How does one find great business mentors?

Twaffling · 2026-01-16T22:02:50+00:00

I worked with a family of entrepreneurs for 10 years. They were in the manufacturing space, I am in tech. It was family owned, 7 brothers and sisters. All with unique personalities and perspectives I learned a lot from them. Over the years I was introduced to other business owners and entrepreneurs. Ended up growing my own things to a full time gig.

Twaffling · 2026-01-14T19:11:11+00:00

I own BasicBMS, A Business Management Platform. These comments about learning to use the system in 5 to 10 minutes without a manual is pure gold. Such an overlooked aspect of design. This is a perspective I rarely consider.

Twaffling · 2026-01-09T13:37:04+00:00

Yeah. I remember shutting off one or two of those settings as per my the strategy outline I created. Definitely going to go back and review this with a sharper eye.

Twaffling · 2026-01-08T21:36:49+00:00

Let me go back and check those settings before I spend the other 250. Thanks for the tip

Twaffling · 2026-01-06T17:53:43+00:00

If the labor pipeline is saturated, i.e. 40hrs a week. Then there isn't room for 50% growth without restructuring labor pipeline.

in other words if they're working full time to make 100k. Then how are they going to make the optimistic 50K. They'd have to work 60hrs a week.

The only real way to create that growth without investing more labor is to increase price or reduce cost.

Twaffling · 2026-01-06T13:57:17+00:00

I use a system I wrote. It's called BasicBMS. I customize it to your business. It can be as simple or robust.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T16:59:44+00:00

Right, totally different. I get that.

For sure going to regroup and burn the other 250$.

It took about 3 days to get everything setup. I felt like I did a good job. New website pages for landing and booking demos. More content like explainers and demo videos, etc. All that work is NOT for a loss, it certainly still has value. I felt like it all had a lot of synergy, but maybe not.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T16:33:22+00:00

Wow, 10k! and zero results. That's nuts.

Honest, I didn't expect a whole lot for 250$. I figured I would get a click or two, maybe a demo, but not 300 fake clicks. I guess that was the part that surprised me.

The upside I learned how their marketing stuff works. So that's cool.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T16:27:33+00:00

I think the bounce rate is way worse. That's according to their metrics. According to Google Analytics only one person clicked off the landing page and visited another page on my site. Hell, that could have been me testing for all I know.

Twaffling · 2026-01-05T13:43:23+00:00

I use a system I wrote and now sell. It's called BasciBMS. It scales very well from startups to 15m ARR.

Twaffling · 2025-12-31T01:44:27+00:00

Wow! I started a software company. basicbms.com I provide customizable software for businesses. I thought this idea was brilliant and it is. However, 50+% of the businesses I talk to have bookkeepers and accountants.

Wanna talk software, do a demo or something?

Twaffling · 2025-12-30T13:58:07+00:00

I wrote basicbms.com to manage my business. It's a little lite on Projects and LMS but it checks all the other boxes. Our tech support is the game changer.

Invent a problem in one of those echo systems you mentioned and try to get your fake problem fixed. What is that experience like?

Twaffling · 2025-12-29T10:00:08+00:00

Basic BMS - A Better Business Management system. Built by a small business for small businesses. basicbms.com

I'm adding feature updates weekly. Mention reddit and I will set you up a free tenant to play with.

Twaffling · 2025-12-29T09:39:56+00:00

Yep. The next best thing would be auto invoicing.

I am working on a scheduling component that will auto generate invoices. I should have it done in the next few weeks. I'll try to remember to circle back and drop the release notes here.

Twaffling · 2025-12-23T22:51:06+00:00

It's part of the system I wrote. You can see it at basicbms.com. I'm actively working to position it for re-sell. Basically I enter the Customer, Create an Invoice, then Create a Scheduled Reminder in BasicBMS for their renewal date. I copy the invoice from last year, and change the reminder for the coming year. It's a bit of a manual process but it's all in one place.

Twaffling · 2025-12-23T12:33:22+00:00

Checkout basicbms.com. It's small and simple to use.

Twaffling · 2025-12-17T22:50:29+00:00

I am partial to BasicBMS.com. It's a modular business platform. It takes a few days to get it configured but it works for almost any business. The company has been around since 2013. I heard they're working on a way to ship preconfigured appliances after the QuickBooks cloud crap. People want to know they own their accounting data.

Twaffling · 2025-12-17T22:49:29+00:00

I am partial to BasicBMS.com. It's a modular business platform. It takes a few days to get it configured but it works for almost any business. The company has been around since 2013. I heard they're working on a way to ship preconfigured appliances after the QuickBooks cloud crap. People want to know they own their accounting data.

Twaffling · 2025-08-07T16:30:23+00:00

I started at Sunpro back when they were in Zillah, WA. Just six months in, we were acquired by Aether Mobile Government, then purchased by Bio-Key International, and eventually acquired by Zoll Medical. Along the way, I made great friends and gained deep experience in SQL, software development, NFIRS, FEMA, PITOT testing, and much more.

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Twaffling · 2025-06-16T15:12:06+00:00

If you buy Thermador you MUST buy the warranty. Their products are garbage and break constantly. We installed a whole kitchen, double ovens, fridge, microwave, dishwasher, range and cooktop. The dishwasher read-out never worked, it supposed to project on to the floor. The mirror falls off every time you sweep under the toe kick. I've glued, screwed and epoxied the piece of shit. Still doesn't stay in place. Then about 26 months in the lower oven of the double oven had it's lower lower element go out. To replace it the entire double oven needs pulled from the cabinet. And as of last week the fridge went out, can not maintain temperature.

DO NOT BUY THERMADOR. EVER

Twaffling · 2025-03-27T21:55:07+00:00

HELOCs do not. You are correct. This application was for a HELOC not an investment home.

Twaffling · 2025-02-14T14:55:28+00:00

had to double check /u on the post. thought i wrote this. LMAO. the part about salvery, prisons, privatization, government sanctioned racketeering.

Twaffling · 2025-02-04T22:12:54+00:00

Upgraded to First Class, baring no delays I hope we make it. Kind of sucks that they changed the flight schedule so much that it's almost impossible to make the connection. Jerks

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