-seek.html
fake recycling
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/10/5-recycling-myths-busted-plastic/
Or, at least, that's how it used to work. Then, on the first day of 2018, China, the world's largest market for recycled waste, essentially shut its doors. Under its National Sword policy, China prohibited 24 types of waste from entering the country, arguing that what was coming in was too contaminated. The policy shift was partly attributed to the impact of a documentary, Plastic China, which went viral before censors erased it from China's internet. The film follows a family working in the country's recycling industry, where humans pick through vast dunes of western waste, shredding and melting salvageable plastic into pellets that can be sold to manufacturers. It is filthy, polluting work – and badly paid. The remainder is often burned in the open air. The family lives alongside the sorting machine, their 11-year-old daughter playing with a Barbie pulled from the rubbish.
For recyclers such as Smith, National Sword was a huge blow. "The price of cardboard has probably halved in the last 12 months," he says. "The price of plastics has plummeted to the extent that it isn't worth recycling. If China doesn't take plastic, we can't sell it." Still, that waste has to go somewhere. The UK, like most developed nations, produces more waste than it can process at home: 230m tonnes a year – about 1.1kg per person per day. (The US, the world's most wasteful nation, produces 2kg per person per day.) Quickly, the market began flooding any country that would take the trash: Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, countries with some of the world's highest rates of what researchers call "waste mismanagement" – rubbish left or burned in open landfills, illegal sites or facilities with inadequate reporting, making its final fate difficult to trace.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/29/climate/recycling-landfills-plastic-papers.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
- I obviously play around with lots of electronics. There's often heaps of interesting stuff you can learn or extract from them. Teardown/schematics pictures are often available on the Internet for many devices but a lot of the time you can get away without them provided you are careful
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/04/hp-4520s-laptop-teardown-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2011/04/apple-ibook-g4-logicboard-fixes.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2010/10/asus-1005p-disassembly.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2010/07/replacing-lcd-on-toshiba-nb200.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/02/laptop-thermal-design-convergence-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/05/fujitsu-stylistic-st4120-recovery.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2011/10/nvidia-laptop-graphics-chip-repair.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/03/laptop-hacking-and-hardware-workarounds.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/08/apple-icloud-device-locking-and-general.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/03/repairing-laptop-power-bricks.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2011/08/unlocking-your-phonemodem.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/08/apple-icloud-device-locking-and-general.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/07/ableton-and-ableton-push-hacking.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/09/windows-and-android-arent-that_5901.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/08/funky-firmware.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/07/if-only-reading-were-easier.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2011/11/playing-with-android.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/06/repairing-musical-instrumentselectrical.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/06/custom-midi-hardware-and-software.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/12/network-traffic-analysis-laptop-power.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2013/02/laptop-thermal-design-convergence-and.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/10/more-security-oscilloscope-and-wireless_6750.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2011/11/hp-pavilion-dv2000-laptop-troubles.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/11/lost-dell-recovery-disc-youtube.html
- over time, I've figured out that very few companies custom design chips or software now. Most of them take a standard architecture, modify it, rebrand, and re-sell at a hefty markup. When/if you can unlock you can often get a cheap/free computer out of it
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/07/if-only-reading-were-easier.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/02/living-without-google-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-big-5-us-it-firms-arent-unbeatable.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2021/01/how-elite-maintain-power-random-stuff.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/10/more-security-oscilloscope-and-wireless_6750.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/09/automated-research-and-some-more_18.html
- anything that looks or functions remotely like a computer (such as set top boxes) are often a great source of spare parts. To keep manufacturing/production costs down it's obvious a lot of companies use standardised parts and protocols. The obvious problem is getting your hands on such hardware. Set top box, game consoles, musical instruments, routers, etc... often good targets
telstra tbox teardown
Telstra Bigpond T-Box dismantle....to save 320gig HARD-DRIVE...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9kzliKV5bo
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/2010+Telstra+t-box+Teardown/125657
https://infocon.org/skills/iFixit/2010%20Telstra%20t-box%20Teardown.pdf
cisco router teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Cisco+878+Integrated+Services+Router+Teardown/76299
foxtel iq4 teardown
LOOK INSIDE A FOTEL /AUSTAR BOX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEj0pe9Y9Cw
Telstra TV2 roku
https://www.telstra.com.au/aboutus/media/media-releases/telstra-announces-partnership-with-roku-to-launch-telstra-tv-streaming-service
https://www.comparetv.com.au/review/telstra-tv-roku-box-review/
telstra thub 2 use tablet only
Hi Sarahj4450,
I grabbed one of the T-Hub 2 tablets from our test bench here and returned it to factory default settings. From the screen where it asks you to start the setup process I held down the volume down button while I dragged my finger in a Z formation across the corners of the tablet.
