I don’t. I know every industry is different but I deal in a few and business has overall trended downward for most people.

That being said I know Costco has been doing record numbers so big money is still being spent at places.

Yes. People ask for mine all the time. A lot of people may not even keep them but if someone asks it’s always better to have one than explain why you don’t.

Even if the practicality is taken out of them, there is still a use as a business formality.

If someone wants to help others with their story or brag I’m ok with it. Just don’t link your fking blog or some shit because then I won’t read it. That’s where it starts to look scammy and predatory.

I had a job doing something similar and I was really good at it.

It fills a craving for something sweet you can drink. The “problem” it solves does not need to be taken so literally, otherwise you’ll just horse dance into bullshit answers like “it solves boredom”. Businesses can fulfill wants and needs. Problems are usually found in the needs category. Drinking Coke is a want.

Honestly I think there are certain “stages” that some people need to go through in their entrepreneurial journey, and the “hustle porn” stage might be one of them.

Hustle porn really helped develop my work ethic and I know a lot of other people personally who have benefited from it as well. That being said, it also did make me work a bit too hard on things I regret.

It sucks bro, but you really just have to detach yourself from other people’s opinions. Their thoughts are their own, you can’t change them. You can try, but it’s ultimately a fruitless endeavor. Even if you were a success there’s no guarantee they would hold you in high regard, it’s just your self-opinion of yourself would allow you to not care because you felt you had accomplished something greater than their opinion’s worth.

C) What I’m able to sell.

There’s lots of things people want to buy, but I either can’t crack into that market (mostly due to economies of scale) or they don’t want to buy it from me (strong existing supplier relations). So I sell what I’m able to sell. I find niches where I can gain a significant enough advantage that I can profit.

When we first started we just did a partnership but I would always advise to go straight to incorporating. It’s cheap and significantly less personal risk. There’s really no reason not to do it.

I can’t really recall why it took so long for us to incorporate but we were just young kids so either laziness or ignorance.

That being said one advantage to not being incorporated that I didn’t realize until long after was that people were giving us credit terms easily despite being a new company with no track record since we had to personally guarantee it all haha.

It works. My family used to go to DoubleTree’s we didn’t even stay at when on vacation just to get the cookies. And we always asked for a shit ton too. Never rejected and never asked us for proof that we stayed there.

20+ years later I am still telling people about how we used to freeload their cookies. I even told this story to my girlfriend just last month.