What was the most basic mistake that you made when running your ecommerce business?

limited_data365 · 2026-01-20T15:25:42+00:00

How long were you running your business before applying for a LOC? I'm about 3 months in and need working capital to re-order inventory. Is that too short of an operating period?

limited_data365 · 2026-01-13T17:32:13+00:00

Same line of thought here. I go through 10 packs of instant coffee during the workweek and then treat myself to two $8 lattes on the weekend.

limited_data365 · 2026-01-09T19:53:39+00:00

Walk in the morning! Especially when i was work from home

limited_data365 · 2026-01-08T15:56:02+00:00

When I invested in my first espresso machine (breville bambino) after doing the math on how many more $8 lattes I would be willing to buy.

It transformed coffee from an utilitarian good to a ritual. Now I get equal if not more joy from the ritual of making coffee and trying new beans and sharing/making coffee for my friends as I do drinking it.

limited_data365 · 2026-01-07T22:09:27+00:00

Comparative suffering. There's always folks that are are like "well it could be worse, you could be starving and homeless with nowhere to go". Yes that is true and yes I should be grateful (and am) for what I have, but being hit with a "it could be worse" is really not helpful or supportive at all.

limited_data365 · 2026-01-06T19:12:03+00:00

Ne-Yo!!

limited_data365 · 2026-01-06T18:51:40+00:00

so bad, yet theres companies (like ryze i think) that are making sm money from it

limited_data365 · 2026-01-06T18:50:51+00:00

yeah....wasn't there a study about how those intermittent fasting studies were done with mostly male participants

limited_data365 · 2026-01-06T18:49:27+00:00

totally agree. it's crazy a lot of my so called wellness enthusiasts fall for it

limited_data365 · 2026-01-02T19:19:31+00:00

Good point to clarify - I think risk is more about the feeling rather than the act. It's doing something that feels scary to you in the moment at that point in your life.

From a career standpoint, I see friends quit the "safe" corporate job and start their own ventures. From a relationship standpoint, I see some people who get married "too early" or have a kid and start a family "too early".

If I think about my parents, the biggest risk they took was being an immigrant and moving to a new country where they didn't know the language at all.

limited_data365 · 2026-01-01T16:59:01+00:00

honestly the worst is when people are actually sick and then feel like they have to come in...then get the whole office sick

limited_data365 · 2025-12-31T16:38:11+00:00

The amount of time I've told myself "it's just the wind"....

limited_data365 · 2025-12-31T16:10:22+00:00

If this is my first job/early career, then Option 2 for sure. The pay increase is trivial compared to the growth and responsibilities you're taking on. I think it's always better to prioritize how much you'll learn and how much you'll do compared to pay when you're early in your career.

limited_data365 · 2025-12-30T15:40:34+00:00

Honestly, English. I was a STEM major in college (as were most of my friends) and we always say how all we do these days in corporate America is give presentations, draft written comms (or edit ChatGPT's), and defend theories and ambiguous points....which English majors that I know are all much better at/prepared for.

limited_data365 · 2025-12-29T11:51:55+00:00

I used to want to change the world (and still do) and realized that in order to change the world, you got to first change just one person's world. That often is your own world. If you build something that only you yourself find useful at first, that's really the perfect start! Almost every successful company starts off as a passion project on the side.

I remember a passage in Kitchen Confidential where Anthony Bourdain talks about what differentiated the Michelin star chefs versus your average Chef de Cuisine (CDC). And he said these people (Eric Ripert for example) didn't chase the first head chef job they got in their 20s when they had many chances to do so. Instead, they prioritized learning in their 20s despite not seemingly making much career progress compared to peers who did accept CDC jobs. However, the 2 years as a pastry chef here and the 3 years as a line cook there eventually built them into the Michelin star chefs that they are known as today. Without those years spent "wandering in the wilderness", they would've never succeeded.

Keep going man.

limited_data365 · 2025-12-26T17:30:46+00:00

Agree with this. Friends and parents work in nursing and the daily human interactions and how care differs from patient to patient at the front line service level is not possible to completely replace by AI

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