This seems to have bypassed the setup and allowed me to access the main interface. From here, I was able to get into settings and configure the Wi-Fi settings.
- Shelly
https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/t-hub/t-hub-2-without-base/td-p/685740
telstra thub2 use as android tablet without base station
https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/t-hub/skipping-the-installation-wizard-on-the-t-hub-2/m-p/340955
https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/t-hub/install-t-hub-without-the-base-or-modem/td-p/554979
xbox teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Xbox+Disassembly/1308
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Xbox+Series+X+Teardown/138451
playstation teardown
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/PlayStation+5+Teardown/138280
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Sony+PlayStation+Teardown/128089
- graphics calculators, eBook readers, embedded devices in general are often a great source of interest for hacking because they're often used in school and kids need to blow off some steam or are just plain curious
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2012/08/funky-firmware.html
https://knightos.org/download/
https://education.ti.com/en/products/computer-software/ti-connect-sw
https://education.ti.com/en/downloads
http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilp/index.html
- phones are interesting for a bunch of reasons. A lot of telecommunications providers are network compatible which means you may not have to unlock. That said, the process of unlocking for full network capabilities is pretty interesting. I've been finding that at least some of them don't run checks for network time usage which means that if you have an old SIM card you may be able to unlock your device immediately and for free?
vodafone unlock
https://unlock.vodafone.com.au/
https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Guides/how-to-unlock-your-phone-from-vodafone
unlock optus unlock
https://www.reviews.org/au/mobile/unlock-optus-phone/
https://secure-unlock.com.au/ou/instructions
https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Guides/unlock-phone-from-Optus
https://whatphone.com.au/optus/how-to-unlock-optus-phone/
telstra phone unlock
https://www.finder.com.au/how-to-unlock-telstra-phone
https://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Guides/How-To-Unlock-Telstra-Phone
https://www.reviews.org/au/mobile/unlock-telstra-phone/
- scrapping cars looks really interesting but is obviously a capital intensive sector to deal. You need tools, tow cars, expertise, garages, etc... It's not really something your "Average Joe" can do unless people literally give you "free cars" and parts?
Here's How Much it will Cost to Fix my 100,000 Mile V12 Ferrari that hasn't been Serviced in YEARS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBaBVt_ruEg
Here's What FINALLY Fixed my Cheap Salvage Ferrari!!! (EVERY Ferrari 360's Fatal Flaw)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBe6QWTk9U
Was my Repo'd BMW Supercar Sabotaged to make it Impossible to Repair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijDj17kcIqw
We FIXED the Blown Head Gasket in my BMW i8 WITHOUT Spending $10,000 at the Dealer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXUtBGOVW0
My Salvage Ferrari Ran for only 5 Miles after Spending Over $14,000 in Repairs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUZa7PrTCWQ
Aston Martin Wanted $4,000 for a Clutch, Here's how I Easily Sourced One for $400 (You Can Too)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMP5twe-GO4
I Found $4,000 in Parts DESTROYED on my Repo Aston Martin after Pulling its Transmission!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5YyVJ1ZMI4
Will the $400 Clutch Replacement Fix my Cheap Aston Martin? (Paid 50% off at Auction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9OMYRoDwQw
We turned this Broken, Old & FREE BMW into $85,000 (extremely rare)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCiiRIDfsNU
I Fixed my MISDIAGNOSED BMW M3 for FREE in Less than an Hour! One Wire Caused a MAJOR ISSUE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfiOIYWuvsI
This Near NEW $75,000 Porsche was Sitting at a Salvage Auction! Here's Why It Sold Extremely Cheap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIasNWJ-ThQ
Someone TAMPERED with our $1,000 MINI Cooper at Auction! Can a $50 Hack Bring it Back to Life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pTbjtp9NVw
I Bought my Friend a STOLEN, Crashed, and DEAD Turbo VW for Christmas. He Loved It!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp0B1OqsGNA
My Review of Engine Oil Stop Leak "Reseal" on my Ferrari 360
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHloRVnK4XM
One $30 Part on my Ferrari FAILED and Destroyed Everything! It's now $6,000 to Repair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo9yjK40QRA
The Ferrari Dealer wanted $8,000 to Replace my Clutch; here's how I did it at home for $1,200
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmnMZ0erRb8
Buying a Cheap Ferrari Ruined My Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVkAqhQU5kI
Rebuilding FLOODED Ferrari 458 with MY SON - CAR STARTS!!!
