It sounds like you have competing goals. Is it really “getting rich” that you want, which is arbitrary, or is it happiness, which is an emotion? You need to take a break, do a little retreat with yourself, and reprioritize so that everything starts with your “why,” as Simon Sinek says. You shouldn’t be getting rich for the sake of getting rich, that’s not a real goal. Why are you really getting rich? Is it to afford yourself things that make you happy? Is it to provide for your family? If the only reason you’re getting rich is just to get rich, for status or other external validation, you need to take a step back and think about what it is that YOU really want, not what you think other people want or what other people told you that you should want. Do you really want to just continue amassing bits of paper, metal, and electrons somewhere in the “cloud,” is that really your “dream”? Or is your dream being surrounded by people who you care about and who care about you, doing things you all enjoy together?

I guess you misread my comment entirely. I used the word “arbitrary” several times. It makes no difference if your goal be “10M+” or trillions, that’s entirely besides the point. And assuming that the world is just waiting and begging for you, of all people, to rise and invest and make the world a better place… Seriously… That’s one heck of a savior syndrome case you’ve got going on, not to mention just arrogance in general. If you want to make the world a better place, just do it. Saying someone else has trillions so excusing yourself of amassing billions or millions as “not being that bad,” what a joke. You yourself attempt so much to hide behind a mask of arbitrary ideals you’ve picked up from here or there, and yet all the while have no clue who or what you are.

Just curious, but why do you seem to arbitrarily correlate “10M+” with “making it big”? The average American spends about $3 to $4 million over the course of their entire lifetime. Most people aspire just to fulfill that budget and give themselves an ample runway for retirement. What would be the need to grossly exceed that lifetime budget more than twofold year over year?

I mean, frankly speaking, the amount of waste we’re talking about here is just of incredible proportions. Where do you think the money you aim to accumulate is coming from? The more you arbitrarily accumulate, the more you take out of circulation for someone else and contribute to the ever widening economic gaps. Do you just have some arbitrary rich old guy as a role model for your life or what? Dude, just live your own life and be happy lol. You don’t need to sentence the rest of the planet to death just because you want to be supreme ruler or whatever lol.

I don’t really care too much for A, personally, as putting the monetary figure to it seems too arbitrary for someone who would claim to be a professional accountant. But if you take it slow, build your book of business based on the resources you have at any given time, don’t overextend yourself, and grow incrementally over time, you can definitely still build a relatively successful business by most standards even in today’s landscape.

This happened to a co-founder I had, ended up having a kid. Literally sent me and the rest of the small team we had a video message in tears. He really wanted to make it work, but he just couldn’t, and nobody could blame him, and he went back to work in marketing at some corporate somewhere. We literally started up at the beginning of 2020, right before anyone knew COVID was going to be a “thing,” and everything was smooth sailing for us, while we watched everyone else’s businesses around us burn. But yeah, our Achilles’ heel ended up being a newborn and not COVID, as crazy as that might seem in retrospect.

I’m sure the OP would not have highlighted that she is “26F” without reason. Clearly, she is looking for an OnlyFans type money tree, otherwise I’m not sure how age and gender would be relevant.

Dude, get your shit together. The goal and pride of any entrepreneur should be building a successful business, not having a crazy schedule. Take some time, go mountain climbing, whatever, then get back to work and get your head in the game. Learn how to prioritize, use productivity tools, get an organizational consultant. As an entrepreneur, seek business success, not adrenaline.

OMFG, Sam Altman has totally ruined his career. Nobody is going to want to hire him after toying with Microsoft just to use it as leverage to get everyone at OpenAI to get a cult-like following behind him and send in their little petitions. It’s cool when people respect you, but you don’t toy with someone’s business just for your own agenda like that, especially if you’re gunning for an exec role like he is. Totally unprofessional and childish.

I have to agree with this. It sounds like you’re well positioned to just bootstrap it.

In the way of manufacturing, I might use Fiverr to hire someone for little more than manufacturing hemp bracelets. Beyond that, I can’t even conceive of how you even came about with the idea of using Fiverr to search for a manufacturer.

