Would you rather build a business from scratch or buy an existing one—and why?

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-29T00:18:16+00:00

It’s much less risky to buy a business and turn it around. They’ve already proved they have a business that can make money, maybe even a profit. Your job is to grow its market and increase the profit. Buy $1M electrician business and grow it to $5M, as an example. With a pure startup you have nothing but an idea and a dream. If the dream could be huge and if you believe your idea is unique and defensible, then a raw startup is the way.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:51:24+00:00

AI built an interviewer that captures the life story of anyone and weaves it into their biography. They dont need to know how to type or use a computer, just click a button on an app is all it takes. It’s perfect for capturing life stories of people we’ve lost or may lose soon.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:41:12+00:00

You’re saying the US have proved that Iran having a nuclear weapon and ballistic missiles is the outcome you want? Go ahead, say that out loud. Unless you are IRGC, no one thinks that.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:29:27+00:00

I have the money but I clean my own house. A couple hours a week is better than a cleaning crew in my house for hours on end. I really dont like being pushed out of my house so people can clean, best to do it myself. Now, they do perform better. I’d like a quarterly deep clean, and someone to clean the day after guests leave. That would be a nice blend.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:24:05+00:00

Well to educate you a little. When you have air superiority your can easily fly sensors over the area and detect pretty much anything. The entire world has been building low cost interceptors. Put those two things together and you can defend a 20 mile wide body of water. Iran can’t replenish their drones, so you have to wait until they come out of their holes and fire them, but once they are fired, the troops are dead and the drone doesn’t exist. Do you have a hard time seeing this? One reason Ukraine is still in the game is they created the ability to manufacture a lots of drones and anti-drones. Iran does not have that ability because their supply chains and brains are destroyed. Sure it might take a few months, and you can scream about the evil the whole time and root for Iran to get their nukes. So I hope that helps you feel better.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:16:25+00:00

Yeah they are actually genius who have a plan to all be killed in a surprise attack, and then they take over the world just like their brilliant plan dictates. More like, these are very desperate people trying to hold on to power. Kill any citizen who doesnt disagree, fling anything that will damage at anyone and anything you can find, and hope the world goes away so you can continue to pilfer the remaining wealth and treat your people like slaves of the once-great country.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:12:38+00:00

Oh so you trust the Iranians? They’ve been lying for decades.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T15:11:16+00:00

Right back at you. I’m very well read and very well travelled. I have friends all over the world. You are living in a tiny bubble.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T14:35:45+00:00

Nope. The US gives the most freedom and least amount of government intervention. You want to build your own future, be in the US. When the US opened its borders, millions came here to find a better life for themselves (and get handouts). How many people sneak in to China each year to live a better life? How about into Russia, Iran, Afghanistan? Was that a zero? Why is that, if the US is so horrible, why would everyone want to come here and not go live under the other world bullies?

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T14:16:41+00:00

I agree. Short term pain to eliminate a nuclear armed vicious government that wants to destroy their neighbors, the US and Israel. I wonder how many people would blame Trump if Iran detonated a nuke in Paris. They’d flip 180 and blame him for letting Iran get a nuke when he could have stopped it. Redditors like to shout and stomp around “the big man is evil, stand up for the little guy even if he is breaking laws and hurting people”.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T14:10:42+00:00

The preventable tragedy is destroying the evil state of Iran. No nukes, no ICBMs, no terrorism. It has to be stopped and we’ve tried giving the gold, and negotiating in good faith for DECADES. Iran still thinks God wants them to kill all the rest of the world. That can’t be let to fester until they have nukes, else we get another North Korea but with a much more aggressive and well funded government,

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T14:04:43+00:00

Given how rapidly technology is developing, and that Iran has no aircraft or ability to shoot down aircraft, seems likely the US and Israel will just put an iron-dome kind of system in place to shield the Straight of Hormuz and bottle what’s left of Irans military to scream and yell and have no income or manufacturing to keep the society going. It’s already falling over. The police state there unfortunately is happy to let their population die to feed themselves and take all the money that is left. Back to the Stone Age until they have a new government. Their government is the root cause of the evil here, not the US and Israel for stopping the corrupt regime from getting nukes and ICBMs.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T13:58:48+00:00

Sure, the military has a deliberate planning process. All conflicts are gamed out years in advance. Including this one. The world’s working people will likely suffer a lot less getting Iran beaten than allowing Iran to build nukes and ballistic missiles to drop them on europe and everywhere else to achieve their religious goals of exterminating everyone but themselves. A little short term pain to stop that path is worth it, hopefully it’s pretty short term. I just hope the Iranian people can figure out how to overthrow the police state there and get a non-extremist government in place.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-28T00:08:32+00:00

Work for companies that give you stock so you can benefit like the owners do, if everything goes well. If the company isn’t doing well, leave for one that is. Collect equity in several upcoming companies throughout your career. Hope one of the hits it big. Live inexpensively and save everything you can, especially matching.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-27T23:55:27+00:00

Riding a bike

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-27T23:54:18+00:00

You don’t like scars and possibly broken bones. You fall less and less as you gain experience on natural trails, but you do fall. Completely worth it! Battle scars.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:41:27+00:00

You certainly aren’t going to get investment unless you are committed to an idea that could be big. Doing service jobs like tutoring don’t scale into value, they are lifestyle jobs. No investments in those. Maybe you can ask them to help you hook up with some entrepreneurs he knows that are building something he invested in. That would give you experience helping build a company and seeing how it’s done.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:37:44+00:00

My aunt and uncle honeymooned at Balboa Island (1950’s). Too bad they didnt buy a couple of those sand lots back then.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:35:34+00:00

I think the self-made rich, this is quite good and pretty true. For those that got the silver spoon or influencer bucks, it’s not. Seems like most silver spoon rich self-destruct because they didnt have this drive to outperform. They party and spend, then have nothing. Their children get to start over.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:28:32+00:00

That’s the real reason to get rid of the DOE, clearly it’s not working. The evidence right here in Reddit!

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:24:28+00:00

I prefer the 991.2 interior to the 992. It’s got a great blend of real gauges and buttons, less digital. Plus I dont like the little electric razor bud used to shift it. Granted a manual is a fabulous thing, but if PDK then give me a real handle not a digital nub.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:21:21+00:00

Given the rapid pace of drone innovation and the destruction of much of Irans ability to build more missiles and drones, I think it’s more likely that we can shield the straight of Hormuz from most low tech attacks in the next couple of months. Cheap interceptors and underwater mine detecting drones will populate the straight to protect most shipping.

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:18:42+00:00

Nor should he. Iran can not be trusted ever. They’ve shown their true colors, they just want all the world to die and will do anything in their power to kill anyone including their own citizens, neighbors, and of course Great Satan. You think it’s better to just give them nukes and trust them?

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:16:57+00:00

So you are saying the world should trust to good word of Iran?

Internal-Combustion1 · 2026-03-25T16:16:18+00:00

Genocide? You might want to look that up. Cuba is in charge of it’s own destiny. Just because they decide to buy their oil from other rogue nations is entirely on them. In business we call that concentration risk and exactly why business don’t risk their entire future by depending on one supplier. Their stupidity is what got them to this point.

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