Finally Bought EXOTIC CAR All For Myself - SURPRISINGLY VERY CHEAP!!
Real Life Exotics
Ultimate Rebuilds
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ_k8gy_lIKxu3yipRwDvIg/videos
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tesla+repair
Tesla wanted $16,000 to fix this NEW Model 3, we did it for $700! The importance of Right to REPAIR!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVSw3KSevEc
The TRUTH about the $22,500 Tesla battery repair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Asig9PuZ5XY
https://www.youtube.com/c/RichRebuilds/videos
Tesla Model S Main Battery Repair | Gruber Motors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-B_8oMZNeI
Gruber Motor Company
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRHl8tpECei0UkoZfLE2hw/videos
The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGFiaWvD-KI
The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdUqQZC2dcE
https://www.youtube.com/c/TwoBitdaVinci/videos
We Bought 3 Cheap Ferraris For The Price Of A Toyota Camry - Car Trek S4E1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmwIdGUb3qY
Here's How Fast (OR SLOW) Our Cheap Ferraris ACTUALLY Are - Car Trek S4E2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJZVyoWS9fU
I Bought A Fast And Furious Eclipse For $500 (And It's MUCH WORSE THAN YOU THINK)
https://www.youtube.com/c/tavarish/videos
I Bought an Abandoned Ferrari 512 BBi Sat Outside Rotting for 12 Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bow2NbNeLgU
Ferrari 512BBi First Wash in 12 years. Only 6420 Miles - AMMO NYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FbOEzDjz-A
https://www.youtube.com/c/Ratarossa/videos
Rebuilding a salvage NISSAN GTR in 10 minutes
- you can make some money from rummaging through garbage. Not easy and you need a lot of space though?
scrapping garbage china billionaire
China's 'Queen of Trash' finds riches in waste paper - Business - International Herald Tribune
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/business/worldbusiness/15iht-trash.4211783.html
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-10/20/content_713250.htm
- modern batteries can actually be repaired/have their life extended by adding water, Epsom Salt, Inox, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sla+battery+recycle
Sealed Lead Acid Battery Recovery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JIzSxqWids
How to Revive a dead 12V Sealed Lead Acid Battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l59knYW8rg
- when all else fails you can often resort to scrap metal recycling. Extracting raw metals isn't as easy as you think and the amounts you're dealing with means the economics sort of don't make sense. The only way it works out is if you happen to have free or cheap chemicals nearby. Don't expect to gain all that much from metal recyclers. Most of the time you should only expect only to recover costs of the project if it hits that point
extract gold pcb
https://www.instructables.com/How-To-Extract-Gold-From-Electronics/
https://www.instructables.com/Gold-recovery/
- fixing/scrapping mowers sounds simple but in reality requires space, time, parts, etc... In reality, they're also commodities so unless you can get them extremely cheaply or free you can't make much money from them
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/servicingfixing-my-briggs-and-stratton.html
- figured out what people do with scrap cars, scrap computers, scrap batteries, etc... now. Note, that a lot of companies take counter measures to stop people repairing their own goods so be aware you may void your warranty if you attempt to "self repair". Note that a lot of devices are cheaper to replace then fix now?