I prefer Android devices that were NOT manufactured in China. Chinese vendors will embed a lot of BS onto chips that you can’t even get out of a rooted device. The reason why I favor Android is because it’s much more conducive to the open-source ecosystem and you can readily get apps, like firewall apps and such, that will block all of the BS Google traffic. I am actually a developer, so I even do custom builds of open-source apps myself for mission-critical functions just to be extra cautious. But really, good network security is multi-factor/multi-layered. So, it’s securing everything from your browser itself, your operating system, and then securing the network you’re connected to, as well.

Is Apple ethically better?

You’re asking if the company that employed cheap Chinese child labor for years to build their products right up until mainstream media started making a deal out of it is ethical? The same company that you could not even buy a standard power cable for at a normal store, but had to go to a registered Apple reseller just to get a power cable? That’s the “ethical” company you’re referring to?

Nothing on the internet is “secure enough for the US government for top secret clearances.” Not even secret, for that matter. Only traffic classified as confidential traverses the public internet. Everything secret and above traverses a network which is entirely physically separate from the internet, meaning an internal network of government owned network devices which don’t touch the public internet at all. I can tell you this from experience.

Diplomacy (“The Game of Diplomacy”) has been favored by many famous strategists and political leaders, but I think the principles transfer well to business, as well. I mean, at its core, poker does, as well, and is a brilliant way to exercise in risk management. But Diplomacy lends itself to be far more enjoyable, in my view, due to its added complexities and deal-making, etc.

both the ideas are easy to implement and it won’t take more than a couple of days to develop the website/app and get it running.

I’m always astonished when people who say they aren’t coders give such a detailed estimate for the complexity and build time of a project. In my experience, this is usually just to butter someone up in order to give an upfront fixed payment based on that estimate, which the OP would admittedly have absolutely no clue if it’s even in the ballpark or not.

The saying “fake it until you make it” gets thrown around a lot in business, but unfortunately newbies have no clue what it actually means. It’s actually just talking about overcoming self-doubt and imposter syndrome and just being the thing you want to be, rather than always feeling like you’re just looking at things from the outside. It’s talking about a mindset shift to overcome limiting beliefs and improve confidence. However, newbies take it to mean you literally fake everything, AKA lie, which it absolutely does not mean at all.

On the contrary, honesty, especially with yourself, will always pave the way forward for the best business outcomes. Stroking your own ego, searching for echo chambers, and confirming your own biases might make you feel good, but it doesn’t do anything to help you build a successful business. You need to be real with yourself about your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Otherwise, you’re just throwing a veil over your eyes and living in ignorant bliss while your business is run to shambles.

I think you need to work on your value proposition. If you make a “coffee substitute,” most people would think that means it’s “healthier” and caffeine-free. But if you’re just adding caffeine, what’s really the point of getting a “substitute” at all? If people want “weaker” or “healthier” coffee, usually they just turn to black tea at that point.

I’m just going off of the pitch you’re giving us here. Are there added health benefits other than what I talked about? If so, you need to add that to your value prop and focus more heavily on that so people don’t start off with the wrong expectations out of the gate. To be honest, I think you might need to workshop even calling it a “coffee substitute,” and rather just call it something else so it’s not positioned as if it’s competing with coffee. You have to think that if you position it like that, the SEO is going to attract a lot of coffee lovers looking for a “substitute.” But you have to think about the reasons why they are looking for a substitute, which are usually health-related and it doesn’t seem like your product even tries to compete on that front. Your product might have extra stuff coffee doesn’t, but that’s not really improving the situation for people that are trying to cut down entirely. In that case, they might just think they can drink your product along with coffee. So, really, you might think about positioning it as a product that goes well with coffee and tea, rather than competes with them, which is what “substitute” suggests.

ChatGPT or not, NFTs are still a very viable option if you get hooked into the communities and network a bit. It’s not really the NFT they’re buying, they’re buying into the story of its creator. I mean, let’s be honest, most NFTs that sell for millions are just shit pixel art. But as the creator, if you make really expressive videos explaining your art process and convey how serious you are for the art, you are much more likely to actually sell something because whoever watches it will buy into you, and that’s what you really need to sell.