apple ban repair
tesla ban repair
https://www.thedrive.com/news/41493/teslas-16000-quote-for-a-700-fix-is-why-right-to-repair-matters
- personally, I like thinking about what can be recycled around the home. Biofuels aren't that difficult to produce and shredded paper can often be used as mulch/boost compost. You can sometimes dissolve/convert some substances into something useful if you can find a suitable solvent
If you want to experiment with liquification you may want to try acetone?
https://www.thoughtco.com/dissolving-styrofoam-in-acetone-608924
https://www.ausetute.com.au/polystyrene.html
Suprised at how funny/cool the process actually is? Apparently, you can turn the final product into a firelighter style product or plastic that you can saw, shape, sand, drill, etc...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=melting+polystyrene
Dissolving Styrofoam With Acetone Experiment (Making Slime With Styrofoam And Acetone)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrnFpb8hhrQ
Recycling Polystyrene. Plastic Forming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NefRPyMegXs
- to find goods to scrap you're best targets are larger organisations where they make more money when replacing then attempting to repair, people who are feckless/too lazy to repair, etc...

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- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services
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Random Quotes:
- Mason concluded, "The first exoplanet [a planet outside our solar system] was found in 1992. Even if we thought we had a way to get someone to another planet, we didn't have any planets to go to.
"Now we have several hundred that are in the inhabitable zone. It's a really unprecedented time of genetics and astronomy coming together – we know what's needed to survive on another planet, and we know where we can go."
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/530379-dna-astronomy-connection-book-mason/
All in all, AP identified at least six sexual misconduct allegations involving senior FBI officials over the past five years. What's more, the media outlet found that each of the accused FBI officials seemed to have avoided discipline being "quietly transferred or retired" and kept their "full pensions and benefits even when probes substantiated the sexual misconduct claims against them." Some of AP's reported incidents were later picked by IG Horowitz for further investigation. In April 2021, the inspector general confirmed the media outlet's findings in his report.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202107281083479476-ill-be-your-sexual-freak-fbi-agents-harassing-colleagues-abusing-minors--boozing-while-on-duty/
- It seems like the US uses The Netherlands as a tool to keep Germany and France from any initiatives to improve the EU's relationship with Russia. Founder of the US think tank Stratfor George Friedman once explained: an alliance between Germany and Russia would be a threat to US dominance. "For centuries", the US has tried to prevent this from happening, he said.
In 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, then-US Senator and later President Harry Truman said: "If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible".
https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202106281083259438-dutch-servitude-to-the-us-explained/
Kraft said a dominant adult male might catch and eat more than 30 fish a day and weigh over 1,000lb by the time winter comes. "When you look at how much weight bears need to gain to survive six months of famine, you can't help but cheer them on," she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/oct/03/fat-bear-week-alaska
- The beagle research first came to light in August, when a watchdog group obtained government documents on the program. The group alleged such details as researchers drugging pups and locking their heads in mesh cages so hungry sand flies could infect them with disease-causing parasites by devouring their faces.
"I cannot believe American tax dollars would go to treat those dogs the way those dogs are treated, and you know, I really think Fauci needs to be held accountable," DeSantis said. "These people, these bureaucrats, they don't get to just run wild and do whatever the hell they want to with our tax dollars."
https://www.rt.com/usa/538445-desantis-fauci-mad-scientist/
The United States is still continuing its "massive cover-up" over the September 11, 2001 attacks in order to hide its own failures and to use the incident as a pretext to launch and justify wars in the Middle East, says a prominent American peace activist and FBI whistleblower.
Coleen Rowley, a former FBI special agent and division counsel, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday, after US President Joe Biden directed the Justice Department and other agencies to review and release certain documents related to the FBI's investigation of the 9/11 that killed thousands of Americans.
The documents reportedly contain evidence of Saudi involvement in the strikes.
"I think there has been a massive cover-up about 9/11 for these last 20 years for a whole range of reasons including US government officials wanting to use 9/11 as a pretext to launch wars and government destabilization operations in the Mid-East as well as to protect their relationship with certain members of the Saudi Government (aka the Royal Family)," Rowley said.
"Officials also wanted to keep secret all kinds of wrongful and unethical actions (to include having instituted illegal torture programs) as well as committing other government mistakes and failures that are embarrassing to US officials," she added.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/09/09/666163/US-9-11-attacks-Biden-FBI-documents-cover-up-investigation
- Whether it's building kingdoms by way of aggression, war and plunder or the modern enslavement of people by financial institutions, there's a genuine case to be made that imperialism is caused by the power of evil.
Are Empires demonic entities? The British Empire was invented by magician John Dee – a well-documented fact. He came up with the phrase and suggested it to Queen Elizabeth I. The story goes that he had conjured up a demon who inspired that imperial vision. Not bloody likely, of course, but the link between the demonic – the power of evil – and imperialism seems well-grounded.
My favourite historian, AJP Taylor, has written that the British imperialists overseas emulated Attila and his Huns. In North America, the British exterminated the native inhabitants… just as they had earlier striven to exterminate the natives of Ireland. "No Empire has marched forward with more savagery...they followed a simple rule: the only good Indian is a dead Indian." Verily, a formulation worthy of a demon.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/535107-imperialism-caused-by-power-evil/
- Great ape fellatio may seem unorthodox, but it's really not. Oral sex is actually fairly common throughout the animal kingdom with sightings of species ranging from cheetahs to bears and bats engaging in the salacious act, the BBC has reported.
In fact, many species engage in sex for pleasure. Bonobos — also known as hippie apes — have infamously kinky sex lives.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/bronx-zoo-onlookers-shocked-by-gorilla-sex-show/news-story/8e1f0c1d449f08f1e1bb4e91faa765fe
- "Their playful nature was a reminder to the world of how much we see ourselves in these animals and it's one of the reasons Andre Bauma will miss her so dearly," park officials said.
A photo shows Bauma holding Ndakasi during her final moments. The gorilla's head rests on his chest in the sombre shot.
"It was a privilege to support and care for such a loving creature, especially knowing the trauma Ndakasi suffered at a very young age," Bouma said in a statement. "It was Ndakasi's sweet nature and intelligence that helped me to understand the connection between humans and great apes and why we should do everything in our power to protect them."
Bouma said he loved Ndakasi "like a child" and cherished her "cheerful personality" in the face of her traumatic past.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/female-gorilla-in-viral-2019-selfie-dies-in-arms-of-lifelong-friend/news-story/8bfa89c8a3ff9a42748d4f14d6ab198c
- How to start from scratch and hit $10k MRR (9 steps)
On indiehackers only 6% off all startups listed have crossed $10kMRR
That success rate might scare many but its purely because more startups start with "product" first and distribution second
Reverse that order and you'll almost always succeed. Say what you want, a superior growth plan beats a superior product.
We've managed to repeat this process for a few companies and ourselves so i thought i'd take the time to break it down here.
1) Get an idea or borrow one
Shorten your time to product market fit, as much as you can. Chase validation signals at every step of the way
2) Find out 2 things people are complaining about
Most startups these days are just enhanced versions of other startups
3) Find out where people are buying and looking for answers
Knowing where decisions are made is fundamental to your acquisition cycle
4) Sell in places where a crowd is
If acquisition is handled you can focus on building a better product
5) No code website + basic concept to get your initial traction and messaging going
Rapid iteration, stop being attached to an idea and instead stick to the problem
6) Partner with tech person + freelancer to build first version of product
Build the first version once you've got everything above sorted out
7) Offer free tools for marketing as easy way to attract leads + share with influencers
Veed, Kapwing, Zillow are grew to be multi million dollar businesses using this startegy
😎 Find ways to make your product visible
Invinsible products are harder to sell, try find ways to reduce CAC as you grow
9) Dominate SEO, search is very powerful - focus on pain point content creation
Search, IMO is the most sustainable and stable way to build a 8 figure brand
Full video walking through the entire process if you're keen!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ghcmn0Nes
https://www.facebook.com/groups/sydneystartups
- The President's tirade in Latin at the end loosely translates as: "Thank you, Lord. Am I to believe these things from a righteous God, a just God, a wise God? To hell with your punishments! I was your servant, your messenger on the earth; I did my duty.
"The West Wing" Two Cathedrals (TV Episode 2001) - Trivia
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745721/trivia

Market Consolidation/Neo-Feudalism, Random Stuff, and More

- it never occured to me until recently how consolidated things in the world were in the global market place. In this post we'll take a ...